40-Acres-And-A-Mule Clock

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40-Acres-And-A-Mule Clock

40-Acres-And-A-Mule Clock

@CutTheCheck_MLK

Remember when President Lincoln ordered that Black American Freedmen receive “40 Acres and a Mule,” and they got stripped of it upon Lincoln’s assassination?

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40-Acres-And-A-Mule Clock@CutTheCheck_MLK·
“The U.S. Govt doesn’t have money to pay for slavery reparations”
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Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽
Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽@AsafoBLA4L·
@CutTheCheck_MLK @Chippdadon If Herman Russell was a real nigga like myself Instead of accumulating wealth in HJ Russell & Co i wouldve have channeled profits into community co-ops, worker-owned firms pooled development funds to create a REAL independent autonomous economic state
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Chippy
Chippy@Chippdadon·
. My nigga @AsafoBLA4L told me North Atlanta (Gwinette) dont matter anyways lol ..... yall aint even from the A lol (Not Atlanta) LOL .... a few african parents hurt ur heart now u mad at pan africans!?! shut ya hoe sassy ass up
40-Acres-And-A-Mule Clock@CutTheCheck_MLK

The East Africans that came to my neighborhood in the 90s in North Atlanta were cool. They wanted to be in our group. But their parents were teaching them they were better than us since our ancestors were slaves to white people… like their families weren’t under duress from global white supremacy. There were noticeable differences in how they kept their homes. But it was all love from us. Learning English, learning to be cool, we were supposed to be brothers… Then they flipped on us and started repeating what they were taught at home about us.

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40-Acres-And-A-Mule Clock@CutTheCheck_MLK·
First, Herman Russell didn't just "accumulate wealth"… he was the silent financier of the Civil Rights Movement. When MLK and other activists needed bond money to get out of jail, Russell’s private profits paid that money. Second, he actually built the real estate you're looking for. He was one of the largest builders of HUD affordable housing in the country, literally creating thousands of units for the working class.
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40-Acres-And-A-Mule Clock@CutTheCheck_MLK·
@AsafoBLA4L @Chippdadon H.J. Russell is literally the damn blueprint for how Black firms got a piece of the pie when the city was trying to shut them out. Using the man who built the world’s busiest airport and half the Atl skyline as an example isn't "exposing" anything.
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40-Acres-And-A-Mule Clock@CutTheCheck_MLK·
Calling it "structural dependence" ignores how the industry actually works. 🤡 H.J. Russell didn't just wait for handouts…. he built the literal infrastructure of the city by out-competing firms that had a 100-year head start. Every major construction empire… no matter the race, scales through massive contracts. That’s not "dependence," that's capturing the market.
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Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽
Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽@AsafoBLA4L·
@CutTheCheck_MLK @Chippdadon I’m glad you brought up Herman Russell to because he’s the perfect example of how We remain structurally dependent on outside corporate investment which I’ve been critiquing this whole time HJ Russell & Co built its empire primarily through contracts with large corporations
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40-Acres-And-A-Mule Clock@CutTheCheck_MLK·
The idea that "Black Elite" provide zero jobs in Atlanta is just factually incorrect. Atlanta has the highest share of Black-owned businesses in the country. You can be mad at the wealth gap… that's a real systemic issue…. but claiming there’s "no real wealth" or "zero jobs" from Black leadership ignores the actual infrastructure of the city.
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Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽
Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽@AsafoBLA4L·
@CutTheCheck_MLK @Chippdadon Like you need to be serious about this conversation there’s no real black wealth in Atlanta never been it’s built on corporations if you they pull out of Atlanta tomorrow The small businesses owners and working class is cooked because the “Black Elite” provide 0 jobs 😂😂😂
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40-Acres-And-A-Mule Clock@CutTheCheck_MLK·
That’s white supremacy at play in the market artificially lowering the home values of parts of Atlanta where Blacks purchased homes in. The institutional investors are just the new wave of the same old gatekeeping. That’s due to no fault of our own. Atlanta has the highest Black homeownership rate.
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Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽
Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽@AsafoBLA4L·
@CutTheCheck_MLK @Chippdadon Yet Black households in Atlanta continue to be dramatically lower then white Americans Institutional investment homes continue to buy homes making it even more dramatically harder for African Americans to buy home and more common to rent homes so where is the Black real estate ?
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Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽
Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽@AsafoBLA4L·
@CutTheCheck_MLK @Chippdadon There was no shift in power corporations hold power while the Black Elite and middle class sell out the working class to maintain the status quo stop babbling to me about nonsense
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40-Acres-And-A-Mule Clock@CutTheCheck_MLK·
There’s a difference between systemic wealth equality and creating a Black middle class. Maynard didn't fix capitalism, but he did jumpstart the Black contracting industry and the professional class that literally didn't exist before him. Keep in mind, all of this is happening in a system of economic white supremacy. those specific policies were the first time the city stopped cutting checks ONLY to white businesses. Imagine what the wealth gap would have been if Maynard didn’t make the strides he made.
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Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽
Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽@AsafoBLA4L·
@CutTheCheck_MLK @Chippdadon That’s total utter bullshit when the wealth gap in Atlanta ain’t even decreased but risen LMFAOOOOO White American house holds holding 46 times more wealth then African Americans WHAT TOOL FOR WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION MAN SHUT THE FUCK UP
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40-Acres-And-A-Mule Clock@CutTheCheck_MLK·
It’s not xenophobia. It’s making you all own your ethnicity/lineage/nationality in GoodTimes AND BadTimes. When you’re winning, you’re Somalian, Haitian, Jamaican, Ethiopian Nigerian, Ghanaian ect. But when you’re acting in ways that bring shame, you’re “Black”… and we have to be “Black” win-lose-draw. So if you’re going to delineate yourself into specific ethnicity when you’re being recognized for positive acts, then stay that way when you’re on your bullshit as well.
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Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽
Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽@AsafoBLA4L·
@CutTheCheck_MLK @Chippdadon Forced the hand??? My guy why are you trying this political hero narrative Black political leaders like Maynard Jackson had “leverage” but the project itself depended on corporate and developer willingness to invest it’s not a political grassroot achievement it’s a compromise
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40-Acres-And-A-Mule Clock@CutTheCheck_MLK·
Tax breaks and cheap labor exists in every SE city from Birmingham to Charlotte, but those cities didn’t become global hubs…. Atlanta did because of the the Black brain trust here. Corporations didnt just come for the low wages, they came for the elite talent pipeline coming out of the AUC. You can't run a Fortune 500 on tax breaks alone.. you need the lawyers, engineers, and creatives that Atlanta produced. Since you brought up Maynard Jackson, perfect, he literally forced those companies to share the capital. it was a power play that built Black construction and real estate.
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Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽
Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽@AsafoBLA4L·
@CutTheCheck_MLK @Chippdadon Corporate America gave Atlanta what it gave it because of TADs Tax Abatements and property tax breaks and low paying wage LOL allat Otha bullshit is mythology feel good nonsense
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40-Acres-And-A-Mule Clock@CutTheCheck_MLK·
You’re looking at the logos on the buildings, but ignoring who owns the land they’re sitting on and the firms that built em. Herman Russell didn't just get a job from Corporate America… he built the skyline and the world’s busiest airport. That’s billions in generational capital right there. Plus, we have the highest density of Black owned businesses in the country. The Fortune 500s moved here because Black leadership and the AUC created the talent pool and the swag factor they wanted to buy into.
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Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽
Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽@AsafoBLA4L·
@CutTheCheck_MLK @Chippdadon The funniest part about this convo is your talking like Delta Coca Cola UPS Home Depot most these tech companies aren’t white owned LOL the underlying foundation of Atlanta is a white American wealth dominated city That Black Mecca bs is really a myth cuz we own 0 capital in ATL
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40-Acres-And-A-Mule Clock@CutTheCheck_MLK·
Corporations follow the cool. Black music, film, and tech entrepreneurs in ATL created a global brand that drove the real estate boom you're seeing now. Corporate America didn't give Atlanta anything… they invested here because Black leadership and culture made it profitable. Respect the architects. What did you guys build in your homeland?
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Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽
Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽@AsafoBLA4L·
@CutTheCheck_MLK @Chippdadon You didn’t build shit peon You and like the rest of us are dependent on corporate America supplying us jobs and housing The Atlanta belt line for example helped shaped historic black communities in Atlanta like Old Fourth ward it was not a single nigga that had a hand in that😂
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40-Acres-And-A-Mule Clock@CutTheCheck_MLK·
@AsafoBLA4L @Chippdadon Morehouse/Spelman/Clark produced the talent that made Atlanta a "Black Mecca," which is exactly why those corporations moved there in the first place… to tap into that Black excellence. Those corporations weren’t here in the 80s. They go where the motion is.
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40-Acres-And-A-Mule Clock@CutTheCheck_MLK·
Before Maynard, Black businesses got less than 1% of city contracts. He kicked the door open, mandated joint ventures for us, and grew the Black middle class from the ground up. You don't get the busiest airport in the world or the "Black Mecca" title without that leverage. It’s because of that foundation that ATL stays the blueprint for Black economic and cultural power, even in 2026 having to survive being co-opted by the DNC. Put some respect on the work. It brought your parents here.
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Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽
Ekwensu ☭🖕🏽@AsafoBLA4L·
@CutTheCheck_MLK @Chippdadon Went to work??? Maynard Jackson got in office and sold Atlanta to corporations LMFAOOOOO where did it get Atlanta in 2026 ? Still under the boot of corporations but I guess to your pea brain that’s “work”
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