Gaining Ground: The Fight for Black Land | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00 (dramatic music)

00:02 - When we look at 1920, there were 16 million acres of land

00:12 and present day, you look at there's only two million acres

00:15 of black owned land in the country.

00:16 That's 14 million acres of land that has just disappeared

00:20 from the black agricultural community.

00:25 - Black farmland lost in that 75 year period or so

00:30 was worth $326 billion.

00:34 - Think about all of the wealth that has been extracted

00:38 from these families.

00:39 - Land was something that freed us and offered opportunity

00:47 for us and our children to have something of our very own,

00:50 to enjoy something that would last for generations.

00:55 - Black people need space.

00:56 They understand the legacy.

00:58 - We got here, we didn't have nothing.

01:00 Every time we gained something,

01:01 there's been a reaction to it.

01:03 - Where do you go when you lose your land?

01:10 This is something you put everything you had

01:12 and in spite of everything you did, it's gone.

01:16 I would hear people talking about going back to their land.

01:23 I thought, how can we engage in a way

01:25 that actually makes a difference?

01:27 So let's engage the Thurgood Marshall College Fund

01:29 to engage black law schools, to get interns,

01:33 to then go work for the Federation of Southern Cooperatives

01:36 helping black folks keep title to the land that they have

01:39 or get good title.

01:40 - I've heard the stories throughout the years,

01:42 the things that my family had overcome, how we lost land.

01:45 I wanna invest the same time that I did

01:47 in getting my education and passing it on to my kids one day.

01:50 - We need to shift this idea about what it means

01:53 even to have our hands in the soil.

01:55 - This represents history.

01:57 This is a part of family reunions.

01:59 This land represents all that's good about our family.

02:02 - Land represents generational wealth.

02:05 You can have that land and pass it on to your children.

02:07 You're creating a reciprocating type of monetary payment

02:12 to that family.

02:13 But if you don't have that land structured right,

02:15 you will not benefit from it.

02:17 (upbeat music)

02:20 (upbeat music)

02:24 (whooshing)

02:26 (whooshing)

02:28 [BLANK_AUDIO]

Gaining Ground: The Fight for Black Land | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer

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