CHOP at 10,000' in Colorado

[Fly320s]

So, there are several ways this can play out...
 
They get tired, and go home.
 
There is a murder, and Teh Authoritays descend, and the story goes away.
 
They are successful.
 
I'm figuring #1... Because farming is hard.

Nah.  They will default on their loan before October.  They will be "kicked off" by the evil, racist law enforcement.  At least that will be their excuse.  In reality, they will leave because they are cold, hungry, and no one is giving them money.

[dogmush]

I'm not sure they will run out of idiots to give them money.  GoFundMe is remarkably efficient and separating fools from their money.

[Jim147]

If they wanted to get away from the colonizers, why didn't they buy some land in Africa?

[MechAg94]

If they wanted to get away from the colonizers, why didn't they buy some land in Africa?

They could start a colony over there.   

[Ben]

They could start a colony over there.   

 

My guess is that Black Hammer has never heard of it.

[WLJ]

They could start a colony over there.   

Most of the governments there would probably just shoot them without giving it a second thought

[HankB]

Most of the governments there would probably just shoot them without giving it a second thought

This.

If you're not part of the local tribe, you're a foreign devil - regardless of skin color. Outside the major cities, they'd be regarded as "black white men."

[Boomhauer]

So did they buy it or are they squatting on USFS and Tribal land???

[fifth_column]

So did they buy it or are they squatting on USFS and Tribal land???

I wonder that also. The term 'liberation' would indicate the latter.

[Bogie]

This.

If you're not part of the local tribe, you're a foreign devil - regardless of skin color. Outside the major cities, they'd be regarded as "black white men."

My African neighbors REALLY do not like my "African-American" neighbors.
 
"They don't work, and they make us look bad."

[Larry Ashcraft]

I don't know where this is, but I do know Colorado. There are lots of streams here, but they dry up in the summer. As far as I know, there are only four real "rivers: - the Platte, the Arkansas, the Colorado, and the Rio Grande, all fed by the streams. And as said above, every drop of water in the state have been  claimed, some of the rights going back to the 1870s, and many rights are out of state, AND the DoWR keeps a close watch on what's being used, via aircraft and satellite.  Get caught pumping irrigation water out of a river or lake? They'd likely hang you from the nearest tree.

I'm figuring #1... Because farming is hard.

Yes, and it takes a lot of knowledge. It's a fools errand, especially at 10,000 feet. I've hunted elk over 10K, but I live at 4,700. Anybody from sea level will be violently ill until they get acclimated. Add to the fact that by March, there will be 10 to 15 FEET of snow above 10K feet, and sometimes it's August before it's all gone, to return in September.

[French G.]

They need their own brand of beverage, every cool cult has one.

[MechAg94]

My African neighbors REALLY do not like my "African-American" neighbors.
 
"They don't work, and they make us look bad."

One African immigrant I worked with some years back said he was "African".  He didn't even want to be called anything else.

Hank Strange mentions it on his show sometimes.  His wife has relatives back in Africa and he said they see African-Americans as those people they got rid of.  Definitely not one big happy family as some people would like to think.  That was one of the things I thought was off about the Black Panther movie. 

[MechAg94]

This.

If you're not part of the local tribe, you're a foreign devil - regardless of skin color. Outside the major cities, they'd be regarded as "black white men."

They will be okay as long as they have money.  Once the money runs out, then yeah, what you said. 

[cordex]

They need their own brand of beverage, every cool cult has one.

Given the water situation they might end up with Bear Grylls' favorite libation.

One African immigrant I worked with some years back said he was "African".  He didn't even want to be called black.

I've known black people who don't want to be called African-American because they wanted nothing to do with Africa.

[WLJ]

My African neighbors REALLY do not like my "African-American" neighbors.
 
"They don't work, and they make us look bad."

Once asked a Nigerian women I knew if she ever suffered any discrimination in America. She said yes, but not from whites but from the blacks here.

[MechAg94]

Given the water situation they might end up with Bear Grylls' favorite libation.
I've known black people who don't want to be called African-American because they wanted nothing to do with Africa.

To be frank, it is just like everyone else.  Some would have you think it is one "race", but in reality it is like assuming all "Asians" are the same. 

[WLJ]

Where is Africa-America anyway?

[Brad Johnson]

Anyone know where it is on the map?

Brad

[cordex]

Anyone know where it is on the map?

West of the Ivory Coast, east of Sierra Leone, and south of the Republic of Guinea.

[BobR]

Do the people of Liberia call themselves American-Africans? 


bob

[cordex]

Do the people of Liberia call themselves American-Africans? 

African-American-Africans?

[230RN]

Ben:

Now I echo 230RN and am curious where it is. I don't see them hiking in and out of the future site of their city.

Well, I was just wondering about the county and who the Sheriff might be.

I can see property like this being purchased from a tax sale for cheap.

So I know nothing about crowd funding.  So I can post a plea for funding for development of my new single-blade helicopter rotor, right? With a winglet to eliminate tip vortex, right?  With the winglet also angled inward to counteract the blade's centrifugal force, right? And people can pledge money to me, right?

So anyone can just make up a need and publish it?

Hmmmm....

I think I'll go visit a crowd funding site to see what's up.  Or down.

Terry, whose favorite apostle was Thomas, 230RN

[griz]

African-American-Africans?

There was a radio show I listened to and the guest was trying very hard to be PC on a difficult subject.  She was talking about Americans in Africa, and was trying to distinguish between whites (I think that was an approved term) and blacks that had come from the USA.  I believe she said American African Americans.  It's hard to follow the politically correct trail because eventually the meaning catches up to the words.

[K Frame]

I think I've mention my old next door neighbor... She was from South Africa, descendant of Boers and whiter than white.

When she first came to the US in her 20s she was filling out forms as African American (dual citizenship but grew up in South Africa) and apparently some people were getting quite testy with her because she was taking the designation literally and not recognizing it for the political theater it actually is.

It's also why I fill out some forms as Northern European American.