Preserving the Gullah-Geechee Culture - A Coastal Tax Fight | The New York Times
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- The Times's Kim Severson travels to Sapelo Island to visit Hog Hammock, population 50. The Gullah-Geechee residents have lived there since slavery, but may have to sell off their land over taxes.
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Preserving the Gullah-Geechee Culture - A Coastal Tax Fight
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I'm from Africa. I wish theese people win their struggle and keep their land. Courage.
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I agree with what the man said, "You wanna tax me, then give me good road service, if you gonna tax me, then pick up my garbage, you gonna tax me, then give me street lights, you wanna tax me, then you provide water service, sewer service, fire service...provide me that kind of stuff or don't tax me.." The frozen property taxes are the fault of the government; to ask a sudden 500-600% increase is UNTENABLE.
Let's come together for the Gullah-Geechee people!
That was Mrs. Cornelia Walker Bailey. I see I'm a year late, but that lady meant a lot to our community.
Sounds like a bunch of rich land developers wanting the land of The Gullah people. So they get their rich politician friends to tax the Gullah so much they lose their ancesterial homes. What a disgrace! Once that happens this country will lose another important part of our history! I pray it doesn't happen!
yup
Ireland has the Gaeltachtaí. Areas in Ireland where the language and culture is preserved. There is also a Gaeltacht in Quebec. The Gullah Geechee people need to protect their culture the same way. Fight the good fight. Bail ó Dhia ar an obair. (God bless the work.)
sad. this is a reason why descendents of slaves need reparaions not in the form of direct transfers but benefits and preservation.
Yes!
If they try to give out some BS cash reparations (there is a lot of talk about that lately from those who are skin folk but not kin folk set up by controlled opposition to represent our voices) our people better be smart enough and loud enough to refuse it (their paper is worthless), they need to give us permenant tax exemption and land. That is a true emancipation that has yet to take place.
Why can't they receive reservation status?
James Wright because we're black
DUH!
They are trying to do that
@@kikikareema5912 How's it going today somebody let me know please?
just a way to get their land, sell it to developers who'll then build hotels and become richer......you know it
They love destroying black cultures then complain about hip hop culture.
This is terrible! Surely, there is some sort of funds to help these people. This is an important historical gem in coastal Georgia. It should NOT be sold off to developers! It should keep going to the the family members. It is such a tiny place, but so important in our history and the history of these families. It isn't an Historical Landmark??? Maybe they could get some sort of tax exempt status somehow???
Judie Morgan Howard ....they don't want us to have anything worth anything
This is going on in all of McIntosh county. I encourage you all to read Dr. Bailey's book, it will give you more insight to our plight. We've been fighting for years, but they keep taking.
I think they people should call the NAACP, maybe they could help them. The people on Sapelo Island should be allowed to live in peace. Just like the native Americans.
Pay the over 500 years of free labor.. No tax!
HELP, HELP, Any lawyers out there help the gullahs keep their land as a Historical PRESERVE.
My dads side comes from Geechee people. I just learned about it this year.
exactly!
No, it's about white developers getting i and building high priced properties,.
This seems to be a passive way to expropriate land for residental development.
This is taxation, without representation. Smfh😔
Cultural extortion...
There there could be a dump built a recycling plant by the people that live on the on the land and it could be a underground dump built Plastics and different things like that
Horrible horrible horrible greed...Trying 2 take their land.....They shouldn't be tax a all....Write to Washington d.c.💯💯💯👈🏾💓👈🏾👈🏾👈🏾👈🏾👈🏾
All is game, they want you to give the land, be strong stand up for your children.
These folks shouldn’t pay one die of tax. They are dependents of former slaves. Reparations should start here.
🙏🏾LORD HAVE MERCY...Send HELP to YOUR PEOPLE, in JESUS’ Name, AMEN!!!
Mcintosh where my people from
Who ya kin, we might be related?
Cultural extorsion...
So wrong.
Try a Go Fund Me, get @least 100 people to give $20. That's $2,000 for taxes there. Get involve people like Obama, Oprah, Ellen, athletes, singers etc
We can't have anything separately.
Maybe every body else need to do their 400 years plus and all that comes with it.
Stop being greedy..
Yes I agree 100% the taxes in McIntosh County have been artificially low. Their school system is one of the poorest in the state. Its a beautiful area and people are willing to buy property, build houses, and pay the full price for property taxes. BTW having few paved roads and bringing trash to the recycling center is very common for rural counties. Why should a culture be preserved that cannot keep up and pay a fair amount of taxes?