Reparations are long overdue

and Black Liberation can’t wait.

We are manifesting a vision for our future guided by the ancestral knowledge that true community is the path to freedom. FOR us, BY us, NOW.

If you need all the details, like more language, a strategic plan, and other white stuff click here for the project overview. if you’re covering our story in the media, if you gotta impress a rich friend to get their money, or if you have any questions at all see if we’ve already covered it here. (cause we probably did).

Alright, now for the doing - If you’re already in love with this vision and you also won’t wait to be free - then let’s get to work. 

This form is going to get you connected. We’ve been doing this labor together for a long time and know how to get it done. We’re looking for passionate people to join our community. If forms really aren’t your thing then send us an email at 40Acres@thedididelgado.com

“We don’t have time to wait while the government avoids responsibility. People are dying under the many facets of systemic racism. Reparations are due now.”

- DiDi Delgado

The first $1M towards 40 Acres and a School will come from the people. That’s you! That’s your uncle! That’s your friends! Are you ready to move money to begin repairing centuries of broken promises NOW. Are you finally ready to invest in Black Futures?!

Well, then you’re in luck! As usual, Black MaGes have done all the work for you and made this clear fundraising toolkit based on generations of experience getting money into accounts and caring for our people. Did we hear excuses!? Didn’t think so! Click here to get started today.

• $10 gets one bag of #DUNGforDiDi 😎

• The 40 Acres and a School project will host a community farm growing food and healing medicine, with money going directly into the hands of Black folks. It’s time for us to remember our connection to land, food, farming, and growth.

• $50 - Craft supplies for the school! 

  Our Intergenerational Freedom School for all ages will focus on healing the harms of colonized education. Often “school” echoes trauma, but this education space could not be further from traditional learning. Our Freedom School will be an Afro-futuristic container for remembering the ancestral knowledge we already have, giving us space to claim our birthright to wholeness. 

• $100 - Plantings for the Healing Garden

  Our community center will include spaces for retreat, ritual, respite. We will build connection and practice liberation within our bodies - working out justice in real terms. Black people have learned to turn off our sensations but in sacred liberation spaces we can PLAY with sustained, uninterrupted joy and rest.  What would it be like to be happy for longer than 15 minutes? What would it feel like to allow ourselves a healing day of - “I’m just gonna put it all in this dirt”?
  

• $300 - Art supplies for Maker Spaces

  The land will host Maker Spaces for artistic exploration, stocked with tools and resources available to Black artists free of charge. This space of Black identities and Black liberation through poetry and visual arts, as well as a tangibly supporting emerging artists, especially Black Marginalized genders.

• $500 - Pays a Black radical somatics-and-body-healing leader

  This will be a community space to hunker down and be free in our inner worlds, where we can feel ourselves present in our bodies. A space to be safe without constant trauma interruptions, supported and held by the community. 
  

• $1000 - Pays for a half-day transformative justice session

   Restorative and transformative justice facilitation for cannabis and Black community.

• $5000 - One month of Free transportation (via 2 farm school busses) for Black community members in surrounding cities. 

  Accessible and reliable transportation to and from the farm and school is an integral piece of the healing - to arrive without having the anxiety of driving or the fear of police violence means folks can start relaxing and connecting even earlier in their stay. 
  

• $10,000 - Blueprints and initial costs of building out structures on the farm

  We begin to envision our dream spaces - the gathering spaces, the residential and retreat spaces, even the tool sheds.

• $50,000  A down payment on transitional housing
  Transitional housing for unhoused community members and revolutionaries in need of respite will offer much needed safe space to Black freedom fighters and the people we love

  
  “On this reclaimed land, Black MaGes will be able to experience the length, width, and depth of our existence. To be whole. To feel our fullness, finally.” - Fiyah Angel: healer and visionary

• $100,000 - a down payment on land 

  It’s happening - this is the stage where we find the land (or it is donated to us) and we plan the costs of sustaining and building out.  

• $500,000 - a livable salary for staff for the next couple of years 

  We can hire and justly compensate our Black admins and farm staff to curate and care for this dream for us all.

• $1 Million - building out structures as planned

  The community center and farm are up and running - the first crop is planted, we have housing, maker spaces, the school and sessions led by Black radical thought leaders in one calming, centered space. 

• $5 Million - debt-free and sustainable

  We pay off the farm completely and have income to pay the taxes sustainably - the salaries for our Black MaGe admins and staff are covered - word spreads and more and more Black communities have access to the healing, farming, and liberation that comes from this reparative, restorative, and transformative vision.

  
  “In all other places we’ve been too much and too heavy - we’re not too much for the land. You can never be too extra for the land.” - Fiyah Angel

Take the highest figure you think you can raise - and double it!