Black and White Folks React as a Wh!tes-Only Town Begs for Help

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This is Return to the Land, a group of millennials who organized online to build something radical and controversial. A town for white people only that they insist is completely legal. We spent several days with them watching as the men set about the physical labor of building out the site.

The funniest part about that whites only town in Arkansas. Black folks ain't mad and y'all mad, we not mad. So, there's a brand new whites only town in Arkansas and the gag is black people don't even care. Now, I've seen the comments. Why aren't black people upset? Why are you mad about this? We going to clear this up right now. Nobody's upset. Poo poo.

See, the one thing black people ain't going to do is lose sleep over other people that want to create a safe space for themselves. Build your own little town. Plant a flag. That's fine. Hang a welcome sign. Whatever makes you feel good. Honestly, we got to be real about something cuz I saw the interviews. I saw the clips. This ain't a town of exceptional people. I mean, think about it. If you drop everything to move to this town, you probably already didn't have much going on anyway, right? And that's not shady. That's facts.

So, the question is again, why should black folks care? This the part that cracked me up the most. Y'all want us to care. I see the confusion in your eyes. I see it. Y'all like, "Don't the blacks care? Don't they want to be where we are?" Uh, nah. We just want to make sure when we build our communities, we're not cheated out of the things that we're supposed to have. That's all we care about, boo. And it's wild because history has shown as soon as black people do build their own thriving spaces, what happened? Some of your people roll up and burn the whole thing down. But we're supposed to believe now. Y'all just want to be left alone.

Shouts. I'm going to tell you what really gave it away for me though. The fact that they ran to the media. That's not privacy, y'all. That's desperation. Numbers must be low. If you got to beg the evening news to let them know that you exist, weight list my ass. See, if black folks were building their town, the media would be the last people that we want to know about it. We gatekeep. We ain't trying to broadcast. But y'all couldn't wait to hold a press conference. That's not security. That's thirst. So, no, we're not upset. We're not jealous. We're not even plotting to crash your party. Cuz truth be told, we really don't care. And honestly, that's what really bothers y'all.

White only community. Only white people are going to be allowed. Probably shouldn't listen to that. So, only white people are going to be allowed. What do you mean people people aren't mad about that? Okay, but they're supposed to get really mad about it. Well, how about not just only whites, but no Jews either. We want we want whites only that are non-Jews. And we have the best attorney. Nobody's Nobody's suing us over this. What do you mean nobody cares? Just laughing. No, we I mean Arkansas, the great state of Northern Arkansas, who doesn't want to come to this community of ours? No one. No one wants to come to Arkansas. The real estate agent told us everyone wanted that piece of property.

Okay. Okay. Well, so we'll just start in Arkansas, then we're going to move to Missouri. Missouri is even prettier. Bill, nobody. Nobody. How about I say it louder? Whiteson community. We're going to broadcast it. Let everyone know only whites, non-Jewish. How segregated can we get this still? No. Okay. So, we'll call this whole thing return to the land. Does that make people mad? It does because it's funny coming from white people returning to a land that was never theirs. So we we'll call it return to the land. We'll start in Arkansas, expand to Missouri. What if we say we're going to go into all 50 states? Does that make people mad? They're still ignoring us. How is the top liked comment? No one gives a [ __ ]. Okay. Well, we need to we need to set up some interviews. The second most liked comment is good written whiteies. Okay, now I'm offended. We need to get this on national news because we want people pissed off because that's the only way we can feel anything emotionally. You know, who's going to build our homes? What about the Mexican restaurants? Who's going to open and run those? I don't know if we thought this all the way through.

It's so weird watching black people get mad at white people for starting functioning white communities. Yeah, we don't care, dog. We don't give a flying [ __ ]. Like, there's a lot of white audacity this week. Like you guys think you guys are sitting around making up these narratives that we care about whites only towns. Mind you, this one of these um one of these towns are in the mountains. Black people not going up there. We are not going up there. As a matter of fact, thank you. Thank you for telling us where it's going to be because that's where we will not be. Okay? We can duck and dodge that town. We won't we won't even stop in that town for gas. And the crazy thing is historically black people have never cared about white people making white only towns. Never. Now if we're sitting there and you think that we're going to move out of our like house or anything like that, then you got another thing coming. But you going off on your own, we we've never pillaged white towns before. We've never done what they did to Tulsa al u Tulsa Oklahoma. We've never done that. Black people specifically have never done that. We've never gone into white communities and just pillaged. So, it's not us that care. It's y'all. You know what I'm saying? That's why this is viral. This is viral because you want some type of feeling from black people. And we're going to say the same thing in every video. We do not care.

Are we seriously mad about people wanting to have a whites only community? Let's not forget the fact that we always label things black own this and black own that. So, a white man, Eric Arwal, wanted to establish his own town for his own people, white people. He wanted to control who he had as neighbors. His goal is to preserve the purity of his culture and traditions. So, what are we mad for? Let's not forget a couple years ago, Ashley Scott and Renee Walters got together and created their own community, their own black community. They wanted to create generational wealth and keep their legacy and culture. So, I'm confused. What's the problem when the white people want to do it? And I know what you're going to say. You going to try to bring up history and that victimization mentality. We're not doing that. We are not doing that. That happened many years ago. We're talking about now. We're not going to continue to bring up the past. At one point, we did have Black Wall Street and yes, it was destroyed. However, we had the ability to rebuild and we didn't. We were defeated. So, we're not going to continue to play the victim. This is a voluntary selfsegregation, not a forced one. Get over it.

What's up everyone? Welcome back to Echorung Vibes, a space where we take the viral and the controversial and turn it into conversation that actually means something. I hope you guys are all doing well today, staying hydrated, breathe deep, and let's get into it. Before we start, shout out to all the originators and stitches of the video that inspired this episode. Y'all are the reason these conversations even reach new audiences. So credit where is due. Now let's talk about this so-called white only town in a cancansas that's been begging the media for attention and apparently for help. Let's dive into the rest of the video and we'll be back for more commentary.

So did y'all hear about the people that are moving to Arkansas? They want to build their own town. Stop it. So, did you know also that now they are begging the government to help them? They want money for housing. They want money for food. I thought you were so above everyone and you can only be white to live here. Really? Use your whiteness and all that money that you claim you have and build your own town the way you said. No one cared. No one cared that you had that land that you only wanted white people. You had to put in an application and they can deny your application because you weren't white enough and you weren't superior enough. Oh, really? So why do you need that same government to assist you, boo? That doesn't even make good common sense. And then they claim that they're so great at building and architecture and engineering, but they're not even qualified. If you look up the qualifications in their town, they don't match. So the only qualifications it looks like they have, I'm white.

Like they're going to notice that it's failing whenever Becky's trying to make Buria tacos. Them folks ain't even make it two months without there being talks of them actually failing as a community, bro. I feel like Paul trades lea type [ __ ]. That [ __ ] is nuts, bro. And I'm not I haven't seen anything that like concretely says that it's failed. You know what I mean? But I can't infer what they're going through because if you if you look at how the farmers in Arkansas are dealing with the Trump administration, the Trump regime, you know, them farmers are struggling. And I'm assuming that them folks down there are struggling even more than the farmers, you know, cuz it's they it's really funny, bro. It's really funny because I had a whole bunch of white folks in my comments talking about some, "Oh, we don't need y'all. We don't need colors. We don't need the blacks." you know, when it's obvious that that you do, you know, like the the a lot of the labor and a lot of the materials that y'all need in order to survive come from color folks, come from people of color, you know what I mean? So, you know, I'm I'm just do a little little victory lab type [ __ ]. you know? But, um, I was right. Godamn it.

So the white only town in Arkansas's has now failed. Yeah, because don't y'all know y'all built everything off the back of your boy Youngstar 63 Fat Jar at the DJ. I need you to like, comment, follow, share, and get into this because I'm really confused. Who did y'all think was going to do the work? Y'all don't be doing [ __ ]. Yes. You remember that big story back in uh last year when they had a whole whites only town that was being promoted for white people to come use as a utopia in Arkansas? Yeah. Failed. Failed. They're doing bad. They're going broke. Not doing well socially. They're failing. I just don't know what they expected to happen because y'all literally didn't build this one. So, what' you think you was gonna build one over there? I'm actually kind of shocked though because if y'all knew how to colonize before, y'all are descendants of colonizers. Y'all should be very very profound at colonizing. Y'all don't be talking generation to generation. See, they didn't pass down their their knowledge about how to do what y'all do. Um, but see, they did for us. See, we we come from the descendants of oppressed people, and what we do know how to do is fight back. So, I I don't know why y'all don't know how to colonize. I thought this would just be a one, two, three for y'all. Like, just set everything all up. You know, grocery stores with no seasoning aisles, Starbucks everywhere, no 2K or Madden tournaments, FIFA, Grand Theft Auto, and Fortnite only. Like, I just I thought y'all would just be happy and in the wind over there, but apparently y'all are failing. And good for your asses. How y'all feel about it?

I need y'all to understand that those people do not intend to leave us alone in they little town in Arkansas. It's recently been in the news that some chalk children in America have decided to create their own whites only town. And when asked by a reporter, they made it seem as though that they intend to just have a town of their own and resources of their own and just live off the land, returning to the land, a land that they stole through crimes against humanity. But who's counting? Many brothers and sisters take on this is, hey, we don't care if y'all have your own. Just leave us alone in the process. I mean, every time we've tried to do that, y'all have burned our towns down. And I'm just here to tell y'all that unfortunately, they do not intend to leave us alone. In the interview with the colonizer that wants to found this whites only town in Arkansas, they're making it seem as though they just want to live in peace. We must remember that these are people that have never known peace. They didn't know peace when they was by themselves in the ice cold mountains of Europe. And they're not going to know peace in the middle of Arkansas. In the 70s, there was a black scholar that broke down white supremacy into an equation. The same way that E= MC², white supremacy equals white power over non-white powerlessness. And so that means that white supremacy cannot live in an environment where non-white people have any form of power. Because if there's no non-white people around, who are they superior to? Nothing they have achieved has been achieved by leaving people alone. It's like if your son or daughter said they didn't want to live in the house anymore and lock themselves in their room in order to eat, brush their teeth, or do anything, that child would have to come outside the room. And it's the same thing for them. At some point, they are going to need resources and labor. And that's when they turn to us. And if we have our own power and our own resources, then we have no reason to share with them. And that is when they destroy what we have so that we have to work with them. Don't be fooled. Just like the movie centers, it all starts out nice and pleasant, but they have ulterior motives.

Welcome back, guys. So now let's continue this white only town in Kansas that's been begging the media for attention. So here's a short version. A group of white resident try to build an exclusive safe haven community marketed as a return to traditional American values. But what's got social media rolling its eyes isn't the idea of a small private community. is the irony that they are now asking for public support and national media coverage after claiming they didn't need anybody else. Meanwhile, black folks and plenty of others are sitting back saying, "Oh, y'all need help now." One of the s videos captured it perfectly. Black people ain't mad. We are not losing sleep. There's no outrage. The energy is more like, "Do your thing. Just don't come knocking when you realize how hard it is to build a whole society without diversity. And that part right there, that's the crux of the of the conversation because it's not even about race in isolation. It's about the illusion of self-sufficiency. And what happens when a community build itself on exclusion instead of cooperation? Let's be real. A lot of America runs on in interdependence. agriculture, construction, transportation, food service, industry that keep towns alive rely on a workforce that's multicultural, multilingual, and multi-racial. So when you create a close off enclave that says we don't need anyone else, what you're actually saying is we don't understand how the modern economic works.

Now, here's where things get interesting. Report and public public data show that a cancer's farmers have been struggling for years, especially after certain federal subsidies dried up and trade policies shifted. Some of these white only communities popped up as a kind of retreat, people looking for safety, affordability, and control after losing ground economically. But when those same people isolate themselves, they often cut off the very resources and relationships that sustain a functioning community. So it's not just moral irony, it's economic self sabotage. And I'll be honest, that's what makes some of these Tik Tok reactions so hilarious and so profound. You've got users pointing out that these towns are barely making it 2 months before they start talking about shortages and infrastructure issues. Meanwhile, they are out here saying, "We don't need y'all, but the math isn't ming." One clip had a creator comparing the situation to a movie moment like watching a civilization collapse in real time while the people inside insist everything is fine. But beneath the humor, there's truth. Diversity isn't a threat to stability, it's the source of it. And let's not forget when black Americans historically tried to build their own thriving towns like uh Tulsa's Greenwood district or Rosewood, they weren't begging for coverage, they were silenced by violence. So when people today say, "Why don't black folks care about this white only town?" It's because history already showed what happens when black excellence become visible. Black people learned to build quietly, protectively, often under the radar because visibility hasn't always meant safety. Meanwhile, this a cancansas town ran to the media hoping to go viral for being exclusive. That's not privacy, that's publicity. You can't claim to want isolation and then chase a headline. That's not heritage. That's a PR campaign. So no, most black folks ain't mad. They're amused because they have seen this playbook before. Every time a group tries to separate itself to prove a point, they end up calling for help from the same system they claim to reject.

Now, if you zoom out, this whole situation reflects something deeper about America's struggle with identity. Some white Americans are chasing nostalgia, a version of the past that feels safe, simple, and unchallenged. But that past never really existed without others doing the labor, the caregiving, and the community building that made the dream possible. And I think that's what these cancer story exposes. Not just racism, but denial. He refused to admit that modern life, modern progress, and even rural survival are all connected to people who don't look like you. So whether these are white only town thrives or collapses, it's already taught us something. You can't build a future on fear. You can't build sustainability on exclusion. And you definitely can't get keep the very diversity that keeps your town alive. So if they are out there struggling to get by, all I can say is maybe now they will understand what community really means. Anyway, family, thank you for watching. Let's keep this conversation going in the comments. What do you think? Should people be free to build exclusive spaces if if they are private property or does that cross the line into something deeper about segregation and social survival? Make sure you like, comment, and share. And again, huge respect to the creators and stitchers who sparked this topic. Y'all are doing the cultural work that mainstream media really touches. Until next time, stay sharp, stay grounded, and keep the vibes echoing. From Echorum Vibes, peace out.