If you dig around hard enough, you will find calendars dating back 150–200 years.
On each single sheet of paper, the months and days of the year are printed very small, pushed inward to make room for the artwork that adorns the outer edges. That artwork is strange. Unsettling. These images are advertisements for towns.
Now, these towns were not for sale. No, no.
They were already owned—by rich people.
How they came to own entire towns is anyone's guess. But as an investment, the land would only pay off if people actually moved there. Homes were offered for next to nothing. Once people arrived, some opened shops. Others worked in those shops.
Everyone paid taxes. Eventually.
That was the real return on the investment.
Originally, these cities were not controlled by the people who lived in them. They were not even within the United States. Not yet, anyway. Some towns drew settlers from the West. Others pulled people down from the North.
The town I want to tell you about sits in the New Mexico Territory, near Arizona.
Heedonville.
It consisted of about half a dozen buildings, none standing more than three stories high. But the Special Buildings—those stood long before any people arrived. Before records. Before anything, really.
Maybe a hunter or two passed nearby. But I doubt anyone ever came close enough to notice the town itself.
Many people believe that early America placed a certain race into bondage purely because of racism. That simply is not the case. At one point or another—throughout the history of man—every race on this planet has been in bondage.
The Chinese.
The Irish.
The Jews.
And, of course, Black Americans.
What many people do not know is that the famous rapper ODB was outspoken about his family not being from Africa. According to him, they were already here when Europeans arrived—just as much as the Native peoples everyone recognizes today.
During the Revolutionary War, these Black Natives sided with the Europeans, while other Native tribes aligned with the British. It was the strength of these Native Blacks that allowed America to become what it is today.
Once America won its independence, they turned on them.
The moment Americans recognized the power these Native Blacks had access to, they moved to destroy it. A treaty was made with other Native tribes to help place Native Blacks into bondage. In return, those tribes were promised peace and land west of the Mississippi River.
Of course, America turned on them as well—just not all at once.
The boxer Muhammad Ali spoke about this very subject at length after being refused service at a restaurant that visiting Africans were allowed to eat at. This entire version of history has been omitted to reinforce division among the American people.
In the 1980s, the CIA said on television: give the people nothing but lies, and let them fight over which one is the truth. While we fight among ourselves, we pay no attention to what the wizard is doing behind the curtain.
There were several African slave owners in America prior to the Civil War.
One of these men went by the name of Lucius Wagner.