America is facing dangerous times, with a resurgence of domestic agitation and push back against democracy. We are seeing a fractured society and a broken political system, as one party (the Republican Party) is entrenched in another period of White backlash, combined with Christian Nationalism -- which distorts Christianity and seeks to
America is facing dangerous times, with a resurgence of domestic agitation and push back against democracy. We are seeing a fractured society and a broken political system, as one party (the Republican Party) is entrenched in another period of White backlash, combined with Christian Nationalism -- which distorts Christianity and seeks to put a distorted depiction of the Bible as the governing philosophy of America. They are emmeshed in Q-Anon kookery and Great Replacement Theory fears. From the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville to the 2,500-student home school network with Nazi curricula in Ohio, race-based hate is on the rise across America at the same time the nation is becoming more racially diverse.
We have sitting congressional Republican leaders saying things like "we need a national divorce. We need to separate by red and blue states and shrink the federal government," and another congressman who said in 2021 (two months after the insurrection at the Capitol) “We are a powerful movement … we have a second amendment and I think we have an obligation to use it. The second amendment is about maintaining within the citizenry the ability to have an armed rebellion against the government if that becomes necessary,” and who in 2023 followed that up with "I cannot stand these people that are destroying our country ... we know that only through force can we make any change in a corrupt town like Washington DC.“
This political radicalization has led to a rollback of rights for those deemed "others" -- they want to build a wall to keep out Black and brown immigrants and asylum seekers and instituted policies designed to separate families at the border (to this date, more than 400 children remain separated from their families), khaki-clad, tiki torch wielding protester chanting "Jews will not replace us," and a bigot in the White House created a Muslim travel ban. They have rolled back the rights of LGBTQ populations through invented harms like a bakery that can now lawfully discriminate against gay couples and since 2020, 23 states have legislated bans on trans athletes--when there are perhaps 100 trans athletes in High Schools across America. They have engaged in book bans and legislated curricula and escalated the diffusion of guns throughout society--refusing any restrictions despite rampant mall, movie theater, and school mass shootings.
They have rolled back voting rights and proposed hundreds of voter suppression bills. They have banned or severly restricted abortion rights in nearly 2 dozen states and continue to roll back women's reproductive health freedoms. They deny election results they don't like and supported an insurrection and attempted coup of the U.S. government. The presumptive Republican Party nominee for president has called for mass deportations, punishment for women who have abortions, and the right of a president to murder political opponents with immunity from prosecution.
This is not your father's Republican Party -- this is a party of zealots and dangerous extremists and must be forever defeated.
Red Tail Legacy Partners seeks to partner in the building and operations of housing communities targeted to politically progressive young adults (ages 20 - 35), in strategically-targeted locations across America.
The America Forward Movement is a long-term solution to the racial animus infecting today's America. It organizes young adults
Red Tail Legacy Partners seeks to partner in the building and operations of housing communities targeted to politically progressive young adults (ages 20 - 35), in strategically-targeted locations across America.
The America Forward Movement is a long-term solution to the racial animus infecting today's America. It organizes young adults into racially- and ethnically-diverse, fun, learning and living environment where they can express and imprint their values on the nation through their collective voting power.
The nation has a 6.8 million unit housing shortage: those units will eventually be built somewhere, by somebodies (wealthy developers), for some purpose (to get richer). Why not build them in a manner to stabilize society for the future, instead of the past? By organizing new housing developments targeted to young adults in selected states to ensure a White supremacist can never again receive 270 electoral college votes to be elected to the presidency, and in more rural areas of states, we seek to stop the political radicalization being led by politicians, not the people. We bring America together by diminishing the urban-rural and anti-diversity political divides being exploited by politicians.
We leverage the $65 billion federal investment (in the 2021 bi-partisan Infrastructure Act) in rural broadband and the national transition to remote learning and work brought about by COVID-19, and we open new areas of the country to profitable, market-based development and the resettlement of rural America by young, progressive voters.
We seek to provide career-focused learning opportunities and the co-curricular supports of a college environment, creating all the life advancement and socialization benefits of a four-year degree in an on-campus environment -- but without the crippling college debt. (Thanks to the "Reagan Revolution", 1984 was the last time the average student graduated with more grant-in-aid than debt. Now, businesses are moving away from the four-year degree as a marker for hiriing.)
We build career skills together, engage in the civic life of the local community, socialize together – making the best friends of our lives. We can defeat today's Nazis by coming together in love in the right places, building community and voting. Leasing by bedroom, the units are affordable at 70% of Area Median Income (roughly a retail worker's full-time salary).
We organize around economic opportunity, the beauty of diversity, love, and political power. Each "community" has around 1,000 adults (voters)--perhaps at different sites in the same area, but all connected programmatically. Further all of the regional communities are connected electronically and through periodic events around political life or socialization.
Career Development Services
We organize around economic opportunity, the beauty of diversity, love, and political power. Our career counselors meet with new residents and engage in a variety of career assessments with them to help residents understand their values and work preferences, and then align those elements with potential career pathways.
We then engage in career exploration and mapping of next steps in career progression, including identification of efficient training routes. We organize career field interest groups, study groups, and networking events.
Voter Activation and Mobilization
We support the development of resident-led political study groups to engage in and organize around issues of their concern. Voting in every election is a lease requirement, and these resident-led groups engage in voter education and understanding local candidates and national issues. Voting is celebrated in the community and resident leaders provide information and organize around absentee and early voting, trips to the polling locations and celebration of election results.
Civic Engagement and Socialization
Resident engagement in local community is important, and we provide information about local festivals, access to local adult sports leagues, opportunities to coach little leagues, and volunteer opportunities in schools and libraries. We provide on-line platforms for residents to organize into interest groups and engage in field trips together.
Red Tail Legacy Partners, LLC was formed in 2024 as the next step in the life trajectory of its founder, Jonathan Beard. Beard, the son of a Tuskegee Airman and a mother whose ancestors were original founders os the Lakeview Community -- a Freeman's Settlement in southern Illinois dating from the 1820s, is a community and economic develop
Red Tail Legacy Partners, LLC was formed in 2024 as the next step in the life trajectory of its founder, Jonathan Beard. Beard, the son of a Tuskegee Airman and a mother whose ancestors were original founders os the Lakeview Community -- a Freeman's Settlement in southern Illinois dating from the 1820s, is a community and economic development professional, who has worked at the intersection of real estate development, workforce development, and career-technical education over more than 25 years.
The father of two children now in their 20's, a former little league coach, and follower of his children's sports teams, Beard has grown increasingly concerned about the broken country his generation is leaving to its children and determined to set it on a path to political stability.
After studying political science at the University of Pennsylvania, Beard has watched with concern as the nation's structures that were designed to support small states and White, male, property owners are being used to enshrine a backwards-looking "minority rule" in an increasingly diverse America. He is watching the Republican Party and a Supreme Court shaped by a president who couldn't win a majority of the popular vote and Justices who were confirmed by Senators that don't represent a majority of Americans create the foundation for an apartheid-style, minority White rule. He understands how the fear of demographic change from those traditionally in-power is leading to the destruction of social and political norms and creating an America that is increasingly turning its back on the values and perspectives of the younger and more diverse Americans who are its future.
The father of two children now in their 20's, a former little league coach, and follower of his children's sports teams, Beard has grown increasingly concerned about the broken country his generation is leaving to its children, and determined to set it on a path to political stability within the next decade.
He says, "I have watched this generation of young adults grow up -- and I love them. They are smart, and funny, and caring. I wish those others who are trapped in their bubbles of fear could see you through my eyes - could see you as I do ... then they wouldn't be scared, they would be proud and happy and encouraged. This younger generation is who my generation should have been -- instead of growing up during a period of separation and fear-based "White flight" to the suburbs, they grow up with friends who don't have to look like them. I have watched you stick up for each other -- whether as teammates, or in leading the largest social justice movement in America's history through #BlackLivesMatter. You are protesting the genocide in Gaza and calling for an end to our country and its institutions' complicity in that ethnic cleansing. You are rightfully concerned about the health of the planet and the impact of guns in our society. You aren't afraid if someone expresses their gender or sexuality differently, you fully support a woman's right to choose her reproductive healthcare and her future -- you certainly aren't obsessed with turning young women into baby-makers as some of the older generation appears to be. You don't have too much worry about which God people may choose to pray to. You believe everyone should have the right to vote, and want to vote with confidence in people who share your values and perspectives. You see strength and beauty in our nation's ethnic diversity and are open to an America for all. You learn fast and work hard -- but need a fair opportunity with a chance to live affordably and without crushing college debt. We can organize to do all that with you, and get rid of much of the hatred and bitterness in the country, and help you build the community and the country that you can be proud to call yours."
Beard believes his generation needs to facilitate the future, rather than clinging to the past. After having been one of a handful of this generation to run a "comprehensive community development initiative," he knows we can build affordable housing and create communities with all the career and life advantages of a college campus -- but without the crippling debt. He knows that technology has transformed the learning community and workforce, and that there is new opportunity to access well-paying jobs with short-term, inexpensive skills development and industry-recognized credentials -- that we can resettle America by building new communities even in more remote places near natural attractions, or on the edges of big cities. He knows you don't need to live in a big city to have a community full of support, resources and fun. He wants to create communities designed for progressive young adults, where they can learn together, socialize, support each other, and advance in careers that matter and match their values. Red Tail Legacy Partners has a mission to do that.
Red Tail Legacy Partners is seeking to build a housing community in southern Georgia -- within 1 hour of Tallahassee, FL and within 2 hours of the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico. This project would add 1,000 progressive voters to Georgia, the first step in securing the nation from the threat of a Republican president.