Why some African Americans are moving to Africa

www.aljazeera.com ^ | 01/18/2018 | by Azad Essa

[montag813]

Howard prepares you for a world where black people are in charge, which is a completely different experience

It certainly is...

 
 

[kearnyirish2]

The Liberian Civil War arose when “city Liberians” (usually descended from freed slaves from the US that returned to Africa - the country was founded in 1847) oppressed the “country Liberians” (less-sophisticated people who had no ancestry outside of Africa) to the point where they were practically slaves. In the early 1990s it came to a head and the slaves threw the black slavemasters out (after killing many of them).

[kalee]

Didn’t the store deny her version of what happened?

[kearnyirish2]

I watched a West African co-worker chastise a black American woman who insisted her daughter wanted to move to Africa after the 2000 election; he was here on some type of temporary refugee visa which allowed him to work, and he lobbied with a group to make them permanent. He volunteered to tell this co-worker’s naïve daughter exactly what life is like in Africa.

[rlmorel]

You are most welcome Grandpa Dave. I must say, though, I don't know about the validity of that comment from the National Review I supplied (even though it is in the ballpark, I think) but this short 7 minute video by Bill Whittle really explains a lot (and gets a lot of its derived data from the link to Heather MacDonald at the Wall Street Journal, who did the number crunching on the federally supplied numbers to reach her conclusions):

Any time the narrative comes up where there it is asserted there is an epidemic of black men being shot by police officers, here is the statistic that should lead off the ensuing conversation:

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In 2015, according to federal crime statistics, a police officer of ANY race is 18 times more likely to die at the hands of a black man, than a black man is to die at the hands of a police officer.
"The Myths of Black Lives Matter" by Heather MacDonald)

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Here is an excellent video from Bill Whittle that puts things in the proper perspective:

"Black Lives Matter Kills People" by Bill Whittle
It is a 7 minute video which puts it in context, and explains much.

[Charles Martel]

I agree that this is no “movement” among “African-Americans”; why would you believe that a population that tends to cluster around freebies/”social safety nets” here in the US would move to such a sh!thole?

Not only that, the "African-Africans" have historically been less than welcoming toward their American cousins - even as short-term tourists. I doubt if that has changed.

[VietVet876]

Even cheaper would be refitted cargo ships or cruise ships taken out of service just prior to modernization. Imagine the reaction to a Royal Carribean Amistad Voyager.

[kearnyirish2]

True; they are shocked at how they squander opportunity and lack ambition (I’m speaking of the African-Africans ambitious enough to get out). Most of Africa has no food stamp or Section 8 program along the lines of ours; I just don’t believe Africans would welcome people who want everything handed to them.

[HP8753]

Or the neighboring tribe.

[bboop]

Of course you will get killed by the police. Get real. Criminals is criminals. Malaria is malaria. Cholera is cholera. Etc. Sounds like a Utopian Dream to me, but welcome to it.

Of course you stand out in a country that is 90% white. That is nothing anyone can change, actually.

[marktwain]

I think this would be a good trend.

Have all the black people who feel as this woman does move to African countries.

Everybody benefits.

[NCC-1701]

“...Why some African Americans are moving to Africa...”

So, are they going to call themselves American-Africans?

[rlmorel]

"...just wait until you have to choose between Tutsi and Hutu..."

There was a great book I read a while back called Out Of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa

One of the things he said (that he was later excoriated for) was that the degree of racism was exacerbated by extreme tribalism. He was there during Rwandan Genocide, and he had originally not thought that he could be imperiled as a black man (since he was black like they were) but came to find out that even having facial features that could be attributed to one tribe or another would be enough to make him fear for his life.

He wrote with a heartfelt genuineness how great it was to be an American in America, and was turned on by many in the leftist component of the black community for the perceived criticism of blacks and Africa.

[TexasM1A]

I am assuming that she went all in and gave up her citizenship to this awful, racist country she escaped.

[Hot Tabasco]

Do the blacks in Italy call themselves AfricanItalians?

[trebb]

Yeah - I'm sure tons of them are moving to 'greener pastures to places where Blacks are treated even worse by the Blacks in "leadership" than the Blacks of Chicago are treated by the Black gang members....

Let's see how that works for them....

[rlmorel]

You are spot on. Any black person who rejects the current black culture which glorifies racism, misogyny, lawbreaking, opposition to law and order, out of wedlock birth, rap, and other aspects of “gangsta culture” is almost always going to succeed in America.

And they will succeed because they are being part of America...not part of a dysfunctional, violent and repulsive tribe.

[Navy Patriot]

Or African-American-Africans?

[Buckeye McFrog]

In the early 1990s it came to a head and the slaves threw the black slavemasters out (after killing many of them).

You might recall the news photos of them being tied-up to posts along the beach and shot.

[Responsibility2nd]

If your name is really Muhammida el-Muhajir...

Then yeah. You probably are a better fit in Africa.