Posted on 09/21/2021 3:32:53 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Accra, Ghana — In 2019, Ghana's president invited African descendants in the diaspora to mark the "Year of Return," commemorating 400 years since the first Africans arrived in the colony now known as Virginia on a slave ship. The invite prompted record tourism to Ghana, and an increase in Americans who applied for visas to stay.
But it was the events in the United States in 2020, and the Black Lives Matter movement, that drove a real surge in people looking to move out of America and into Africa.
The Elmina Castle on Ghana's Atlantic coast is more than 5,000 miles from American shores, but the five-century old structure occupies a particularly dark place in U.S. history. Hundreds of years ago, it was a central trading hub where African people from around the continent were sold into slavery.
As the U.S. continues to confront its racist past, Ghana is turning that history upside down, and welcoming Black Americans back home.
Sonjiah Davis was the epitome of Washington cool. She was a well-connected, successful therapist trained to deal with emotional health. And yet, living in the capital of the United States, she says she was constantly looking over her shoulder.
"I was living what people would consider the American dream," she told Patta. "I was educated, professional. I had friends. I was a socialite… but I never felt safe."
Davis believes trauma is embedded in her DNA, from the transatlantic slave trade to the Tulsa race massacre in 1921 that saw some of her family displaced from their homes.
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Heck, if I knew they were leaving, I would’ve made a sandwich for them for their trip.
Africans think black Americans are loud, arrogant, spoiled, entitled, poorly behaved, and stupid.
Good thing the Africans can’t be racist!
of the millions of slaves sold in the african slave trade... i think they said nearly 25 million... 400000 came to north america... about 4-5 % at the most.
brazil got the lions share.
doesn’t make it right, but doesn’t make us the devils we are made out to be.
And those 15000 Haitians were already living elsewhere in South America, so whats the crap about them bein’ refugees?
If they wanna move, by all means, repatriate them to Ghana or Nigeria.
But we all know why they’re really here, right?
Whitey gotz da cash
A lot of Americans share that sentiment, but many black folks are Fine Upstanding Americans.
She was talking about feeling unsafe from being around black folks, right? Does she know there's a lot of black folks in Africa, right?
* Ghana has an open immigration policy for any American blacks that wants citizenship. *
You could probably live like a king there based on the relative cost of living:
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_result.jsp?country1=United+States&country2=Ghana
And the level of safety:
https://www.expatarrivals.com/africa/ghana/safety-ghana
Even Rachel Dolezal?
Shocking! That anyone living in DC would say that!
Look sister. I'm a white male. And even I would not feel safe in DC
Probably looking out for other black people. Like Jesse Jackson said, "There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see someone white and feel relieved."
I read up on this.
Only the rich, educated US blacks will leave as Ghana is vetting with a fine tooth comb who will be allowed into their country.
In other words only people who can benefit their country and not be a burden.
White people are truly the most stupid people on the planet and self dooming through white guilt.
“Unsafe.”
Most crime is committed by blacks. She felt unsafe because of that.
Ghana wants her because she’s an educated professional.
Neither you nor I are responsible for actions committed by other people. Guilt is not shared on the basis of the reflectance of one’s epidermis.
Hmmmm. They are pushing a reverse-brain/wealth drain. Great thing for Ghana if American money and skills can help advance the country.
I wish them success.
But I do not think that will happen.
And do remember to renounce your citizenship.
I have friends from Nigeria, great people, and they cannot stand American blacks.
I fully support these people to move there and create the utopia they seek. Honestly I do. Hopefully it would either give them a huge lesson in how great they have it in the USA, or they actually make and find the life they want over there.
No thanks to LBJ and welfare. Even Malcolm X said that the White Liberal was the greatest enemy of black people.
MGGA!
I remember this being suggested in the 70’s, and people were saying it was racist. Amazing what 50 years will do for you.
Out of America an important book by a black American about race and Africa.
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