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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By all means, please.
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Some of the Nigerian women I met in college were amongst the most stunningly beautiful women I’ve ever seen.
Genuinely *BLACK* skin; not dark, not brown, black as moonless night.
No white man to torment them in Ghana.
What about the Wannabes?
I hope it works out for them.
You must live in an opaque bubble.
They will be back.
By saying crime as a generalization you must be narrowcasting away from violent crime. When you look at violent crime only the stats look very very bad for blacks.
"Today, roughly 3,000 American expatriates live in Ghana.Some view the arrivals as wealthy outsiders in a country where 30 percent of the population lives on less than $3.20 per day."
Yep! More power to them!
But if they all leave, we won’t have anybody to act in TV commercials.
Do they have a GoFundMe or a way us racist white folks can help, to atone for our privilege of course.
Will regret it just like those that went to Afghanistan to be jihadi wives
Blacks are still at 29% of violent crime. Not a “majority” as the OP claimed. I am not making commentary on the importance of the statistic, I just hate when people just make crap up. That is how misinformation spreads. Words have meanings, and if you are not intelligent enough to use the LO properly, then don’t
That's not how DNA works. But she probably feels real smart saying "DNA."
Nonsense. Africans enslaved other Africans and then brought the slaves to the castle to be sold to European slave traders.
Please tell all the brothers and sisters back in America how great it is! Spread the joy! Here's wishing you all a great future.
What a brilliant idea! The United States should try that!
Boy are they in for a surprise.
I wonder how many renounce thier citizenship?
And what’s the over/under for how long it takes them to come back?
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