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Why some Black Americans are leaving the U.S. to reclaim their "destiny" in Ghana
CBS News ^ | 9/18/2021 | Staff

Posted on 09/21/2021 7:46:00 PM PDT by simpson96

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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Funny you should say that. When I was in college, I did a study abroad in Bohemia in the Czech Republic. It was just an opportunity and I took it... I had no previous knowledge of the area and no deep desire to go to that specific place. We traveled all over South Bohemia, drinking in all the little medieval towns and visiting castles. I loved it.

Twenty-five years later, I was researching my grandmother's genealogy. She was adopted and we knew nothing about her biologicals. We submitted my uncle's DNA and found matches. Turns out my grandmother's grandfather was from the town of Brno, and that summer I had been drinking beer in a tavern about a 15 minute walk from his church parish.

41 posted on 09/21/2021 9:45:48 PM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

must hang out in african areas ,they dangerous honey.


42 posted on 09/21/2021 9:56:19 PM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

That must be some newfangled celebrity stuff.

The redheaded prince talked about a genetic pain that’s passed down through the family.

Tap, tap, tap...ohmmmm, oops let me use this 1,000 dollar bill to dab my perspiration.

pffft


43 posted on 09/21/2021 9:59:53 PM PDT by Irenic ( )
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To: ponygirl

Wow, that must have been a weird feeling! Something attracted you there! DNA memory? Or your gr-gr-grandfather reaching out to you from the grave?


44 posted on 09/21/2021 10:00:06 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("If I’m going to get my political views from those who chase balls, I’ll ask my dog.")
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To: hinckley buzzard

Let’s take this in context. She’s talking about events that occurred maybe 2 or 3 centuries ago. That in itself is not enough time to create new DNA structures. What you’re talking about is latent genes that must have been there for hundreds of thousands to millions of years. That’s not what she is talking about.


45 posted on 09/21/2021 10:06:40 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: simpson96

Please


46 posted on 09/21/2021 10:09:17 PM PDT by wardaddy (Fear Republic land of grumps and scolds peppered with good folks )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I have to admit, my jaw dropped when I found out. I discovered a profile written about him in a book about Civil War veterans. As a young man, he had fought in Italy in one of the multitude of wars in Europe (circa 1842-1848). Then he immigrated mid-1850s and joined up with the Illinois infantry to fight in the Civil War. That’s where I learned he was from Brno, so I did the research and uncovered his baptismal records there. Totally stunning turn of events. He was buried in Wisconsin, so I don’t think he was reaching out from the grave... but maybe he was traveling with me and protecting/guiding me?


47 posted on 09/21/2021 10:37:38 PM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven )
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To: be-baw
Oh she'll be back alright. In two or three weeks when she finds out how life really is living in a Third World s**thole.

However she's a light skinned black and they're usually at the top of the social order. No doubt she'll have enough US currency with her which should soften life for her.

She also just might find that her fellow Ghanaians might not be so welcoming to her.

48 posted on 09/21/2021 11:32:55 PM PDT by jmacusa (America.Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: sphinx

This kind of reminds me of what Muhammad Ali once said when he came back from Zaire in the 70’s.


49 posted on 09/21/2021 11:34:26 PM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: Trillian

Yes, considering the murder rate in Ghana is roughly double what it is in the US...


50 posted on 09/22/2021 12:42:30 AM PDT by Trinity5
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To: simpson96

This woman is more proof that 99% of these psych types are themselves batsh!t crazy.


51 posted on 09/22/2021 2:07:07 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Jonty30

She won’t have to see it. She’ll be living in a gated area with armed security.


52 posted on 09/22/2021 3:27:27 AM PDT by steve8714 (Evidently the Oxford comma is racist, sexist, or homophobic. You decide which.)
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To: ponygirl

Discoveries like that are so much fun. I’ve been doing a lot of family genealogical research the past several years and have learned so much I didn’t know.

The best story I’ve found was a distant great aunt took off with a married man and his ten year old son. He was a scoundrel and sold part of the family business in Illinois, leaving his wife (the mother of the boy) in a reduced state. The mother hired a private detective who found that they had married and settled in Winnipeg where he opened a new livery stable around 1902. After a year there, he caught a horse disease “glanders” and died. His young bride got back to North Dakota where some family lived and she enrolled the boy in school there. The detective negotiated a deal where the boy could finish the school year in North Dakota before returning home to his mother. It was a huge scandal and covered in the Illinois newspapers.

I actually phoned up the boy’s great grandson and talked to him!


53 posted on 09/22/2021 5:36:52 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("If I’m going to get my political views from those who chase balls, I’ll ask my dog.")
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To: be-baw

Our church has a missionary FAMILY in Ghana, going on now 15 years. They visited here last year, and I expressed my concern for their safety over there, as Christians. He promptly replied that their family and friends living there are concerned about OUR safety here with all the killings, fires, assaults, attacks, etc. They love it in Ghana, and would not want raising a family back here in the states. I was surprised about his feelings of being safe back there, but not the perception crime here.


54 posted on 09/22/2021 6:36:26 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: HollyB

Americans of all colors should work to make America a happy libable country. Step ONE is to secure our borders... and vote the ‘elites’ out of office.


55 posted on 09/22/2021 6:58:11 AM PDT by GOPJ (Same people who supplied pallets of bricks for BLM are supplying tent poles for illegals.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Wow, that's quite a story! It is really fun, but then you turn up something not just unsavory, but really awful and sad. I found a second cousin whose 14-year-old daughter had been attacked while walking home at night and had her throat slit. This was down rural south in the 1920s and that guy was in the electric chair within two months. There is family alive now who were not alive then, but still remember the reverberations off that incident. One of them told a story of how the girl's father and brothers went out looking for her when she hadn't shown up for dinner. He heard her shouting, "Daddy! Daddy!" from the woods and they ran out there to find her sitting up against a tree. But her throat had been cut and she was dead, so there was no way she could have been shouting to him. That's a story that has been passed along 100 years now. When I told my father the story, he did not recall having ever heard about the murder, but remembered getting spooked whenever he and his brother walked down that road at night and the feeling that someone was following them. So it's almost like the environment held some sort of memory.

Now that I think about it, something like that will get passed down not through DNA memory, but through the actions and responses of the family members who experienced it. For example, the anxiety a mother would pass along to daughters about walking alone at night which would cause extreme stress on a daughter who had not actually experienced the original event. It then becomes a part of her psychological makeup. Psychiatrists make a living unwinding things like that later in life.

56 posted on 09/22/2021 9:58:24 AM PDT by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven )
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To: simpson96
and she’s a psychotherapist who treats people?

She's a charlatan who validates and reinforces people's victimhood. So yes.

57 posted on 09/22/2021 10:05:19 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: ponygirl

That’s quite a gruesome story! Amazing that her dad heard her calling out. Auditory hallucinations seem to be quite common.

I forgot to mention my relative’s story got a bit juicier. After her husband died of glanders and she sent the boy back to his mother, she ran off with her first cousin and married him! They wound up in a small mining camp in Arizona around 1910. It was the first time she surfaced in the records after the scandal in Winnipeg. Her second husband (her cousin) died after a few years of marriage. I learned from a second cousin that my grandmother always thought she dispatched BOTH of her husbands. She disappeared again, then would up living with her second husband’s family in Illinois until she died. She was buried in her second husband’s family’s burial plot!


58 posted on 09/22/2021 11:50:18 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("If I’m going to get my political views from those who chase balls, I’ll ask my dog.")
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To: simpson96

Good! Both nations will be better for it.

They need to surrender their passports and take several friends with them.


59 posted on 09/22/2021 8:06:12 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: mgstarr

“Would love a country in Africa that wasn’t corrupt and tribal.”

I’m not sure that importing American blacks would bring that about, but if they want to try I say go for it.


60 posted on 09/22/2021 8:21:48 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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