Posted on 08/04/2020 1:42:19 PM PDT by C19fan
Demetria Brown knew the exact moment she decided she'd had it.
She'd just watched a video of George Floyd pinned under an officer's knee, saying he couldn't breathe as he begged for his life. She sobbed as she played it over and over.
On June 1, a week after Floyd's death, she quit her job as a detention officer for the Los Angeles County Probation Department. In the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic, she sold her house, stuffed her belongings into 13 duffel bags and relocated to Puerto Vallarta on Mexico's Pacific coast.
Brown, 42, is one of many African Americans leaving the United States permanently for many reasons, including racism and fear of police brutality. Her flight landed in her new hometown on June 25, a month to the day Floyd died.
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Good. Maybe we can get another million malcontents like her to leave the country.
FTA....
...Brown initially considered moving to an African nation, including South Africa.
However, after visiting both countries, she says, Mexico felt more like home.....
See that? Now you're just mean!
/s
Demetrias - making the moves to Mexico, that illegals won’t do.
Wait till the local gangs figure she has a few bucks. Hello Kidnapping, or worse.
How about 30 million?
Waddya bet she’s back in less than a year.
Hmm...a woman of color aptly named Dementia Brown could solve Biden’s VP dilemma in an instant. Campaign Slogan: “We’ve forgotten more than you’ll ever know.”
Actually, I feel sorry for the woman. Some major disappointments are coming her way, if she survives.
More power to her. As they always say, “America, love it or leave it!”
There’s work to be done, she isn’t willing to do the heavy lifting required. Bye-bye
So silver lining....
” Has Ms. Brown ever noticed the complexion of the elites who run Mexico? “
GOOD POST
Racism is alive and well in Mexico. White Mexicans run Mexico. Next down the list is Mexicans with a lot of Indian blood. They are considered not pure enough for society. Next down the list is pure blood Indians and at the bottom of the list are blacks.
I grew up on the border, speak Spanish and my wife is from Mexico. I know of which I speak.
She'll sleep easier knowing her rape wasn't from white privilege.
“White Mexicans run Mexico.”
Basically Mexicans with a lot of Castilian DNA - correct?
The few times I’ve watched a Mexican TV station or show, most presenters or actors/actresses have little or no mestizo blood in them.
Yeah, something like that. Or the police who let everything she owns be stolen were tan guys.
I hope she stays gone.
At least something good may come of it.
“is one of many African Americans leaving the United States permanently for many reasons”
Permanently, you say? So she burned her passport and publicly renounced her citizenship?
There is no police brutality in Mexico!
Or at least, there is no one left alive to report any brutality!
Wow, wait until she gets a load of the sight of lines of soldiers with rifles on their shoulders, protecting property (and probably not just governmental).
About 25 years ago our family grown kids were out state and working (no grandkids yet). Ny wife and I had a timeshare to go to Puerto Vallarta’, Mexico the last week in November.
We really enjoyed it, and never felt in danger. Then things changed quickly, and we felt uncomfortable. So we traded for another coastal town, and felt the same threats.
So then, we went on a couple cruises to western Mexico coastal towns, and were advised not to even go to visit to do shore stuff on the last 2 cruises.
That stopped after 3 cruises with the armed guards everywhere. On the last one we were on a whale watching cruise on a whale watching boat. They got a radio call telling them to bring us directly to the ship and not go into the port.
Our cruise ship was out of the port and basically doing small circles in the ocean, when the various smaller craft like ours came into unload their tourists on the port side onto a portable download landing pier attached to the ship. Fortunately the wind was calm and everyone got off the small boats and onto the portable pier and up to the mainship. The owner of the whale watching boat was irate and scared. He said that criminals were stalking the small boats and robbing passengers.
Fortunately, everyone got back to and up the side of the cruise ship. When the last passenger was up on the main deck and the temp boat lander was hoisted up.
The captain took us out of port at flank speed until we got into seas off the US coast.
Later at dinner and a couple of comped champagnes, my wife asked what was happening.
I told her the ship’s captain had gotten some hot intel to get out of there.
I told her about a similar get of Dodge, while on active duty in the Navy. We were visiting Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic in 1962. We got a hot TS message to get out of there. We found everyone but an ensign. He was not a rookie and spoke Spanish. We were leaving and their coast guard said they would bring him out if we went out to the coastal limit and basically stayed there.
We left port and got outside the territorial limit, and another SD coastie ship was there signaled us to stay on her starboard /seward side. We did,
About an hour later, an another one of their coasties came up with our ensign. We got him on board and headed back to Gitmo.
A couple of years later while on active reserve, a group of SecGroupers were discussing things beyond normal. I brought up the get of out Santa Domingo.
One of the chiefs in that group said that our buddie Che had ordered a hit on our crew. That message was intercepted/decoded and we were warned to get out of Dodge.
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