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The reverse migration: African Americans relocating to Kenya cite heritage and restoration
Yahoo News ^ | July 26, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 07/28/2025 8:18:07 AM PDT by Twotone

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To: Twotone
Kenneth Harris spent most of his days in Atlanta yearning for a life in a place where his dark skin color is not a source of suspicion, but a mark of a shared heritage.

In Atlanta? And he was born in the 1980s? That doesn't ring at all true.

41 posted on 07/28/2025 9:01:23 AM PDT by x
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“The 38-year-old retired veteran has found a community in the east African country’s capital, where he now runs an Airbnb business. He loves admiring Nairobi’s golden sunset from a rooftop terrace, and enjoys a luxurious lifestyle in a tastefully furnished apartment in an upmarket neighborhood.”

Bless his heart…


42 posted on 07/28/2025 9:01:35 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Twotone
He loves admiring Nairobi’s golden sunset from a rooftop terrace, and enjoys a luxurious lifestyle in a tastefully furnished apartment in an upmarket neighborhood.

Ah yes, Nairobi, where they have the largest slums in all of Africa. No worries though, you're livin' the dream.

43 posted on 07/28/2025 9:02:04 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Twotone

“”””The 38-year-old retired veteran has found a community in the east African country’s capital, where he now runs an Airbnb business. He loves admiring Nairobi’s golden sunset from a rooftop terrace, and enjoys a luxurious lifestyle in a tastefully furnished apartment in an upmarket neighborhood.””””

That sounds pretty cool for a black American with a pension.


44 posted on 07/28/2025 9:02:26 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: cherry
He’ll make sure he takes that fat US govt pension with him,as all expats do.

Slightly off-topic here, but you'll notice that the guy is only 38 but retired. You only have to do 20 years in the military to retire with full benefits for life. That seems fair to a lot of people, until you realize that most jobs in the US military are pretty easy. If you're a grunt or some such thing, then, yeah, those will be 20 hard years and an early retirement is warranted and earned. But, as with a former friend of mine, you spend 20 years in the Air Force working a desk job in an air-conditioned warehouse, full retirement at 20 years is a glorified welfare system. And then getting a disability rating for things like sleep apnea is ridiculous.

Retirement benefits in the military should be scaled to the difficulty and risk of the job.
45 posted on 07/28/2025 9:04:38 AM PDT by fr_freak (So foul a sky clears not without a storm.)
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To: Twotone

I’ll help pack


46 posted on 07/28/2025 9:09:47 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
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To: Twotone

Morons probably don’t even know what tribes are in Kenya, they think all Africans are alike. They’ll learn, the hard way.


47 posted on 07/28/2025 9:10:34 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Kenneth Harris spent most of his days in Atlanta yearning for a life in a place where his dark skin color is not a source of suspicion...

Why is his dark skin color a source of suspicion? Perhaps because a statistically small part of the population commits a disproportionately high number of violent and quality of life crimes.

48 posted on 07/28/2025 9:16:09 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Twotone

What can we do to encourage more to do so?


49 posted on 07/28/2025 9:19:39 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: Twotone

Let the Mau Maus go back to Kenya.


50 posted on 07/28/2025 9:22:13 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: Twotone

The number of African Americans with Kenyan origin is miniscule. Slaves were brought to America from West Africa, Nigeria,Ghana, Sierra Leone, even the westetn Congo, but the slavers in East Africa were the Arabs. And they castrated males. They did not v want children in their slave holdings, not when there was an unending supply from East Africa at their doorstep.
That’s why I could not understand the 60s and 70s black power’s fascinayion with Swahili.


51 posted on 07/28/2025 9:22:14 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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“Christians not welcome.”

86% of the population is Christian.


52 posted on 07/28/2025 9:23:20 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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I believe it! American blacks have been given free passes by guilt ridden WHITES to be irresponsible, lazy, entitled, commit crimes without much consequences...

They wouldn’t be able to get away with that in an African country.


53 posted on 07/28/2025 9:26:21 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: PGR88

I agree. Fantasy porn.

At one point, it says, “Other African countries have attracted even larger numbers of African Americans. Ghana, which launched a “Year of the Return” program to attract the Black diaspora in 2019, said last year it held a ceremony that granted citizenship to 524 people, mostly Black Americans.”

If 524 people is “larger numbers”, I wouldn’t call it a “diaspora” or “mass” anything!


54 posted on 07/28/2025 9:29:57 AM PDT by FrogMom (Time marches on....)
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To: Jim W N

at 36 and military retired (medical disability) making 6k a month he can make it anywhere as long as his checks clear.


55 posted on 07/28/2025 9:32:21 AM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: PGR88

he’s making big money on disability not a normal back to Africa tale.


56 posted on 07/28/2025 9:34:56 AM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: Verginius Rufus
Nairobi is probably 2 to 3 thousand miles from where his enslaved ancestors were born 300 years ago.

80-90% from West Africa (Nigeria, Ghana). 10-20% from Central Africa (Congo).

Just look at Obama. He's half Kenyan. He's really skinny. It's obvious that you can tell that he's from a different tribe.

So we haven't had an African-American President yet because Obama is not descended from American slaves.

57 posted on 07/28/2025 9:39:45 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Teacher317

Obama did away with the 3 strikes rule that kept the worst locked up. they hit the end of their sentences and can loot Cali at 950.00 a day and free lawyers


58 posted on 07/28/2025 9:39:51 AM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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If they did that, then they’d be uncle toms. American blacks never gave up the slave thinking. They want their food and housing paid for them. So do I, but I don’t want to live in a ghetto. So, I pay my own way.


59 posted on 07/28/2025 9:40:10 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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**Slightly off-topic here, but you’ll notice that the guy is only 38 but retired. You only have to do 20 years in the military to retire with full benefits for life.**

I considered it but retirement wouldn’t be enough unless one moved to one of those places. In Thailand I got laid for $3 in the 70’s. Heaven. Then there’s more to life than that but a vegetable existence in the military can burn up some of the best years of one’s life.

This guys’s 38. Probably got credit for an early out. Happened under Clinton for a guy who will be eternally grateful.


60 posted on 07/28/2025 9:42:07 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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