Posted on 10/10/2023 8:50:14 PM PDT by KingofZion
ilmmaker Jameelah Nuriddin was locked down in Los Angeles during the pandemic, watching as the nation convulsed in protest over the murder of George Floyd, when she had an epiphany: “America does not deserve me.” As a Black woman, Nuriddin always tried to work twice as hard as those around her, thinking: “If I’m smart enough, pretty enough, successful enough ... then finally people will treat me as a human being.”
But as she grieved yet another unarmed Black man killed by police, she decided she was done trying to prove herself to a society that she felt would never really love her back.
So Nuriddin, 39, packed her bags and left.
She ended up in Costa Rica, in an idyllic beach town on the Caribbean coast that has become a hub for hundreds of Black expatriates fed up with life in the United States.
“It’s like leaving an abusive relationship,” she said of exiting the United States.
*** The expats forging new lives in Puerto Viejo are part of a wider exodus of Black Americans from the U.S. in recent years, with many leaving for reasons that are explicitly political.
Exhausted by anti-Black discrimination and violence back home, they are building communities in countries such as Portugal, Ghana, Colombia and Mexico.
Often referred to as “Blaxit,” which combines the words “Black” and “exit,” the movement has been boosted by social media, where influencers share inspirational posts about their odysseys abroad and challenge others to join them.
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Oh Thank Christ.
I hope all of them with this narcissistic mindset leave.
Where is the Go Fund Me?
Buh bye. Write when you find work.
Absurd reasoning, but if she is happier there so be it.
“ It’s like leaving an abusive relationship,” she said of exiting the United States.”
So she conveniently ignores the massive amount of black on white crime.
Ok, good riddance
Here today, Ghana tomorrow!
Good. Really no need to stay and pollute our political system with their rabid narcissistic idiocy.
My cousin and family live in Costa Rica. Wonder what he thinks about this.
I will pay thousands upon thousands...
Hell, nothing for Ukraine, everything for cruises to Africa.
Nope this kind of bobmastic clown is to busy nuring their mindless cup of hate to actually be a useful employee
A “filmmaker” who no one heard of until this interview. Well, any publicity is good publicity, I guess.
Costa Rica? Why not Africa, you hypocrite?
Don’t let the shackles hit you on the way out.
Blacks have never had as much freedom and economic opportunity as they do in our country now.
It’s a shame they’d rather teach these folks atrocities of seven generations ago instead of the here and now.
Good riddance to this fool.
She should head south of there to go hiking in the Darien Gap.
I hear it’s safe and wonderful. No whites...
Nice to end my day with good news .
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