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Blaxit: Tired of Racism, Black Americans Try Life in Africa
NYT ^ | 02 16 2024 | Colette Coleman

Posted on 02/17/2024 8:29:36 AM PST by yesthatjallen

Jes’ka Washington lives in a six-bedroom house on a hill with avocado trees and a spectacular view, not far from the rabbit farm she runs. For less than $50,000, Shoshana Kirya-Ziraba and her husband built a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house on family farmland with goats, turkeys and about a thousand chickens. Mark and Marlene Bradley now call themselves islanders and the owners of three homes cooled by ocean breezes.

All of them are Black Americans who found their new homes in Africa. They are enjoying the substantially lower cost of living and, more important, they said, the absence of the racism and discrimination they experienced in the United States.

The Covid pandemic and the racial reckoning in the wake of the murder of George Floyd led some Black Americans to seek a different way of life abroad, in a movement that some are calling Blaxit.

Those moving to Africa are also looking for an ancestral connection. Their migration is less about money and more about acceptance, a path that many intellectuals and artists have taken before.

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(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; blacks; blaxit; byebyebye; racism
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To: yesthatjallen

Hasta LaVista


41 posted on 02/17/2024 9:16:41 AM PST by ZULU (DUMP RONA ROMNEY MCDANIELS!!!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Africa has enough problems as it is. They don’t need an influx of Democrats to make things worse.


42 posted on 02/17/2024 9:16:50 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: Labyrinthos

Kill the paywall.

See post 34.


43 posted on 02/17/2024 9:16:55 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: yesthatjallen

Their ancestors were sold into slavery there and before anyone gets paid by the US government the ones in Africa should have had many years of paying.


44 posted on 02/17/2024 9:19:32 AM PST by Degaston
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To: yesthatjallen
Good luck with all those medical needs afflicting blacks past 50.

Good luck getting a stent or even a statin in Stone Town lofl.

Oh but wait, life expectancy is only 57 in Zanzibar, so it's cool. SCHADENFREUDE.

"Life expectancy at birth is 57 years, which is significantly lower than the 2010 world average of 67.2."

45 posted on 02/17/2024 9:21:54 AM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: yesthatjallen
Bye.
46 posted on 02/17/2024 9:22:47 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: yesthatjallen
lol... BUH BYE

47 posted on 02/17/2024 9:23:12 AM PST by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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To: yesthatjallen

Gonna be fascinating to watch them be rejected by Africans who don’t buy any of that crap.


48 posted on 02/17/2024 9:23:13 AM PST by xoxox
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To: Labyrinthos

“Paywall. No thanks.

What countries in Africa are they fleeing to?”

I was able to copy the article before the pay wall popped up.

The article mentions Uganda, Ghana and Zanzibar. Zanzibar being on an island off the coast of Africa, so I doubt there’s much coming into contact with their ancestral heritage going on there.

Also, it appears that they are avoiding South Africa like the plague......weird right?


49 posted on 02/17/2024 9:26:38 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Blacks who were born here have been brainwashed with “whitey racism.” They have visceral, unwarranted, imaginary hatred towards “whitey.” Their racist attitude is palpable. On the other hand, people who immigrate here from African countries have not been brainwashed, have no visceral hatred, and are great people to work with.


50 posted on 02/17/2024 9:27:32 AM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist .)
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To: yesthatjallen

Our government needs to tell the hoards of invaders pouring across our borders that things have actually gotten much better than where they just came from.

The biggest problem with many parts of Africa are that most of the governments end up becoming unstable once the strongman in charge is toppled. When a group of militants decide to take over and behead all the non-Muslims in a shopping mall, or the help that they hired decides that they have been insulted in some way... it can all be over. “Racism” or any other made-up hardship they faced here are completely irrelevant by comparison. But I do wish them well and hope that they will convince their family and friends to follow in their foot steps.


51 posted on 02/17/2024 9:28:10 AM PST by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Gonna need a lot of them to counteract the Chinese presence in Africa.


52 posted on 02/17/2024 9:29:34 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: yesthatjallen

great news and a grand decision- tell your friends. buh-bye.


53 posted on 02/17/2024 9:30:46 AM PST by ronniesgal (have you even tried to mind your own business?)
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To: yesthatjallen

Those who travel to the lands of their ancestors will realize that they can’t stay because they’re Americans even if they didn’t realize it until then.


54 posted on 02/17/2024 9:33:22 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: V_TWIN

Uganda? Fani Willis ought to go. Tell her it’s a posh Bahamas resort, she won’t know the difference.


55 posted on 02/17/2024 9:37:15 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: yesthatjallen

What can I do to encourage this trend?

But I have to vett the black person in question. If they are a Fanni Willis or a Alvin Bragg type, they can go. If they are like Walter Wilson or Thomas Sowell, they must stay.


56 posted on 02/17/2024 9:40:23 AM PST by Lazamataz (Laz 2005: "First, we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them.")
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To: Dave911

That would be awesome. Can they take their fellow thugs from MS-13 and other Latino gangs with them?


57 posted on 02/17/2024 9:41:25 AM PST by nutmeg (FJB)
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To: yesthatjallen

Well, good. Now get that chain emigration started.


58 posted on 02/17/2024 9:41:38 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: yesthatjallen
Re: "Those moving to Africa are also looking for an ancestral connection."

They will not have look far.

The ancestors of every Black American were captured and sold into slavery by their Black African cousins!

59 posted on 02/17/2024 9:42:54 AM PST by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: yesthatjallen

Don’t let them back.


60 posted on 02/17/2024 9:46:05 AM PST by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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