Blaxit: Tired of Racism, Black Americans Try Life in Africa

NYT ^ | 02 16 2024 | Colette Coleman

[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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[Reily]

Walter Wilson???? Don’t you mean the late Walter Williams?

[Mouton]

Wait till they get the response to where be the welfare office and why my SNAP deposit not there. ?

[MinorityRepublican]

Things were going good until 2008 and the racial hatred that bastard fomented.

Thanks to Obama. We were making progress until 2008. Things weren't perfect but we were moving forward. Now we've regressed.

[x]

There is already a reaction against Americans in Mexico City.

How long before Costa Ricans turn against Americans, whatever their color?

[BradyLS]

I wish them great success in their new endeavors. That they can keep the gains of their bounty to pass along to their children. And others around the world will follow their example and join them in promoting their own prosperity.

[Rlsau1]

Happiness in life is important. If these folks had to gumption to move to a distant land, carve out a place for themselves, and have found happiness then I’m happy for them.

[Lazamataz]

Walter Wilson???? Don’t you mean the late Walter Williams?

Yes, that's who I meant. Wesley Williams.

[toddausauras]

And no McDonalds.

[Reily]

Close enough!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Regressed about 50 years. AND let the inmates take over the asylum. Now reverse discrimination is not only permissible, but encouraged and supported by law.

[Lazamataz]

Wally Wiggins?

[SauronOfMordor]

If you're retiring on a healthy 401k, living in Nairobi doesn't seem that bad.

[OrioleFan]

Now, if the Hollyweirdo’s would live up to their promises from 2016.

[zeestephen]

Re: "Paywall Killer"

Two things concern me about your paywall killer...

I see ".vn" in the address.

Is the site on a Virtual Private Network?

I see "MaL" in the address.

Is that like "MaLware?"

[Organic Panic]

No whitey to torment the poor blacks in Somalia or South Sudan, Sounds like paradise...l Please move and take the “teens” too.

[cgbg]

I have no idea.

I have used it for years.

It has worked for years.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Link to the article
“https://dnyuz.com/2024/02/16/blaxit-tired-of-racism-black-americans-try-life-in-africa/“

[ABN 505]

Here is a American black who found out the hard realities of life in the Mother continent, good read. Out of America

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by Keith B. Richburg

A Black Man Confronts Africa
Keith B. Richburg was an experienced and respected reporter who had paid his dues covering urban neighborhoods in Washington D.C. and won praise for his coverage of Southeast Asia. But nothing prepared him for the personal odyssey that he would embark upon when he was assigned to cover Africa. In this powerful book, Richburg takes the reader on an extraordinary journey that sweeps from Somalia to Rwanda to Zaire and finally to South Africa. He shows how he came to terms with the divide within himself: between his African racial heritage and his American cultural identity. Are these really my people? Am I truly an African-American? The answer, Richburg finds, after much soul-searching, is that no, he is not an African, but an American first and foremost. To those who romanticize Mother Africa as a black Valhalla, where blacks can walk with dignity and pride, he regrets that this is not the reality. He has been there and witnessed the killings, the repression, the false promises, and the horror. “Thank God my nameless ancestor, brought across the ocean in chains and leg irons, made it out alive,” he concludes. “Thank God I am an American.”
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[zeestephen]

Re: "Paywall killer. It has worked for years."

That is encouraging.

On the other hand, McAfee security software has been informing customers that some VPNs now have security issues that may not be 100% protected by McAfee software.

[kenmcg]

Very nice. Wish them health, happiness and wealth in Africa.