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A black American man living in Africa dropped a brutal reality check about his experience, warning other people from coming after quickly discovering the locals do not view black Americans as their own people. In fact, the perceived expectation of racial solidarity evaporates the moment you step off the plane and get selectively extorted, scammed, and exploited for being a foreigner.
As always, like the video and subscribe to the channel. I have a lot to say on this topic, so make sure you watch till the end. But let's jump into it. You should not move to Africa if you expect to feel welcomed. You see, I have the exact same skin tone as a lady. Nobody around the world can mistake me for anything other than a black man. In particular, those who come with a pan-Africanist mindset. Because you're coming over here thinking, "We are one. We are brothers. We are the same. I'm going I'm here to uplift. I'm here to help. I'm here to build. Right?" These are words are very common in the Panaffrican community. And then when you get to Africa, you realize you're looked at as an Mazongu, right? A white person. And it's so disheartening because you're being overcharged. You're being scammed. You're being looked at as an opportunity, right? You're being left out of certain conversations that you might have wanted to be involved in.
A lot of this honestly can be avoided though if you just know the real honest raw truth about moving to the continent of Africa. So there in lies the problem with the black American perspective. Black Americans view communal solidarity to be skinde because slaves were brought from all over West Africa and lumped into the category of black. The black experience has always been if we share the same skin color, we're part of the same group, we're part of the same class, and we share the same common struggle. And that skinde perspective of cultural connection is wrongly projected onto the people of Africa. It would be like expecting Europeans to see Americans as one of their own people just because they have white skin. But the left keeps reinforcing this falsehood to black people using terms like black and brown community to imply that solidarity and shared interests are a matter of skin color. And black Americans are shocked to find out that somebody from Ghana doesn't think they're the same as somebody from Uganda. And they certainly don't think they're the same as a black American. And I'm so confused at the perplexion because even in America, two black people who live in the same city but are from different neighborhoods don't have solidarity with one another. If a black person in Chicago enters the wrong black neighborhood in Chicago, they might not make it out alive.
But here he explains just how badly black Americans get exploited and why it makes it impossible to live in Africa. >> So recently I met a black American woman who's been living here in Uganda and she owns some land here and has been hiring locals to help you know de develop it and build it. She's paying them more than they would earn if they work for other people in the area. She is paying them on time which is super super rare here in Uganda. And then number three, she's also she hires like local women in the area to cook for the employees so they can eat while they're like, you know, working. The workers keep stealing from her. They take the tools that she buys and they go to town and sell them. She buys 10 bags of concrete, but somehow only six of them end up on a work site. So now she has to watch everyone like a hawk.
This brings me on to reason number one why many black Americans leave Africa is well, they feel like they're at a constant disadvantage. Most Africans that I've met believe that black Americans are a result of white people and African people breeding together. And umu means like white men. They believe it's perfectly acceptable to lie to the mongu to steal from theu to mistreat themu. And the logic they use to like justify this or to make it okay is well you have money and I don't. And you see being an American means you earn dollars. And earning dollars means in eyes of locals you are rich.
>> Now this is more of an indictment of Africa and why it can't develop or modernize despite trillions of dollars in foreign aid being spent over the years. The governments are extremely corrupt which leads to a massive distrust in the institutions. And because there is no expectation that you'll get ahead and improve your life by doing things the right way, the people adopt a mindset of short-term thinking where people will lie, cheat, beg, borrow, and steal for short-term benefit at the expense of long-term prosperity. When Americans who want to move to Africa and bring their money and invest in the country and build a house and establish roots get cheated and robbed at every turn by the locals, it scares away the very people Africa needs to help build up its society. They're only interested in getting as much as they possibly can today, even if it means they'll be worse off for it tomorrow. And because everybody is constantly trying to take advantage of one another on a daily basis, it creates an extremely low trust society. There's very little solidarity or collective unity in individual African countries amongst people who share the same language, the same culture, and the same history. So what makes you think they're going to extend an olive branch to people 5,000 miles away on a different continent just because they share the same skin color?
And this particular guy is living in Uganda. But here's another American woman living in Ghana who has almost the identical experience. >> There are Americans coming over here being nasty, doing nasty things, and being bad to the locals. Now, let me flip the script. Okay, let's talk about the fact that we get abused over here, too. The thing about Ghana is Stop crying victim. Stop crying victim cuz y'all cheat us out of a lot of stuff. Y'all invited us to come home, which by the thousands we did. We came running to Ghana. People sold their homes, moved out of their apartments, sold everything. Some people packed up containers and moved over here just to get over here and realize this is not our home. Y'all call us foreigners. Dian's call us that. We didn't make that word up. We didn't start calling ourselves that. We don't know that that's what y'all call the white people and the Chinese because we're not around them. But we know that that's what y'all call us. I I ain't never heard the word before till I came to Ghana. Okay, y'all invite us home. Let's talk about what y'all do to us. Starting from the [ __ ] air. No, before we get to the airport, we got to have a visa that we pay for to even enter our home. We pay all this money for passports and visas to get here. We get to the airport and as soon as you see aing blue passport, everybody's coming for us. Can you give me something small small at the co place? You get to immigration. Can you give me something small small? You get to baggage. Can you give me something small? I have never seen nowhere in any country or state where people have diff openly it says um $60 for foreigners, $30 for locals. Okay. You go to Cocoon Park and I don't remember the price. Let's say 200 for foreigners because that's what y'all call us. Uh 40 for locals. You go to the castle, it's 60 for foreigners, 10 for locals. I ain't never seen that nowhere. I ain't never went nowhere in the US, Mexico, and Canada where it said you pay if you a local, if you're from here, you pay um $3 for a Coca-Cola, but if you're a foreigner, you pay $8 for a Coca-Cola. I ain't never seen that nowhere except Ghana.
Black Americans for some reason are unable to fathom that Africans murder each other, genocide one another, conquer each other, oppress and subjugate one another. So the fact that you share the same skin color is frankly inconsequential. And the left has constantly told black people to reject their American identity and align more with their African identity. Those are their people. only for them to get to Africa and realize that was a giant fairy tale. A black American is no more a Nigerian than a white American is a German. And the simple fact that black Americans think they're going to move to Africa and build Wakanda is evident of their American perspective. They're thinking about long-term planning, building, investing, enterprise. While the locals view infrastructure as something to be destroyed and sold for scrap metal, and view investments, such as that lady trying to build a house, as an opportunity to steal tools and materials and just resell them. And in that moment, these black Americans realize they've been sold a lie. and begrudgingly, I hate to say it, realize they have more in common with white man John Smith than they do the local residents of Uganda simply because they share the same skin color.
But the final reason the guy gives why black Americans shouldn't move to Africa is the one we all expect. It's Africa. So that brings me on to reason number three why many black Americans decide to leave Africa and that is there are better options. You see, of course, I'm not going to pay $7,500 for a piece of paper that lets me stay in a country that doesn't even provide me with stable electricity. What you end up doing is you look for other options in other countries, and you find that there's way better options. For example, in Paraguay, all I have to do is go there with a birth certificate, go there with a background check from the FBI, and they're going to issue me a 2-year temporary residence permit. And after those two years, I get a three-year residency permit. And after those three years, I'm able to apply for citizenship. If you want to get citizenship in Africa, you basically have to figure out how to walk on water because you need to be doing miracles. And to make things even crazier is like with these places that are offering you easy residency, easy citizenship, the malls are nicer, the roads are nicer, the quality of life is better. But many people actually watch videos that talk about an African country. They paint it as if it's all rainbows and sunshines, but when they get to the country, it ends up being a lot of power outages and cow poop. And as a result of that, it's not what they signed up for. It's not what they anticipated. It's not what they wanted. And so they leave. And they leave in a super super disappointing fashion.
The problem is the pro- Africa back to the motherland black Americans romanticize the primitive life. They romanticize the noble savage and living off the land. And don't get me wrong, there's a certain natural satisfaction to living the simple life. I like going out and spending a couple of days in the country for that exact reason. But Africa is a whole different animal and they quickly realize it's not romantic. It's tough. It's difficult. It's strenuous. It's laborious. And it's a serious adjustment, not having access to the modern luxuries you've enjoyed living in America your whole life. If you've seen my how I became a Trump supporter video, you would know I spent 3 months in Southeast Asia. Once when I was 10 and once when I was 13. And I spent lots of time deep in the jungles, 15 hours away from the nearest city, fully enthralled in primitive rural life because my grandfather, who was an anthropologist, was there doing fieldwork and the perspective I gained from being fully immersed in that kind of life changed me forever. It made me realize how extraordinarily lucky we are to live in America. and you have such an appreciation for being a citizen of the greatest country in world history and you understand why billions of people across the world are clamoring to simply live here. But unfortunately, black people and frankly most Americans don't have that kind of cultural exposure to really truly understand how good they have it here. I mean, I was surrounded by it for months. I lived it. I breathed it. I tasted it. I experienced it. I realized how different things could be in America and why I fight so hard to preserve the culture that created such an amazing country. But black people have been brainwashed by the Democrat party to believe this isn't their country and their secondass citizens within it and then they go to Africa and find out that that's not their country either. A Somali sees themsself as Somali. A Ugandan sees themsself as Ugandan. A Haitian sees themsself as Haitian, but American blacks only see themsel as black. And if they're just a skin color, they expect solidarity from people who simply look like them. And then they're disappointed when that solidarity is not reciprocated. And maybe this will motivate black people to finally shed the victim mentality and stop trying to destroy America. Because if things crumble here, you will not have a home to go to in Africa.
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