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Stevie Wonder gets Ghanaian citizenship
Ghana Business News ^ | 5/13/2024

Posted on 05/14/2024 6:40:03 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo granted Ghanaian citizenship to the iconic American musician Stevie Wonder on Monday at a ceremony in Accra.

Mr Wonder had indicated in a 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, another prominent African American talk show host, that he intended to live indefinitely in Ghana to protect his grandchildren and great-grandchildren from racial discrimination in the United States of America.

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; backtoafrica; celebrity; ghana; media; westafrica
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To: HIDEK6

I suggest he go to Haiti. I understand that blacks have effectively run that gem of a society for some time.


21 posted on 05/14/2024 7:02:57 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: Leaning Right

Or Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F’tang-F’tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel.


22 posted on 05/14/2024 7:03:22 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nwrep

> Fake name. <

I think not. The Monty Python folks would never lie.
🙂

https://youtu.be/Dzn0tIy3dzM?si=TSKufbIW7dRx6rC5

(I should have put the link in my last post.)


23 posted on 05/14/2024 7:06:22 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

He had his first hit in 1963. I am sure it was horrible for a black child to live through the sixties, but he is an idiot. We have come light-years from then. Racism against blacks is not governmentally mandated anymore.


24 posted on 05/14/2024 7:13:51 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

He can’t see it. I think his blindness plays a part in a decision like this. It never affected Ray Charles, though, who went through an infinitely more challenging period in this country.


25 posted on 05/14/2024 7:17:43 AM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: Recovering_Democrat
But what about "Ebony and Ivory?!"

Is he saying that it's better if Blacks and Whites "retire to their separate corners?"

Regards,

26 posted on 05/14/2024 7:19:15 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Looks like he’s moving to that turd-world craphole. Wave to him...

“...he intended to live indefinitely in Ghana to protect his grandchildren and great-grandchildren from racial discrimination in the United States of America...”


27 posted on 05/14/2024 7:19:39 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

How cool will it be when the Military Coup happens there?? You know it will!!


28 posted on 05/14/2024 7:31:28 AM PDT by southernerwithanattitude (New and Improved Redneck!)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

I’ve always liked Stevie Wonder’s songs and admired his courage to take on his disability, with class.
Well, this move and, ESPECIALLY HIS EXCUSE FOR LEAVING has forced me to dislike his being a racist moron!
Sorry Stevie, you are a loser.


29 posted on 05/14/2024 7:34:38 AM PDT by BatGuano (Dem's guilty of Election Fraud in 2020, stand by for 2024.)
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To: BatGuano

Did you feel the same when Tina Turner left for Switzerland?


30 posted on 05/14/2024 7:35:47 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Carriage Hill

*Is he saying that it’s better if Blacks and Whites “retire to their separate corners?”*
Stevie Wonder can only wish. James Baldwin once said ‘we’re not going anywhere.’

I’m currently reading Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time”. His key thought is ‘we don’t want your acceptance’ as well as the not going anywhere.

So there it is. You won’t get past that sentiment. By pulling a Kapernick Wonder can enjoy the fruits of his success here and dis the rest of us.

So the question becomes where is that separate corner?

So my friends we are stuck with each other. They will not acknowledge they are their own worst enemy(think murders) or that the US is the best place to be black in this world. Caribbean and African immigrants do quite well.


31 posted on 05/14/2024 7:42:14 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Carriage Hill

Wonder has nine children with five women.


32 posted on 05/14/2024 7:43:53 AM PDT by spankalib
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To: DIRTYSECRET

This country is so racist, that a poor, blind black boy grew up to earn millions and be universally loved by people of all races.

Some racist country we are!


33 posted on 05/14/2024 7:44:04 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Will this move to Africa thing catch on ? LOL


34 posted on 05/14/2024 7:44:54 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Tom in SFCA

“What an idiot”

Gotta give some latitude to how artists’ minds work. Stevie wrote some nice songs.

Wikipedia says he’s a “an American-Ghanaian singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer”.

Wikipedia’s article is huge.


35 posted on 05/14/2024 7:45:29 AM PDT by cymbeline (we saw men break out of a concentration camp.”)
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To: butlerweave

The dirty little secret is that Africans don’t like ‘African-Americans’.


36 posted on 05/14/2024 7:45:51 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

What if they trick him and he’s really just back in Detroit?


37 posted on 05/14/2024 7:46:33 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Anyone with duel citizenship should lose their US citizenship.


38 posted on 05/14/2024 7:46:48 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: dfwgator

...........as part of a contract, it would not bother me to be asked to buy one of these Hollywood Celeb’s a one way ticket (coach) to ANY country on the planet.

The contract would call for them to committ to NEVER COME BACK and for a $100,000 penalty if they did.


39 posted on 05/14/2024 7:48:33 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: dfwgator

*What if they trick him and he’s really just back in Detroit?*

That’s not funny. (Lol.)


40 posted on 05/14/2024 7:49:27 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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