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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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1 posted on 02/17/2024 8:29:36 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

They are fleeing the very racism that so many of them caused in the USA.

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


2 posted on 02/17/2024 8:31:32 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: yesthatjallen

6 Months tops


3 posted on 02/17/2024 8:31:32 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: yesthatjallen

Good for them. Please, black racists: go to Africa. It’ll be fun. You’ll LOVE it.


4 posted on 02/17/2024 8:32:57 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: yesthatjallen

Someone needs to check to see if they’re paying a livable wage to their help. Farms need workers...


5 posted on 02/17/2024 8:33:10 AM PST by GOPJ (Mayorkas reeks of that 'CIA (Creepy Thug Assh*le') mentality. Ashli Babbit's killer was promoted..)
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To: yesthatjallen

I approve of this choice. I hope many more will follow them.


6 posted on 02/17/2024 8:33:31 AM PST by Twotone (We have to stop punishing ourselves for considering things that once seemed crazy. - B. Weinstein)
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To: yesthatjallen

I’d guess these are the kind of blacks we want in America. The ones that should be moving to Africa are instead entrenched in our Chicago like cities.


7 posted on 02/17/2024 8:33:37 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: yesthatjallen

Great news! What can we do to encourage this.


8 posted on 02/17/2024 8:33:51 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: yesthatjallen

Good luck with that!


9 posted on 02/17/2024 8:34:05 AM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign! )
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To: yesthatjallen

I’m glad they are tired of being racist.


10 posted on 02/17/2024 8:35:03 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: yesthatjallen

Dumb ol’ whitey…

Making black folks run all the government offices… promoting them to have to manage all da time… sheeee…


11 posted on 02/17/2024 8:37:05 AM PST by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: yesthatjallen

Can we get the thugs and gang bangers to move there? That would solve a lot of problems.


12 posted on 02/17/2024 8:37:46 AM PST by Dave911
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To: Responsibility2nd

“The ones that should be moving to Africa are instead entrenched in our Chicago like cities.”

Yep, and they ain’t going nowhere.


13 posted on 02/17/2024 8:38:09 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: yesthatjallen

I used to tell manufactured empathy folks here this twenty four years ago

Deaf ears

Virtue signaling vehicular cost nothing is heroin to them


14 posted on 02/17/2024 8:38:41 AM PST by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind)
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To: yesthatjallen

The most important thing they are doing is escaping what I call “toxic urban culture”. The worst thing they could do is remain in it and raise their kids in it.


15 posted on 02/17/2024 8:40:08 AM PST by marron
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To: Responsibility2nd
This topic is reported every couple years in the LA Times and the Washington Post.

Unfortunately it's the more responsible people with money who leave. What's left behind is the problem.

16 posted on 02/17/2024 8:42:28 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

American blacks have yet to experience African tribalism. If you aren’t their tribe, then you are a target.


17 posted on 02/17/2024 8:43:29 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Adios.

L


18 posted on 02/17/2024 8:44:15 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: yesthatjallen

The US left absolutely must promote racism, the narrative of neo-marxist conflict, and support black dysfunction to keep their power and raison-d’etre alive.

Everyone is tired of it.


19 posted on 02/17/2024 8:44:42 AM PST by PGR88
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To: yesthatjallen

Soon enough they’ll figure out that they’ve replaced racism with rampant corruption (including the threat, attacks, and everything else)...and then come back to the US as quickly as possible.


20 posted on 02/17/2024 8:46:59 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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