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Post by Jolly on Feb 17, 2024 17:36:29 GMT
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. The rest: www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/realestate/african-americans-africa.html
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Post by sunny225 on Feb 17, 2024 19:23:04 GMT
Seems they have ambition and took the initiative to make their own way in life THEIR way. I hope it works out well for them.
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Post by joebill on Feb 22, 2024 20:23:06 GMT
A shame that more folks of every shade, tint and persuasion either cannot or will not move their location to better themselves in one way or another.
I am here to loudly testify that moving west of the Pecos changed our lives for the MUCH BETTER, and friends and relatives back in the swamp often envy us our location but will not take that step for themselves.....Joe
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