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If you are going to move to Africa, you need to have money and you have to live in an area with wealth. I am talking major city areas where you will have access to everything you would in America. Even then, much of the city is entwined with nature.

When my brother went, he stayed in Rwanda.

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I was able to guess all these reasons.

Sapphire said:

If you are going to move to Africa, you need to have money and you have to live in an area with wealth. I am talking major city areas where you will have access to everything you would in America. Even then, much of the city is entwined with nature.

When my brother went, he stayed in Rwanda.

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Good tips

There isn't a place on Earth that you can go to escape anti Black American hatred.
Not even Africa. They are black but they aren't Black Americans.
Lots of them don't like us and look down on us as less too. They call us akata. They assume we're all dumb and ghetto.

I'd rather just deal with America. Learn how to make the most of the opportunities and resources I have access to. It isn't perfect. It's far from it, but I don't see just packing up and leaving as a realistic option for myself based on my circumstances.

I think the real answer is that we must all get on the same page ideologically, politically, financially, health, relationships, and every other aspect of social life that we can. I truly believe if we acted as a true community and wield our power we can force the better society we seek.

We're treated badly because we as Black Americans allow it. We're treated badly because we don't come together to ensure that each one of us is in a situation where we have the finances and ability to fight back.

I want to see that change. I want to see that when an unarmed Black American is killed we as Black Americans boycott a company and cost them so much money that they force politicians to act.

Imagine if a unarmed Black American is killed unjustly and we all say we're boycotting Walmart or Ford or Amazon until justice is done. If 90+% of Black Americans get on page and hold steady to boycotting just one major company that company would lose so much money that they would literally be forced to lobby on our behalf for justice!

Of course I don't foresee this being a reality anytime soon but that's how we need to think

Politicians don't do what's right because it's right. Neither Democrats nor republicans. They do what's right due to influences by corporate interests. Whatever their corporate donors tell them to do, they're going to be forced to do it or they'll be out of office.

And if one of these major corporate companies is losing money due to injustice, they aren't going to care about racism. They are going to still want to make that money and they're going to come to the side of black people if that's what it takes to make the money.

I do believe that the anti-black hatred in other countries has more so to do with American thug culture than anything else, especially in Africa. The way the media and America props it up and displays it, it makes other nations believe all black Americans are the same. They have promoted the stereotype so heavily that even our own people want nothing to do with us. So it is in part down to the media, the music industry, and Hollywood but also general racism that throws a wet blanket on our backs and labels us all the same. Our men and women get labeled as criminals and thugs until we "prove" otherwise which is BS.

I don't think people in America realize that pushing the ghetto nonsense makes it harder for every day black folks to just live without being judged. Or maybe they do know? My older bro said the reason hip hop and rap is all about slinging, killing, and hoes is because the jews wanted to keep us at the bottom via influence and media manipulation. Sadly, if this is the case, it has worked on a worldwide scale. The only place I been where I wasn't outwardly judged was Jamaica.