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Mozambique not looking like a

artappraiser — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 00:07:36 +0000

In reply to People should prolly take a

Mozambique not looking like a good choice either:

Rising terrorist attacks in northern Mozambique threatens the stability of all of South Africa. It will require a coordinated, united response from all countries in the region to intervene, @tonderamu writes. https://t.co/NppQ8fpMjo
— Foreign Policy (@ForeignPolicy) July 1, 2020

I am presuming everyone knows South Africa's got a super-dooper coronavirus problem right now...

People should prolly take a

artappraiser — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 09:58:38 +0000

In reply to Ghana Minister Invites African-Americans to Re-settle in Africa If They Feel Unwanted in the U.S.

People should prolly take a pass on Ethiopia for now:

Index condemn the shutting down of the internet in Ethiopia amid national protests over the shooting of singer and activist #HachaluHundessa. Internet access is an essential pillar of free expression and should not be used against the people
— Index on Censorship (@IndexCensorship) July 1, 2020

They didn’t kill him alone, they killed us all! #HachaluHundessa pic.twitter.com/PUaiauiPZn
— Moti Abelti (@AbeltiMoti) June 29, 2020

Just lockdown in Adis Abeba not by covid it after death of #HachaluHundessa pic.twitter.com/7qOn13w85I
— Berhanu (@berhanu_dago) June 30, 2020

Images coming from the protests scenes in #Ethiopia which kicked off following the killing of prominent musician and political activist #HachaluHundessa in Addis Ababa.#ElizabethGichehaExposed pic.twitter.com/31rMbMoBbG
— Mohamed Abdi (@Moha_Abdii) July 1, 2020

I saw the NYTimes put an article on him on twitter yesterday other day, but I only read the blurb:

Hachalu Hundessa, a 34-year-old Ethiopian musician and activist whose songs focused on the struggles and dreams of the country’s Oromo ethnic group, has been shot dead in Addis Ababa https://t.co/jnAWsKENLd
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 30, 2020

I see now that Ilhan Omar retweeted it with a comment

Fuck you

rmrd0000 — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 15:45:23 +0000

In reply to Anything you can't

Fuck you

Anything you can't

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 14:40:00 +0000

In reply to There are enough stories of

Anything you can't oversimplify the fuck out of?

I Went through a half dozen or more articles - Its about schools, Dream Jobs, how to dispose of a car back home, how to feel part of US protests while in Hong Kong, how a female business professional became a sommelier, how to navigate expat & locals expectations in Nigeria...

Does this sound like "leaving America because of racism" vs joining the universe?:

I’m not usually into labels, but there’s one that truly fits. You can call me a postnationalist.

Sure, I’ve been hating and disrespecting borders for a while now, because they’re false prisons that prevent us from moving freely through the world. And that’s not what the gods or airplanes intended.

But now, I’m reading up and dusting off my postnationalist identity. Because we’re about to reach a breaking point in our global movement to save Black lives. And these national identities are standing in our way.

First, let’s cover a few basic observations. Black people are being killed and denied justice everywhere. In every part of the world, from the Americas to Europe and Asia, and all the way back to Africa, we’re being killed at disproportionate and undeniable rates – just for being Black. It’s what they call a global pandemic....

There are enough stories of

rmrd0000 — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 14:26:22 +0000

In reply to A bit misleading. It's a link

There are enough stories of people who left because of the racism.

A bit misleading. It's a link

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 13:46:00 +0000

In reply to Sorry,

A bit misleading. It's a link to a Black expat page with diverse stories of people largely like me who went to live abroad for various reasons, but aggregating Black voices and perspectives and details that are sometimes/often left out of the expat story. So you have people with adverse relations to the US, people who just wanted to travel, some doing school, some who got dragged along by a mate, some who are doing some cultural/ancestral exploration, some who went for a short stint that turned into years, possibly including multiple countries, some taking advantage of professional opportunities and interesting/adventurous life abroad, some related to kids and parents, etc, etc. Not so oddly, Black people turn out to be pretty normal people for 2020, frequently similar to many expats of many cultures - sometimes quasi-stateless, culturally neutral or adaptable, a bit interchangeable with other expats - though of course those who travel abroad likely have a bit better means and qualifications (or a job/scholarship lined up) than many Blacks at home to enable the journey, similar to other groups. And probably are more liberal and worldly, as frequently is the case with expats. Ties with home, and number of returns/year or years between returns of course vary.

Sorry,

rmrd0000 — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 03:42:42 +0000

In reply to Is an exact dupe of what I

Sorry,

Link to a Black expat site with perspectives of others tired of the United States.

https://www.facebook.com/theblackexpat/

Is an exact dupe of what I

artappraiser — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 03:16:50 +0000

In reply to 'I'm leaving and I'm just not

Is an exact dupe of what I posted in the comment above!

'I'm leaving and I'm just not

rmrd0000 — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 03:09:43 +0000

In reply to Ghana Minister Invites African-Americans to Re-settle in Africa If They Feel Unwanted in the U.S.

'I'm leaving and I'm just not coming back': Fed up with racism, Black Americans head overseas

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/06/26/blaxit-black-americans-leave-us-escape-racism-build-lives-abroad/3234129001/

That's the Kansas City method

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 22:17:00 +0000

In reply to 'I'm leaving and I'm just not

That's the Kansas City method Gladwell writes about. Somehow instead of "microagression" or "microracism" it's better to consider massive cross-culture PTSD from all that 24x7 hyperpolicing & never knowing when you'll be taken down.

http://dagblog.com/arts/malcolm-gladwell-sandra-bland-talking-strangers-...