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Moving to Africa to Escape Racism · THINK BEFORE YOU SLEEP

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, YouTube.
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  Speaker 2: I tried so hard to stay here in Africa, but
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  Speaker 2: I really think my time is up now.
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  Speaker 1: I had enough.
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  Speaker 2: I'd rather go back to America and deal with the
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  Speaker 2: racism in America before I sit here in Africa and
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  Speaker 2: deal with the bullshit robbery, the bullshit scams, the bullshit
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  Speaker 2: not having no snacks.
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  Speaker 3: Let it be known that there are no snacks in Africa.
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  Speaker 3: Racism is rough, but have you ever been to a
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  Speaker 3: country with no snacks before?
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  Speaker 2: I cannot afford to live here. I feel broke and
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  Speaker 2: I feel poor in Africa. I feel like I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to be out there selling some shit soon.
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  Speaker 3: How are you broke in a third world country? Half
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  Speaker 3: the reason people move to these places and put up
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  Speaker 3: with a lower standard of living is because it's cheaper.
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  Speaker 3: That being said, over the years there have been many
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  Speaker 3: people who feel that America is a bad place to live,
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  Speaker 3: and so they're moving.
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  Speaker 1: I'm leaving by the end of the year. I know
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  Speaker 1: you're in Argentina, but.
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  Speaker 4: Living in the U.S. was too.
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  Speaker 1: Triggering.
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  Speaker 3: Granted, most of these situations are just people with no
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  Speaker 3: intention of moving, threatening to move because their favorite presidential
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  Speaker 3: candidate lost. But some of these people actually stick to
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  Speaker 3: their word, and because of that, we have a lady
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  Speaker 3: who has moved to Ghana in Africa. However, after just
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  Speaker 3: a handful of weeks of living there... She's starting to
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  Speaker 3: think that maybe America isn't so bad, and one of
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  Speaker 3: the big reasons why she wants to move back to
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  Speaker 3: the U.S. is because Africa is too expensive.
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  Speaker 2: This ain't making no sense to me. I pay $ 130
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  Speaker 2: a day to drive around in a truck.
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  Speaker 1: I pay $ 100.
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  Speaker 2: A day to live in a two-bedroom in the six
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  Speaker 2: of us with no hot water, no stove, No refrigerator.
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  Speaker 1: The refrigerator broke.
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  Speaker 3: How are you paying $ 130 a day for a car?
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  Speaker 3: That's like $ 4, 000 a month. Are you financially retarded? That's
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  Speaker 3: the payment of a car that is well over $ 100, 000.
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  Speaker 3: There's no way that this is the only way to
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  Speaker 3: get transportation in Africa.
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  Speaker 2: I live in America in a mansion, and we don't
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  Speaker 2: have to put no water on the stove. We got
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  Speaker 2: steady hot water, steady electricity. And the only time our
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  Speaker 2: electricity gets cut off is when we don't pay the bill.
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  Speaker 2: And we got it so good now, we got prepaid electricity.
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  Speaker 2: So if we forget to pay the bill, we put
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  Speaker 2: some money on that prepaid thing and it comes right
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  Speaker 2: back on in two minutes. In less than two minutes.
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  Speaker 2: This shit right here didn't come on for 14 hours yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta say, I have no idea how long it
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  Speaker 3: would take for the electricity company to turn my power
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  Speaker 3: back on because I've never been late on the bill.
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  Speaker 3: Even if the bill is past due, I believe there's
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  Speaker 3: like a 10-day grace period before they shut your power off.
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  Speaker 3: so this chick must be incredibly irresponsible with money. Also,
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  Speaker 3: welcome to the developing world. I don't know why you
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  Speaker 3: moved expecting the exact same modern conveniences as America, but
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  Speaker 3: it kinda seems like this lady had some pretty rose-tinted
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  Speaker 3: glasses before she went to Africa, like she didn't even
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  Speaker 3: vacation there for a week to see if she liked
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  Speaker 3: the place.
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  Speaker 2: The bullshit animals and scorpions outside the house, it's big-ass spiders,
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  Speaker 2: it's big-ass lizards. Colorful lizards you ain't never seen before,
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  Speaker 2: all in the fucking room with you, sleeping with you.
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  Speaker 3: Did you even research this place before you moved? You
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  Speaker 3: know there's this website called YouTube where you can watch
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  Speaker 3: people share their experiences of what it's like to live
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  Speaker 3: in different countries. And more importantly, those people will also
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  Speaker 3: tell you all the positives and negatives of that area.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not happy. Every house I look for, the house
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  Speaker 2: is expensive as hell.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God.
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  Speaker 2: 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, a million
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  Speaker 2: dollars to live in a house where you look outside
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  Speaker 2: and all you see is turkeys and ducks and chickens
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  Speaker 2: and sheeps and old malnourished cows. I didn't even pay
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  Speaker 2: that much for my house in America.
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  Speaker 3: Again, this would have been incredibly easy to just Google. Here,
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  Speaker 3: I did this in like 10 seconds. Houses in Ghana.
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  Speaker 3: So why are the housing prices such a shock to you?
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  Speaker 2: All the bullshit people trying to scam you when you
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  Speaker 2: go outside thinking you rich.
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  Speaker 1: So they trying to get more money off of you.
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  Speaker 1: I can't afford to live here.
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  Speaker 2: I cannot.
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  Speaker 1: I love the people. Don't get me wrong when I'm outside,
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  Speaker 1: I'm having fun. I love people.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really trying to wrap my head around how are
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  Speaker 2: Americans coming to Africa and being happy. Please comment down below.
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  Speaker 2: Because for me, I'm ready to go. And I always
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  Speaker 2: used to say, if it's up to.
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  Speaker 1: Me, it will be.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm going to go out to Africa and make
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  Speaker 2: shit happen.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't want to.
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  Speaker 2: I want to take my businesses back to America. I
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  Speaker 2: want to open up a shop back in America. Open
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  Speaker 2: up my dentist's office and all the stuff that I
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  Speaker 2: was going to do out here in America.
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  Speaker 3: I love the people, but everyone's a scammer. Sounds great. Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: that's all for that video. And most people who reacted
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  Speaker 3: to this clip thought the story was over. However, I
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  Speaker 3: did some research, and apparently this is a whole movement
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  Speaker 3: called Blacksit. I found several channels of black people sharing
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  Speaker 3: their experiences of leaving America to escape racism, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: More importantly, though, one of the channels called Go Black
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  Speaker 3: to Africa had an archive that shows that this event
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  Speaker 3: with Ghana Lady actually happened back in 2020. I believe
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  Speaker 3: she used to have a YouTube channel, but it's been
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  Speaker 3: since deleted, so unfortunately there's no deep dive. However, the
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  Speaker 3: good news is that an additional video about her move
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  Speaker 3: was archived, So the story continues. In this next video,
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  Speaker 3: our Africa lady gets on camera with her husband. His
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  Speaker 3: role is not that important, he stays silent almost the
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  Speaker 3: entire time. But outside of that, this video is a
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  Speaker 3: response to the backlash that she got for the first one. Well,
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  Speaker 3: backlash is probably the wrong word. People were making fun
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  Speaker 3: of her.
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  Speaker 2: I was basically telling everybody what they will experience when
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  Speaker 2: they come to the motherland. And we're keeping it raw
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  Speaker 2: and unfiltered, uncut. So you have everybody talking about, oh,
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  Speaker 2: the motherland is beautiful. It is a beautiful place. But
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  Speaker 2: you got to know reality when you get here. Reality
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  Speaker 2: has to set in. So I'm basically telling them, look,
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  Speaker 2: when you come here, don't think it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a parade for you because it's not. Don't think that
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be snacks and it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: the same thing in America because it's not.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, she is really insistent on the no snacks thing.
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  Speaker 3: You would think that this would be more of a
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  Speaker 3: wake-up call for her to get healthy, but it probably wasn't.
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  Speaker 3: That being said, she elaborates more on why she decided
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  Speaker 3: to move to Africa.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm very in tune. I'm very in tune with
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  Speaker 2: the universe. I'm very in tune with my ancestors. I
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  Speaker 2: heard the calling and I came. Africa needs help. It
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  Speaker 2: needs work. We came out here to build Africa. I
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  Speaker 2: closed all my businesses down. Of course, I could have
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  Speaker 2: stayed in that colonized United Snakes of America and dealt
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  Speaker 2: with their bullshit and kept getting my money, okay? So
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  Speaker 2: I could have sat there and I could have dealt
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  Speaker 2: with that. But no, I decided, no, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: close all shops. I'm going to come out here. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to get me a bus and I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: do free teeth cleaning and spas for the people in
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  Speaker 2: the village.
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  Speaker 3: Right, okay, so she moved for humanitarian reasons because Africa
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  Speaker 3: needs help. I can agree with that. There's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of poverty and suffering there. It would be nice if
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  Speaker 3: there were less of those. So Ghana Lady wants to help,
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  Speaker 3: which is why she moved to the safest and most
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  Speaker 3: developed part of the country.
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  Speaker 2: We came from the gutter, and we managed to pull
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  Speaker 2: ourselves up and look at everybody else still sitting there.
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  Speaker 2: So we're not going to go to Africa and be
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  Speaker 2: fucked up and be guttered, too. I ain't asking nobody
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  Speaker 2: for nothing. I had asked for no handouts. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: ask for no parades. I was just sharing my experience. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I am in Accra, and I knew that Accra was
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  Speaker 2: the most expensive place, and I knew it was the
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  Speaker 2: most developed as well. I wanted to be in a
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  Speaker 2: developed place, but at the end of the day, don't
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  Speaker 2: shit me. I always used to say, get me, don't
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  Speaker 2: shit me.
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  Speaker 3: For some reason, though, I feel like she's lying about something.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, she touts herself as this rich entrepreneur with
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  Speaker 3: multiple businesses.
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  Speaker 2: I have money. I can move, go wherever the fuck
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  Speaker 2: I want to go.
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  Speaker 3: So she's this great rich business owner, but she's having
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  Speaker 3: trouble paying her electric bill, and she stresses out about
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  Speaker 3: houses that are a few hundred thousand dollars, which is insane,
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  Speaker 3: because dentists make a lot of money for taking care
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  Speaker 3: of people's teeth, and I assume that her husband works too,
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  Speaker 3: and they previously owned a house, so they would have
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  Speaker 3: money from selling that. Like, how are they strapped for cash?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe there's something I'm missing here, but at a first glance,
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  Speaker 3: it sounds like they make a lot of irresponsible financial decisions.
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  Speaker 2: But I want to live better in Africa than I
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  Speaker 2: do at home, of course. So of course I came
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  Speaker 2: out here to buy beach land to build a house,
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  Speaker 2: and while I'm building a house, buy another house to
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  Speaker 2: live in while I build my house, because I'd be
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  Speaker 2: damned if I'm going to be sitting in somebody's living room.
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  Speaker 3: Which is crazy, because the video that everyone knows you
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  Speaker 3: for was filmed in someone else's living room, at an
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  Speaker 3: Airbnb that you rented in Africa.
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  Speaker 2: I rent an Airbnb for $ 100 a night. Airbnbs, if
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  Speaker 2: you want a nice one, it's going for $ 100 a night.
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  Speaker 3: So for a while, you rented a broken Airbnb for
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  Speaker 3: $ 100 a day, and then you bought a house so
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  Speaker 3: you could live in Africa while your beachfront property was
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  Speaker 3: being built. Like you're complaining about everything being too expensive,
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  Speaker 3: while at the same time, you choose the most expensive
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  Speaker 3: path to live in. Any other dumb financial decisions that
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  Speaker 3: you want to complain about?
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  Speaker 2: We have five children, but we only have four of us.
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  Speaker 2: Four children with us. And it's two of us. So
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  Speaker 2: it's six of us all right now. As far as
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  Speaker 2: me renting a car or whatever, how else am I
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  Speaker 2: getting around? Every little car is that small. It's little bugs.
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  Speaker 2: All of us, six of us, cannot get in little
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  Speaker 2: bugs and ride around. So I had to rent a
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  Speaker 2: big SUV that can go through these muddy streets because
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  Speaker 2: the streets, as you know, aren't paved. So we have
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  Speaker 2: to have a four-wheel drive that can get through these streets.
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  Speaker 2: So me renting a vehicle was $ 130 a day. I
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  Speaker 2: knew that was going to be the case anyway. If
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  Speaker 2: you go research too, you'll find out that that's the
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  Speaker 2: average of a vehicle. So I didn't get guy food nowhere.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't like the prices.
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  Speaker 3: Let me clarify that she lives in a place called Accra,
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  Speaker 3: which is the capital city of Ghana. This is a
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  Speaker 3: well-developed area that has roads and people with normal cars.
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  Speaker 3: According to my research, really, the only places that have
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  Speaker 3: dirt roads in Accra are the new housing developments, which
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  Speaker 3: is typical of any housing development. Now, after researching the
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  Speaker 3: specifics of this, I have to say that if you
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  Speaker 3: do things properly outside of schooling, Ghana is a very
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  Speaker 3: affordable place to live. Accra is a place where you
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  Speaker 3: can basically get a full meal for a dollar from
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  Speaker 3: street food vendors that look actually very clean. India should
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  Speaker 3: take notes. That being said, the $ 7, 000 a month for
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  Speaker 3: a car and an Airbnb is ridiculous. I checked out
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  Speaker 3: car rentals and it looks like they're about the same
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  Speaker 3: price as American car rentals. Even with COVID pricing, an
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  Speaker 3: SUV is probably not costing $ 130 a day unless it's
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  Speaker 3: a luxury vehicle. As for why she's renting, well, that's
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  Speaker 3: because there's not really a leasing system in Ghana. If
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  Speaker 3: you want a car, you have to pay for it
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  Speaker 3: in full, unless you want to pay like 25% interest.
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  Speaker 3: But paying in full shouldn't be a problem because Miss
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  Speaker 3: Dennis said that she was rich. And I assure you
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  Speaker 3: that no actual rich person would want to burn money
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  Speaker 3: at the rate of $ 46, 000 a year if they could
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  Speaker 3: afford the car outright. I mean, it would be cheaper
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  Speaker 3: to just Uber everywhere or take a shuttle bus. As
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  Speaker 3: for the house, she is correct in saying that renting
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  Speaker 3: is quite expensive in Accra. That's if you rent a house. However,
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  Speaker 3: there are plenty of apartment complexes that cost almost nothing
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  Speaker 3: compared to what her Airbnb costs that could fit her
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  Speaker 3: whole family while her house is being built. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: sure if you have to pay in full like you
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  Speaker 3: do for the cars, but $ 100, 000 shouldn't be that much
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  Speaker 3: because she's rich. There are plenty of things that she
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  Speaker 3: can do if she doesn't like the prices, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: guessing she doesn't want to do that because it sounds
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  Speaker 3: like she's burning money trying to live some sort of
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  Speaker 3: luxury lifestyle that she can't actually afford. Like I said,
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a lot that she's lying about. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not going to trust a dentist with crooked teeth. Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: let's continue to hear what it's like to live outside
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  Speaker 3: the Western standard of living.
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  Speaker 2: Don't have me come all the way out here. And
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  Speaker 2: because you see I'm American, which you don't even know
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  Speaker 2: that I'm a Ghanaian, too. But OK, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: give you that I'm American because of my accent. So
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  Speaker 2: don't have me come all the way to Africa and
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  Speaker 2: say a house is four hundred thousand. But you tell
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  Speaker 2: me it's seven hundred thousand because you feel as though
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  Speaker 2: I'm rich. Everybody I've ever talked to looked at me
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  Speaker 2: like I was dollar sign. As soon as they see me,
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  Speaker 2: it's money, money, money. I can tell you 15 stories
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  Speaker 2: right now since we've been in Africa where people try
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  Speaker 2: to overcharge us and overprice us, and I'm on their ass.
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  Speaker 3: Right, so not only is she going for the most
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  Speaker 3: expensive lamb, but there are also tons of scammers who
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  Speaker 3: are trying to charge her double for the house because
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  Speaker 3: she's American. It's funny how she'll call the U.S. the
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  Speaker 3: United Snakes of America, followed by going to Africa and
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  Speaker 3: being flooded with tons of people trying to scam her.
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  Speaker 3: And gee, it's so weird to be in a place
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  Speaker 3: where people will look at you and treat you worse
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  Speaker 3: than others based on your birthplace. That almost sounds like prejudice.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, it sounds exactly like prejudice.
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  Speaker 2: You're not going to fuck with me. You're not going
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  Speaker 2: to fuck me over. You're not going to have me
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  Speaker 2: come all the way the hell out here to build
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  Speaker 2: your dirty ass country up for you to sit here
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  Speaker 2: and tell me, oh, in order for you to get
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  Speaker 2: out the airport, you have to pay us eighteen hundred
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  Speaker 2: dollars in order for you to get out the airport.
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  Speaker 2: You have to put two hundred extra dollars in order
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  Speaker 2: for you to get out the airport. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: tell your husband he tested positive for coronavirus so you
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  Speaker 2: could pay me some extra money. Fuck no.
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  Speaker 3: It looks like Miss Black Savior out here who came
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  Speaker 3: to fix Africa got a reality check and got some
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  Speaker 3: insight into what's actually hurting the motherland. It's not some
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  Speaker 3: white oppressor. It's culture and how their society is structured.
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  Speaker 3: And if you're trying to fix that structure, then maybe
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  Speaker 3: you shouldn't move to someone else's land, call it a
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  Speaker 3: dirty-ass country, and then behave like the natives are inferior
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  Speaker 3: to you.
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  Speaker 2: And so for the people who say, oh, Africa's not weak,
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  Speaker 2: it's not for weak people. Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 2: All Africans are weak. I got a fucking African father
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  Speaker 2: who's weak as fuck. I know all Africans are weak.
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  Speaker 2: They aren't built like us in America.
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  Speaker 3: How are you not prejudiced or a racist? How are
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  Speaker 3: you not a part of the problem that you said
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  Speaker 3: you wanted to get away from?
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  Speaker 2: So let's be honest and let's keep it real. Nobody
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  Speaker 2: wants to live like this. They shouldn't even be living
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  Speaker 2: like this. I want to take half of Africa back
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  Speaker 2: to America because we can see how real living is.
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  Speaker 2: Because this shit is pathetic.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Take all the Africans to the land of the white
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  Speaker 3: colonizers to show them what real living is like. you
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  Speaker 3: can't make up this extreme lack of self-awareness. But the
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  Speaker 3: worst part of their YouTube channel being gone is that
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  Speaker 3: I really wonder what exactly she considers to be racist.
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  Speaker 3: What was so bad about America that she thought that
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  Speaker 3: moving to Ghana would be better? Because really, basically when
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  Speaker 3: these types complain about racism, most of it amounts to
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  Speaker 3: people just being kind of mean, which is nothing compared
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  Speaker 3: to how she said she was being treated by the
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  Speaker 3: people in Ghana. So I can't give her exact words
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  Speaker 3: on how she defines racism, But there are other channels
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  Speaker 3: with black people who have moved to Ghana for the
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  Speaker 3: same reasons, who have also shared similar sentiments about scammers,
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  Speaker 3: by the way.
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  Speaker 6: I think of a story of my mother-in-law who was
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  Speaker 6: talking about having to get her electricity taken care of.
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  Speaker 6: And every time she would go to pay the bill,
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  Speaker 6: the person who would process her would be like, oh,
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  Speaker 6: there's another fee that wasn't there last time. But what
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  Speaker 6: they wanted was... this cash bribe to get things done.
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  Speaker 6: You're always having to think about, is somebody trying to
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  Speaker 6: get it over on me?
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: Imagine having no idea what to expect in terms of
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: monthly bills because everyone's trying to rip you off. But
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: since this family shares some similar beliefs to the previous one,
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: maybe we can get some sort of answer by listening
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: to what their gripes are about American racism as they
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: talk about going back to visit family after being in
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: Africa for a while.
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: But yeah, we were in a store.
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  Speaker 6: We were literally the only family black people that I'd
• 15:23
  Speaker 6: seen for about 45 miles.
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  Speaker 3: That doesn't sound like racism. That just sounds like you're
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: unhappy if white people exist around you, which actually makes
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: you seem kind of racist. I mean, I've visited plenty
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: of places where whites aren't the majority, and I've never
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: felt like people were racist just for existing around me
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: as a different race. And let me just emphasize that
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: they aren't the first ones to accuse white people of
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: being racist simply because they're in the majority. It's literally
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: the main argument of Robin DiAngelo's famous book, White Fragility,
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: And a lot of people repeat that sentiment.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: They do have CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera here, international news
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: stations that put it out there as it is.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: Right, of course, they watch CNN, the network that is
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: notorious for lying about everything, and will go as far
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: as to doctor footage of Joe Rogan to make him
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: look more sick because he didn't agree with him on COVID.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: So this couple probably doesn't have the most accurate depiction
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: of America. But let's continue with what else they think
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: is racist.
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: You had an experience when you were at the mall.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So I'm out at the mall wearing this exact outfit,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: this shirt and my necklace and my bracelet, something I
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: would wear any day in Ghana and it just be
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: a normal person. outfit oh man that's too black that's
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: too ethnic you know the black people who saw me
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: i would get jeers from them like who's this guy
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: where's he from what point it was like what point
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: is he trying to make you can see that in
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: the like no you can't wear that here yeah it
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: was like.
• 16:53
  Speaker 7: You know yeah we get it you're black you know
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: it was like one of those things.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: So black people are now the racist because they think
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: your shirt is too loud I thought the whole reason
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: that you moved to Ghana is because you wanted to
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: be around more black people.
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: One of the things that has been most amazing about
• 17:09
  Speaker 7: this past year and a half is the fact that
• 17:12
  Speaker 7: we're not black here.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Not as our primary identifier. Yeah, that's totally true.
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: Because like in the States, you're always black first and
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: everything else second.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, only if you constantly feel the need to
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: bring up your race. Anyway, let's see how he believes
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: white people perceive the shirt.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: For the white people, it was weird because they were
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: looking at me like, what is this dude? Again, what
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: point is he trying to prove? It's just the eyes
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: were on me.
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: And I know it's because of what I wore because
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: I went back the next day and nobody looked at
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: me any different than I had on, you know, just
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: a Dieter shirt and a hat.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: So you were dressed appropriately for your age. Yeah, yeah.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: And so it just made me aware of how I
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: was presenting myself. I couldn't just wear what I wanted
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: to wear and be comfortable without noticeable eyes on me.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: I didn't like that.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: So this is called the spotlight effect, where people tend
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: to overestimate how much others are paying attention to them.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: He felt anxiety wearing that shirt in America, so he
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: projected his negative feelings onto people looking at him. He
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: also could have simply been looking at people more often
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: because of the anxiety, which would prompt them to look
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: back and result in more staring. But based on his story,
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: no one told him that they didn't like the shirt,
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: nor did he ask anyone what they thought. He just
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: felt like they were negatively judging him. Now, me personally,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: I don't have any problem with his shirt. I actually
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: think the design looks pretty cool and I like the color.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: I don't see why anyone would judge you poorly because
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: of it. But I mean, come on. surely they must
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: have at least one example of actual racism that they've
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: experienced that's not just in their head.
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: We were at a Walmart, and we were standing in line,
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: and the person in front of me who checked out,
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: a white, middle-aged gentleman, the cashier was a younger, blonde,
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: you know, vibrant girl. The gentleman in front of me, hey, sir,
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: how are you doing today? Great, great, thank you.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Did you do anything else? No.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Have a great day. Gone.
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: I get up there, and I'm waiting for her to
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: greet me. And she never, she never did.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: So I was like, oh.
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: So I, being me, was like, big smile. Hey, how
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: are you today?
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Fine.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: Okay, so we finished the whole.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Thing, right?
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: And I'm waiting. I get my receipt.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: And I'm like, thank you. I didn't get a have
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: a great day. I didn't get a you're welcome. I
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: didn't get a goodbye. I didn't get anything. My mom
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: was with me. And we took a few steps away.
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: And she was like, well, that was different.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe she forgot. Cashiers check out like
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: hundreds of people per day. I wouldn't exactly call this racism.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Racism is like if someone beat you up because you're
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: the wrong color or prevented you from using certain public amenities,
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: or made you abide by a different set of laws.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Something that is not an example of racism is, people
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: looked at me when I wore this orange shirt. I mean,
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: this is so dumb that it reminds me of those
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: girls who go to the gym while filming for their
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: OnlyFans or their Fansly pages, saying, Oh my God, that
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: guy looked in my direction. He sexually assaulted me.
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: Do you feel like you felt the impact of all
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: of these microaggressions and slights and requirements for code switching
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: and staying in your place? All of the things we
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: just kind of talked about. Did you feel the weight
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: of that before you started traveling to Ghana?
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Yes, and it bothered me.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: Oh no, microaggressions. Code switching, how terrible. Code switching is
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: when you change your behavior based on the environment that
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: you're in. which is something that everyone of all races
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: does on a constant basis. I act differently around my
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: friends from how I act around my grandparents. And yes,
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: I also act differently when I'm around different races. But
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: these people will have you believe that it's belligerent racism
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: if an Asian person asks you to take off your
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: shoes before entering the house. Oh my god, the Asians
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: are forcing us to code switch and be less black
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: because they don't want dirt on their floors.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: We were out of the store.
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: The boys were behaving the exact same way that they
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: behave when we're out at stores in Ghana. There was no, like,
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: they weren't acting crazy.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Our kids are... Oh, pretty well-mannered.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: Well-mannered.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: They're not ridiculous. But yeah, it was just uncomfortable.
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: And I know that sounds really weird. Leo was doing
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: what Leo usually does. He would take something off the
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: shelf and bring it to me and ask if, you know,
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: we could have this. And then if I said no,
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: he would put it back.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: If I said yes, he'd put it in the cart.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: But I felt like I had to... Like hold, tell
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: him not to touch things and, you know, stay with
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: me and don't, don't talk loud. And all of a
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: sudden I was just, I felt like I was correcting him.
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: Stop being so black.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Don't, don't be yourself.
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: People are judging you because of your color. You're the
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: only black person in the room.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: You can't be you. You have to be a different
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: version of you.
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: Let's figure out how to code.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Switch at the age of six. What?
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: What does any of this have to do with race?
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: It sounds like kids just being kids, followed by you
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: instructing them on how to act in public. But for
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: some reason, you've added this extra unnecessary level of anxiety
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: to it. Honestly, it sounds like they were already behaving properly,
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: and you unnecessarily felt the need to tell them, don't
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: make the white man mad. Which, speaking of microaggressions, that
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: kind of villainizes white people to your kids. This is
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: so ridiculous, even if you assume that all the white
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: people in the store were secretly judging her children... How
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: is that worse than people constantly trying to scam and
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: backstab you in Africa?
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: As a very wise Ghanaian elder told me, don't trust anyone.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: Anyone.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: He specifically said, I don't trust him.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Him?
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: He's pointing at his wife. He's pointing at his son.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: Do you feel like it takes away from the experience
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: because you always have to be on guard? Doesn't that, like,
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: minimize the experience?
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: You know, there's dangers and you want to look out
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: for them.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: That is crazy. You would rather live in a society
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: where you can trust no one than live in a
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: place where a cashier forgets to say hi to you.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: But as much as there are people who watch CNN
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: who do ridiculous things, there are also plenty of black
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: people who hate this messaging and are tired of the
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: racism narrative where no actual racism is occurring.
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: I love how you have the white chick telling the.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Black girl that she's oppressed. That's just perfect.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: It reminds me of that moment where Kelly Osbourne tries
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: to help the Mexicans out by saying, who will clean
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: the toilets?
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: If you kick every Latino out of this country, then
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: who is going to be cleaning your toilet?
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump. Oh, that's... In the sense that, you know
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: what I mean? There's more jobs.
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: To be done.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: These people aren't your friends. They want to keep you
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: down and demotivated so that you can't do any more
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: than a low-wage job. That is the actual racism. You
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: think these people want to help you when they constantly
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: have this passive-aggressive set of lowered expectations for certain races?
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: Like that statue of a black woman in New York
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: where the creator was like, Hey, let's represent black people
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: with an obese woman who has her hands on her
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: hips and kind of has an angry face. I just
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: want to make sure that we reinforce as many negative
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: black stereotypes as possible while I say that we're providing
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: representation for the marginalized. The best part is that a
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: bunch of black people in the comments on the artist's
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Instagram are saying that they hate the statue. Again, these
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: people aren't your friends. I mean, they call being on
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: time racist. They don't want you to be able to
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: keep a job. These days, they would look at that
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: movie Stand and Deliver and say it's bad because a
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: math teacher teaches Mexican kids calculus so they can get
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: good paying jobs and experience a much higher standard of living.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: These people would say that you're whitewashing them or forcing
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: them to live with aspects of whiteness by just trying
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: to get them a good job.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: I want to have a conversation with you today about... whiteness.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: I was having a great chat today with a dear
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: friend of mine who is a black woman, and we
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: were talking about white women and white supremacy and how
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: a lot of white people uphold white supremacy by just existing.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, we do see people of color go the
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: capitalist route and try to become billionaires, but at the
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: same time, it's always in proximity to whiteness.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: You've got to be kidding me. Here, watch Ironheart instead
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: of Stand and Deliver. where the hero obtains her superpower
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: by stealing it, and instead of being good out of
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: a desire to help people, she wants to be iconic.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: I want to build something undeniable.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Something iconic.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Riri, I see you.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: I see you fed up. Waiting to be acknowledged for
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: your greatness. I can give you the tools to help
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: you carry out your vision.
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: But anyone who's ever accomplished anything iconic in life has
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: had to do some questionable things to get it done.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: Right, don't just make her a thief. make her arrogant
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: and selfish too. You know how Spider-Man sacrifices the things
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: he wants in life to help people? Well, let's do
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: a black character where she helps others defeat her own
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: ego and show how great she is. Not all that
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: different from the Ghana lady, actually. However, as I've said
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: in previous content, I think the majority of black people
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: actually find this stuff condescending and demeaning. And despite all
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: the DEI types telling everyone that America is the worst
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: place in the world, I think that most people understand
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: that we actually have it pretty good here. Sure, there
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: are problems and there are plenty of things that I
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: would like to fix about this country. But the reality
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: is that no matter where you go, you're going to
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: have to deal with at least some BS.
• 26:33
  Speaker 6: Why is it so hard for foreigners to get a
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: license in Japan?
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: I really don't know, but it took me 22 tries
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: to do it. Basically, I failed it the first time,
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: failed it the second time. And I heard that, you know,
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: maybe by the third time, you'll pass it.
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: So the English test is a little harder than the
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: Japanese test?
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: No, it's a lot harder. It's a lot harder. Not
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: a little bit. A lot harder.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: Do you feel like it's discriminatory against foreigners to make
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: this so hard to get a license?
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but that's the life you live in Japan.
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: And you've been here how long?
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: 25 years.
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: And you have your license now?
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: I have my driver's license. I'm driving, and I love it.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is annoying and it should be changed in
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: the future, and certainly Japan has its problems, but it's
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: not a deeply oppressive system where people walk around in
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: chains all the time, and neither is America. I think
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: probably the message of the day here is gratitude. I
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: say that because I see a lot of people who
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: are just dissatisfied and unhappy all the time, especially because
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: I watch a lot of crazies for a living who
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: think that everything is terrible and nothing is ever enough.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: That being said, it actually works very well to just
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: take a step back and appreciate the things that you
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: have in your life. not for some hippie spiritual reason
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: or as a moral platitude, but for practical reasons. If
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: you don't appreciate the things that you have or have
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: gratitude for them, you won't maintain them. You won't do
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: what's required to maintain relationships which will subject you to
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: a lot of loneliness or being around a bunch of
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: low-quality people, or you won't do what's required to maintain
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: your personal items which will ruin your bank account or worse,
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: you obsess over a new thing, buy it, and forget
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: about it 10 seconds later. Does that not describe the
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Ghana lady who, by the way, chased the newest and
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: flashiest thing like beachfront property while forgetting how good she
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: had it where she came from? Meanwhile, she landed herself
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: in a place that she hates with a cabinet that
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: can't be opened because someone put a cooling unit next
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: to it. So there's real value in taking a second
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: to just be happy that you have clean water, electricity,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: a roof, and people who want to spend time with
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: you instead of always focusing on what you lack. Now,
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: that's not to say that you can't strive for more
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: and you should strive for more, but But be careful
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: about doing that at the expense of things that are
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: good in your life. Anyway, thanks for watching, follow me
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: on Twitter, and I'll see you in the next video.