ARE YOU CRAZY...You Left America for Africa?

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  • @Mzee5906
    @Mzee5906 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    As a black South African that experienced apartheid(Jim crow) bieng called by a bi word, I'm not going to mention it in this platform, I can truely understand why you left the US.... When I look at both of you I just see myself...... It feels good see some of you coming back home ❤

  • @andeyo1
    @andeyo1 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    You two are doing great job. I was born in western Kenya and moved to the US after high school to attend college, I was moving from an Africa village to one of the biggest cities in America, the only city I had been to was Kisumu, the third largest city in Kenya. My first trip to Nairobi was to process my passport and second time was to pick my visa and fly out.
    MY first culture shock in US was the heavy burden that came with my new acquired identity, I never fully realized I was Black until I landed in America, I knew my skin was physically black and so was everybody around me in my village and we knew we had other people whose skin color was brown and white. Most of these white and brown people in Kenya lived in cities and once’s in a while we would have one living among us in the village as peace corps or NGO worker. The hierarchy of my identity was very clear, I knew I belonged clan, ethnicity (tribe), nationality a Kenyan and an African. I was not totally blind to Eurocentric racism because my father and his fellow generation had told me what it was like in colonial Kenya and I was living in neocolonial Kenya but nothing prepared me to the intensity and pervasiveness of American racism, boy it is out this world, it is deeply imbedded into American DNA.
    My first encounter with racism was in Walgreen store, there were this open samples of cologne perfumes for promotion and people coming in were trying them and I went and tried one and I saw this white guy looking and following me around. I paid for my detergent soap and on my way out this dude stopped me took me to back store and parted me to my bare skin in very humiliating way and found nothing, he told me the reason was because I was opening store merchandise. The second time I was walking from my studio to school with loaded bookbag, before I knew it, I was surrounded by two police cruiser, with guns blazing I was told to put my hands up and lean In front of the car, what saved me was my school bag, full of books and onlooking white students shouting he is our new African student. I was told I fitted a profile of a guy who had mugged a lady across the street. One of the white student later told me to watch my dressing, I could be mistaken for inner city bad people, who are the inner city bad people, why were these whites shouting to police he is an African student. The police saw one thing a young N --- but these students wanted the police to know he was a naïve innocent harmless type of a N---. A lot Africans in US fall for this trap of divide and rule, run into white suburbs only to run into racial trouble later there. It does not matter where you are from as longer as you have black skin you a target of racism.
    We tend to dweller or sometimes confuse individual prejudice with racism, it not about somebody calling you an N word, it is the systemically institutionalized racism that you encounter in American institutions, in policing, banking, housing, schooling (education) and at work (cooperate America). It takes a long time for immigrates to understand this level of racism. Like many immigrates I did not understand the nuance of American race history, slavery, reconstruction, Jim crow and civil rights movement but I was a lucky immigrant. I arrived in US at the beginning of June and the start of my fall semester was in September, I had a lot time to burn and luckily the guy who had moved from my studio was an African American scholar, he left behind two boxes full of African American books and magazines. I had ebony, essence, Chicago defender, Black dispatch, negro world, Final call, freedom Journal and any AA books you can think about. I went through a lot books but three stood out, the Malcom X autobiography by Alex Haley, Black boy by Richard Wright and Afrocentrism by Molefi Asante. These books changed my trajectory, though I was science major, anytime I would have latitude of picking a humanity or social science course I would always seek advice of AA department. Molefi Afrocentric and Eurocentric worldview was powerful and draw me to the school of Afrocentrism at Temple University Philadelphia University, I become more African in US than when I was in Kenya.
    While many Africans troop to US with a lot ignorance about the state of AA in US, they encounter a lot AA with little knowledge of Africa and that is the born of friction. My advice for Africans in US to seek and learn from AA who understand the coded system and for AA to learn about the continent and those with means to visit or relocate to African. Its exciting time to see AA coming back home, we need each other and we have a lot to give to each other for benefit of future generation.

  • @InventionSchool
    @InventionSchool ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I've been in more rural Tharaka County, Kenya since 2020 with no plans on returning. America had 500 years to get it right but to no avail... If I were to be asked the questions related to why I came to Africa I would tell them the following:
    I AM AT PEACE
    I am at peace because Africa has embraced me.
    I am at peace because I’m busy fulfilling my life mission.
    I am at peace because people around me are at peace.
    I am at peace because I’m surrounded by beauty.
    I am at peace because the people and resources I need for this mission will continue to magnetically flow to me with little effort.
    I am at peace because the rainy season has returned to Kenya after prolonged drought.
    I am at peace because I can legally collect rain water for personal use unlike other unnamed countries.
    I am at peace because the water I collected contains no fluoride, the chemical German Nazis used to pacify jailed Jews.
    I am at peace because the rain contains no toxic metallic nanoparticulates sprayed by government or commercial aircraft.
    I am at peace because I can use the water to grow grain, organic fruit, or honey-ginger laced Kenyan coffee.
    I am at peace because the rivers are full and brimming with fish and fertile sediment.
    I am at peace because “green” has broken out all over.
    I am at peace because Kitty Cat is my new guardian angel who deftly travels other realms.
    …without me.
    I am at peace because Love is the primary force in this universe to which I humbly yield.
    Mechanical/Solar Engineer, Prof. Oku Singer
    PS: I made a video of this testament at inventionschool dot tech/i-am-at-peace/

    • @gideonriungu7785
      @gideonriungu7785 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Tharaka County...Wooow Thats Kenya Rural Proper

    • @goldenheart751
      @goldenheart751 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      After you tell them all that, then they turn around and say you're not African, you are a mzungu or toobob

    • @InventionSchool
      @InventionSchool ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@goldenheart751 You’re going to get all levels of understanding from sophisticated urbanites to peasant farmers who have only heard of the Internet.

    • @kuyahkudey3217
      @kuyahkudey3217 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Invention School
      Well said!🔥🔥🔥🔥

    • @nubianpwr
      @nubianpwr ปีที่แล้ว

      beautiful🙏🏾

  • @Amina-mb8ip
    @Amina-mb8ip ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Great conversation family. We deserve better as African Americans. We have options outside of America in our Motherland. Let's roll up our sleeves and make things better for ALL of us. ❤️🖤💚

  • @michaelthomas7395
    @michaelthomas7395 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    The reasons why African Americans leave the US for Africa are multi faceted, with the crux being blatant racism. A great deal of Africans have not experienced this situation ever in their lives and its hard to contemplate initially. The unfortunate side effects of relocating to the States is what you will go through in some form, and how that impacts your life. At what price is your peace and respect and humanity being set aside for the almighty dollar ? As a person who lived there 62 years, its just not worth it.

    • @koffi3415
      @koffi3415 ปีที่แล้ว

      They better not come to Africa where once they had respect because things has changed and there are seen as promoting LGBTQ.

    • @koffi3415
      @koffi3415 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Who controls the media and the teaching materials in schools.

    • @koffi3415
      @koffi3415 ปีที่แล้ว

      BLacks should declare themselves independent and create their own schools and stopped this integration agenda .

    • @koffi3415
      @koffi3415 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Learn from this example of western society.

  • @carissalove3053
    @carissalove3053 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    You all are making me cry. I told my creator to not let me die in the land of my people captivity

  • @nicholastoo7543
    @nicholastoo7543 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Glad that you've made this real talk, coz lots of fellow Africans don't know this, they're not exposed, they only see glamour of Hollywood.

    • @TheResidentialTourists
      @TheResidentialTourists  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Exactly

    • @benbo7042
      @benbo7042 ปีที่แล้ว

      A lot of Africans are much more exposed than you will ever be . You are the one not exposed because you were born and bred in one and only one country. You have no outside knowledge to compare with . Africans on the other hand have been traveling for decades and decades and have a lot of comparisons to make. . Who are the ones exposed, Africans or you? Since when did AA start traveling? Don't start it.

  • @sarafinalove5330
    @sarafinalove5330 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    On Saturday the NAACP board of Directors put out a travel advisory warns Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans. Things are getting extremely dangerous for us here my friend. I will be back in Rwanda for 6 months in October to prepare my move permanently to the continent.

  • @SusanLilyYaH7777
    @SusanLilyYaH7777 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    We also face discrimination when we wear our hair in its natural form such as braids, afros, cornrows, twists, etc.. We are told our hair is not professional or a distraction. When I come to Rwanda I will open an african american trauma museum.

  • @A10868a
    @A10868a ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We are coming next year 2024; We have been planning this move for 3 years; We currently live in Atlanta. My wife and I will see you soon! Thanks for all your videos. Garry Williams

  • @jayajaya788
    @jayajaya788 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Let's not forget about the African brother who lived in NYC and was shot 41 times because the policeman thought his cell phone was a gun..I think his name was Amadullo Diallo...sorry if the spelling of his first name is wrong but you can look it up...he lived in the Bronx, NY...he was an African...it doesn't matter if you are African...African American or from the Islands...we are all considered BLACK

    • @TheResidentialTourists
      @TheResidentialTourists  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Exactly

    • @Musuhuke_TV
      @Musuhuke_TV ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, Amadou Diallo

    • @p.t.9709
      @p.t.9709 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I remember that. Four cops in plain clothes that came out an unmarked vehicle did the shooting. They shot 41 times and Amadou was hit 19 times. All He had were his keys in his hands and his wallet in his pocket. To them, they thought he looked suspicious. He was in front the door to his apartment building where he lived. By some, he was portrayed as an ignorant, illegal African immigrant who didn’t follow police instructions and probably didn’t understand English. His mother later testified that he spoke & understood 7 languages. Because people protested,the cops were put on trial. However, they were all found “not guilty.” It was years ago; but, I’ve never forgotten his name.

    • @dakanu
      @dakanu ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Don't forget Abner Louima, the Hatian Man who got beat up and sodomized by the NYPD.

    • @jayajaya788
      @jayajaya788 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@dakanu yes...I forgot about that brother

  • @kuyahkudey3217
    @kuyahkudey3217 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I ge the same attitude about me leaving America from my Jamaican-American family members who still live in America and will defend that country no matter how much it oppresses us daily.
    I also get the same attitude and questions from my Jamaican pple in Jamaica where I live now. They don't comprehend our situation even after I tell them about the daily multiple deletions of our people by the gubment (po po) in America. They still want to go there for the American dream.

    • @TheResidentialTourists
      @TheResidentialTourists  ปีที่แล้ว

      The Dream is a harsh reality

    • @kuyahkudey3217
      @kuyahkudey3217 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TheResidentialTourists
      Yes that dream is a crazy vi0lent nightmare. 🤪😓
      I am so happy that I left that place. But recovering from the trauma of living there is not easy.

  • @muragegitari6052
    @muragegitari6052 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great presentation. Very emotional. You made a good decision, especially for the safety of your kids and for your mental health. When growing up in a rural village in Kenya, I always fantasised about living in the US and thought it was the real land of opportunity, milk, and honey. I thought AAs were happy and living a great life. Then I watched Phillip Scott videos on police brutality and was shocked out of my day dreams. Then George Flloyd happened. I lost all respect for Am£rica and swore never to set foot. Karibu nyumbani Afrika; Ndugu, Dada na Watoto wetu. Watoto wenyu ni watoto wetu. Tunampenda sana. (Welcome back home Afrika; Brother, Sister and your Children. Your children are our children too. We love you.)

  • @livinglifeonfull
    @livinglifeonfull ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Good video. Africans need to hear this type of information because they have not experience subtle or blatant racism in Africa. So, if they travel to the US they need to know what they may experience. Years ago an African friend of mine moved to the US for work. I did not know him at the time. But a mutual friend told me that he got hired at a former racist company that I use to worked for in Houston, TX. He also married a white woman in the US. I told the mutual friend to tell him to call me so I could give him an indication on what to expect from this company. Well he never did call me.
    Months later we happened to meet at a work location where our two companies had interest and we exchanged work phone numbers. Well about two weeks later he called me from his personal phone. So, I knew he had a problem. He told me that the racist company fired him. He did not make it through his 90 day probation. One Friday, he said his trainer told him that he had a dental appointment and that he could go home early and so he did. Monday morning the big boss called him in his office and fired him for leaving early. Also, he said that the company had a Safety Banquet at night earlier in the week so he decided to take his white wife. Well the management at this racist company did not like interracial marriages so that was another reason he thinks they let him go. So that's the type of stuff many African Americans face in the US on a daily basis.

  • @donnymbowane2321
    @donnymbowane2321 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thanks for sharing the touching stories family. Down here in South Africa we are fully behind you. Please help us to build this continent and to make Africa great. Thank you.

  • @mustaphacamara130
    @mustaphacamara130 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Very sad 😭. Listening to you guys makes me cry as a grown man. God is watching everything and their days are coming. Stay strong family ❤

  • @shiningstar7643
    @shiningstar7643 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm absolutely in tears right now. It's so heartbreaking not only the here but to live it day today🥺😭💔 I thank you guys so much for this video because this will needed. You guys have put this together very well and very clear for all of us. We want to unite with our African brothers and sisters on my homeland and Bill one another.

  • @elizabethmbathi2152
    @elizabethmbathi2152 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks so much @ UK n African by birth . Love everything you had to say. Hopefully all will be well with us all.

  • @africanadage852
    @africanadage852 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Residential tourists, loved this episode. It's mostly people in the last African states to gain freedom through a struggle, that fully appreciate institutional racism. The fact that Africa has an averagely young population, leads to racial discrimination being forgotten due to institutional memory not retaining it. Again, teaching our history is important to ensure lessons learnt are always remembered.
    Definitely don't want sour milk and corn syrup if I can have milk and honey 😂😂😂.

  • @writingdiasporan
    @writingdiasporan ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm so sorry about what you went through as a child 😢 That must have been so traumatic. I lived in Canada for 20 years before moving to Rwanda. Canada is America Lite - similar, but more subtle issues except if you're indigenous - they go through horrible racism in some cities. As someone who was born in Nigeria, I'm grateful that we've started having these conversations. Growing up, you only heard about the glamour of the West. Nothing about its pale, terrifying underbelly.

    • @TheResidentialTourists
      @TheResidentialTourists  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes we have to start sharing the truth. We love our home countries but there’s a lot that comes with that. Thanks sis

  • @isaacmuchatuta3352
    @isaacmuchatuta3352 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Educating others is your calling. Keep it up sister and brother. I was particularly moved about the issue of police brutality and endemic racism. Keep preaching the gospel

  • @Freeingtime
    @Freeingtime ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm so glad the algorithm brought me here. This is my first introduction to your content. I love your sincerity! Kept it up! New sub🎉❤

  • @A10868a
    @A10868a ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was there in Feb 2023; we are so excited. Please know that your message resonates with a lot of people.

  • @eastafricanist9156
    @eastafricanist9156 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Subscriber from Uganda 🇺🇬. The experiences and attitudes of Africans and African Americans couldn't be further apart. Much work is required to bridge the gap. Great content.

    • @TheResidentialTourists
      @TheResidentialTourists  ปีที่แล้ว

      Agreed and thank you

    • @muragegitari6052
      @muragegitari6052 ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree some, disagree some. When you take walk in Kampala, are you hypervigilant? When driving and you are stopped by police do you skip a heart beat and start to pray? The experiences are not the same.

  • @AbiyeKetema
    @AbiyeKetema ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wholeheartedly feel you I left US after 30 years living in 2018 back to Ethiopia where I was born and raised until teenage years. But I was too idle and can't sustain to live longer with my savings without a job.
    2. When you try to tell those people in Ethiopia they ain't trying to hear you. They think you just trying to discourage them.
    Thanks to COVID19 and technology now they are able to see a lot of things on social media specially after George Floyd.

  • @sandrasgotvoice
    @sandrasgotvoice ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Congratulations on 10k!!!!🥳💖🎉✨🥳I always watch to the end because I don't want to miss any golden nuggets! Africans don't realize how hard it is for us to save money to get out (and stay out!) of here. I watch you because you guys give me hope. As long as I don't give up hope, it is possible. Nelson Mandela said "It always seems impossible until it is done". With God, all things are possible. 🙏🏽

  • @marceljaff2131
    @marceljaff2131 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is one of the greatest videos about the black experience in America that I have ever seen.
    This video should be played as all US embassies around the world as part of their orientation to America.
    I loved it so much I shared it with my family back in Africa. I wonder if they will believe what they are hearing!
    Thanks again my brother and friend LaMont and your beautiful wife!!

  • @Musuhuke_TV
    @Musuhuke_TV ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Another great conversation fam, keep it up!

  • @autumnbreeze1994
    @autumnbreeze1994 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Congratulations on your reaching 10,000 subscribers! I too am a subscriber to your channel from the U.S. and truly appreciate today's content.
    Peace and blessings!

  • @goldenheart751
    @goldenheart751 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I told many Africans about the horrifics towards black people in America, but they tell me that I am jealous of them coming to America because they succeed better than us. I had to laugh because they don't listen. I know some Africans in America who are dying to get back to Africa, but now they can't afford it. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @TheResidentialTourists
      @TheResidentialTourists  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Just reading through the comments and most Africans that are in the states or Europe want to come back to their native land badly.

  • @hotrodvybz
    @hotrodvybz ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Africa is on the rise you made the right decision relocating to Africa infact most western nations loot African resources to enrich themselves but this has come to an end and it is Africa that will benefit from its resources,much love from kenya

  • @AbiyeKetema
    @AbiyeKetema ปีที่แล้ว

    I would love to work with you guys, when you said this is your country remember it's your too. We can be very creative to deal with the obstacles and make things happen. When you said allow us I am thinking you're allowed just have to analyze the situation find a work around for it and attract the help you need. I myself have experimented with our community here in US and I learned how to build trust to have people behind me for changes I want to bring. Let's talk

  • @JohnsonPoku-vo2ps
    @JohnsonPoku-vo2ps ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Good to have you in Africa to help us ward off such confusion trying to penetrate Africa (LGBTQ)

  • @angelacleveland2698
    @angelacleveland2698 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As an African American I greatly appreciate your honesty and transparency in regards to life in America. Unfortunately information shared is true. I look forward to my trip to continent of Africa to inhale the fresh air and experience life without systemic racism.

  • @tjbmom123
    @tjbmom123 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I agree 100% with Absolutely EVERYTHING!!! The description of the current state of life in the USA is A NIGHTMARE for black people. Our children never have the opportunity to really be children, the adults and parents of black boys live in a constant state of fear, so for the people that want to come to America, at what cost???

  • @kengachanja5476
    @kengachanja5476 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What kind of milk and honey do you want? Good question. You folks are beautiful, It's really sad a community has to go through all that.
    How I wish every African American could get the chance to spend at least 3 weeks in Africa at least just to get the experience.
    Am from Kenya, and we Africans we love you so much we want the best for you, how we wish those abroad could change their perception about HOME.
    This is your home, you don't have to think twice about getting here. DO IT!
    It is safe here,
    it is very clean here (water, air, earth) all clean,
    We have good food.
    The people are wonderful.
    Welcome home my brothers and sisters, Welcome.

  • @winonasackey4682
    @winonasackey4682 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Winona Sackey from Jackson NJ, everything is true. Good luck my brother and sister.

  • @tooc8251
    @tooc8251 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for your sincerity; a moving video

  • @romeooscar2923
    @romeooscar2923 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow 😢 the APPEAL both of you made at the end of the video had me in tears. For Africa to realize it’s dream it need’s its family in Diaspora. As an African living in the US I hear you and I wish our brothers and sisters in Africa get it cause many do NOT get it. Over $2 trillion dollars wealth owned by black people. Please come together black people!!!

  • @justinkyalo8641
    @justinkyalo8641 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great stuff guys. Let's keep the conversation alive @Justin

  • @vkirk7319
    @vkirk7319 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If you don't speak about your pain, they will kill you and say that you enjoyed it.

  • @cicelysoulsojourn0101
    @cicelysoulsojourn0101 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you for doing this I will share with those who ask why? You also have a subscriber in Egypt 😊. I never experienced overt racism but definitely in some actions and the undertones of institutional racism. I remember teaching my son as a young black male in America how to conduct himself even though most of his friends at the time were "white" that the rules are different for him. When he did get stopped (looking like someone they were looking for) they the police called us and said how well spoken and articulate he was and the good school he went too.
    Also what you mentioned about the police having guns and you feeling safe. I actually feel safer with police carrying guns here, knowing that most people are not just running around with guns in their pockets.
    I don't see that you are being negative about America it's just the truth. I don't understand why people just do not like hearing the truth. What's the problem. Keep sharing it can help someone to have an informed decision.
    Just because my overall experience has been fine, it does not mean I should not acknowledge the plight of others.

  • @blackmagic6
    @blackmagic6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm a continental African and that was a very touching video. I appreciate you and wish you success in all you endeavour ....... as I do for all of my fam who want to repatriate home. Peace.

  • @charlottethomas5588
    @charlottethomas5588 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loved this video! Thank you for sharing!

  • @jwiggins4765
    @jwiggins4765 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Facts. Facts. All facts. Just to hear your list is triggering. In some way or another, we’ve all felt or experienced something. We deal with it in the US but have to put up with scams and theft and issues in the Motherland. We’re called muzungu. We don’t fit in. We’re looked at as a “cash cow “. Africa needs to do better by us.

    • @benbo7042
      @benbo7042 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is you who need to put your American mindset aside when you come to Africa.

    • @jwiggins4765
      @jwiggins4765 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nakho3550
      We = The Muhammads + Me
      We = shared experiences

  • @curtismuhammad8088
    @curtismuhammad8088 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very enlightening inspiring and powerful.🔥🔥🔥💯 Keep doing what you do fam.. ASA

  • @mort3939
    @mort3939 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good that you share your Thoughts on this very important Issue. Because in Africa, we're made to feel that. You Guys in America must be Lucky for your Parents and Grand Parents to be in America and you being been born in America. Not many of we Africans Brothers and Sisters are aware of the Reality. I just wish we Africans know more about the History (Past and Present Events).

  • @AbiyeKetema
    @AbiyeKetema ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Can I come visit you two? I really like you both and you two have so much wisdom.

  • @sistaluv1357
    @sistaluv1357 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for the conversation.❤❤

  • @capt.56
    @capt.56 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Hypersentive and very emotional subject to talk about, but you said it all. Most travelled Africans know what you're saying and they agree. I am one.

  • @Jamal-bx6cx
    @Jamal-bx6cx ปีที่แล้ว

    Dear Brother and sister thank you so much I feel Validation and inspiration my Allah continue to bless you and your family. And maybe one day I'll get to meet you in person.

  • @winonasackey4682
    @winonasackey4682 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love your video from Jackson NJ

  • @fellythoye2017
    @fellythoye2017 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nothing but true, i am a Congolese living in the USA and experienced racism at work, where the administration will throw a baby shower for a white employee but will not do so for a black counterpart.

  • @imhassane
    @imhassane ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I currently live in France and it's only when I left Africa I started to think racially. I heard of racism when I was in Africa but didn't understand what it meant really. When all of you are the same color, there's no discrimination based on color, so for instance currently, when I'm walking in the street I always have to think how others are seeing me as many associates black with thieves or criminals or even less educated while in Africa this never happens, you're not judged by the color of your skin. You have to experience this kind of things to understand it and in Africa it doesn't exist in most countries.
    And even though I wouldn't consider France as a racist country, when you watch TV or follow the politicians you absolutely feel the hatred some people have toward black people and they openly admit it. So when you see the polls results and you walk in the street, you never with who you're walking, who might hate you solely based on your skin color and all of those things that you never ever think about in Africa.

  • @yvettecabey4755
    @yvettecabey4755 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I would love to meet you all when I return to Rwanda!!!

  • @fredericindanga1423
    @fredericindanga1423 ปีที่แล้ว

    May you be blessed. May the Most High grant you all the desire of your heart.

  • @ednaW5940
    @ednaW5940 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You are so on point , totally agree , not to say Africa is perfect however, there is a difference in the way you are treated. My experience in the US is to long there is not enough time. One thing I can say how so called African Americans was made to go to the back of the bus, many cannot relate to that, also burning of the crosses in melanated people yards by the kkk i can go on about sad stories of hanging ect. So when I'm asked the question why Africa there are many reasons : this is not the end :

  • @sylviafaith-hodges5847
    @sylviafaith-hodges5847 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ❤ YOU Are A Great Couple ❤
    🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

  • @travelerawakenings8477
    @travelerawakenings8477 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Many people put America on a high standard and they put other countries on low standard

  • @goldenheart751
    @goldenheart751 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Heyyy. Explaining to the average African is like talking to a wall. They dont understand that they are already in paradise here in Africa

    • @dakanu
      @dakanu ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When we tell our family members back home they retort, "if life is so hard over there why don't you all come back so we can go there?" I have stopped trying to tell them. No matter how hard you try to tell them they always argue, calling me a liar. I'm sharing this video with some of them.

  • @msni3478
    @msni3478 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My fav black couple ❤

  • @carmennicholson2867
    @carmennicholson2867 ปีที่แล้ว

    U let me Laugh out loud when you mentioned kindergarten at 8 yrs. Blessings to u both!

  • @emeliathompson3453
    @emeliathompson3453 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Everytime I listen to you guys, it makes me feel like moving to Rwanda.I am retired and wonder if it is too late for me to move.

    • @TheResidentialTourists
      @TheResidentialTourists  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’s the best time for you to move. Rwanda perfect for retirees

    • @nassergabriel4778
      @nassergabriel4778 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's not too late at all, it's the perfect timing for you to live in Paradise in your golden years.

    • @tjbmom123
      @tjbmom123 ปีที่แล้ว

      So question, how much do I need monthly to be really comfortable, not over the top, just really nicely like a 2x2 with 2 full baths and air conditioning?

    • @TheResidentialTourists
      @TheResidentialTourists  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      700-1000 don’t need AC in Rwanda

    • @tjbmom123
      @tjbmom123 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheResidentialTourists Thank you 👍🏽, I usually ff through long videos but this one was sooo informative, Thank you! I don’t mean I ff through your videos, just in general ☺️

  • @HughJass-313
    @HughJass-313 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I don't get where the _CONFUSION_ is...
    🤣🤣
    There certainly is *FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITY* in the U.S.
    But once you have amassed enough wealth...
    you'd be wise to get outta town while the getting's good!
    ❤😜❤

  • @abdulsharif6541
    @abdulsharif6541 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am an Afro American and I will be crazy to NOT go to a country in Africa... I am planning my first visit to an African Country in 2024. I am seeking to obtain residency first and then eventually "Dual Citizenship"

  • @jimjambie5449
    @jimjambie5449 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ok

  • @patriciamatthews9390
    @patriciamatthews9390 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well said ❤️🇯🇲❤️🇯🇲❤️

  • @anthonysumlin7196
    @anthonysumlin7196 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yea racism everywere gotta get my 40 acres and a mule first before i leave America but love yall content

    • @AbiyeKetema
      @AbiyeKetema ปีที่แล้ว

      Ain't nobody giving you that, you got to take it...

  • @Synoopy2
    @Synoopy2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for posting, very informative. I also wanted to know if Malaria is present where you are and did you worry about it when you left the states. Also the NAACP has just issued a travel advisory for Florida. Stating that Black Americans should be cautious about going there because the Governor has made laws harmful for Blacks. Blacks are always hopeful for change. Some whites in Fl are proud of the Advisory.

  • @mickyjagah
    @mickyjagah ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'd would just like to reiterate that Africa is not a country. It's a continent with over 50 countries. Thank you.

  • @dyana3965
    @dyana3965 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What we have to understand is that there is serious mental health and there has always been with those people. There history tells you who they are so just keep well away from them.

    • @coconut5002
      @coconut5002 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      EASIER SAID THAN DONE

  • @JohnsonPoku-vo2ps
    @JohnsonPoku-vo2ps ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Please let us build together the Africa we want , I know it's not easy but we have no choice

  • @juggynattytellthetruthsham4234
    @juggynattytellthetruthsham4234 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They ask me why, I ask them why right back 😃

  • @NicoleIsMakingItHappen
    @NicoleIsMakingItHappen ปีที่แล้ว

    Congratulations

  • @ginamitembe8935
    @ginamitembe8935 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I deeply appreciate your honesty
    About the TRUE reality of living out of Africa in European/North America as people of colour!!! I went to University in America all your saying and warning about are TRUE!! All AFRICANS and all diasporas around the world MUST return to the Continent to heal and rest!! Like everything else it takes patience and understanding of cultures( no comparisons please it kills dreams) find your niche there lots of opportunities on the Continent as it's growing!!!!
    All they're doing in black communities in America,is the same they've been doing to the Continent damping rubbish unfit for human( politically it's called damping ground) whether it's medicine,expiring food stuff( as examples of refusal to let African countries COVID Vaccines) in addition to the above we have endless coups, leaders assassinations all to continue to distablelise us in order to continue to steal our resources!!!! So All AFRICANS world wide must unite and build your beautiful Continent!!!!
    YOUR WELCOME HOME our brothers and Sisters!!! All African leaders must open doors to all of you!!!
    💯💯💯💯👍🤗🤗🤗💕💕💕🌍🌍🌍🤝🤝✊✊💞💞💞😢😢😅😂 wish you highly successful future in whatever country you choose to live!! We as the first race on planet earth ( chosen by The Almighty Creator GOD) and parents of races, we're tough! YES WE CAN and WE MUST or else we parish and they take our rightful inheritance!!!!!!!! NO🙅🙅🌍

  • @mandyb6414
    @mandyb6414 ปีที่แล้ว

    What about the young Black boy in Kansas who knock on the door of White man’s door and got shot twice. As you speak, the NAACP Issues Travel Advisory in Florida for Black and colored people

  • @lovellesokan9107
    @lovellesokan9107 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Kla be ne " kla be ne . My second time watching. I love you guys. America has been branding itself, and its false propoganda about poverty in Africa,,so all the youth strive on getting to the US to make money.. TRust me they come back, they come back.

  • @JohnsonPoku-vo2ps
    @JohnsonPoku-vo2ps ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sorry to hear your story, very sad story , my concern is why is there some black s insisting on remaining? Don't they value their life?

    • @TheResidentialTourists
      @TheResidentialTourists  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Some are happy where they are. Everyone won’t leave but there is a lot that will.

  • @carissalove3053
    @carissalove3053 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No you are not crazy and success at what cost

  • @JohnsonPoku-vo2ps
    @JohnsonPoku-vo2ps ปีที่แล้ว

    How about those who come to Africa and leave again saying Ghana is not made for them etc?

  • @benbo7042
    @benbo7042 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No one is preventing anyone from sharing their experiences but when some commentators say Africans are not exposed and that is why they travel to the US or Europe , etc then it becomes a problem and we need to tell them that we are more exposed than them. Do they know what majority of African families go through on daily bases? Almost all the Africans in the diaspora are the ones taking cares of the families back home financially. They cater for their parents , siblings, and extended families back home. You don't have such responsibilities in your country because the government, to some degree, do assist. We don't have such safety network in Africa. It is only in South Africa that something similar, to certain extent, do exist. Africans who want to travel know what they want and where they can achieve them . If were in their shoes, I bet you will reason the way they reason and you will also travel to take care of your family.

    • @TheResidentialTourists
      @TheResidentialTourists  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      We are saying they don’t know OUR stories. We are here on the continent and we’ve asked many many locals do they know how we got to America or what life is for black people in America and they said no. Your argument is void sir. Get out of your emotions

  • @carissalove3053
    @carissalove3053 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I really can’t keep up anymore with how they treat our people

  • @d.n.7670
    @d.n.7670 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Welcome hm family. You are not refugees. Africa is your birth place. All your account about the United States 🇺🇸 is true. 🇳🇬 in the house. New subscriber.

  • @AbiyeKetema
    @AbiyeKetema ปีที่แล้ว

    Affirmative Action, I think that law has already passed.

  • @rachealkibaiya7593
    @rachealkibaiya7593 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I am Kenyan living in America and I have realized life is not all about money. America is a very dangerous place. Can go to jail in a sec!

  • @thetopg921
    @thetopg921 ปีที่แล้ว

    As South African, i honestly don't understand people living rhe biggest economy in the world to any country in Africa 🤷🏽‍♂️ if i was American, i would never leave the richest country in the world to any country in Africa unless i am a multimillionaire, dollar multimillionaire 🤷🏽‍♂️other than that i aint leaving USA😅 i see you all moving to South Africa, ita beautiful to watch, but i would grab any opportunity to work in USA.

  • @kingpai863
    @kingpai863 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Florida, Murder of Jordan Davis 17 years old for playing music to loud

  • @Charles_Shima
    @Charles_Shima ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can you kindly be specific to the country in Africa rather than just say, Africa! you are in Rwanda. Rwanda is very different from Uganda, DRC, Tanzania, Togo, Gabon etc...I am working hard to educate the minds in North America that Africa is not a country!

    • @TheResidentialTourists
      @TheResidentialTourists  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Did you watch the video?

    • @Charles_Shima
      @Charles_Shima ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheResidentialTourists I started to watch. I believe that the title should be specific to a country! I gave the same advice to Mr. Beast! One of his video was about South Africa, yet he used Africa.

    • @TheResidentialTourists
      @TheResidentialTourists  ปีที่แล้ว +5

      We talk about Africa as a whole. Not one country.

  • @poetalegalis3635
    @poetalegalis3635 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    🇯🇲LEEGAL POET🇺🇬
    Song of a Blackman:
    In a land of cultural imperialism,
    where black minds
    get lost in marginalized
    double consciousness.
    I sing my songs
    in the realm of oppression
    in a five sided bird cage with passion.
    Where powerless crows get locked away chirping,
    like Nubian nightingales swimming in state violence.
    For the crime
    of being racialized butterflies.
    Exploited from a very young age
    to be denied substantial freedoms
    of being useful.
    Excluded from being normalized,
    subject to state control
    for lack of autonomy.
    Chained nailed in cultural imperialism.
    I was criminalize,
    attacked unprovoked with no revoke.
    For the crime
    of being a racialized butterfly.
    Family destroyed,
    and life stolen.
    Socially murdered;
    then raised from the dead like the phoenix,
    reborn in a new form as the Legal Poet.
    Hated.
    Gang banged.
    Raped,
    by the bane Triad of the poisonous root.
    The Bar,
    the Bench,
    and the Blues;
    whom think they are cool
    to enforce personal missions,
    for self proclaimed gods of law above the lawful rules.
    For the crime
    of being a racialized butterfly.
    Legally bullied.
    Robbed of evidence,
    without recompense;
    in the Ministry of Justice,
    palace of fallacies.
    The three stygian witches,
    borne from the river styx
    spawn there judgement
    outside the vail of ignorance
    in defiance of the original position.
    Crucified by the Justinian trinity,
    with three vindictive spikes
    in the holy of holies
    in the inner sanctum of the court room.
    For the crime
    of being a racialized butterfly.
    Threaten with a broken neck
    for not worshiping the god orange.
    Then exiled from human rights,
    in courts wanting in justice.
    To enforced
    the Blackman’s curse,
    and reap society’s worse
    in practice of systemic prejudice.
    Now I sing my song
    locked away
    in a five faced bird cage with passion.
    For the crime
    of being a racialized butterfly.
    Excluded away,
    exploited,
    with the five faces of oppression.
    Sentence,
    to being lost.
    Powerless,
    and suppress without remorse.
    While veiled on a bed of nails in double consciousness;
    just chirping
    my rhymes
    as bleeding lines
    like a prison butterfly.
    Chirp chirp.
    Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp.
    The innocence cry.
    Innocence cry...
    Legal Poet
    Wayne Ferron:All rights reserved @ copyright
    “Lovers Prayers” by Leegal Poet
    books.apple.com/ca/book/lovers-prayers/id1608862202
    www.staticpoetry.com

  • @ShawnHill-ph3gp
    @ShawnHill-ph3gp ปีที่แล้ว +1

    America is the new Babylon the great ie Sodom and Gomorrah… I applaud you on your escape 🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿

  • @benbo7042
    @benbo7042 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You come from the US to Africa and you are able to live at a cozy hotel and decide on the type of food to order. How many locals can even afford a bottle of water from a the cheapest hotel around their communities? How many of them can afford 2 square meals a day?

    • @TheResidentialTourists
      @TheResidentialTourists  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You’ve missed the whole point

    • @youngkaway
      @youngkaway ปีที่แล้ว

      So you still going with the CNN narrative that africans are jus hungry 😂😂😂 the locals can still live a good comfortable life some are rich some are poor like everywhere else

    • @Mzee5906
      @Mzee5906 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes he does...

    • @mustaphacamara130
      @mustaphacamara130 ปีที่แล้ว

      Please don’t respond to this bafoon

    • @tjbmom123
      @tjbmom123 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😐😐😐 perhaps you should listen to the video again sir

  • @TheDtfamu89
    @TheDtfamu89 ปีที่แล้ว

    Everytime I hear about Trayvaughn I get sad. He and my son were on the same optimist football team. His dad was one of the coaches. That shook me to my core. When George Zimmerman got away with killing him, nothing was the same after that. There’s this low grade fear and vigilance you live with here.

  • @poetalegalis3635
    @poetalegalis3635 ปีที่แล้ว

    🇿🇼🇯🇲🇺🇬🇪🇹Africa is the mother of all human life, and a black woman is the mother of all our life. This is why our beautiful beloved continent is MAMA AFRICA.🇪🇹🇺🇬🇯🇲🇿🇼
    🇿🇦LILY OF THE VALLEY 🇯🇲
    …Many have tried to take her
    and many have died protecting her.
    For the land fights back
    in fighting for her Clan.
    .
    So take me home
    to where the animals roam,
    and the Stone-Church sits
    among the ancient rune.
    .
    Take me home
    to my original home
    where mankind was born
    in the age of stone.
    .
    Take me home
    to my linguistical home
    where all phonetic chirp
    is known,
    .
    and the alphabet hints
    at a true “Rosetta-Stone”
    in language-sounds
    which can be easily found.
    .
    Take me home
    to where the “Tree of Life”
    bury her roots in black loam,
    .
    and “Lucy” left
    her beloved nest.
    Ten
    ten thousand years ago
    on her world quest.
    .
    Take me home
    to your realm
    where the “Ark of the Covenant” rest
    without protest.
    .
    To be free from the distress
    of four hundred years of
    being suppress.
    So I can truly rest.
    .
    Legal Poet
    Wayne Ferron:All rights reserved @ copyright
    “Lovers Prayers” by Leegal Poet
    books.apple.com/ca/book/lovers-prayers/id1608862202

  • @enriquekings9099
    @enriquekings9099 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please consider improving the quality of your videos for us.
    This is quite too low, at least do 720p and above.
    Cheers 🥂

    • @tjbmom123
      @tjbmom123 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The quality is fine, it is the context that we need, thank you

    • @enriquekings9099
      @enriquekings9099 ปีที่แล้ว

      @MZ-X Sure but also the quality is low unless you're using a phone to watch.

  • @talldarknhandsum5719
    @talldarknhandsum5719 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Guys we love your channel but you must invest in a better phone/camera. You guys are doing yourselves a great injustice to not allow your subscribers to see you in a greater way. No focus, blurriness and not being able to see the beautiful background. Maybe it's not even the phone/camera, maybe it's your settings. Please help us out.

    • @TheResidentialTourists
      @TheResidentialTourists  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Probably the setting. We will do better

    • @talldarknhandsum5719
      @talldarknhandsum5719 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My man!!! Now that's what um talk’n bout! I'll see y'all soon. Moving to Motherland in January 2024. Would like to meet with you guys...

    • @TheResidentialTourists
      @TheResidentialTourists  ปีที่แล้ว

      Karibu to Africa

  • @carissalove3053
    @carissalove3053 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So he came out his house because he was scared

  • @deshonmiller4328
    @deshonmiller4328 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So you left and now you give up all the information? Or is this just home for the rest like the Earth is and should be for everyone. So who is the real enemy is what we should be asking ourselves? And what's the solution?

    • @TheResidentialTourists
      @TheResidentialTourists  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      We discovered that the locals don’t know about us or our history in America. So we decided to share.

    • @deshonmiller4328
      @deshonmiller4328 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So True keep up the good work 👍

  • @toniasawyer6565
    @toniasawyer6565 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Right toxic food

  • @mkc9737
    @mkc9737 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sodom and Gomorrah 2.0

  • @vonniofdoom5590
    @vonniofdoom5590 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    😂😂