Kaylan Sutton is a young African American educated woman living in Namibia with her Namibian husband and infant son.I have so much respect for her,because she is brave.Braver than most men I know.In the following video,I found out how much in common I had with her.She comes from a tight nit family like myself.She grew up in the suburbs like myself,working middle class background.Supposedly the American dream.I am finding out that most of the people that want out of America come from this segment of Black America.Using my our experience,I can only guess why.I think it is because when you leave the inner city at a young age,I left at age 8.Thrown into a majority White world,you feel isolated from what the world views as the Black experience....poverty,hardship,broken homes,welfare ect.There is a sense of survivors guilt.This makes you question the world you live in.Do I have to choose between living around people who do not accept me because of my race?Should I spend the rest of my life apologizing for being Black?
For many of us the answer was to live in a Black community filled people who looked like us.This is the reason many keep ties to their old neighborhoods and go back to visit.I was in the city as much as I could.As with my family.When we came back home to Upstate New York,it was like going from two different planets.Seeing the divisions among our people,we exaggerate racism,and overlook the problems in the Black community as a desperate attempt to fit in.A sense of belonging is what we crave.We see that White America is not the shining city on the hill,as we saw their insecurities,weaknesses,problems ect,that is covered up by the media.We ask why do so many Black people think moving to the suburbs is the answer or a step up.As we see more Whites moving to the inner city many Black people are moving to the suburbs.This was not the utopia we envisioned,because their still is no cultural cohesion to build a commuity around.
Since 2007 Black America has lost about 1/4 of its wealth.Most of it tied to real estate and high paying blue collar jobs.There are many African Americans that grew up middle class,that are now poor as adults.Should we continue to chase White people further into the belly of America?How can we build Black communities without social,economic,and political power?
SHOULD WE LEAVE AMERICA IF TRUMP WIN THE WHITE HOUSE?This is the question many are asking.The one question and answer is why would you go?Many are saying Canada.But Canada has well documented racial incidents.Some say Belize,Dubai,Thailand ect.Very few talk of Africa.This is because of the image of Africa in the Western media.Kaylan Sutton has made it her life's mission to showcase the good about moving to Africa.If you are frustrated with America,why not leave?I can never understand this.Mrs Sutton had opportunities as a broadcast journalist in America.She worked for MSNBC in Corporate America.Many of the people who hate America the most get violently offended when the idea of leaving America is put to them.So check out her video on why in 2016 she is saying what we both were saying as far back as the 90's,that America may not be the place and maybe its time to leave.
For some of us life in ‘Merica just doesn’t cut it.
In this reflection, I go into more detail about what led me to move abroad to Namibia and why life in America simply wasn’t enough. Watch my video below and be inspired!
Kaylan Sutton publishes the blog African Americans in Africa
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This is a very good video
I am working on getting her in the BAIO to start a local chapter in Namibia