Part 1 of my interview with Will from @BigWillTV In this video we discuss the reasons for our Blaxit from the United States.
00:24 Introductions
06:47 How/Why did you choose Panama to retire?
14:14 Afro Population in Latin America
21:14 Making Better Financial Choices
28:19 Do Black Americans Need to plan to Leave the US?
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Had a great time chopping it up with you! Thanks for the invite.
Hey Dave! Just saw 'live' posted. Excited to listen. I'm working on VISA for Ecuador, now. State Dept I hear REAL backed up. Paperwork in to Apostille. I'll get there '23. Looking forward to what you have to say. 🙂Hi , hola , you two 🙂too!
I have been watching several "Blaxit" channels on YouTube and I find it so sad that African Americans are leaving the USA, understandable, but so sad. African Americans have been waiting and waiting and waiting for Rev. Martin Luther King's dream to come true. But, if anything, that dream is receding further away. So-called Red States are particularly bad in the backsliding department, enacting voting restrictions, banning African American history from their schools, and slashing the social safety net. But even outside the Red States, African Americans have to pull the Democratic Party's chestnuts out of the fire in every election cycle because a majority of whites consistently vote for white supremacy. It's like racism is permanently baked into their brains. So it's understandable that African Americans who have the means would look to leave, would look to live in a place that values them, or as your guest put it, at least values their money. I want to point to two caveats, though: 1) many African Americans cannot afford to leave, and 2) many African Americans in the diaspora complain about corruption levels even greater than that in the USA. I believe Panamá and Ecuador might not be so corrupt, but it seems to be the main topic of discussion in the channels focusing on living in Africa. All I can hope to ask African Americans who are leaving the USA is to not forget their brothers and sisters (and their brown and white allies) who have to stay behind. No matter where you move to, you can still vote in US elections in the last place you voted by requesting an absentee ballot (see https://www.fvap.gov/citizen-voter/overview). And remember that "The Man" can still hurt you even when you are overseas by whittling away at your social security or causing your investments to collapse. Okay, now it sounds like I am begging. Well, I am.
Good interview! Glad fate brought you to Ecuador.
I usually learn a great deal from you two's videos! I hope to be in Ecuador within the next year, and I am grateful for your spirit of adventure and peaceable perspective. Have to admit that I am triggered by Will and what seems like victim-speak and such as that (insurrections etc) so I couldn't make it through this one…yet I am dancing the living dance together with you. I admire your fitness commitment too Steve. I will try to keep an eye out for your videos! 😃