Hey y’all I am Michelle Melle welcome back to my channel I’m going to share with you all this video clip and then I’m going to come back and talk about it so let do not have a understanding of what it means to be a panafric dear black
Americans can we just give up on this whole panafrican one love uh Brotherhood of Man and Sisterhood and all this we are one and all that listen let me tell you the reality on the ground yeah the average Ghan wants to go where you’ve come from
Let me tell you that is a fact I’ve worked for the British High commission before for many years I’ve seen ghanians come in with documents showing they’ve sold their land taxes houses even Farmland just to raise the money to get a visa to go to the UK all this preaching about Malcolm X
And what’s the other one Marcus Garvey and we are all one sister brother they’re not interested in that let me teach you Tre today we need money because the average Ghan needs money to chop to eat to pay school fees to open up his kiosk every morning to sell the reality on the
Ground is life is hard in Ghana they all want that life that you don’t want I’m a prime example it’s like we’ve crossed lives we in the west we want to come to Africa to enjoy because we we’re done with there we’ve been there done it seen
It they also want to go there to do it see it done it there to get money to build houses to have a better future some ghanians hate Ghana let me tell you I know ghanians that say they hate Ghana for everything that it stands for so
Please all this coming in like you are the black savior to come and teach Africans about pride and uh self of selfworth and knowing that you’re you know you’re an African and coming to teach and preach sister brother save your breath they’re not interested they don’t even know what you’re talking
About because for them it’s survival it’s survival every day in this Africa is a survival light off no water living conditions and you’re here coming to talk about Marcus Garvey that’s not going to feed anyone here if you want to come and embrace Africa with all your beads and all your stain
Your braids and your uh what is it your dreadlocks and your Dei and you want to have that true African experience wonderful but leave the Africans alone to fight for their lives and get on with their lives the preaching is enough please so she had a lot to say in this
Video I think that in order for the message to be be received you definitely have to listen to the whole video for you to kind of know maybe where she was coming from um so yeah so first of all I would like to say that Pana africanism
Is not foreign to Ghana it’s not a foreign ideology it’s not a foreign concept it was um definitely an ideology that kwami and kruma believed in he spent some time in America he spent time with African-Americans um he actually went to a historically black University Lincoln University he saw the struggles that
African-Americans were going through during the Civil Rights Movement he was able to see the similarities that ghans were also going through trying to get gain their independence from Britain so he was able to see a similarity between the struggles and he was able to also share that you know African-Americans you can
Definitely get what you want by fighting for fighting for yourselves not waiting for anybody else to do it for you and he also preached the same with Ghan we can’t sit you know you can’t sit back and wait for people to change the situation you have to fight for you know
The independence of Ghana in order for that those things to happen um and it’s because of this closer relationship that he developed with African-Americans uh that he invited Dr Martin Luther King to his inauguration when he became president of Ghana um so yeah Pana africanism is not foreign to Ghana at all
Historically the reason why African-Americans because you know she was responding to a lady that was talking about pan-africanism and so I’m I’m talking about as an African-American here at this point as I always do I don’t know why I said it like that the reason why African-Americans push pan africanism so
Much and want it want it to you know to be the way they want it to be like when you when you hear African-Americans on social media when they go to Ghana and they want that welcome mat they want people to welcome them because they want to have a sense of
Belonging they want to have a sense of belonging as an African-American to know that your ancestors taken from somewhere in Africa we can just assume that’s West African country somewhere somewhere in one of those West African countries and shipped to to the United States of America and not know the
Beginning to only be able to trade your ancestry so far and not to be able to you know not to be able to trace it any further than that is a feeling that only African-Americans will understand and and and you know only African-Americans understand even when you talk to
Jamaicans and Haitians and people from the Caribbeans even though that they’re also part of that transatlantic situation it’s different for them because the majority is on you know they are the majority in Jamaica they are the majority in Haiti so you know it’s it’s a different situation than when you are
Minority in your own country if that makes any sense so it’s it’s different for African-Americans and that’s the reason why African-Americans push it so hard with the pan africanism cuz it’s like we you are trying to find where you belong and if you have this strong connection to the African continent you
Know there’s a lineage there you want there to be Unity so that you can know that that you belong somewhere that when you go somewhere you belong somewhere when you go to the country in Africa you know you belong there you’re not going there to just visit you’re not going
There to just pass by you’re going there to live you’re going there to find a sense of who you are and that is so important to a group of people to be able to know their identity and that’s what the the lady at the beginning was talking about and why Pana africanism is
Preached so much in the the black community when it comes to some African-Americans not all but some African-Americans they do say you know do talk about it a lot and I know on my channel I always talk about the unification of both of these groups of people because it’s important to
African-Americans it’s important to some African-Americans to have that connection and to have that Unity so that we will know that there’s a place that we can go to to call home if we would like to so that’s the reason why I think that that she needs to understand it from that
Aspect to understand why it’s important now it is not a secret that there are some ghans who don’t want to be in Ghana and there’s some African-Americans who don’t want to be in United States of America that’s everywhere you go and leaving one country to the go to
Another country is always different fact involved for the reason of that but I know that there are a lot of ghans who don’t want to leave out of Ghana who who definitely know how life is in the United States of America and they are content staying where they are um when
You come to United States of America you definitely will see what Americans have to go through Everything That Glitters Is Not Gold America definitely is a country that’s known for a lot of propaganda and one of the propaganda that America has a good time showing is that America is the land of opportunity
That you can come there you can live this American dream and you can live the good life in the reality though most African most Americans are not living the good life in the United States of America working 40 hours more than sometimes more than 40 hours a week with
Barely any um vacation time able able to take leave barely any maternity leave no fraternity leave um you know not able to save any money a lot of that you will find a lot of a lot of Americans facing in the United States of America very difficult very difficult to live a lot
Of Americans are surviving and when some people from the African countries they come and they see that is difficult to live a lot of them want to go back home I watch the documentary um about um people from African countries that were coming to America under the notion that they were
Going to be able to you know work and and make good money and send it back home and have this comfortable living and they realized it wasn’t like that they were working working and working and was barely any income coming from that work um and so you know that is
What Americans want people to see it is not all that is cracked up to be you’re not just going to go over there and be working and and and you know making this good money and um and all that kind of stuff it it’s not happening like that
For a lot of Americans so it’s it’s difficult to live in the United States of America and that’s the reason why there are um some Americans who are wanting to move out sometimes when I watch social media sometimes on the videos that I watch on social media some of of the
Kind of perception that some African-Americans tend to have when it comes to Ghana is a lot of times negative and that’s because they are trying to fit an American standard into a ghanan standard and that’s never going to happen Ghana has its own standards and America has
Its own standards and if you’re planning on moving to Ghana you have to know the standards you got to learn the standards you have to understand it and you got to accept it and if you can’t do that then it’s going to be very difficult then for
You to adapt to it there are some African-Americans who would go to Ghana and complain about the way they do business they would comp laain about the way um you know the culture is they would complain about the way the country is they would complain about the people
A lot of times some African-Americans are very negative in their perception on gam people simply because you don’t want to understand this is how they are one of the words they love to throw around is getting scammed they love that word getting scammed in in Ghana they love to throw that
Around and then you have to start asking those questions did you get scammed in this particular African country because you had a standard of what you thought the business was going to be did you have a standard of what you thought uh you know the situation was going to go and the
Standards were different did it ever occur to you that you need to look at the standards of that particular country in Africa did it ever occur to you that you had to look at the standards of Ghana to see what the standard is and follow that um when you hear some
African-Americans talk you will see that they didn’t follow the standards simply because they didn’t agree with how the standards were and because the standards didn’t match the American Standards then that means the standards are lower that means the standards are deceitful they means the standards are beneath them um
And so that’s the kind of language that you kind of hear talking with some African-Americans when they’re still having this very Americanized westernized superiority at attitude when it comes to countries in Africa instead of remembering that things are different there I think people were she wasn’t saying that ghanan don’t like
African-Americans she wasn’t saying that African-Americans don’t need to come to Ghana she wasn’t saying that she was saying that when you come there come with a different mindset don’t come and come into the Ghana thinking that you’re going to teach ghanan about unity and teach them about all this other kind of
Stuff because a lot of them are not thinking in regards to that if you’re come into the country because you want to live there because you want to build there and you going to be working like Ganan hey come on they’re not going to have a problem with you doing any of
That they you know they’re going to to go on with their day day-to-day lives they see you on a TR TR they’re going to go get on the tri Tri they going to go where they supposed to go they see you at the marketplace they going to do
Their shopping and they’re going to go and do what they need to do they’re not going to sit there and worry about you they’re not going to be worrying about you whatsoever they have their own life to live than sitting here trying to worry about African-Americans and what what we
Doing they they’re not caring about that so I I understood what she was saying because some African-Americans when you hear them talk they do believe that Ghana is going to stop what they’re doing because they got off the plane at the Koka International Airport and uh
You know made their way in Ghana and they think Ghana is going to stop what they’re doing to come and welcome them and that’s what she’s saying don’t come to Ghana with this type of superiority attitude thinking you’re going to teach ghans anything thinking that you’re
Going to teach them some new some new way of life some new way of thinking or anything like that but as far as people caring that I’m African-American nobody cares about that um and I think that that’s something that needs to be said when African-Americans are going to
Ghana they don’t care okay they are living their lives and they don’t care that you’re there uh they they might be happy that you’re there they might they’re going to to welcome you if you happen to walk into their shop or whatever um but they’re not going to be
Sitting around carrying one way or the other that a got you know that African-American has come to Ghana to visit or whatever like they living they living and that’s what she’s saying they they’re they’re living they they’re genuinely living all right you all that’s all I have to say about the
Subject I am Melle maelle thank you all for watching make sure you like And subscribe and I will see you all in the next video bye
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