The Truth About Black Americas in Ghana: Breaking Myths, Building Wealth, and Unifying Communities!

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something to me you said something to me that was really insightful because you know sometimes when we post stuff the feedback that we get as americans from people in america is like why would you go over there like you colonize and and like they don't need you over there and like it's like a bad thing like we taking advantage of the situation and you said something that was insightful you was like i'll you say it but you like yo people come from other countries all the time and like y 'all come like y 'all y 'all actually assimilate y 'all don't exclude yourself so i don't why would they say these things i don't understand why they would say that yeah i think it's just lack of information and lack of education between you know as usual black people um it's not only african americans that come to ghana like you've been to the airport you've seen an influx of uh chinese seen an influx of uh you know caucasians and people from all over europe so i think it's just the way we're programmed naturally to just not get along it's just so it's easier to hate first and it's like hate first ask questions later you know so um i just think that that's why this practice is more important to me than real estate because when people see us actually doing things together and and in the spirit of brotherhood it just makes it makes them understand like a lot more could be done like real estate is just the first step um and just the fact that we were able to come together and do something of this magnitude in the first move i mean only i can't even imagine what we're going to be doing 10 years from now but can you speak to like specifically black americans that because like i was telling him there's we met like at least five people from america that moved to ghana right and they all like it's vibes like they they've assimilated inside the culture they're not like trying to plant the american flag here right like i mean at the end of the day if you go to a country you you learn the way of the people and if it resonates with you you can stay like there's no someone here trying to impose any cultural differences everyone is just learning everyone is trying to understand each other I mean we're also not that much different like you know to be fair like it's not like you come to Ghana you got to eat some weird stuff like it's a blood oath that makes sure it makes you african it's just you know people just want to always find a problem um like there's things like if i the things i see in new york that i'm like oh okay i can see how that could be you know related to stuff stuff from ghana you know um so like i just think there's this lack of education and sometimes people just want to hate on everything that's the thing too before you like could have people say like don't impose your culture when you come out there like the coaches already here like it's all interwoven we all we all wrap up we all dance we all eat rice and peas so it's the same thing can we just call the method africans don't want african-americans there because i feel like that's done to stop us from unifying i mean i really hate rashad and troy that's why we're in god like i hate them so much that we we we we building something together like i'd spice them it doesn't make any sense like i just think that um the larger um notion is to try and always just you know you know disqualify the connection between all black people that's just that's what it is and so obviously you have the few people that don't really contribute to anything that talk so much and then it becomes like it's not even trendy to be honest like those who are really at the top collaborating are collaborating you know so let's keep it keep it a buck that's a fact and then before can you talk about wealth in africa because we we started the program with some unfortunate situations but there is wealth right now you talking about before like you came to america and you was like no that's not wealth like you know i mean like talk about like people like that's owning beaches and owning like the way wealth is is is in africa is different like you you have people that are born into owning acres of land Like, that's just from day one as a baby.

7:19Like, you know, they're just born into owning, you know, like all kinds of things. And, you know, if you look at it, you know, I went to school with people from the Ashanti region. And naturally, you know, they're entrepreneurs. Like, that's the thing from the Ashanti kingdom. Like, they pass down wealth from generation to generation. We have, in Ghana, we have a lot of really wealthy women as well. like so even coming to america like learning how you know female entrepreneurs were perceived over there was a little confusing for me because where i came from a lot of really wealthy women you know so i just think that um there has to be a more dialogue really like at the end of the day it's like if you don't know you don't know right it's one of those things and it's not a secret you just got to ask the questions yeah i got one thing because when we walked on the land the other day we were standing next to each other kind of had a moment where it was like this is pretty surreal um but what was really impressive was about who was building it right you said yo troy this is a thousand jobs for our community talk about that talk about joseph the master engineer because people need to hear these stories because they'll look at and say oh we bought somebody else in to do this but nah man somebody you went to high school with yeah um joseph um went to my high school um he was a couple years behind me and he literally is the the master engineer on the project and he's actually before this project he actually was the master engineer on other projects of repute in ghana like he was part of a major stadium development in ghana so when we met joseph and we were like oh you went to a high school it just it just he was even like more it just felt better right and then on top of that like the way he just mobilizes the men is amazing we created more than a thousand jobs and and everyone has bought into the vision of it so some of them don't even want to go home you know like a christmas we were like you guys know it's cool you can go home to your families they were like nah man we we have we have a deadline and they want to stay um over a thousand jobs have been created from this we'll probably create more jobs when when we go into the next phase which is more houses but more importantly we also want to build um a different community for all these guys because they still want to be around when it's all said and done so they could also be part of the community for sure.

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