I need to get rid of any expectations I have for social justice activists.  Every time I think they reached some peak level stupid, they out do themselves again.

On my post Peak Victim, RobertsGunShop left a comment that introduced me to the #blaxit movement.  Like it’s sort of like Brexit and Calexit, except instead of a nation or state seceding from a union, it is black people leaving the United States.

There is an official Blaxit website.  They have a list of grievances as to why they want to leave America.

So where do they recommend going?

1. Angola
2. Nirobi, Kenya
3. Lagos, Nigeria

Al Jazeera did an article on Why some African Americans are moving to Africa, covering Blaxit.  The young woman interviewed moved to Ghana.

Take Muhammida el-Muhajir, a digital marketer from New York City, who left her job to move to Accra.

She says she moved, because despite her education and experience, she was always made to feel like a second-class citizen. Moving was an opportunity to fulfil her potential and avoid being targeted by racial violence.

Even when you live in a place like New York as a black person, you’re always an outsider.

You hear stories about the richest black people, like Oprah Winfrey, getting shut out of a store or Jay-Z not being allowed to buy [an apartment]. Those things happen. It doesn’t matter if you’re a celebrity, you’re a second-class citizen. This was the biggest issue for me.

In America, you’re always trying to prove yourself; I don’t need to prove myself to anyone else’s standards here. I’m a champion, I ran track and went to university, and I like to win, so I refuse to be in a situation where I will never win.

See, she’s a victim in America.  Nothing was good for her, so she went to Ghana.

Ghana ranks 92 out of 194 countries for quality of life by a Ghanaian source.  US News and World Report ranks it 71 out of 80.  It has a murder rate of 157.77 out of 100,000 people.  GDP is about $4,400 per person.

Keep in mind, Chicago has a murder rate of 27.8 per 100,000 people.

Business Insider ranks Angola and the No. 4 and Nigeria a the No. 14 nations with the worst quality of life. US News ranks Angola as No. 75 of 80 countries for quality of life.  Its corruption index is 164 of 176 nations with a score of 18 out of 100 (100/100 is no corruption, 0/100 is completely corrupt).  According to Wikipedia:

Angola has vast mineral and petroleum reserves, and its economy is among the fastest-growing in the world, especially since the end of the civil war. But the standard of living remains low for most of the population, and life expectancy in Angola is among the lowest in the world, while infant mortality is among the highest.^[5] Angola’s economic growth is highly uneven, with most of the nation’s wealth concentrated in a disproportionately small sector of the population.^[6]

I guess when you have the lowest quality of life on earth, you have no where to go but up.  If you have  a dollar and the next day you have two dollars, you saw a 100% economic gain overnight.  If you have $100,000 and you gain $5,000, you only have a 5% gain overnight.

Ghana ranks 70 of 176 nations with a score of 43/100 for corruption.   Nigeria ranks 136 with a score of 28.

The murder rate in Kenya is 199.44 and in Angola is 187.07 for ever 100,000 people.

According to Blaxit, there is one thing Angola has going for it: Accepting of Marijuana.

*OK, this brings me to a question of #Blaxit and #BlackLivesMatter.  Is THC an essential nutrient for black people?  I can’t watch a protest about Black Lives, the war on drugs, the justice system, or marijuana legislation without hearing about black people and marijuana.  I’ve never smoked it, and I don’t think my life is in any way diminished.  It looks really bad when black activists spend so much time focused on marijuana, it’s why I walked away from the Libertarians.

Back to the Al Jazeera interview:

There is definitely certain access and privilege being American here, but it’s great to finally cash in on that because it doesn’t mean anything in America.

There are also plenty of privileged Ghanaians; if you take away race there’s a class system.

Ahhh… she’s now on the top of the totem pole because she moved there with all her American money.  She gets to shit on her fellow Africans because she’s rich.  That is so progressive of her.

You might not have electricity, but you won’t get killed by the police either.

That doesn’t seem right.  Let me fix that “You might not have electricity, and you’ll probably get killed by the police too.”

It’s not an over zealous white cop though, and that’s all that matters to her.  That she is murdered by a corrupt African police officer who was not happy with the low ball bribe that rich American offered her is neither here no there.  Or that the cop murdered her because she was associated with the wrong tribe doesn’t matter either (just ask the Tutsi about that).

Now, I’m all for ancestral right of return.   If black Americans want to move to Africa because they have been taught to hate America because they have been taught that they are permanent victims here, so be it.

They should understand that being black in Africa means nothing.  Millennia of war has been fought in Africa over tribal allegiance.  Going there with some pockets full of US currency might be fun for a vacation, but moving to a country at the bottom of the quality of life index (or as we call them, shitholes) has its own problems.

But if you hate white people so much that you want to move to place that makes Detroit look like Disney World, don’t say I didn’t want you.