I worked in Zurich Frankfurt Buffalo Hong Kong Leeds and studied Spanish in Guatemala Madrid Tenerife and Colombia and travelled through Netherlands France Spain Italy
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Germany Belgium Mexico Central America India Egypt Ethiopia Sri Lanka Cuba Canada Australia Singapore Malaysia Thailand Ghana
I experienced the most racism in england Switzerland Germany Spain.
But I also made lifelong friends in Germany and Spain.
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All my friends in Germany are Black. One of my friends there shot a skinhead in the leg for calling him the N word. At court the skinhead was found guilty and ordered to pay my friend 1000.
I was never racially attacked outside of england.
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Travel guides are written for white people. If Black People and POC dress like locals as I try and speak little, we have the added opportunity of blending in....
I had a few minor negative experiences in Mexico. I speak Spanish now. Four inebriated young men
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asked me if I had money once. I replied in Spanish,
Yes, what are you going to do about it?
You can always tell who's all mouth.
I still like Mexico though. I know that other Black People and POC have had worse experiences in Mexico and Spain.
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Every country oppresses someone. In Australia it's the aboriginals. So I was never attacked there; but I still felt sad for how our aboriginal brothers and sisters are treated there. I can't fathom why some of us, who visit such places, have no compassion for our kin.
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When I travel, I always seek to connect with the brothers and sisters in those far flung places. Again I can't fathom why most of us don't. The media wants us to fear each other; so we're distracted from their machinations like the current continued dismantling of
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public health care.
Malcolm X said that discrimination will end when we all unite.
We must always stand by our own, even if they choose a path we don't like.
This is what unity looks like.
Via EIK
"This sad position of you and me as AFRICANS is not a JOKE and
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is not something we should have DIVERGENT OPINIONS about. It is something we should COME TOGETHER as AFRICANS in all ramifications (body, opinion, movement etc) and be DECISIVE once and for all. My brother, the GRIM TRUTH is you and I (we
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all AFRICANS) do not have the luxury of time wasting while considering DIFFERENT opinions. It might interest you to know that the SLAVE MASTERS/COLONIALS that fostered these conditions on us back then (and are still reaping from this DESPICABLE set-up) have one MIND
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when it comes to matters concerning the existance of YOU and I (all BLACKS/AFRICANS) they ENTERTAIN no side opinions, it's all about the survival of the WHITE RACE at the detriment of the BLACK RACE. Ask yourself then, why are we wallowing in the luxury and delay called personal opinions while faced with collective DEATH."
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Audubon Ballroon (he/him)