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Don't wait, don't hesitate. 30 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: Let's Square handle the back end so you can keep 31 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: pushing your vision forward. 32 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 2: But we're going to talk about Ghana as far as 33 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:56,120 Speaker 2: investing in business and all this. But I do think 34 00:01:56,120 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 2: that it's important to highlight the historical importance of us 35 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 2: specifically because it does play a tremendous role as far 36 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 2: as Black people in America and black people in just 37 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:11,400 Speaker 2: the Western hemisphere in general. Right because we talk about 38 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 2: the slave dungeons, then we talk about Kwame and Kuma, 39 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 2: who was actually I think he was educated in Lincoln University. 40 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 2: Lincoln University which is the first HBCU. My sister actually 41 00:02:21,639 --> 00:02:23,679 Speaker 2: went to Lincoln. So there's a lot of cross connections 42 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:28,959 Speaker 2: between Ghana and America. So give us some history, police. 43 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:31,240 Speaker 3: Peace and blessings. 44 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 2: Family. 45 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 3: I think that this is of important significance because it 46 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 3: is a closing of a circle that was broken because Africans, 47 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 3: indigenous people had always traded amongst each other and always traveled. 48 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 3: Mansu Musa everybody's familiar with Mansu Musa, but Abukari the 49 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 3: Second had sent two thousand ships over to America before 50 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 3: Columbus had even got there. He was I think it 51 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 3: was Mansu Musa's uncle, and that trade had always happened. 52 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 3: We saw that that trade had been going on for 53 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 3: thousands of years. When you look at Ramesu or rameses 54 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 3: the Second, they did a test on his on his 55 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:23,520 Speaker 3: tissue because they had his his body, and they found 56 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 3: that he had cocaine in his body because of the 57 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 3: cocoa leaf that the Bolivians the Peruvians used to choose. 58 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:32,480 Speaker 3: So there's always been this this back and forth. But 59 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 3: I think the Kingdom of Ghana, the Empire of Ghana 60 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 3: was essentially for the Europeans. When they arrived there, it 61 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 3: became this this bread basket, and then they renamed it 62 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 3: the Gold Coast. So until nineteen fifty seven, it was 63 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 3: called the Gold Coast until Kwamian Cruma actually took the 64 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 3: country back. And during that period of time while it 65 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:03,240 Speaker 3: was the Gold Coast, what had happened was Europeans were 66 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,600 Speaker 3: taken as much out of Gharana as possible in terms 67 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:09,800 Speaker 3: of gold. They had the gold mines that they were 68 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:14,240 Speaker 3: basically rubbing for many many years. But before that, when 69 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 3: they first were colonizing there, they were robbing people. And 70 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 3: a lot of our ancestors came from Gharana, and a 71 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 3: lot of people they they had this idea that a 72 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:31,280 Speaker 3: lot of people now have this idea because we want 73 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:35,479 Speaker 3: to we want to follow success. They have this idea 74 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:41,039 Speaker 3: that people always came from the Americas. But it's like 75 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 3: there's a lot of people in North America, in Brazil, 76 00:04:44,600 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 3: in the Caribbean who look like our brothers and sisters 77 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:50,359 Speaker 3: from Gharana. They look like our brothers and sisters from Cameroon, 78 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 3: from Congo, from Angola, et cetera, et cetera. And because 79 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 3: there is this idea that what happened in Africa, the 80 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:06,479 Speaker 3: enslavement of Africans, the colonization is something that is not successful. 81 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:09,800 Speaker 3: People don't want to look at actually Africa as a 82 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 3: place to go and invest, and a lot of people 83 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:16,640 Speaker 3: are now trying to pretend like they never came from 84 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 3: Africa or they never had any connection with Africa, and 85 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 3: that just doesn't make good business sense, let alone any 86 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 3: kind of spiritual sense, because everybody who is educated and 87 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:30,400 Speaker 3: everybody who wants to have economic mobility around the world 88 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 3: would always trade with equal partners in different spaces. And 89 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 3: if you look at anywhere along that coastline of Ghana, 90 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 3: you can find castles where enslaved people who were essentially 91 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:48,640 Speaker 3: prisoners of war because there were different rival ethnic groups 92 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:51,240 Speaker 3: who were fighting each other, and when they would win 93 00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 3: that battle, they would take people as essentially indentured servants, 94 00:05:56,200 --> 00:06:01,159 Speaker 3: indentured labors, and indentured laborers to mine gold for them 95 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:05,919 Speaker 3: to clean their house, concubines, et cetera, et cetera. The 96 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 3: Europeans saw that as an opportunity to exploit this relationship 97 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 3: that we've always had, this indentured servitude, indentured laborer, indentured 98 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 3: laborers and slavery in Africa. But then Europeans said, hey, 99 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,240 Speaker 3: we're going to take these people. We're going to take 100 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 3: them across the water and they're never going to come back. 101 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:29,599 Speaker 3: And that is how my ancestors were harvesting sugarcane. Your 102 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:37,680 Speaker 3: ancestors were harvesting cotton. People in Brazil who were harvesting gold, copper, tin, 103 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 3: et cetera. And that was going on for hundreds of years. 104 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 3: So the Year of Return in Ghana was basically an 105 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 3: opportunity to reconnect the dspora with the motherland. Because it 106 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 3: was sixteen nineteen, I think the first eighteen enslaved Africans 107 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 3: arrived in Jamestown, and then it was twenty nine nineteen 108 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 3: we had this government of Ghana calling for their people 109 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 3: to come home. But just to give you some context, 110 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:12,560 Speaker 3: there was an empress in Ethiopia called Empress Zewiditu I 111 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:17,280 Speaker 3: think that's how I say her name, z Ewditu, who 112 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:23,240 Speaker 3: in around nineteen twenty was writing letters too African Americans, 113 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 3: Afro Brazilians, Afro Caribbeans and saying, hey, come home to Ethiopia. 114 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 3: This was the first time that any African, she was 115 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 3: an empress, any African leader had said to the dspora 116 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 3: come back home. That actually inspired Marcus Garvey to create 117 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 3: the UNIA, the United Negro Improvement Association, and Marcus Garvey 118 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 3: was actually speaking with her back and forth. And Marcus 119 00:07:48,840 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 3: Garvey created this huge community, many chapters and business the 120 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 3: Black Star Liner to try and bring Africans home and 121 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:02,600 Speaker 3: bring resources from Africa. So Marcus Garvey was actually the 122 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 3: inspiration for Kwame and Krumer to have the Black Star 123 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 3: in the flag of Ghana and many other African countries. 124 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 3: Marcus Garvey was a Pan African, he was a Jamaican 125 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:16,520 Speaker 3: and in Rasta he's hailed as one of the greatest 126 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 3: leaders within the community of Rastafari. Who's one of the 127 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 3: first Pan Africans And where you have Kwame and Kruman 128 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:27,800 Speaker 3: now who's inspired by Marcus Garvey and then in nineteen 129 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:31,440 Speaker 3: fifty seven leads a revolution to decolonize Ghana. Ghana was 130 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 3: the first country in Africa to decolonize Little Ghana. The 131 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 3: time was very way smaller than it is now. Deep 132 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 3: was the first to fight and say no, no more, 133 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 3: and we're kicking Europeans out. And now we're in an 134 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 3: amazing space where people are starting to want to come 135 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 3: home and they're starting to want to see where they're from. 136 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 3: In twenty nineteen, I had the pleasure of being part 137 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 3: of a delegation to bring the Prime Minie of Barbados 138 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 3: to Ghana, and we brought the bones and some remains 139 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 3: of ancestors from Barbados and buried them because I was 140 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 3: born in Barbados, and buried them back in Ghana. And 141 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:16,800 Speaker 3: at the same time we created a bilateral trade agreement 142 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 3: between Barbados and Ghana. But this should exist for all 143 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 3: African countries and all of its dspora. And so now 144 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:27,080 Speaker 3: I think we're in a position where if we want 145 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:29,560 Speaker 3: people to come home, not only do we have to 146 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,760 Speaker 3: invite them, but we also have to provide them with homes, 147 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 3: we have to provide them with economic opportunity, we have 148 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:41,480 Speaker 3: to provide them with legality and citizenship. And actually next 149 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 3: week I'm part of a citizenship which I'm very proud 150 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 3: of because being born in Barbados and having family from 151 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 3: Barbados and Jamaica. Now I actually get to go home. 152 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 3: Because when our ancestors were being stolen and being taken 153 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 3: across the ocean, they weren't trying to be American, they 154 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 3: weren't trying to be Brazilian, they weren't trying to be Jamaican. 155 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 3: They were trying to get back home. And so now 156 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:08,959 Speaker 3: we can truly say that we are our ancestors wild 157 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 3: as dreams, because now our ancestors have called us forward, 158 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:18,560 Speaker 3: and our family and Ghana has called us forward. And 159 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 3: now we can move home. We can get passports, we 160 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 3: can get houses, and we can finally not have to 161 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 3: deal with any of the other problems that are existing 162 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 3: in the West. So I hope I've provided some context, 163 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 3: but I feel like now is the perfect time. Ghana 164 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:37,440 Speaker 3: is the perfect place. We have the opportunities that God 165 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:41,160 Speaker 3: has provided for us, and the government has provided for us, 166 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:45,840 Speaker 3: and our own entrepreneurial tenacity has provided for us. So 167 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:49,280 Speaker 3: now it's just time to put that bridge back together 168 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 3: and live in the spirit of Marcus Garvi, Malcolm X, Yeah, 169 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:56,400 Speaker 3: sent to our nanty of the Maroons and all of 170 00:10:56,440 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 3: these greats that came before us. Because know what else 171 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 3: anybody else is doing? 172 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 2: But I don't. 173 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, just got somebody elected and I don't know about him. 174 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:08,559 Speaker 3: Where are We're gonna go ahead and do it by him? 175 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:10,600 Speaker 3: It's time to go home. 176 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:14,319 Speaker 4: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child 177 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:18,160 Speaker 4: in Massachusetts. 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