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Speaker 2: So you said something to me. You said something to

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Speaker 2: me that was really insightful, because you know, sometimes when

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Speaker 2: we post off the feedback that we get as Americans,

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Speaker 2: people in America, it's like why would you go over there,

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Speaker 2: like you colonize and like they don't need you over there,

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Speaker 2: and like it's like a bad thing. Like we've taken

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Speaker 2: advantage of the situation. And you said something that was exightful.

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Speaker 2: You was like, I'll let you say it, but you're like, yo,

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Speaker 2: people come from other countries all the time, and like

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Speaker 2: y'all come like y'all. Y'all actually assimilate, y'all, don't exclude yourself.

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Speaker 2: So I don't why would they say these things. I

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Speaker 2: don't understand why they would say that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's just lack of information and lack

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Speaker 3: of education between you know, as usual black people. It's

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Speaker 3: not only African Americans that come to Ghana. Like you've

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Speaker 3: been to the airport, You've seen an influx of Chinese,

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Speaker 3: seen an influx of you know, Caucasians and people from

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Speaker 3: all over Europe. So I think it's just the way

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Speaker 3: we're a programmed naturally to just not get along. It's

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Speaker 3: just so it's easier to hate first, and it's like

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Speaker 3: hate first, ask questions later, you know. So I just

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Speaker 3: think that that's why this project is more important to

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Speaker 3: meet in real estate, because when people see us actually

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Speaker 3: doing things together and in the spirit of brotherhood, it

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Speaker 3: just makes it makes them understand like a lot more

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Speaker 3: And just the fact that we were able to come

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Speaker 3: together and do something of this magnitude in the first move.

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Speaker 3: I mean only I can't even imagine what we're going

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Speaker 3: to be doing ten years from now.

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Speaker 2: Can you speak to like specifically black Americans that because,

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Speaker 2: like I was telling him, we met like at least

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Speaker 2: five people from America that moved to Ghana, right, and

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Speaker 2: they all like it's vibes, like they've assimilated inside the culture.

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Speaker 2: They're not like trying to plant the American flag here, right, Like.

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Speaker 3: I mean, at the end of the day, if you

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Speaker 3: go to a country, you learn the way of the people,

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Speaker 3: and if it resonates with you, you can stay. Like there's

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Speaker 3: no it's no one here trying to impose any cultural differences.

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Speaker 3: Just everyone is just learning. Everyone is trying to understand

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Speaker 3: each other. I mean, we're also not that much different, like,

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Speaker 3: you know, to be fair, like it's not like you

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Speaker 3: come to Ghana and you got to eat some weird stuff.

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Speaker 3: It's like you got it. It's not like it's a

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Speaker 3: blood oaf that makes sure makes you African. It's just,

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Speaker 3: you know, people just want to always find a problem.

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Speaker 3: Like there's things like if the things I see in

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Speaker 3: how that could be, you know, related to just stuff

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Speaker 3: stuff from Ghana, you know. So like I just think

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Speaker 3: there's this lack of education and sometimes people just want

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Speaker 2: That's the thing too. Before like that people say like,

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Speaker 2: don't impose your culture when you come out there, like

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Speaker 2: the culture is already here, Like it's all into work there.

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Speaker 3: We all wrap up, we all dance, we all eat

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Speaker 3: rite some pieces the same. Can we do? Can we

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Speaker 3: just call the method?

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Speaker 2: Africans don't want African Americans there because I feel like

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Speaker 2: that's done to stop us from unifying.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I really hate with Shot and Troy. That's

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Speaker 3: why we're in Ghana, Like I hate them so much

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Speaker 3: that we we we we're building something together, Like I

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Speaker 3: spice them. It doesn't make any sense, Like I just

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Speaker 3: think that the larger notion is to try and always

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Speaker 3: just you know, you know, disqualify the connection between all

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Speaker 3: black people. That's just that's what it is. And so

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Speaker 3: obviously you have the few people that don't really contribute

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Speaker 3: to anything that talk so much. And then it becomes

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Speaker 3: like it's not even trendy to be honest, like those

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Speaker 3: who are really at the top collaborating are collaborating, you know,

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Speaker 3: So let's just keep it, keep it a buck.

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Speaker 2: That's a fact. And then before can you talk about

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Speaker 2: wealth in Africa? Because we started the program with some

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Speaker 2: unfortunate situations. But there is wealth right now. You're talking

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Speaker 2: about before Like you came to America and you was like, no,

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Speaker 2: it's not wealth, like you know what I mean, like

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Speaker 2: talk about like people like that owning beaches and owning.

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Speaker 3: Like the way wealth is is is in Africa is different.

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Speaker 3: Like you you have people that are born into owning

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Speaker 3: acres of land, like that's just from day one as

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Speaker 3: a baby, Like you know, they're just born into owning,

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Speaker 3: you know, like all kinds of things. And you know,

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Speaker 3: if you look at it, you know, I went to

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Speaker 3: school people from the Shanti region and naturally they're you know,

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Speaker 3: they're entrepreneurs. Like that's that's the thing from the shanty kingdom,

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Speaker 3: like they passed down well from generation to generation. We

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Speaker 3: have and God, and we have a lot of really

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Speaker 3: wealthy women as well. Like so even come to America,

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Speaker 3: like learning how you know, female entrepreneurs were perceived over

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Speaker 3: there was a little confusing for me because where I

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Speaker 3: came from a lot of really wealthy women, you know,

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Speaker 3: so I just think that there has to be a

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Speaker 3: more dialogue. Really, like at the end of the day,

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Speaker 3: it's like if you don't know you don't know, right,

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Speaker 3: It's one of those things and it's not a secret.

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Speaker 3: You just got to ask the questions.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I got one thing because when we walked on

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Speaker 4: the land of the day, we were standing next to

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Speaker 4: each other kind of had a moment where it was like,

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Speaker 4: this is pretty surreal. But what was really impressive was

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Speaker 4: about who was building it. Right. You said, Yo, Troy,

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Speaker 4: this is a thousand jobs for our community.

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Speaker 3: Talk about that.

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Speaker 4: Talk about Joseph the master engineer, because people need to

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Speaker 4: hear these stories because they'll look in and say, oh,

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Speaker 4: we bought somebody else in to do this, but I

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Speaker 4: mean somebody you went to high school with.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Joseph went to my high school. He was a

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Speaker 3: couple of years behind me. And he literally is the

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Speaker 3: master engineer on the project. He's actually before this project,

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Speaker 3: he actually was the master engineer on other projects of

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Speaker 3: repute in Ghana, Like he was part of a major

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Speaker 3: stadium development in Ghana. So when we met Joseph and

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Speaker 3: we were like, oh, you went to a high school,

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Speaker 3: it just it just it was even like more, it

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Speaker 3: just felt better. Right. And then on top of that,

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Speaker 3: like the way he just mobilizes the men is amazing.

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Speaker 3: We created more than a thousand jobs and everyone has

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Speaker 3: brought into the vision of it. So someone that know,

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Speaker 3: everyone want to go home, you know, like a Christmas.

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Speaker 3: We were like, guys, you know what's cool, You can

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Speaker 3: go home to your families. They were like, nah, man,

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Speaker 3: we have we have a deadline and they want to stay.

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Speaker 3: Over a thousand jobs have been created from this. Well,

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Speaker 3: probably create more jobs when when we go into the

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Speaker 3: next space, which is more houses. But more importantly, we

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Speaker 3: also want to build a different community for all these

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Speaker 3: guys because they still want to be around when it's

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Speaker 3: awesome and done so they could also be part of

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Speaker 3: the community for sure.

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