"Quitting America" by Randall Robinson


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*From Essence Magazine*
St. Kitt is a thousand miles from the United States in the eastern Caribbean, between Puerto Rico and Trinadad & Tobago. The largely Black former British colony is now the permanent home of Randall Robinson, former president of TransAfrica, a human-rights organization that focuses on improving America's foreign policy toward African and Caribbean nations. But is wasn't a search for beauty or Caribbean roots (his wife, Hazel, was born in St. Kitts) that drove him to pack up and leave the Shephard Park section of Washington, D.C., in 2001. In a conversation with journalist and author Elise Cose about his book, Quitting America: The Departure of a Black Man From His Native Land Dutton; $23.95), Robinson, 62, makes it clear that he left the United States because he feels there's something deeply wrong with the way its Black citizens are treated. </p>













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This is the next book I'm buying and I just wanted
to put it out there and ask the following question:
Would you EVER consider leaving the
United States to live in a native
country Indefinitely?</center>

My Answer:
YES
But since my husband won't leave the American
South I doubt I'll be going anywhere anytime soon.
;)
~Astrya
 

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that's me...

when this review came out, i had a LOT of folks calling and emailing me about it

"that's you man, that's YOU"

i've been of the same mind set for some time now

so when news of Mr. Robinson's book broke, i found out - fast

not only am i leaving the land of my birth (for whom i never have, nor never will wish any harm) but i already have a timeline

in fact, i have shortened it from within ten to twelve years to about five now

inshala, i will be in the Caribbean before I am forty

like Storm, this book is high on my list of must-buys
 
hassen, do you know if the dollar is still his currency. Now this will tell me if he really quit.
 
He knows how to play the game better than wallstreet.
Nothing wrong with making and spending U.S. Dollars.

The problem I have with the Martha Stewart case is this. If someone was giving her inside information, it appears to me that the CEO was about to take a lot of profit and wanted the big stock holders to sell then sock it to the little investors. Therefore, it is not who was called but who was about to make a killing.

I don't know much stealing but it just seem backward to me.
 
Picked the book up at 7 PM today, Feb. 5, and hadn't put it down since (save for a 2 1/2 visit from the in-laws). Very interesting place that he has relocated to (St. Christopher and Nevis aka St.Kitts-Nevis) and Chapter 2: Man-Boy . . . is so real. I love reading Randall Robinson and it looks like this one won't disappoint. Here's a sample from Chapter 2: Man-Boy:

The faces are adolescent but too knowing, old from unnatural experience, at one expressionless and quietly menacing. . . .

Floppy caps turned backward over black rags, pants bagging low over haute hood sneakers. . . .

I happen in their midst while looking for a drugstore. There are more than twenty of them, these Man-boys, trudging in and out of the damaged little bus shelter, moving a few feet this way, then that, not going anywhere this sunny school day afternoon. Not going anywhere, period. . . .

They are children of long-sown seed, old burned Civil War cannister packed with live grapeshot, marked: DANGEROUS IF NOT TREATED. . . .

They are slavery's harvest. . . .

It is painful to look at him now without a language with which to tell him who he was and who he was supposed to become before it happened. . . .

I do not know what to say to him because I know of no other example in the modern world where millions of people from a single racial group had been stripped of everything save respiratory function -- mother, father, child, property, language, culture, religion, freedom, dignity, and, sometimes, even genitalia.

Now he is a menace to society. He knows this but not how he became this. He really doesn't give a ****, either. He knows his name but not who he is. He simply cannot remember. His memory was stolen from him. Not his memory of cultural contemporary facts but his memory of a cultural tradition to which he, before it, once belonged in the long stream of time. Even if he knew he had lost something or had something taken from him, he would have thought a measure more of himself. As it was, he thought nothing of himself because he was, he concluded, nothing.
 
I checked this one out at Booksamillion yesterday.... will probably go ahead and purchase it later this week. Robinson is a fine writer and I found many of his observations right on point.

To the question:

Would you EVER consider leaving the United States to live in a native country Indefinitely?
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Yes indeed. The only thing I'd miss (aside from some family and friends) is Black College Football. I must admit I've been seriously considering leaving this country when and if I ever get the financial leverage. There's more to the world than this wicked land.
 
Well, I have mixed emotions about this entire subject. I have not read the book, so I had better do that before I comment. In his book, he might answer some of the questions that I have. And believe you me, I have a lot of questions. I mean, it might be easy for Randall to leave, but, well.............
 
HBCUs ain't going no where......

Originally posted by HBCUs

Yes indeed. The only thing I'd miss (aside from some family and friends) is Black College Football. I must admit I've been seriously considering leaving this country when and if I ever get the financial leverage. There's more to the world than this wicked land.
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I'll believe this when i see it.
 
Re: HBCUs ain't going no where......

Originally posted by JSU/99
I'll believe this when i see it.
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Well there's a good chance you'll believe it one day. The longer I hang around this redneck-azzed town (which is as American as apple pie :() the more I consider it.
 
Re: Re: HBCUs ain't going no where......

Originally posted by HBCUs
Well there's a good chance you'll believe it one day. The longer I hang around this redneck-azzed town (which is as American as apple pie :() the more I consider it.
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I'm just tired off everybody telling me what is good for me, without even asking me. I'm tired of our government being ran like a business. I just picked up the book yesterday and I must say it is good so far!!!
 
It's a very good read. Robinson is on point with his takes on Western racism, narcissism and the degeneration of American society, and also with his comments on the duplicity of American foreign policy, with particular attention paid to Iraq and Haiti.

The brother is pretty deep. I find myself relating to practically all of his observations.
 

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WOW! Storm_ofSU

Thank you for starting this thread. I must pick up this book. The wife and I have been discussing this issue for about a year now. We have friends who are teachers that live in the Caribbean. They have opened our eyes to a whole new way of living life. Their childern speak 6 languages fluently, and have traveled to study all over the world. When they take a Holiday (Vacation) it's for a month. it all seems intreaging, but I am on the outside looking in which never gives you the full picture.
I hope this book will answer some of the questions we have as well.

Thanks again for starting this thread!
 
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