Cultural Integration DIES in Europe — Transcript
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- 0:00Why do you think Finland opened its
- 0:01doors to 27,000 Somalis?
- 0:04>> In In my opinion, it's poor leadership.
- 0:06Um you go and you talk to the Finnish
- 0:08and the and there was never a vote on
- 0:09whether to take in immigrants or or
- 0:11leave them out.
- 0:12>> In your conversation with the locals in
- 0:13Luxembourg and France and London who are
- 0:15concerned, what do they say?
- 0:17>> A lot of them are are very scared.
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- 1:16I have again in the studio
- 1:18um
- 1:18Emily.
- 1:20And uh the last time Emily was here, oh
- 1:22mine, it was quite an eye-opening uh
- 1:25from an outsider. So, you remember I
- 1:28talked about maintenance one uh uh a
- 1:30whole episode uh how the concept doesn't
- 1:33exist in the language and if it doesn't
- 1:35exist in the language, there is no way
- 1:38you are going to be able to practice it.
- 1:41Human drive is all based on the concepts
- 1:44of your language. So, we talk about
- 1:46maintenance and what she saw in the 49
- 1:49countries she visited in Africa,
- 1:52according to her, 90 if not 100% one
- 1:55thing
- 1:56was repeated throughout.
- 1:59The lack of maintenance, the collapse of
- 2:01infrastructure,
- 2:03of systems, of taxation, anything and
- 2:06everything that had made other countries
- 2:08to thrive and grow and build and move
- 2:10forward.
- 2:12All is based on one thing only. If you
- 2:15can maintain the system you're building.
- 2:19And today we are here to talk about her
- 2:21travels in Europe.
- 2:23And boy, the comparison
- 2:26he made as to what he saw and the people
- 2:29from Africa and Central America
- 2:31where the problem of maintenance is a
- 2:33problem, are now migrating to Asia and
- 2:37of course Western countries. The
- 2:39question is,
- 2:41will they bring that same
- 2:44to Europe?
- 2:45And if the answer is yes,
- 2:47then what happened to the places they
- 2:48are occupying now in the Western world?
- 2:51Emily, welcome to the studio.
- 2:54>> Oh, well, thank you for having me. It's
- 2:55a it's a pleasure to be here and um
- 2:57>> Yeah.
- 2:58>> It's very good to conversation last
- 2:59time.
- 3:00>> That's correct. Um I've seen the
- 3:01comments and it's going
- 3:04everywhere and I'm sure you're following
- 3:06it also. So, yes, the last time we spoke
- 3:08about maintenance, right? And we didn't
- 3:10speak about it as uh disrespect or
- 3:13insult to the African. In fact, you
- 3:15brought so many things
- 3:17uh
- 3:17that were interesting about how people
- 3:19should see it.
- 3:21Of course.
- 3:21>> Right.
- 3:22>> Every society, there is something about
- 3:24them that what that evolved.
- 3:26>> Yeah.
- 3:27>> And it will become part of them when you
- 3:30come in contact. And so, to quickly say,
- 3:32"Oh, they don't maintain them." Well, I
- 3:34simply said because we don't have the
- 3:36concept in any language.
- 3:37>> Yeah.
- 3:37>> And you said you did the same thing
- 3:39asking people when you were in some of
- 3:41the countries, they don't have the
- 3:42concept.
- 3:43And the reason [snorts] they don't have
- 3:44it is because it never presented itself.
- 3:47>> Mhm.
- 3:49>> The
- 3:50the physical environment never gave you
- 3:52what will make you develop the concept
- 3:54of maintenance. Now, sweeping your yard
- 3:57is not maintenance. Taking a shower is
- 3:59not maintenance. Grooming your face and
- 4:01brushing your teeth is not maintenance.
- 4:03No. Maintenance is you understand food
- 4:07which is good for your body and
- 4:09therefore you eat that food.
- 4:11You prepare ahead when to eat it, what
- 4:14time to eat it, and how to eat it. All
- 4:15those things means that this person is
- 4:17maintaining his or her body. Now, we are
- 4:20moving out of Africa. You've been to
- 4:22Asia, you've been to Europe.
- 4:23>> Yes.
- 4:24>> So, the question is when you observe the
- 4:26people you saw in Africa and the decay
- 4:28of the infrastructure
- 4:30>> Mhm.
- 4:31>> the countries you visited, which I don't
- 4:32know, but you're going to tell us. Did
- 4:33you see the same people in Africa? Did
- 4:36you see them in those countries in
- 4:37Europe?
- 4:38>> Yeah, of course. Um I I started
- 4:40traveling through Europe back in 2018.
- 4:42Um so, this was 8 years ago and even 8
- 4:44years ago they were prevalent. Yeah, it
- 4:46was it was very diverse. Europe has been
- 4:47diverse for a very long time now. Um you
- 4:51know, it's it's interesting to to go
- 4:53through all the European nations because
- 4:54they're all they all have their own
- 4:55languages and they're all so different.
- 4:57And there's so there's already so much
- 4:59diversity in this little tiny continent
- 5:01of Europe.
- 5:02>> Yeah.
- 5:02>> And to put more and more um people from
- 5:05all around the globe into all of these
- 5:07tiny little countries, um it it really
- 5:10changes the atmosphere. It changes the
- 5:11infrastructure and it changes you know,
- 5:13changes everything the the education
- 5:14system and um the way that people are
- 5:17voting, right?
- 5:18Uh you know, even even uh there's a
- 5:21little country called Luxembourg and
- 5:23it's it's just a micro country. It's the
- 5:25it's just a tiny tiny little country
- 5:27outside the border of France. Um and
- 5:29it's been around for over a thousand
- 5:31years. It started I think around 920 AD.
- 5:33Well, today if you go to Luxembourg and
- 5:35you try to find somebody who speaks
- 5:36Luxembourgish, right? This is this is a
- 5:39a very old language that they've been
- 5:40speaking for hundreds years.
- 5:42Maybe you want to learn Luxembourgish
- 5:43and you go there to try to learn it. You
- 5:45can't find somebody who speaks
- 5:47Luxembourgish anymore.
- 5:48So, you hear all of these these people
- 5:51say, "No, there's so many benefits to
- 5:52diversity and we need to diversify and
- 5:54we need, you know, more people in
- 5:55Europe. We have to diversify Europe."
- 5:57And I'm going, "Well, if we're if we're
- 5:58wiping out an entire culture and an
- 6:00entire people, is that more diversity or
- 6:02is it less?"
- 6:03Now, 52% of Luxembourg, this tiny little
- 6:06country, it only has a little under
- 6:07700,000 people in it, around 690,000,
- 6:10over 52% don't have any Luxembourgish
- 6:14DNA.
- 6:15They're not of Luxembourgish descent.
- 6:17So, we've we've taken out this entire
- 6:18culture from Europe
- 6:20and replaced it essentially with
- 6:21everybody else. Maybe maybe they're
- 6:23coming from places like India or
- 6:24Nigeria, Indonesia, right? These aren't
- 6:27minority countries at all. These are
- 6:28countries with huge populations and
- 6:30they're flooding this tiny little
- 6:32country of Luxembourg.
- 6:34And and what happens to the
- 6:35Luxembourgish people?
- 6:37>> [gasps]
- 6:38>> When you change the language of a place,
- 6:40you've changed every structure and
- 6:42system that was there because language
- 6:44drives everything.
- 6:46So, if you said your last visit to
- 6:48Luxembourg,
- 6:50it's hard to find a native
- 6:53uh person.
- 6:53>> Luxembourgish speaker, no.
- 6:54>> Okay.
- 6:55What
- 6:56What has happened to the system,
- 6:58infrastructure, especially
- 6:59infrastructure?
- 7:00>> Every everything's been turned over. Um
- 7:02yeah, you you change the language and it
- 7:03changes it changes the culture, it
- 7:05changes the actions of the people,
- 7:07right? And yeah, of course, if you don't
- 7:08have a concept or if you don't have a
- 7:09word for maintenance, nothing gets
- 7:11maintained, right? And then this used to
- 7:12be I mean, Luxembourg was always known
- 7:14as like a tax haven. It was beautiful.
- 7:16Like I mean, you look at pictures of it
- 7:17and it's beautiful. It has this
- 7:19beautiful river that runs through it and
- 7:20these bridges and they're intricate and
- 7:22there's little details on everything and
- 7:23the the, you know, the architecture is
- 7:25beautiful and it's it's just so amazing.
- 7:27It overwhelms you. It's you know, it
- 7:28inundates you.
- 7:30Um and all this old history. And now,
- 7:32when you go there, you walk down the
- 7:33street and
- 7:35there's trash and garbage in a lot of
- 7:37places that that where it didn't used to
- 7:39be. Um it's not safe in a lot of places
- 7:43and it it's kind of it's just been
- 7:45completely um degraded [clears throat]
- 7:47from from what I saw.
- 7:48>> look at the countries uh beginning the
- 7:50time Angela Merkel took over in Germany.
- 7:53Uh a huge influx of uh the Syrians who
- 7:56come Okay. Now, immigration,
- 7:59asylum-seeking refugee, temporal asylum,
- 8:02and temporal refugee has to be part of
- 8:04any country's um you know, policy to
- 8:08say, "Look, just as humans, when one
- 8:10person is in distress, open your doors
- 8:13for a certain period of time and then,
- 8:15you know, help them out." So, I I
- 8:17support uh asylum. I support refugee
- 8:19status. Um
- 8:22I would even say that my people move
- 8:23into Ghana from Benin. That was some
- 8:26kind of voluntary uh refugee uh because
- 8:29>> guys share a border.
- 8:30>> Yeah, that's correct.
- 8:32>> The next country over from Syria.
- 8:34>> Yeah, okay.
- 8:35>> It's not Germany.
- 8:36>> taking That's correct. The next country
- 8:38from Syria is not Germany, right? But,
- 8:40they won't go to the next country. The
- 8:42next country wouldn't even want to take
- 8:43them, you know? So, we, being Africans,
- 8:46my parents say, "Let's go to Ghana." So,
- 8:48Ghana, we would say, was our refugee
- 8:50destination because we were not just
- 8:51running away from flood in Benin. It was
- 8:53harsh politically. And so, people were
- 8:55going to Togo, Nigeria, anywhere you can
- 8:58live and go to. But, luckily, my parents
- 9:00were these very charitable people. They
- 9:03are nice that they taught us we have to
- 9:05respect Ghanaians. So, everywhere we
- 9:06have lived in Ghana, you will never hear
- 9:09anything. My family is a small,
- 9:10uneducated, poor family, but we did
- 9:11everything we could to integrate into
- 9:14the Ghanaian culture.
- 9:16And uh of course,
- 9:17if you go across borders, oceans, now to
- 9:22a culture or an environment that is
- 9:24distinctly different from where you
- 9:25came.
- 9:27So, Benin and Ghana, at least there was
- 9:29some similarities, you know, in history
- 9:32and how they divided it artificially.
- 9:34So, we didn't feel completely out of
- 9:36place.
- 9:36>> Right.
- 9:38>> But if you come from
- 9:40let's say Sudan and here you are in
- 9:41Luxembourg where trains come on time,
- 9:44humans come on time, people respect law
- 9:47and order, stop for traffic light and
- 9:49they keep their trash with them until
- 9:50they go home.
- 9:51>> Mhm.
- 9:52>> But where you are coming from that is
- 9:53not the case, not because it's bad. Just
- 9:55your physical environment allow you to
- 9:56evolve that way.
- 9:57>> Yeah.
- 9:58>> Let's go to the other countries you
- 9:59visited. Denmark was one of them who
- 10:01opened his doors.
- 10:02>> Yeah.
- 10:02>> Sweden that used to be very homogeneous
- 10:05and people went there for only vacation
- 10:06and went home or education
- 10:08>> Yeah.
- 10:09>> opened its doors.
- 10:10>> Yeah.
- 10:10>> Germany did. France did and paid a price
- 10:13with Charlie Hebdo, right? The the media
- 10:16company that was blown away with AK-47.
- 10:19>> Yeah.
- 10:19>> And the London train bombing and then
- 10:21the bus that runs into people and kill
- 10:23them on the beaches in France, right?
- 10:25>> Mhm.
- 10:25>> You're not saying that you're saying not
- 10:27only these terrorist acts but when you
- 10:29saw the Africans in the Central Africans
- 10:32in these countries you went recently. I
- 10:33haven't been.
- 10:35You said it's turning into trash.
- 10:37>> Yeah, of course there's there's garbage
- 10:39everywhere. There's piles of garbage
- 10:40now. I mean I remember going to
- 10:41Brussels, Belgium. That's really the
- 10:43heart of it in Europe. If you wanted to
- 10:44go to the heart of the the belly of the
- 10:45beast, you go to Brussels, Belgium. And
- 10:48there are there's trash. I have videos
- 10:49of it. It's piled up and it's as high as
- 10:52two-story buildings now.
- 10:54>> [snorts]
- 10:54>> There's no There's no Belgian culture in
- 10:56Brussels anymore.
- 10:58You know, you go there and you think
- 10:59that you're going to you know, go find
- 11:01people of Belgian descent or some kind
- 11:03of history in Belgium and it's gone.
- 11:05It's been completely replaced and you
- 11:07know, everybody's talking about it now
- 11:08but it's
- 11:09I I don't I don't know what the next
- 11:11step is. What do you do about this, you
- 11:12know? It's
- 11:14>> Where recently were you in London?
- 11:16>> Oh, I was there earlier this year. I was
- 11:18there very recently. Yeah.
- 11:19>> Okay, what did you see?
- 11:22>> I can't I I
- 11:23you you you go into Birmingham and
- 11:26you're not in London anymore.
- 11:26>> Oh, wow.
- 11:29It's okay. [laughter]
- 11:30I can't tell you but I can tell you it's
- 11:32not Yeah, it's a completely foreign
- 11:33place. Um and it's it's it's really not,
- 11:35you know, that the place is is um it's
- 11:38derived from the people. The people are
- 11:39what make the place and just because you
- 11:41you uproot a group of people, a
- 11:42population, and you plunk them somewhere
- 11:44else in the world, that doesn't mean the
- 11:46plane the plane right doesn't change.
- 11:48>> So, in your conversation with the locals
- 11:50in Luxembourg and France in London, with
- 11:52the locals who are concerned,
- 11:55what do they say?
- 11:57>> They're very well, a lot of them are are
- 11:59very scared. They're very they're scared
- 12:01to speak out because they don't want to
- 12:03be called names. You know, they're
- 12:04worried that somebody is going to call
- 12:05them a xenophobic or a racist or
- 12:08um they're they're going to get um you
- 12:10know, branded as as a racist, right? If
- 12:12they say something. It's interesting
- 12:13because we just watched South Africa um
- 12:16go through something similar where they
- 12:18they were trying to kick a lot of
- 12:20Africans out of South Africa. And and
- 12:22when you show that footage to somebody,
- 12:24nobody would ever even think that, you
- 12:26know, it would never come up that they
- 12:27would be xenophobic. Nobody would ever
- 12:29say that. It wouldn't it wouldn't even
- 12:30be a thought. But if you know, if a
- 12:32little country of Luxembourg wants to
- 12:34remain Luxembourgesh, for some reason
- 12:36there's a problem with that. You know,
- 12:38if they want to keep their heritage and
- 12:39their nationality, they want their
- 12:40children to grow up the way that their
- 12:42parents did and their grandparents did,
- 12:44um
- 12:45now for some reason there's a big
- 12:46problem and and it's not politically
- 12:48correct to say that.
- 12:50You have to share your nation with
- 12:52everyone.
- 12:53>> So, even though I did a video which I
- 12:55think some of the South Africans
- 12:57misunderstood me, they thought that I
- 12:58was condemning them for chasing out
- 13:01immigrants and that's what I was saying
- 13:04to them that
- 13:06their case is that they always look for
- 13:08a boogeyman.
- 13:10First it was apartheid and then you are
- 13:12saying it's foreigners. Who is going to
- 13:13be next? I wasn't saying that I
- 13:15supported the foreigners that they are
- 13:17doing the right thing. No, no, not at
- 13:18all. I know, as a matter of experience
- 13:22and encounter,
- 13:24there are countries in Africa, I know
- 13:25personally, that if you allow a certain
- 13:28group of them to live in your country,
- 13:30they will do things you don't like.
- 13:32>> Yeah.
- 13:32>> They will and they do all the time.
- 13:34I know that as a fact. African countries
- 13:37The only country in Africa, not because
- 13:39I'm from there, that you will never hear
- 13:41in your travels that they've caused
- 13:42problems, either scamming people,
- 13:44stealing, killing, fighting in the
- 13:46streets. Uh the very limited French
- 13:49countries, Benin is one of them, you
- 13:51know, Beninese can live among you. We
- 13:54are somehow reserved and timid in some
- 13:56ways. They can live among you for years.
- 13:58You will never hear and know that the
- 13:59Beninese live here.
- 14:01>> Mhm.
- 14:01>> My sister just passed, my elder sister
- 14:04just passed and I couldn't go.
- 14:06>> Sorry.
- 14:07>> And then I think it was on Facebook, so
- 14:09a couple a couple who are from Benin
- 14:10that I've never known about lived just
- 14:13here in Stanford and invited me.
- 14:15>> Wow.
- 14:16>> said, "You guys live here?" They said,
- 14:17"Yeah." And
- 14:19they they started pointing to. Okay?
- 14:22Now,
- 14:23if Nigerians had lived here,
- 14:25>> Mhm.
- 14:26>> you would hear about them before they
- 14:27arrived
- 14:29because of their nature. They are very,
- 14:30you know,
- 14:31flamboyant and all that.
- 14:32>> Yeah.
- 14:33>> They used to close the streets back in
- 14:34the '70s in London to do a naming
- 14:36ceremony for a kid.
- 14:38>> Yeah.
- 14:40>> And the Metropolitan Police was allowing
- 14:41them from to block roads and do their
- 14:43parties in the roads. A Beninese would
- 14:45never do that.
- 14:46>> [laughter]
- 14:47>> Ghanaians a little, you know, changed.
- 14:49Senegalese, maybe you find them only in
- 14:52their little communities, okay? But
- 14:55majority
- 14:56So, I have seen what we were discussing
- 14:58earlier the first time in our video
- 15:00about maintenance and I'm thinking to
- 15:02myself,
- 15:03so you are a very small or whatever
- 15:05country you are in Europe, in Asia,
- 15:07where you for years you've trained your
- 15:09children on how to dispose trash and
- 15:12maintain things,
- 15:14especially if you buy a house, even
- 15:16though you bought it, but you share the
- 15:18neighborhood. So, to bring the value of
- 15:21your neighbors down
- 15:22>> No. you don't keep the maintenance of
- 15:25your house. The front lawn, the side
- 15:28lawn, the fence, the broken cars, don't
- 15:30park them because other buyers in the
- 15:32future will look take a look at your
- 15:34house and it has brought the value of
- 15:36your neighborhood. This is why some
- 15:38neighborhoods tell the real estate
- 15:40people, "Don't bring in these type of
- 15:42people." They're not talking about your
- 15:43skin color.
- 15:45They are talking about we know their
- 15:47culture.
- 15:48We wish we can be that that free and
- 15:50just dispose trash anyhow we want. Who
- 15:52doesn't want to be free?
- 15:54But because they know of your culture,
- 15:56they will say, "Don't."
- 15:58And like you said, you say because they
- 15:59are racist. But who in this world should
- 16:03work hard to keep a manicured lawn,
- 16:06fence repaired and painted nicely, every
- 16:09trash is kept and say, "Oh, no, but
- 16:12because I'm human being Emily, oh, yeah,
- 16:14she's from Somalia.
- 16:16They cook on the front lawn and play
- 16:18music until 2:00 a.m. It's fine because
- 16:20they are humans." No, you you destroy a
- 16:22lot of things.
- 16:25And capital as we spoke is one of them.
- 16:29Now, the European countries, I don't
- 16:31know
- 16:33why they do this
- 16:35where they threw their gates open.
- 16:37I don't know if I say it and people say
- 16:39I'm naive. I think there is some level
- 16:41of compassion
- 16:43of the Westerner.
- 16:46Maybe it's a guilt
- 16:48because they've heard so much on social
- 16:50media through the liberal, you know, the
- 16:51new liberal institutions that you were
- 16:55the reason these countries are poor.
- 16:57Maybe that affecting them that they
- 16:59wanted to open their gates hopefully
- 17:00thinking if they come in here or like
- 17:03somebody put it, "No, it is this
- 17:05superiority complex that let's open our
- 17:08gate to prove to them that, you know, we
- 17:09can help you." I don't believe the
- 17:11second one. I think the first one may be
- 17:13the case that
- 17:14>> Yeah. Well, it's interesting because
- 17:16there's a different story for why
- 17:18Europeans have to take migrants in and
- 17:20it's a different story for every single
- 17:21country. You know, you look at Ireland.
- 17:23Ireland wasn't a colonizer, they were
- 17:25the colonized. You know, I mean, we took
- 17:27in the Irish way before long before we
- 17:29ever had welfare or any kind of benefits
- 17:30in the United States. We took in all the
- 17:31Irish, they were going through a famine.
- 17:33They said, you know, it was because of
- 17:35the British. They had they, you know,
- 17:36the tiff between the Irish and the and
- 17:38the British, but
- 17:39there's a different story for why every
- 17:41single country in Europe has to take
- 17:43immigrants. You go up to Finland.
- 17:45Finland was never
- 17:47They never colonized anybody. Finland?
- 17:49But so for some reason, they have 27,000
- 17:52Somalis that they pay half a billion
- 17:54dollars a year for, 18,000 about 18,500
- 17:57dollars per per head.
- 17:59The
- 18:00They're not doing well. It's It's not
- 18:02It's not going well for Finland and and
- 18:04it's It's become a very big problem, but
- 18:07but you know, the question is
- 18:08>> live in a community like Minnesota in in
- 18:11Ireland?
- 18:12>> And and nobody speaks the the local
- 18:14language. They have to You know, of
- 18:15course, if they're going to
- 18:18Nobody speaks Finnish. They're They're
- 18:20speaking their own language. They stay
- 18:22in their communities and they don't
- 18:23interact with the Finnish people.
- 18:26>> But they they rely on the welfare.
- 18:30>> 18,500 dollars per year per head.
- 18:33I I don't I don't know why anybody would
- 18:35do this. It doesn't make any sense.
- 18:36>> after college.
- 18:39My first job.
- 18:40>> It's Yeah, I Yeah, exactly and No, I I
- 18:43don't see the benefit in any of that.
- 18:44>> Okay, so why do you think Finland opened
- 18:46its doors to 27,000 Somalis?
- 18:49>> In my opinion, it's poor leadership. You
- 18:52go and you talk to the Finnish and there
- 18:53was never a vote on whether to take in
- 18:55immigrants or or leave them out. No,
- 18:57actually, no European country has ever
- 18:59had a vote on immigration. There hasn't
- 19:01been one European country. There's never
- 19:02been a democratic vote on immigration.
- 19:06But the leaders decided, "Hey, this
- 19:08could increase the GDP. Maybe Maybe we
- 19:10could Maybe we could increase the
- 19:11economy or maybe, you know if we need
- 19:13more money for welfare
- 19:14>> good intentions behind it if you ask me
- 19:16because to be honest with you, I don't
- 19:18believe that any leader of any country
- 19:21recklessly make a decision that he knows
- 19:23or she knows will destroy his legacy.
- 19:25Every politician's dream is I will leave
- 19:28a legacy behind.
- 19:30But not all good intentions yield
- 19:33good results.
- 19:35So I believe the intentions were very
- 19:37pure. Now I'll tell you something I know
- 19:39because I'm a child of the 60s.
- 19:41There was a huge immigration in the 60s
- 19:43and 70s from West Africa to Europe.
- 19:46To the point that there was a
- 19:48a certain genre of highlife music that
- 19:51was called burger highlife.
- 19:54Because those musicians
- 19:56developed those songs while they were
- 19:57living in Germany. So Germany became a
- 19:59home to me a lot of Ghanaians.
- 20:03But like I told you about certain tribes
- 20:04and
- 20:06groups from Africa, some of them will
- 20:08live among you and you find it to be
- 20:09pleasant. Now that doesn't mean that
- 20:11they don't trash or but at least
- 20:13So Ghanaians have been going to you know
- 20:15some of our popular guys we know
- 20:16musicians all moved to Germany in the
- 20:1970s. There was a huge movement. The
- 20:22second one was the UK. Ghanaians were
- 20:24going there in the 70s. But there is
- 20:26something you said earlier and I agree
- 20:28with you completely.
- 20:30When I started traveling, there was no
- 20:32social media.
- 20:33When I started traveling, there was no
- 20:35selfie iPhone. There was no
- 20:39FaceTime WhatsApp.
- 20:42You pick the phone from the wall, call
- 20:44the taxi to go to the airport.
- 20:46Once you hang it up, you are invisible
- 20:48to the world. Yeah.
- 20:50So what did I do when I go to foreign
- 20:52countries where I was posted? I have to
- 20:54rely on the locals
- 20:56to know the bus stop, the church house,
- 20:57the marketplace, everything. For your
- 21:00life to move, you you need to rely on
- 21:02the locals.
- 21:04So you behave properly knowing that the
- 21:06locals are there to help you. Let me
- 21:08take you to the time before MapQuest.
- 21:11Every gas station made it an unofficial
- 21:13responsibility that drivers would pull
- 21:14over and ask you the next exit.
- 21:17No matter how busy you you are, you know
- 21:20that before we had MapQuest and Google
- 21:22Drive, gas stations you stop and say,
- 21:24"Hey, I'm going to, you know, Arizona,
- 21:26whatever." And they [clears throat]
- 21:27always would showed you.
- 21:30Or you pulled over and another
- 21:32motorist would show you. So, we relied
- 21:34on each other and we did not misbehave.
- 21:37Today,
- 21:39compared to the time when I was in Asia
- 21:40and Europe,
- 21:42you leave home, you have your cell
- 21:43phone.
- 21:44I cannot remember any plane ride I took
- 21:47in the '70s and '80s and the '90s
- 21:50that my passing, the next person to me,
- 21:52we did not exchange numbers, get to know
- 21:54each other, talk about because there was
- 21:56no Some flights didn't even have in in
- 21:59in what on-flight magazine. There was no
- 22:01cell phone, no laptop.
- 22:03So, you are forced to speak and exchange
- 22:05drinks, you know, back then you can you
- 22:07can smoke on the airlines, with the
- 22:08first class and they bring you the
- 22:09[laughter] keep bringing you the
- 22:10whiskey. It was best and you dress
- 22:12properly. Even this was considered too
- 22:14casual in those days for travel, short
- 22:16distances.
- 22:18Some 2-hour flight.
- 22:21You have to dress up.
- 22:24We have become like animals today.
- 22:27Recently, I had a flight I was trying to
- 22:29talk to this because it's become part of
- 22:31me because of the days when I was flying
- 22:33that it's rude to even sit and not look
- 22:35to the right and talk.
- 22:37>> [laughter]
- 22:37>> She had a laptop, had a cell phone, a
- 22:40headphone throughout the entire flight,
- 22:426 hours long.
- 22:44Didn't speak to me.
- 22:47And I was praying in my head,
- 22:50"God, send a little turbulence
- 22:54and let me see how she will scream and
- 22:56hold my hand."
- 22:58>> [laughter]
- 23:02>> Yes, only when death comes near.
- 23:04>> [laughter]
- 23:04>> Yeah.
- 23:05>> Okay.
- 23:06>> you rely on the community.
- 23:07>> And I found this whole thing to be so
- 23:08uncomfortable because now I can't look
- 23:10towards her because it's like you're
- 23:12Okay, and how far can I look straight
- 23:14ahead of me?
- 23:15>> [laughter]
- 23:17>> You go to Japan.
- 23:19When I lived there, you could have gone
- 23:216 months before you run into a black
- 23:22person. And when you see them,
- 23:24properly behaved.
- 23:28Today,
- 23:31our friend
- 23:32>> Mhm.
- 23:33>> just came back. He went to Japan last
- 23:35year.
- 23:36>> Mhm.
- 23:36>> I said, "Now Japanese are putting chain
- 23:38on their bicycles.
- 23:39We never did back then.
- 23:42We never locked doors. We never locked
- 23:44bicycles.
- 23:46But people from my continent are
- 23:48stealing these bicycles and filling
- 23:50containers with it and sending it home.
- 23:52Number two, they are fighting in the
- 23:53streets of Tokyo at night.
- 23:57Everybody has a cell phone, and it do
- 23:59tell you where your community is. So,
- 24:01you don't even need to rely on the
- 24:03locals.
- 24:05>> Yeah.
- 24:06There's no community. There's no
- 24:08interaction.
- 24:08>> Now, somebody would say to me, and
- 24:10somebody did say to me, "Why do you care
- 24:12so much about these things going on in
- 24:14Europe? Why? Why do you care? Are you an
- 24:15European?" No, I'm not.
- 24:20But here I am in a Western country.
- 24:23I migrated
- 24:24>> Mhm.
- 24:25>> because the place was intact
- 24:27with the culture, the customs, the
- 24:29traditions that made it more livable
- 24:32than my own country,
- 24:34>> Mhm.
- 24:34>> where I cannot question a policeman and
- 24:36go home alive.
- 24:38>> Mhm.
- 24:39Mhm.
- 24:40>> Where I can't have a misunderstanding in
- 24:41the streets and not result into a fight
- 24:44and violence.
- 24:46Where I cannot rely on a contractor to
- 24:49say he wouldn't steal the money I'm
- 24:51going to give him. He's going to put up
- 24:53the building on time, within schedule,
- 24:55and within budget.
- 25:00That I can marry a woman and not be
- 25:02constantly afraid how her parents would
- 25:04tell her how to turn me into a snake and
- 25:06make me into money.
- 25:07Okay? I'm making it a joke, but that is
- 25:09a place I come from.
- 25:11>> Yeah.
- 25:13>> So, if this place was not there,
- 25:16my talent, I couldn't have used it in my
- 25:18own country.
- 25:19>> Mhm.
- 25:20>> The first newspaper to give me a break
- 25:22in the world was not a local newspaper
- 25:24from my country.
- 25:26>> Mhm.
- 25:27>> Was the Washington Times.
- 25:30>> Oh.
- 25:32>> So, my concern when people say, "Why are
- 25:34you concerned about Europe?" Because I
- 25:35know many, many more African children
- 25:37are going to be born who would like to
- 25:39go to the West
- 25:41and have great education
- 25:44and practice their talent
- 25:46or put their talent to use
- 25:47>> Mhm.
- 25:48>> as the soccer players are being, you
- 25:49know, recruited by by these countries.
- 25:5290%
- 25:55of things we do to develop, to grow, to
- 25:57build
- 25:58is our interactions with Europe. Either
- 26:00we invite them in or we go there.
- 26:04Our schooling system,
- 26:05>> Mhm.
- 26:06>> trainings.
- 26:08>> [snorts]
- 26:08>> So, when I worry, I'm worried for
- 26:10the next and the next and the next
- 26:12generation of Africans
- 26:13>> Mhm.
- 26:14>> who must have a place they can go for
- 26:16this exchange to be beautiful where they
- 26:18can bring it back home.
- 26:19>> Mhm.
- 26:21>> The way things are,
- 26:24the things we have or we don't have,
- 26:29there is no way and this will sound
- 26:33controversial to many people, but if
- 26:35they can sit and study it properly,
- 26:39Africa can go on for 10 years without
- 26:42Europe.
- 26:45If you have a society
- 26:48that doesn't have
- 26:50a manufacturing process system
- 26:54of developing goods and services locally
- 26:58from automobile, electronics, visual
- 27:01aids, audio aids, medical,
- 27:03pharmaceutical, you name it, everything
- 27:06that drives a human being are all
- 27:08imported.
- 27:12I went to Denmark and I was there for 3
- 27:14weeks, I believe. One day I was coming
- 27:15from jogging and something just struck
- 27:17me and I sat down under a tree, and I
- 27:19said, "Wait a minute. I've been here for
- 27:213 long weeks in Germany."
- 27:24Sorry, Denmark.
- 27:28And from morning every day then I wake
- 27:30up and I go to the coffee pot.
- 27:34And I go to the bathroom.
- 27:36And I go to my living room.
- 27:38And I turn on the television and then
- 27:39the the cab becomes and picks me up.
- 27:44Everything I use until I return
- 27:47late night to go to bed.
- 27:49Nothing in Denmark reminded me
- 27:52of Africa.
- 27:56That I saw things and say, "Yeah, this
- 27:57is from Africa. This is because of
- 27:59Africa." Or that is because of
- 28:01Some idiots are going to say, "Yes, they
- 28:02came and stole our resources." They say
- 28:04it on our
- 28:05natural Yeah, I know those who are going
- 28:07to say that, but it's not true. We all
- 28:08know. Then I returned
- 28:11to Kenya because at that time I was
- 28:12living in Kenya, right? So now the
- 28:15thought is on my mind like, "Wow,
- 28:16interesting."
- 28:19An European country. I didn't see
- 28:20anything physically that I would say,
- 28:22"Oh, wow." That I needed it that day. I
- 28:24needed it tomorrow.
- 28:26Then I came to Kenya.
- 28:28So I was trying to see
- 28:31what is in Kenya making life move and
- 28:34that didn't come from
- 28:36Europe.
- 28:39That the Kenyans can wake up.
- 28:40If everything that came from Europe were
- 28:43taken away, that the Kenyans can wake up
- 28:45from 6:00 a.m. to midnight and still
- 28:47function correctly. And I started
- 28:48looking at cars, airplanes, electronics,
- 28:51pharmaceuticals, hospital equipments,
- 28:53roads, restaurants, utensils, cooking
- 28:56appliances. You name it. I keep looking.
- 28:59Even the skin texture has to be
- 29:01ointments and lotions imported from
- 29:04Europe. I am not saying that there is
- 29:06anything good or bad. The people just
- 29:08happen to know how to manufacture based
- 29:11on the challenges they have had in the
- 29:12past as we talk about proactive
- 29:14maintenance. So, they know how to build
- 29:15the systems and somebody have to be the
- 29:17consumer, which happen to be a big
- 29:19continent in the world. Without Africa,
- 29:21without Africa, Europe as a whole will
- 29:23be buried under
- 29:26secondhand.
- 29:27There is no way Europe can dispose of
- 29:29its secondhand goods they throw away.
- 29:33If Africa was not a dumping ground for
- 29:35secondhand goods.
- 29:38So, you see the world balances. Somebody
- 29:40have to manufacture, somebody have to
- 29:42buy it.
- 29:43>> Yeah. Yeah, of course.
- 29:44>> So, the buyer is as important
- 29:47as the one manufacturing.
- 29:50But I'm [snorts] saying the manufacturer
- 29:52can sustain life even if it doesn't have
- 29:55a buyer. But the buyer can't sustain if
- 29:58it doesn't if it doesn't import or
- 29:59manufacture. And that is the balance
- 30:01between Europe and Africa. So, we need
- 30:03to pray to keep Europe vivant
- 30:06as to the things they have done.
- 30:08This is my reason that I I complain and
- 30:11talk about this phenomenon that um
- 30:14if you are going to migrate, migrate,
- 30:16but migrate to say that I would help the
- 30:19host country
- 30:20in a best way.
- 30:22But to go and congregate, you know what
- 30:24is funny? If a bunch of Europeans want
- 30:25to move to Africa, and they do come
- 30:27sometimes for 6 months, 8 months, a
- 30:29year. We don't have any welfare systems.
- 30:32For example, if a war were to break
- 30:34break out between France and Italy and
- 30:36some of them says, "We are moving to
- 30:38Africa." We don't have any welfare
- 30:40systems to sustain them. We had wars
- 30:42break out among neighboring countries.
- 30:44And when it came to our country, Benin
- 30:46was the one who took a lot of uh
- 30:49Rwandese, Togolese, Liberians
- 30:52waiting to come to the west, okay? Kenya
- 30:55took a lot of them including Ilhan Omar.
- 30:57But the refugee camps were paid all by
- 30:59the United Nations,
- 31:01not the local.
- 31:03They won't even make sure that you
- 31:04become a citizen. They won't even give
- 31:06you work permit.
- 31:08We kept them for years and never give
- 31:09them anything. Yeah. Imagine Europeans
- 31:12come to any country in Africa because
- 31:13they have a war. We don't have a
- 31:16a welfare system. But you go to Finland
- 31:19>> Yeah.
- 31:19>> and you are paid 18,000 plus a year. A
- 31:22billion for 27,000 people.
- 31:24>> Mhm.
- 31:25>> And nothing at all taught you to say,
- 31:27"What best can we do for this place?"
- 31:29If you destroy it, how
- 31:32do the other generations to come find a
- 31:34place also to go? This is my only reason
- 31:37I talk about we got to do something
- 31:39about this.
- 31:40Mass immigration that is doing nothing.
- 31:42Nobody is saying anything positive about
- 31:44it.
- 31:45>> No. And and immigration in small amounts
- 31:47when people can integrate properly,
- 31:49that's not a problem. But
- 31:51when it's massive amounts where
- 31:52literally the population's being
- 31:53replaced like in the case of Luxembourg,
- 31:56it's it's disheartening for us too
- 31:57because this is our homeland. You know,
- 31:59could you imagine somebody coming into
- 32:01your homeland and just and just
- 32:03taking it from you. Um it's it's it's uh
- 32:07it's heartbreaking honestly to to see
- 32:09>> To be honest to the immigrant, to be
- 32:11honest with you, I would not at all
- 32:13blame the immigrant one second.
- 32:17>> Well,
- 32:18there there's a I I think there's a lot
- 32:20of problems with the the leadership. Um
- 32:23what what what would you do? Let me ask
- 32:24you what you would do if you were the
- 32:25government of of any European country
- 32:28that was facing immigration mass
- 32:30immigration. What what would you do?
- 32:32What would you say?
- 32:32>> It's not just mass immigration. It's not
- 32:34what we discussing at all because you
- 32:36can take in let's say for example
- 32:39let's say for example Luxembourg had
- 32:41taken in mass immigrants from Japan.
- 32:46Right?
- 32:47Or Luxembourg has taken in mass
- 32:49immigrants from Germany.
- 32:53What you describe as
- 32:54trash piling up two story high,
- 32:57people sucking the
- 32:58the the the welfare system, people
- 33:01failing to even integrate in any shape
- 33:03or form. This is what destroys the
- 33:05environment, not the number that came
- 33:07there.
- 33:08>> But even if they were making even if it
- 33:10was Japanese people that were coming in
- 33:11and turning Luxembourg into Japan and we
- 33:13can we can say Japan is better than
- 33:15Luxembourg. I'll say that.
- 33:16>> Yes.
- 33:16>> I don't I I don't really have an opinion
- 33:18versus the two, but I still would want a
- 33:21country for the Luxembourg people.
- 33:22>> I understand, but Japanese have a way of
- 33:25forming a community wherever they go.
- 33:28>> Right, right.
- 33:28>> They would do so because they also
- 33:30understand that there must be the host
- 33:33population for us to even thrive.
- 33:35>> Yeah.
- 33:36>> Because the host population understands
- 33:37this terrain better than us. So let's
- 33:40segregate into a small corner while we
- 33:41are helping with the economy, trade,
- 33:43okay? So that the host if it was not
- 33:46there, we wouldn't have come as Japanese
- 33:47in the first place. So they do that is
- 33:49what I mean by you Luxembourg can take
- 33:52any number of Japanese and nothing would
- 33:54affect the central culture.
- 33:56>> Yeah, no but no matter what race,
- 33:58religion, whatever people they are. I
- 34:00just don't I want to see Luxembourg for
- 34:01the Luxembourgese. I don't want
- 34:03>> It has to. But the people coming in have
- 34:05to have that conscience to say, "Look,
- 34:07if you are going to anybody's house,
- 34:09you're not going to rearrange
- 34:10>> Yeah.
- 34:11>> the furniture." There is a Nigerian
- 34:12woman in Ireland calling for the
- 34:15government or the people to recognize
- 34:17them and allow them to redesign these
- 34:20are her words redesign because the
- 34:22countries have been inherited before.
- 34:26Not only she didn't stop there. She's
- 34:28asking that they should change the
- 34:29language and that Irish
- 34:31is not necessary needed to teach.
- 34:34>> Could you even imagine if a European,
- 34:36you know, were to go over and say, "Hey,
- 34:38we're we're going to rearrange
- 34:40everything." Yeah, and of course this
- 34:42this causes outrage anywhere in the
- 34:44world where you go and do this. We've
- 34:45seen it before in the past. It causes
- 34:47outrage. But for some reason when it's
- 34:49being done to European countries, people
- 34:51don't have that same opinion.
- 34:52>> You asked me if I was uh an European
- 34:54leader, what would I do? Um
- 34:57the one thing is you are never going to
- 34:59stop immigration. No. Now, if you are
- 35:02Poland, you can Yeah, you could stop
- 35:03immigration by closing your borders and
- 35:05say, "No, you can come as a tourist, a
- 35:07refugee uh for short time, and we'll
- 35:09make sure you are out." Israel is the
- 35:11same thing. They watch you for a while
- 35:12and say, "You was
- 35:14overstayed your welcome." And they will
- 35:15send you out. So, countries can do it.
- 35:20But so for that, if I were an European
- 35:23country,
- 35:24I would I would insist on segregation,
- 35:28which means that
- 35:30a certain number of immigrants we I
- 35:32would I would
- 35:33like
- 35:35designate cities for them.
- 35:38>> Yeah.
- 35:38>> When you do so, yeah, it's like what you
- 35:40are trying to do is what the United
- 35:42States have done. 50 states, extremely
- 35:45federated, that one state can suffer
- 35:48economically, earthquake, whatever, but
- 35:50the main
- 35:52>> Yeah, it's the division of power.
- 35:54>> Yeah. The country will still be there.
- 35:56And the one that is there can then uh as
- 35:59we say, you declare bankrupt, chapter
- 36:0111,
- 36:02>> Mhm.
- 36:02>> on this state and absorb it.
- 36:04>> Mhm.
- 36:04>> Okay? Even the states in the United
- 36:07States are segregated along districts,
- 36:09right? Like the the towns have their own
- 36:11PD, their own uh city council, right?
- 36:14Each town has its own PD, each city
- 36:16council.
- 36:17>> Mhm.
- 36:17>> So, even the towns are segre- the states
- 36:19is segregated.
- 36:20>> Mhm.
- 36:21>> So, that if one town in Connecticut
- 36:24is suffering, which happened in the
- 36:261970s with Bridgeport. Mhm.
- 36:28That the state wanted to chapter 11
- 36:30Bridgeport and then take it over.
- 36:32>> Mhm.
- 36:33>> So, there will be no mayor or anything,
- 36:34and they will help it. Schools are
- 36:36always uh bankrupted, and the state will
- 36:39take the school if it's not doing well
- 36:40in the city. This is what has made this
- 36:43country such a dynamic country that
- 36:46nothing affects the central core system
- 36:48of the country. So, if I was an European
- 36:50leader,
- 36:51and these people are coming from
- 36:52outside, and I know that they have a
- 36:53very distinct culture, starting from
- 36:56what we're talking about, the very first
- 36:58thing you want of any immigrant is
- 37:01maintenance.
- 37:02>> Mhm.
- 37:03>> Okay?
- 37:03>> Mhm.
- 37:04>> The Africans that were taken, my
- 37:05great-great-grandfathers that were taken
- 37:07and brought to the Western world,
- 37:08especially in the United States of
- 37:09America, 500 years, and they have not
- 37:12been able to shed away.
- 37:15They still trash anywhere they leave.
- 37:18After 500 years, all you have to do is
- 37:21go to Baltimore, go to Detroit, go to
- 37:24Bridgeport, go to the inner cities of
- 37:26this country.
- 37:27>> Mhm.
- 37:27>> And you're not going to see Japanese who
- 37:29trash their corners or Koreans or
- 37:31anybody else.
- 37:32>> Mhm.
- 37:32>> So, the person who solved the problem of
- 37:35maintenance as being more biological, I
- 37:37am totally
- 37:38for it. It is now for us to recognize
- 37:41it. We didn't put it in ourselves. The
- 37:43physical environment allow us to evolve
- 37:46in that way. When you have that
- 37:48understanding, then to your earlier
- 37:49question when you came on the show is
- 37:51then what you do? Then you look outside
- 37:53and say, we can get people who
- 37:54understand this problem to manage it for
- 37:57us. One of the best waste management
- 37:59countries on Earth and companies, waste
- 38:02management companies, is in Japan.
- 38:04>> Yeah.
- 38:05>> Now, in Singapore,
- 38:06>> Mhm.
- 38:07>> even the United States is losing its
- 38:08grip completely on what used to be the
- 38:11traditional maintenance culture in this
- 38:13country.
- 38:14>> Yeah.
- 38:16Yeah, absolutely. Well, and and personal
- 38:18responsibility is is a big part, too.
- 38:20>> Yeah, but personal responsibility, the
- 38:22prerequisite to a personal
- 38:23responsibility is first for you to know
- 38:25your nature.
- 38:27>> Yeah. Well,
- 38:27>> In order to be responsible for it.
- 38:29>> Yeah.
- 38:30>> I'm a loud person, for example.
- 38:32Therefore, when I live in a place where
- 38:34the people largely are very distant, I
- 38:37have to know that I live next to the
- 38:39ocean back in Africa, and we have to
- 38:41speak loud for each one to hear. And
- 38:43it's a true story.
- 38:44>> Yeah.
- 38:45>> Okay. When you live on the the wave is
- 38:47constantly coming back and forth. People
- 38:49tend to speak loud. So, if you are in
- 38:51the southern part, Accra,
- 38:52>> Mhm.
- 38:53>> they speak very loud because of the
- 38:55ocean.
- 38:55>> Yeah.
- 38:57>> If I know that is what made me speak
- 38:59loud instead of saying, "This is my
- 39:00nature. This is my personality." and
- 39:02defending it, then when you move to
- 39:03places where they are like Japan,
- 39:05>> Mhm.
- 39:06>> being aware of it
- 39:08would make you be accountable.
- 39:11And you don't get offended if somebody
- 39:12said, "Please."
- 39:14So, people say accountability, thinking
- 39:16that it
- 39:17Well, if the person is really brilliant
- 39:19enough to take accountability, he
- 39:20wouldn't make the mistake in the first
- 39:21place. So, to your question, I will
- 39:24insist knowing their background, seeing
- 39:27even those who were brought here by
- 39:28force and lived with the people for 500
- 39:30years have not been able to even
- 39:33master maintenance, proactive
- 39:35maintenance. So, if they're coming to my
- 39:36country and I know that this will
- 39:37destroy my infrastructure, what I will
- 39:39do is designate cities for them to What
- 39:41does that do? It makes you
- 39:44it gives you the opportunity, you know,
- 39:45the chance for you to be able to
- 39:46monitor.
- 39:49>> I mean, you can argue Dearborn, Michigan
- 39:51was a city that we completely gave to.
- 39:53>> The Muslims.
- 39:54>> We gave it up.
- 39:55>> you have how many mosque where that
- 39:58start screaming at 4:30 a.m. in the
- 39:59morning?
- 40:00>> Oh, yeah. And then, you know, 9/11
- 40:01happened, we had zero Muslim
- 40:02representatives. Today, we have 255.
- 40:07>> Yeah.
- 40:08I will never blame the immigrant for
- 40:10anything.
- 40:11>> [laughter]
- 40:12>> Yeah. He said, "Can I come to your
- 40:15house?" You said, yes.
- 40:17It is your duty
- 40:19to screen me
- 40:21and put in place a system that would
- 40:23guide me to be useful to your
- 40:25environment. You give me the free reign,
- 40:27why shouldn't I take it?
- 40:29So, Dearborn, Michigan, I don't blame
- 40:31them. They should build more mosques and
- 40:32scream even louder.
- 40:34>> Well, yeah, it's it's our responsibility
- 40:36definitely to
- 40:37immigrants.
- 40:38Yeah, we I mean, we just had
- 40:40we just found one in Ohio that was uh
- 40:43quite literally he had you know, he he
- 40:45had been
- 40:46um
- 40:47part of an organization uh
- 40:50in in Sudan and and we we had no idea
- 40:53that we let a terrorist into Ohio.
- 40:56Um he had been taking child child slaves
- 40:59over in Sudan. We
- 41:00>> He was elected?
- 41:02>> No, he wasn't elected, but we we just
- 41:03found him. He um
- 41:05he he came through and and it's hard to
- 41:07check the names too because if the names
- 41:08are so common
- 41:08>> wait, wait, wait, yes, you're right.
- 41:10>> heard about it.
- 41:11He was just a citizen of the United
- 41:12>> man of
- 41:14uh the general and he Yes.
- 41:17>> But yeah, [snorts] I mean, if you don't
- 41:18screen anybody and and the the I think
- 41:20the barrier that we come into is how do
- 41:22you screen people um
- 41:24and and
- 41:26people will say, "Oh, well, well, you
- 41:28know, why do you think that why do you
- 41:29think that he's a terrorist because of
- 41:30his skin color?"
- 41:33And then you have to constantly go
- 41:34through these battles of of trying to
- 41:36figure out who's who. And if they come
- 41:38over with no passport, no history,
- 41:39>> Well, a segregated district for
- 41:41foreigners is not a new thing because
- 41:43what it happens is when I say monitor,
- 41:48if he has to come out of that community
- 41:50to do something harmful to the larger
- 41:53body of the culture,
- 41:55>> Mhm.
- 41:55>> you would notice it because he doesn't
- 41:56have allies living among. But when you
- 41:59allow them to live among you, then the
- 42:01network becomes very fluid and
- 42:03invisible. You can't put a spy on them.
- 42:06But when they are a community, you could
- 42:08easily
- 42:09You think it was easy to Yes, you
- 42:12>> What's the next step then? Okay, you
- 42:14have a community, it's not it's not
- 42:15working out. Something's not going on.
- 42:17That's correct. What do you do with that
- 42:19community?
- 42:20>> [snorts]
- 42:20>> Something's not going on like what?
- 42:21>> Well, like we find the guy in Ohio and
- 42:23he he used to be the right-hand man of a
- 42:25literally somebody who was taking slaves
- 42:27over in Africa. How do What do we do?
- 42:29What do we do with that? Do we deport
- 42:30them?
- 42:31Do we
- 42:31>> They are a lot of them there.
- 42:32>> Do we integrate them into the society?
- 42:34>> no, no integration into a society. No,
- 42:36no, no. You have to make it Look, what I
- 42:38say is there is a contract you need to
- 42:40sign, okay?
- 42:42The embassies have to have this contract
- 42:44for people to sign. Don't wait until
- 42:45they come to your country and start
- 42:47doing things Why What is the foreign
- 42:50diplomatic missions? What are they meant
- 42:51to do? Not just stamp passports. They
- 42:53are there one The biggest budget for the
- 42:56diplomatic missions is education. That's
- 42:59why you have the American Cultural
- 43:00Center, the British Council. Even the
- 43:02Russians had a cultural center when they
- 43:04were in Benin. Especially Cuba had a
- 43:05cultural center. Embassies always had a
- 43:08cultural center. Japan embassies have
- 43:10cultural centers.
- 43:11>> Yeah.
- 43:11>> What it it's meant to do is this. If
- 43:13you're going to get a visa and you know
- 43:14that you're so distinctively different
- 43:16from the place you're going, the embassy
- 43:18should say, "Okay, receive all the
- 43:20applications and call them to come
- 43:22through a 72 hours of what is called
- 43:24cultural sensitivity training."
- 43:26>> [snorts]
- 43:26>> So, you are setting something in motion
- 43:28before the person comes because the
- 43:29person didn't say I'm going to do
- 43:31Valentine's Day with my wife and come
- 43:32back.
- 43:34That is different. That is tourism.
- 43:35>> Mhm.
- 43:36>> But people you know would migrate into
- 43:38your country, why wouldn't the embassies
- 43:40It does you
- 43:42some good and to the person. I have to
- 43:45go through a lot of Japanese sensitivity
- 43:46treat. I offered myself to the embassy,
- 43:49but they had a department that really
- 43:52helped me to understand what I should
- 43:53expect when I get to Japan.
- 43:55>> Well, there there's been the
- 43:56Scandinavian countries have tried this
- 43:58um
- 44:00They I mean they they they literally
- 44:01have classes teaching migrants not to
- 44:03rape.
- 44:04This is something that I really
- 44:06It doesn't Yeah, it does It's That's the
- 44:08thing. It's like
- 44:08>> You're teaching somebody how not to
- 44:09rape?
- 44:10>> Yes, they have
- 44:11>> only way you know is you let your one of
- 44:13your girls go free with him for a while
- 44:14and then if he didn't rape then he
- 44:16passed the test?
- 44:16>> I guess that's the sacrifice for
- 44:18diversity.
- 44:18>> So the United States ways of you got
- 44:20here and then they would do the
- 44:21examination to become a citizen. It's
- 44:22too late. You got to open a a training
- 44:25[clears throat] and say, "Therefore, for
- 44:27the first 3 years in our country,
- 44:30you'll be monitored. These are the
- 44:31things we just want you to be to be
- 44:33aware of."
- 44:34>> But But if it doesn't go well, would the
- 44:36next step be remigration?
- 44:38>> Yes.
- 44:39That should be included in the training.
- 44:41You say, "If like [clears throat] here
- 44:43when you have a green card, you have 3
- 44:45years not to commit any felony. If you
- 44:47ever
- 44:48then during that interview, you have
- 44:50failed completely. Your citizenship
- 44:51won't go through. So if you make me sign
- 44:54that contract, it will become
- 44:57I will I'll be aware of it.
- 44:58>> Mhm.
- 44:59>> Okay?
- 45:00But when I go and I say, "Hey, I'm
- 45:01coming to your country." Yeah? You have
- 45:03a $50,000? Yes. You have a 100? Yes.
- 45:05Boom. We give you a visa. What you are
- 45:07telling me is be whatever you are when
- 45:09you get there because we don't have any
- 45:10rules. The rules must be understood
- 45:13before the person gets into your
- 45:14country. This is our only guarantee for
- 45:16a better future where Europe can remain
- 45:18we can remain and have this beautiful
- 45:20relationship still going on for us. Now,
- 45:22number two. The African countries and
- 45:25the Central American countries watching
- 45:26their citizens tearing these places into
- 45:28pieces.
- 45:31It is their responsibility also because
- 45:33the person is still a Ghanaian, a
- 45:35Nigerian, a Beninois while they are
- 45:36there.
- 45:37So whatever they are doing is straining
- 45:40the relationship you are having with the
- 45:41foreign country.
- 45:43So I will say the government of these
- 45:45countries who have heard, for example,
- 45:47South Africa. South Africa was screaming
- 45:49more than 4 8 years ago.
- 45:52>> Mhm.
- 45:52>> It started in 2016
- 45:54that Nigerians were really
- 45:56not helping South Africa. I went to
- 45:58Durban.
- 45:59I went to Amanzimtoti. I went to live in
- 46:02and my driver was pointing to every
- 46:04corner we passed. He said, "You see them
- 46:05there? Those are Nigerians and selling
- 46:07drugs broad daylight in corners."
- 46:10Now,
- 46:11I'm for law enforcement, if you want to
- 46:13ask me. So, what happened between
- 46:15civilians and civilians is a slippery
- 46:17slope.
- 46:18The citizens
- 46:20should push their law enforcement and
- 46:22immigration and say, "If you don't take
- 46:23care of this problem,
- 46:25say goodbye to the next election."
- 46:28And let the law enforcement do but
- 46:31they also know that the law enforcement
- 46:33unit as useless as anybody else. So,
- 46:35they won't call on somebody they know
- 46:37will disappoint them. So, the civilians
- 46:38took
- 46:40the law into their hands.
- 46:42If they were benefiting from the
- 46:44immigrants,
- 46:45they wouldn't chase them out.
- 46:47>> Um no, no, they wouldn't. I think
- 46:49there's a
- 46:50I think there's other There's I mean I
- 46:52There's been other countries that have
- 46:53gotten rid of their their immigrants in
- 46:54different ways other than um monitoring
- 46:57them or or deporting them en masse. Um I
- 46:59I'll give you an example. Chile, after
- 47:01the 2010 earthquake, they took in a lot
- 47:03of Haitians, 185,000 Haitians.
- 47:04>> Yeah.
- 47:05>> Um they were having trouble with the the
- 47:08people, the population. It wasn't going
- 47:10well. This was not This was not a a
- 47:11great uh This was very very bad. Um the
- 47:15the Chilean government decided to offer
- 47:16them a plane ticket and say, "Hey, we're
- 47:18going to let you go visit your family."
- 47:20In the fine print, they put that if they
- 47:21went back to their original country,
- 47:23which you're not supposed to do if
- 47:24you're you're asylum seeker, you can't
- 47:26just go back to your original country.
- 47:27You're supposed to be fleeing from that
- 47:28country, right?
- 47:29>> Right.
- 47:29>> Um they put in the fine print that if
- 47:31they accepted the the plane ticket, that
- 47:32they would lose their asylum status.
- 47:34>> Mhm.
- 47:35>> All 185,000, nobody read the terms and
- 47:37conditions, and they all left and they
- 47:39went back to Haiti.
- 47:39>> Yeah.
- 47:41So, you see, it was easy the 2010, it
- 47:44was easy for Chile because
- 47:46when they take [snorts] you in as asylum
- 47:47>> Yeah.
- 47:48>> because of uh natural disaster or
- 47:50political
- 47:51>> Right.
- 47:51>> you are controlled.
- 47:52>> Yeah.
- 47:53>> This is why it made it easy for the
- 47:55Chilean government to send them out.
- 47:57But, if they had come in and the Chilean
- 47:58government said, "Oh, they're coming in
- 48:00as just
- 48:01>> students or
- 48:02>> That's correct.
- 48:03>> Who Who knows what?
- 48:03>> Who knows when? Then you cannot track
- 48:05them anymore. Yeah. And there are three
- 48:06things you can do when when you are
- 48:08still on refugee status, and that's why
- 48:09Israel is good at it. There are
- 48:11690-something Sudanese, Somalians, and
- 48:14some Nigerians. And there are some
- 48:15African countries who would come into
- 48:17Israel and say, "I'm a refugee asylum
- 48:19seeker." And they tell a a whole lot of
- 48:20lies to Okay. But, the
- 48:23Israel has monitored them. In fact, they
- 48:25live like in tenement.
- 48:27They They can collect all 600 and then
- 48:28690 people today.
- 48:30>> Yeah.
- 48:31>> Four, five, six years ago, they went to
- 48:33them and said, "You say you came from
- 48:34Somalia. There's no problem going on
- 48:35anymore. You, Sudan, you've now say We
- 48:38are giving you I think they said a year
- 48:39to start getting ready to go."
- 48:41>> Mhm.
- 48:42>> So, when they come in as asylum seekers,
- 48:44you are able to control them because
- 48:45they have a card. They can't do
- 48:47anything.
- 48:47>> Yeah.
- 48:48>> But, the loose affiliate of volunteers
- 48:51Oh, sorry. Refugee immigrants who just
- 48:53go to these countries. Yes, you have to
- 48:55create
- 48:57a bottleneck of a path to This is where
- 49:00you're going.
- 49:02>> [snorts]
- 49:02>> Just to monitor until when you see that
- 49:05what we are seeing in this designated
- 49:06city is really good, you can then begin
- 49:09to tap those you want. Countries should
- 49:12run like companies.
- 49:14You don't keep an employee just because
- 49:16the HR gave him the the the key fob for
- 49:19the door. Therefore, no matter what he
- 49:21does, countries must begin to be run
- 49:24like companies. You only keep the ones
- 49:26that are useful to you.
- 49:29Not based on color.
- 49:29>> No, I think it's more than a company,
- 49:31though. I think I think there's a
- 49:32there's I mean, there's a there's a um
- 49:35it's your family. Your Your country that
- 49:37you're from, that's all your family.
- 49:38It's your extended extended family.
- 49:40>> There is the There is the founder and
- 49:42the owner of a company. And then he
- 49:45employed people.
- 49:47>> Okay.
- 49:47>> [laughter]
- 49:47>> Yeah, I guess Yeah, I guess you could
- 49:48say it like that.
- 49:49>> That's what I mean. And the HR says,
- 49:51"Yeah." And and that's that's So, these
- 49:54new employees
- 49:55>> they they don't have the same heart that
- 49:58the founder owners family has for the
- 50:01company.
- 50:01>> No.
- 50:04>> So, you say HR says you first 90 days
- 50:08probation.
- 50:09>> Yeah.
- 50:10>> But, you're an employee. You have the
- 50:11key fob. Why am I on probation? Because
- 50:14it makes [clears throat] con-
- 50:16it makes companies run well. We can let
- 50:19you go in peace.
- 50:21And we can also go in peace.
- 50:22>> Mhm.
- 50:23>> If we can begin to introduce that, even
- 50:26in countries in Africa, if they can do
- 50:28it.
- 50:28>> Mhm.
- 50:30>> [snorts]
- 50:30>> If South Africa is going to allow
- 50:31through its migration system, you know,
- 50:33Zimbabweans and Kenyans to come,
- 50:35you must treat the country like it's a
- 50:37company that was built by somebody.
- 50:40You ask me, that's why I always love
- 50:42monarchy.
- 50:43>> Yeah. Well, yeah, the monarch the
- 50:45monarchy
- 50:47you know who's in control and you know
- 50:49who to point the finger to.
- 50:50>> You see, you're right about that, right?
- 50:51I feel more confident.
- 50:53>> Okay.
- 50:54>> I feel more safe that yes, this country
- 50:57>> Mhm.
- 50:57>> is run by
- 50:59a blood and bones and muscle who created
- 51:03it. They will never let it go to pieces,
- 51:05and I live in it.
- 51:06>> Yeah.
- 51:07Yeah, that's that's amazing.
- 51:09That's natural.
- 51:10>> some high school dropout line up for 8
- 51:13hours to vote for some loose guy who
- 51:15just campaigned so beautifully with
- 51:16beautiful words and photo shoots,
- 51:19I'm not safe.
- 51:22>> Yeah, that's true. You don't know who
- 51:23you're actually electing.
- 51:24>> You don't.
- 51:25>> But, you you know the whole bloodline of
- 51:26the monarch
- 51:28you know everything everything about
- 51:29their history and you know who they are.
- 51:31>> So,
- 51:33we destroyed it, and it used to be the
- 51:35case with African tribes, you know.
- 51:37>> Yeah, chiefdoms.
- 51:38>> Yeah, Ashanti people knew that you know
- 51:40what is funny? I talk about monarchy.
- 51:42You've been to Ghana, and my friend
- 51:43who's asking Uh, you know, the the lady
- 51:46who came on the show and said, "Come
- 51:47with me." Ashanti
- 51:49>> Mhm.
- 51:49>> The Ashanti region, the Ashanti tribe.
- 51:51>> Yeah.
- 51:51>> Still made sure that they have their
- 51:53king.
- 51:54>> Yeah.
- 51:55>> They have not given it. And the Ashantis
- 51:57are more
- 51:59you know, their allegiance is to the
- 52:01Otuofo before even Ghana.
- 52:04South Africa
- 52:05the Zulus
- 52:07>> Yeah. [laughter]
- 52:08>> Okay?
- 52:09>> Yeah.
- 52:09>> They said, "Okay, it has become a
- 52:11country
- 52:12but we will tell you something. The KZN,
- 52:13the KwaZulu-Natal
- 52:15>> Mhm.
- 52:15>> Each Zulu tribe will have a king, you
- 52:17know, the Msizi Zulu has under him
- 52:19kings."
- 52:20>> Yeah, they kept their their tribal land
- 52:22still intact.
- 52:23>> That's correct. That's what I mean by
- 52:24And why did they do that? Because
- 52:26monarchies
- 52:27monarchies work because I trust the
- 52:30blood and the bone of the lineage from
- 52:32which this country came.
- 52:34>> Yeah, and you know that they're one of
- 52:35you because of the bloodline.
- 52:36>> It's one of That's correct. And I know
- 52:38who to point fingers at and I know he
- 52:40will listen and I know he will protect.
- 52:41>> Yeah.
- 52:42>> Until, you know, these Greek guys said,
- 52:44"Yeah, but a government by the people,
- 52:46you know, otherwise the masses are going
- 52:48to be angry. The only way to keep them
- 52:50from being angry and not attack you
- 52:52tell them that they have power and they
- 52:55can vote."
- 52:57>> Well
- 52:57>> So, I don't know. We did see the masses
- 53:00attack a couple of monarchies. So, I
- 53:02think somebody saw it and said, "Dude,
- 53:04if you don't tell them that they should
- 53:06have a voting card, if they get angry,
- 53:08they will attack you."
- 53:10>> Yeah.
- 53:10>> Countries saw it and said, "Yeah, that
- 53:12is true. I saw the Bolsheviks. I saw
- 53:14France.
- 53:15>> Mhm.
- 53:16>> I saw Yugoslavia."
- 53:17And so, you begin to say
- 53:21But, unfortunately
- 53:24the masses
- 53:27always outnumber the intellectuals.
- 53:32So, you have to continuously use some
- 53:34emotional control mechanisms to get them
- 53:36waiting for 4 years and go to the polls
- 53:38before they attack you.
- 53:39>> Mhm.
- 53:41>> And because like you said since the
- 53:43masses are waiting 4 years to go to the
- 53:46polls, meanwhile the immigrants are
- 53:48flopping in and there is nothing they
- 53:49can say until the next election cycle.
- 53:52>> Yeah.
- 53:53>> And then the one who promises me that he
- 53:54will close the gate is the one I will
- 53:56vote for. But by then, I have 27,000
- 53:59Somalis collecting 1.5 billion from the
- 54:02Finland government and they don't even
- 54:04sweep their own streets.
- 54:05>> Yeah, and we just saw that with Sweden,
- 54:07too. Sweden was right on It was almost
- 54:0950/50. It's got, you know, turned over
- 54:12by the left and it was because of the
- 54:13immigrant voters, so.
- 54:15Yeah.
- 54:16>> Well, I hope that this conversation,
- 54:18some young fellows in the European
- 54:20countries, African countries, wherever
- 54:21you are, you are listening, you are now
- 54:2318 and you are going to become a
- 54:25politician, you're going to get into
- 54:26office or advise governments. Nothing
- 54:29There are many things that we can
- 54:30reverse and we reverse it
- 54:33by being compassionate, by being in the
- 54:36shoes of both sides, like I said. The
- 54:39immigrant has nothing to be accused of.
- 54:41But the people on the ground should
- 54:43start thinking properly as to what like
- 54:45I said, it will benefit both sides.
- 54:49But if we wait until we succeed in
- 54:52eradicating Europe,
- 54:55then that's it. It's like you've choked
- 54:57your own oxygen line.
- 55:03>> [laughter]
- 55:04>> Well, guys,
- 55:06uh if you watched the the first video I
- 55:08did with Emily,
- 55:10we are going to Timbuktu, the country
- 55:12that many of you have quoted Mali, Mali
- 55:15Empire, and you want to see inside and
- 55:17we are going to places where many people
- 55:20have not been able to get into and we
- 55:23are going to make that happen so we can
- 55:24bring you real history and language and
- 55:28writings and stuff so you can understand
- 55:31really what happened in that region.
- 55:34Join
- 55:35the inner circle
- 55:37uh of the think tank for Zanu and the
- 55:39gold think tank for Zanu project
- 55:41rethink.
- 55:43Because there are conversations we
- 55:44cannot have
- 55:45and you now are going to have access to
- 55:47me to talk about more topics, more
- 55:49topics than you've ever heard. I want to
- 55:52thank Emily really so much for coming to
- 55:54Connecticut and spending all the way
- 55:55from Arizona and spending this number of
- 55:57days and she's still in town. Maybe I'm
- 55:59able to catch her for another episode
- 56:01before she would return to Arizona.
- 56:04Thank you so much for having me. It was
- 56:05such a pleasure.
- 56:06Thank you.
- 56:06>> [laughter]
- 56:07>> Great. All right guys, don't forget to
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