ORLANDO, Fla. – What makes you are feeling at residence right here within the U.S.? Does the motivation of the American Dream put on off as quickly as you get your palms on that blue passport, or does it final till you’ve discovered a option to accrue generational wealth for your loved ones and others?

This week on “Black Men Sundays,” host Corie Murray interviews Kelali Dogbe, an Information Technology (IT) advisor who believes expertise is essential to inclusivity by the use of easing entry to info.

As Dogbe sees it, entry to info means entry to wealth, and serving to others community — particularly immigrants, folks with disabilities, and minority teams — ought to be our obligation.

“Every country got a different passport, the American passport is blue. When you pull out that blue passport, you are an American, it don’t matter what color you are and that comes with certain privileges. You get certain privileges, you get treated a certain way, you get treated like you’re upper class, you get treated like you’re rich, and so a lot of people get intoxicated by that, but what I would challenge people to do is also understand the social and economic situations of the people who actually live (in other countries) and see if there’s some opportunities where we can network and help, you know? Because we have access to wealth over here that they don’t have, that we can help to pull the diaspora up,” Dogbe stated.

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Dogbe described how his background as a first-generation American pushed him to realize generational wealth.

“My parents are from Ghana and West Africa. You know, they came over here, both of them immigrated to America to get a better life and to bring a better life for their children, so that’s the first point is that it was always a mission of improvement. Like, there were better opportunities in America than there were in Ghana and so there was always that mission that our parents instilled in us, like, ‘We came over here to get y’all opportunities that we wouldn’t have otherwise had, and so you all need to make the best of that and try to try to pass that on,’ and so that’s where we’ve been,” Dogbe stated. “That’s the one point about generational wealth. With the immigrant mindset, it’s a little bit different because that’s kind of what the mission is, is like, ‘Look, we’re coming from somewhere else to get better opportunities, now what you need to do as a next generation, as the kid, is take advantage of those opportunities and push it forward along to your kids.”

He instructed Murray that certainly one of his functions in life is to bridge the hole between teams similar to Africans and Black Americans for his or her mutual profit.

“By design, by systemic design, we’ve been taught to be divided from each other, and so because of that, we’ve been weak on both sides, we’ve been fed negative information about each other. So on the one hand, if you’re a Black American, you’ve been taught that Africa is a poor place, but you’ve not been taught the history as to why maybe since the 1950s that certain countries in Africa haven’t developed economically. It’s a whole deep history of what they’re doing in terms of global trade, in terms of resources and different things like that. On the other hand, what we don’t know living in America is that Africans also get negative images of Black Americans. So they they get the quote unquote hip-hop images, because you got to understand like, America, to everybody else in the world, America seems like paradise. Other people, other places in the world, you see this as you travel more, other people other places in the world look at America like everybody in America is rich. Everybody is rich. Like, that’s the idea. So, imagine trade,” Dogbe stated.

Hear the complete interview and extra in Season 2, Episode 34 of “Black Men Sundays.”

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