Soccer Player: “When you make it out of Africa, your family expects you to support everyone!”

[Babymama Magnet]

This ain't an African thing...this happens with people all over the globe.

You’re right. I’ve seen all groups send money back home to help support family but I’ve also seen these same groups send money back home so that money sent can be invested in setting up businesses or something long term for the community.

In my gf case she was sending money back home so that they could be more comfortable, not that they would use the money for a bigger purpose.

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

They said the same thing in the 30 for 30 documentary, "Broke"

 

[OperationNumbNutts]

That 30 for 30 "Broke" was crazy.

lol You beat me to it.

 

[97Pac]

Seen this happen with my ex who was Nigerian. First person in her family to graduate and is working a decent job as a nurse.
Her grown older sister who has a husband and a kid (now 2 kids) back in Africa was expecting her to send money every month to help provide for not only her but her husband and children too.
Her younger brother who lives in the UK and is studying also expected her to help support him financially (I don’t think he was working)
As a single woman with no dependents she was out here financially supporting grown people and I asked her why?
She said it was expected in her culture.

Like people here have already said when you live in the west people think your rich and will despise you for not (and let’s call it what it is) looking after them even though they’re grown and able bodied.

I don't understand how a grown man can be ok with his wife calling and begging other people for money.

Money should flow down not up or sideways. That money should be for your kids.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

A lot of people's extended family wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire. shyt even their immediate family. If it's not my family, I can't judge the next man and how he handles his own

 

[Belize King]

People have no clue tbh.

My father sent money back to his island(St.kitts) family very rarely, but tbh mostly everyone is doing well so there wasn't a real need.

But I've got Jamaican friends who did get that pressure n it's draining to see as a witness.

Barrels, bins n money.

Same in Belize. I have my cousins machete my grass every month for cash. You think they do it? Nope.

I rather teach a man to fish. I’d buy a family farm, have a few people show my family how to tend to it and that’s it. You want money, tend to the farm and sell the crops.

Have the bum husbands and boyfriends figure out how to make bread from the farm.

 

[F*ckthemkids]

That 30 for 30 "Broke" was crazy.

That shyt was sad. Hopefully these young brehs took heed and are taking better care of their chicken. Shyt if I was a young athlete I’d keep that shyt in my favorites and watch it every damn week

 

[Dameon Farrow]

E Z Platttttttttttttt.

People in intraracial relationships feel the same way, though.

 

[tuckgod]

God bless that brother and his beautiful family

 

[Neuromancer]

It's called a poverty tax. Mostly more people deal with it. But in our circles we mostly see black people dealing with it.

 

[GreenGhxst]

So rich brehs marry white so they don't have to pay black tax twice

 

[MikelArteta]

I'd be like sadio mane. It's better to give than receive. If I ever make it big my fam is eating

 

[Ziggiy]

“The Black Tax.”

I understand. He’s got his own family to feed.

Beautiful fam.

The twist at the end. I swear I need to stop being shocked by it.

Procreating with the oppressors. Shameful

 

[Ziggiy]

I couldn't live in the lap of luxury and buy overpriced European goods while my extended family struggle to make ends meet. The price of a Ferrari will hold a family down for a decade in Africa...it can pay for a state of the art facilities in a school etc

BUT I will not be exploited and I definitely won't be blackmailed . Sounds like he was dealing with some bullshyt. He needed to have parameters and rules... Not a never ending gravy train

Africa’s a fukking continent not country.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]