They also steal these children from their home countries and use them as props to make themselves look charitable and generous so…this is just par for the course.
The people in this country are being treated like the people in nazi Germany did pre & during WWII. UNACCEPTABLE!!!!!!
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Fellow white people, stand up too. Don’t leave Black folks in the position of possibly getting shot for speaking up. Stand up and shield those who need it.
Mamoudou Gassama, a 22-year old Black man from Mali, without hesitation
scaled four stories of a Paris building to save a toddler facing certain death. Mamoudou is an undocumented immigrant. He knew getting caught would mean deportation.
But instead, France has a new hero. President Macron thanked him, granted him French citizenship plus a job at the French fire brigade.
Shout out to Mamoudou Gassama!
👑 Truly Amazing Indeed! 👑
amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As amazing as this is and as much as I think we should celebrate how heroic and selfless Mamoudou is, it makes me sad that immigrants and refugees are expected to literally be superheroes to be treated with compassion by a lot of people. Having spent time working in the camp in Calais, it is an extremely divisive issue in France. We weren’t allowed to tell local people where we worked because volunteers had their cars set on fire. Children had to watch their homes being torched in front of them. Property was illegally seized by police because they know refugees and illegal immigrants have no one to complain to. It just frustrates me that there’s such a high expectation on immigrants compared to the general population. The bar to be treated with basic human kindness is so much higher when it involves people who weren’t born in that country or don’t have the resources to legally seek citizenship.
Someone saying that jewish people never have dealt with immigration problems because we came from “white countries” holy shit
I’m like hi please learn more about Jewish history before you try to talk about Jewishness and it’s relationship to whiteness and race because if you don’t know something like this you definitely don’t know enough sorry!!
This is just SPECTACULARLY ignorant of the history of immigration to the US in general. But what’s most galling is that while immigration issues for certain white ethnic groups (i.e. mostly Catholic whites – Italians, Irish, Poles) shifted/improved over time, the St Louis ship FULL of 937 Jewish refugees was turned away in 1939.
At this point, I wonder if it’s a willful ignorance, and I need some ideas because I have no idea how to deal with that.
Honestly, with those people, I usually revert to the St. Louis example, and the statistics of its passengers upon returning to Europe. Occasionally I’ll invoke my rabbi’s Kol Nidre drash from a couple years back – on Syria and refugees – which began with the congregation raising hands based on periods of their families’ immigration (a tiny contingent for 1925-1990).
But at a certain point, I stop with all that, note that the KKK and other popular white supremacist groups think that (European, presumably) Jews are ‘infiltrating’ and ‘corrupting’ the white race, and remind them that blood quantum took over religious practice as the fundamental crime of Jews a long time ago. And occasionally, depending on the circumstances, I’ll remind them that my stereotypical Ashkie self was screamed at by the nephew of the local police chief in 1980-something for saying I was white.
I know we’re all terrified by America right now, but you need to know what is happening in Britain, there’s so much shit going on, but here’s some of the highlights:
The UN have condemned the British government for “grave” failures regarding disabled people’s rights. [x]
There are over half a million people using food banks, because they cannot afford to eat. [x]
The benefits system is declaring people fit to work, ignoring the opinions of their doctors, and refusing them money unless they spend 35 hours a week actively looking for work. These include people with severe disabilities, mental health issues, and people who are literally dying. In fact, around eighty people a month die within six weeks of being declared fit to work by this system. [x]
16.7% of the population is living in poverty, with a further 30% at serious risk of slipping into poverty [x]
Children are suffering from such severe malnutrition they’re having to be treated for rickets. [x]
It’s currently estimated that 1 in 200 people in the UK are homeless. [x]
This is just a tiny snapshot, and I won’t even go into the NHS crisis, because that deserves it’s own massive post.
We’re now deporting people who’ve lived and worked here for decades. We invited a load of commonwealth citizens over, starting in 1948, with the arrival of HMS Windrush, and they became known as the Windrush Generation, but though they were given indefinite leave to remain we didn’t give out any damned paperwork until after 1971 so we’re kicking them out now that they’re old and not paying taxes, despite the fact that most of them came over as children, and that they made lives here, and worked to support this goddamned racist backwater of a country for decades. [x]
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