The jailing of black Sweden

At the beginning of October, the International Herald Tribune published a column written by Orland Patterson, a professor of sociology at Harvard. In his piece “The jailing of black America”, Patterson analyzes why America has more than 2 million citizens behind bars and why Black Americans constitute half of this country’s prisoners.

Reading him I started to wonder why so little is said about the jailing of black Sweden, the country where I live since many years.

Immigrants are here also incarcerated at far more times the rate to the white Swedish population. And this is as well having a catastrophic effect on immigrant communities and neighborhoods in many cities. But, nothing is said about it, nothing is discussed on this topic in the Swedish press.

I do think however that Orland Patterson’s analysis is accurate when he points out that it is wrong to claim that the horror of the American prisons is solely the result of white racism. The lack of power among the immigrant population in Sweden is not exclusively the product of a racist and discriminatory system. It is also the result of the immigrants’ lack of interest in fighting against it.

The sad true is that white hegemony in America, or in Sweden, or in any other place in the world, is achievable only when the none-white citizens consent to be the target of it. So, the question you must ask yourself is: Am I a part of the problem or a part of the solution?  

Dr Jim’s tips for success:

1. - Always make necessary decisions before you have to
2. - Be the first to tell a good story
3. - Don’t back schemes that demand miracles
4. - Never be the brightest person in the room
5. - Only ask for advice that you will later accept

Sounds cleaver… And yes Dr Jim, or even better Dr James D Watson should know, he won a Nobel prize and he stands alone as the “good-father of the DNA”. But it is apparently risky to follow his advices, you may end up finishing your life not in glory but in disgrace for making stupid and racist statements about black people’s intelligence level.  Did you ever wonder how dumb a Nobel laureate can be? The answer is: just as dumb as Dr Jim.

Where is Aldo?

Aldo has been kidnapped by Colombian criminals. This is a very sad story which says a lot about how crazy things can become when a country is ruled by criminals too long. Not even the dogs are left in peace when you have a bloody pitbull as president!