Racist sharks

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, columnist at The Independent, writes about how millions of black and Asian Britons have their hopes fulfilled and have reached success in a country that is richer and more prosperous and fairer than it ever was… But, she warns, circling sharks endanger their lives and fill them with fears.

Those are the racist sharks promoting a rude discourse and speaking their bloody mind in the public sphere and, by doing so, coarsening society and affirming bigotry.

The words of Yasmin Alibhai-Brown could apply to the Swedish case. But those are words never written or if written never published in the Swedish press.

Here too, the elites in power condemn immigrants speaking the true and celebrate the foolish, self-serving immigrants who encourage racist tendencies instead of standing up to them.

Fading humanity

Yesterday, a cold forced me to stay in bed for most of the time and I decided then to spend it listening to web radio. BBC offered just what I needed to start reflecting about the kind of world I’m living in.

 I listened to a program about the “halakis” of Morocco, who are the guards of the oldest story-telling tradition in the world. And they are about to disappear because modernity is closing their room for action.

According to the BBC, Marrakech is now the only place in Morocco where you still can find halakis – but they are all old men and there are only about half a dozen left.

Capitalist evolution means undeniably the extinction of humanity… It’s really sad to see how we humans all over the world are just letting the markets’ dark forces transform all of us in soulless consumers.