We should accept these foreign guests gracefully.

Just think! Put yourself in their position .. you’re a mother with your kids and you want a better future for them.. a future that doesn’t contain that much poverty and sickness. What would you do? or maybe a father trying to find a place for your family to live in so they can live and not die with an illness or with hunger? All those racists should go and live in their place for a week. I bet you wouldn’t last a day there!

So what if they get free top-up cards.. It’s just something they get for free and we pay for them. So what? I’ m sure you buy things that get wasted and the money goes down the drain.

Something for you to learn from immigrants:

1. Last month I was in Valletta and without knowing I had the zipper of my bag open and my purse fell out. This black man came running after me and gave me back my purse. It had 180 euros in it because I was going shopping. Would a Maltese do that?

2. A week ago I was on the bus with my friend going home after a day out. Two Maltese guys got on and sat behind us. At first they were silent then they started touching my hair telling me to come back there and do things with him and I replied NO as simple as that. He started calling me names and yelling at me and touching my leg trying to look nice. A black man sitting in front of us rose from his seat, came back and sat near them and told them, “I’m sorry to disturb but I believe that you are disturbing this young lady and you are behaving in a manner that no one should behave. Could you please stop and go to the front before I tell the driver about it.”

I think this is serious. We should not underestimate the effect this will have. The implication is that immigrants (including possibly illegal immigrants) can also stand for elections. A small community which happens to have a centre of immigrants nearby could end up with (illegal) immigrants on the council. This will be one more reason why no community would want immigrants within its boundary. Where the numbers of immigrants are large, such as in Malta, such a move will not bring about integration. On the contrary, it will increase division and mistrust.

Where does PL stand on this issue? Would they be willing to lobby their socialist colleagues in the European parliament and kick some sense into them? I would have expected the Maltese labour MEPs to take a firm stand against any idea of giving any voting rights to illegal immigrants but the Times report makes no reference to this.

Let’s hope that EPP will get a good majority in the European parliament next June.

[Daphne – Immigrants to Malta already have the right to vote in local council elections. Whether they bother is another matter.]

[Daphne – Conversely, had they landed here we would have never heard the end of it.]

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090330/local/vodafone-denies-allegations-in-racist-leaflet

All the heartless people out there, click on this link and just ponder !

Ah, Daph – But why would the anti-black men comment about these, especially if they are female and hail from the Ukraine, Russia or the Philippines?

– a source of inspiration.