With very few exceptions, we are immoral, decadent, semi-literate philistines. Even our University Graduates are mostly semi-literate. And, if “light” be darkness, then how big is the darkness?

Vide our land, the execrable architecture which has replaced one-time gems of the art, it’s shocking and pitiable environmental shambles, its dying ecology, and prepare your plastic flowers, mate, for the real ones ain’t no more, my luv! Yet as the barker at the entrance to a porno-joint once said: “It’s heaven! Everyone happy on the inside!” of this living hell…..We prefer to live a lie………..We love darkness; it hides our inner nudity…………

Come September the 16th, next, I will have known the Maltese for 66 years, rubbed shoulders and broke bread with the best and the worst of them. There remains one redeeming-feature: the honesty and sincerity and the genuine hospitality of the 20 or so % who still follow in the footsteps of Christ. Who identify with HIM, and live Jesus every second of their daily lives, be they at work or at play.

I am proud to be a friend to people from MANY lands, including MANY Africans, whose hospitality I have witnessed first-hand, and whose company I enjoy no end. My heart reaches out to them; but, single-handedly, I cannot do much in this arrogant and sun-blistered land. The home of the sepi-tutti and the ne plus ultra…………
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In the past, and even today, albeit in a different way, we invaded their lands, colonized their homes, pushed them to the margins, made pariahs of them, plundered their resources, denied them a share of the wealth we were misappropriating, raped their women. We damaged their environment, dumped hazardous waste on their lands, beat and brow-beat them into submission, forced them into ghettos, denied them the most basic human rights, insisted on their segregation. We bought and sold them into slavery, like cattle as it were, to toil and labour and die, and be sexually abused as desired by their “masters”. In their so-called, semi-“independent” years, we continued to grease the palms of their leaders to repeatedly give us permission to exploit their resources, without the accruing wealth ever percolating down to the many, enjoyed only by the few. We made separated public loos for whites and others for blacks where the whites had running hot-water and the blacks had to make do with dismal and dirty latrines. .
In America (God-loving America) where (if I’ve crunched the numbers right) over 40 million abortions, murders really, have been performed/committed since Rowe vs Wade, black men afflicted with syphilis, in the 40’s or 50’s, were left untreated by doctors to watch the progress and course of this very-devastating disease if left untreated.
In recent years, they were, and still are, used as guinea pigs by the pharmaceutical blood-suckers who take advantage of their poverty to test on them what westerners were loathe to see tried out on themselves. As smoking sales dipped in the west, we turned our attention to young African boys and girls to get them into the nicotine tunnel. We invented lies about them, like the done-to-death old saw that “ black skin exudes stink”.
Now, to rub salt into the wound, the unconscionable leaders of China have weighed in there: the heartless, ruthless repressive Chinese government which keeps a personal file on the private lives of ALL its citizens and denies them full-internet access on the flimsy pretext that it is a threat to the state (read: to the longevity of a criminal government). This gang of privileged folk doesn’t give its WONDERFUL Chinese people any say in the running of the country and their own private lives. Chinese citizens have no comeback. Another hideous dragon is poised to exploit Africa further.

I pity these people, far away from home and their loved ones, cut adrift in this cruel, harsh and unforgiving land, where they really have no future at all. Just let your average Maltese male take a coloured girl-friend home………Often worse the other way around: when girl takes boy…. Wait for the fireworks, the words of hatred and the flying glass……..
This is nothing new. Our hoary-headed sun has seen it all. We were always so, though somewhat more-covertly.
Today the racism and the hatred is more overt!
The cause is obvious: the decline of morals across the board, which cuts through all strata of our society, coupled with the ignorance of the gullible who are fired up by liars and inflammatory rhetoric, and who have not got the mental-wherewithal to challenge what they here, churn things up in their heads, and come to their own conclusions. Anyone in their right mind, with a couple of neurons still firing, KNOWS that we have to redeem and redress the ravages perpetrated by our European and American ancestors.

I am in regular contact with many young and handsome African boys and girls with the scrubbed-clean looks, who call me papa; we meet regularly and they are some of the nicest, sincerest people on earth. They are sons and daughters to me, and I am proud of them.

The antidote to our poisoned hearts is likewise as obvious as its cause: If we really loved God, we would see in ALL people, be they white, red, yellow or black, the Image and Likeness of their Divine Maker; we would not deny them the dignity which is their birthright! We would see, in everyone, a co-traveller (a gift from God to us) on this brief pilgrimage called life. Having done so, we would also feel much better inside of us, much more-peaceful and free of the cancer that’s eating away at us.

As I return home after writing this piece, the sun-scorched asphalt seems to burn my feet ever-harsher through the holes in the soles of my shoes………And I say:
Welcome, my beloved coloured brothers and sisters. May you find peace in this land of foul-mouths spouting acrid fumes…..
Marcus Flores

Naqbel mieghek mija fil-mija, Frank.
M’ghandix esperjenzi sbieh x’nirrakkonta fuq kull darba li kelli mmur l-ghassa biex nirrapporta xihaga. Dan l-ahhar mort fl-ghassa tar-rahal …. il-pulizija lanqas biss fehem ghalfejn bdejt ninsisti fuq li ninsisti li nkellem lilu u pulizija mara fil-privat, f’kamra maghluqa. Immagina ftit! Ha tirraporta xihaga b’qalbek trid tinqasam, bit-tieqa miftuha berah u bin-nies ghaddejjin minn tahtha qed jisimghu kollox, u b’persuna tissemma b’par widnejn ta’ hmar fuq bank. ”Ghalfejn trid il-privazija?” qalli l-pulizija. ”Hawn tajjeb titkellem hawn!” Dan apparti li farfar il-kas kollu fuq surgent ta’ ghassa ohra u ghamilli appuntament mieghu li ma tlabtx ghalih.
U zgur li ghandhom bzonn erba’ snin tahrig u mhux ftit gimghat qabel jiggradwaw!
Ara l-esperjenza li ghandi ta’ spettur tal-pulizija – dik hija totalment differenti.

Chesterfield:

“On the other hand, you have repeatedly made the assumption that this *wasn’t* a racist attack.”

Of course i made that assumption . I may be wrong and that is why we have a legal system , so that it can be decided through evidence and statements by witnesess exactly what happened .

As far as I know (from what i read on the papers) , there has been absolutely no sort of evidence that the attack was racist and therefore it should not be considered a racist attack until such evidence is produced to the courts .

Before anyone mentions the fact that the 2 French students accompanying Mr Abubaker were allowed in and Mr Abubaker wasn’t , remember that Mr Abubaker was somewhat known as a trouble maker , at least when drunk .

Who would allow a known trouble maker with a conviction of attacking police officers and damaging police property into their club ?

It makes no difference if he is Maltese , immigrant or whatever , nobody wants trouble makers .

Like i said before , there is no excuse for the bouncers` behaviour towards the victim and the bouncer if found guilty of manslaughter (and/or perhaps racist behaviour) should be made an example of when being punished as this sort of agression from bouncers` needs to be stopped once and for all .

“you are only assuming that it was a racist attack”
I wasn’t assuming anything of the sort. On the other hand, you have repeatedly made the assumption that this *wasn’t* a racist attack.