@ Kenneth Cassar,

They drowned because they made a bad choice in their mode of transportation. Risk analysis was very faulty and they paid the ultimate price, what do you find hard to understand about that?

The risk analysis choice of an amateur fireworks maker is in the same vain, as we know so well in Malta.
Riding a motorcycle in today’s heavy traffic on the island is another bad choice. So is stealing earthing cables and copper buss bars in electrical substations, bad idea, but some people choose to do it and sometimes it does no go so well.

It is a choice some people make and it is regardless of race, so when their life is cut short then they have no one to blame but themselves. Free will and not very deep thinking gets them every time and I do not shed a tear for them, now is that racist? ( the most bandied about word on the planet) no it is not racist, heartless maybe but not racist.

@ Reuben Scicluna:

It is, but then again we don’t report every single death on earth. In any case, nobody’s stopping you from writing about wars in your own blog.

@ Paul Bonnici:

Just for thinking and saying that all black “illegal immigrants” are economic immigrants, you are showing that you are clearly racist. And please excuse me for disbelieving you when you say your best friends are black.

And it strikes me as very odd that you say you always make a point of speaking to black people in Malta, and even sit next to them in a bus and try to strike up a conversation with them, when you think that these same people (were they not so lucky), could have drowned and thereby been part of what you describe as “natural selection’s way of reducing the population”.

I wonder: When speaking to black people on the bus, do you ever tell them that?

@ Paul Bonnici:

My family would not pay human traffickers either. But what has this got to do with your callous (not to mention absurd) statement that reduces the tragedy of people dying at sea to “natural selection’s way of reducing the population”?

As for your equally absurd statement that “most illegal immigrants have enough money to live a comfortable life in Africa”, well, if you really believe that, you’ll believe anything. And you do know that Africa is a whole continent, don’t you?

@ Ken il malti:

What has agreeing with someone who says that drowning immigrants is natural selection’s way of reducing the population got to do with self responsibility?

And where have I said or implied that “self responsibility only applies to all other races but the black race”? You need to do better than that to discredit me. Straw men won’t work.

As for the rest of your comment, I won’t even bother replying, since that wasn’t the issue I was questioning in my post.

You really need to do better than that.

Andrea Gatt is very clearly totally oblivious to the real root of the problem.

Blissful ignorance.

May I add just to complete the ridiculous picture :

Why on earth don’t these awful black people book a Mediterranean cruise with MSC instead ?

“Natural selection is the gradual, non-random, process by which biological traits become either more or less common in a population as a function of differential reproduction of their bearers. ”
People drowning at sea is not an example of natural selection but an unfortunate tragedy.
Most people would prefer to remain in their country of origin and it takes dire circumstances for them to risk their lives in a rickety boat knowing that they may never reach their destination but have a good chance of dying at sea either through dyhydration or drowning.

Fine Frans.

Our country has a ginormous political problem on its hands.

Granted.

This is no excuse, however, for Malta to shirk its humanitarian resposibilities even if for one moment.

Paul, this clarification of yours goes some way towards allaying lots of people’s anxieties about what you said.

“My son, keep (restrain) your tongue and keep thy friend”.

G. Chaucer.

Lol how typical. Your best friends are black? Really? U hallina.