Black people: political parties should not pander to racist sentiment
A very progressive attitude towards black Africans
The political parties have a hell of a lot to answer for in pandering to this hideous sentiment among the Maltese. Instead of trying to outdo each other in feeding the racist frenzy and those who appear to believe they are about to be swallowed up by Africans, the two party leaders should cooperate in holding out against it.
A couple of months ago, the prime minister pointed this out to the leader of the opposition. Instead the leader of the opposition jumped on the racist bandwagon, while qualifying his statements with the political version of the cliche ‘I am not a racist, but…’.
Then the Nationalist Party followed suit, and in trying to keep its more conservative supporters happy, ended up alienating those who are more open-minded, liberal and – yes – civilised. We expect right-wing xenophobia from Labour. We do not expect it from the Nationalist Party.
The Nationalist Party, instead of trying to beat Muscat by joining him on the racist and xenophobic bandwagon that has long been the preserve of Labour, should instead point out repeatedly the huge inconsistency of a party leader who calls himself progressive, liberal and forward-looking while at the same time adopting a far-right stance on immigration that aligns him to unsavoury politicians like Italy’s Roberto Maroni.
Muscat can’t have it both ways. Liberals don’t persecute blacks or tell the people who wish to persecute them that the Labour Party is their home.
The more I look at it, the more Muscat’s coalition comes across as a rag-tag-bag of distinctly unpleasant agendas and special interest groups.
Yes, a Faustian pact might well make him prime minister as it did his predecessor. But then just wait until they come knocking for their pound of flesh.
I can’t help but notice that one of the former main faces of Super One, and a constant presence on Super One still, is defending the man accused of nearly killing an African by cracking his skull – just because he tried to enter a nightclub with two French companions who were allowed in. Well, of course, she’s only doing her job, so that’s all right then.
The Times, Tuesday, 9th June 2009
Bouncer ‘punched drunk immigrant’
Waylon Johnston
A French student yesterday testified that a bouncer who stands charged with seriously injuring an immigrant punched the victim when he tried to enter the club drunk.
Ramon Moyon, 19, who has been on holiday in Malta for the past month, recognised the 29-year-old security guard, Duncan Deguara, as the man who delivered a heavy blow to the victim on Friday, May 29 at around 3.30 a.m.
Suleiman Abubaker, from Sudan, sustained a fractured skull and is still in hospital in critical condition.
Mr Deguara is pleading not guilty to seriously injuring Mr Abubaker and committing a crime which he was duty bound to prevent.
Mr Moyon said that on the night of the incident he had met Mr Abubaker at Plush club in Paceville and, accompanied by a French friend, they walked down to Footloose bar.
Mr Abubaker, who was drunk, was stopped at the entrance. The student said Mr Deguara landed a punch that threw the victim to the ground. After he was helped up, Mr Abubaker stumbled down the road and hung onto a sign post only to be kicked by an unknown person.
Police Inspector Martin Sammut testified that the victim was initially in danger of losing his life. After his condition stabilised he let the bouncer out on police bail, adding that the victim was still in a critical condition.
During submissions on bail, defence lawyer José Herrera argued that his client should be granted bail as he had a clean police record.
The inspector countered that bail ought to be denied because of the seriousness of the charges.
Magistrate Lawrence Quintano decided to grant the accused bail against a personal guarantee of €5,000 and a deposit of €5,000.
Lawyer Veronique Dalli also appeared for the man.
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I wonder when Norman will decide to tell his supporters that after he gets rid of the blacks he’s going to halve the population of Malta by getting rid of people with low IQs and dark Maltese (people who look Arabic), the 50 traitors and start a eugenics programme where he will get rid of undesirable babies. Oh, and he’ll destroy everything built after the 1800s and relocate everybody to live in a revolving tower in Mosta, but at least you’ll be able to see the three cities from there. Meanwhile, we’ll be employed as spiritual guardians showing European tourists round our heritage, while keeping wops and wogs out.
[Daphne – Errrrm, we’re wops ourselves.]
He’ll have to get rid of himself and most of his supporters.
If you were Australian you’d say we’re wogs. The terminology is hardly clear, all I meant was racism starts with colors and moves on to shades of a color. A load of rubbish if you ask me.
The only rubbish I see is the rubbish you’re talking, “Ginger”. Since these “shades of color” you talk about are all part of the Maltese euro-ethnicity, the one which you claim Lowell is racially in favor of.
I have had friends who were ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, they got sent back home and yes, they were RUSSIAN and of lighter skin than my own and I am of 100% maltese origin.
So just because these immigrants are AFRICAN, arriving on our shores in poorly maintained boats and will be killed if they are sent back, we should make an exception?
[Daphne – Where the Russians seeking refugee status?]
No they weren’t but if they were able to put together a aslylum-seeking story which makes enough sense they would have.
What guarantee would you have that the whole boat of immigrants are asylum seekers? Are these immigrants going to spend a life time living off our taxes for their refugee status claim to be verified?
Under Gonzi, Muscat.. maybe.
Under Lowell – it’s a definite no.
As much as I agree with you on what you said about Muscat I am disappointed with the Nationalist party’s reaction to illegal immigration. It seems to me the Nationalist Party has deviated from what it actually means to be a Nationalist as regards values. The word Nationalist has its own meaning behind it.
Both parties are scared of displaying a solid view on the issue – and though people like il-Ginger are trying to make fun of Lowell he is one of the only politicians who has given a no-BS view on illegal immigration. The Maltese know exactly what Lowell will do if elected and this is precisely why he gained so many votes in the MEP election.
And may I ask what would he do?
Take a look at the IE blog, with an open mind of course. Some may find that Norman Lowell is not so bad after all.
http://imperiumeuropa.wordpress.com/
“The Maltese know exactly what Lowell will do if elected and this is precisely why he gained so many votes in the MEP election.”
It is also why many people didn’t vote for him. That some may find Norman Lowell “is not so bad after all” says more about the some than about Lowell himself. There is nothing to admire in the man or his inhumane proposals and you’ve got to be hyper-myopic or wilfully blind not to see that.
@ Aaron
Norman Lowel should decide if he should speak Maltese, English or Italian.
Anything but English or Swedish. That way I don’t have to understand what he says.
Corinne Vella, please point out quoting or linking your source anything “inhumane” which Lowell has proposed.
I would imagine you’re already familiar with his rantings on vivamalta. You could scroll back through his postings there or ask his acolyte to lend you her case file.
@ Corine Vella: Back up what you’re saying or don’t say it at all.
Maybe the acolyte has the missing court case file.
[Daphne – Which missing court case file? You’ve lost me there.]
I have backed up what I’m saying. All that Norman Lowell stands for is well documented on vivamalta’s website: the calls to shoot people at sea, to string people up from lamposts for not agreeing with his insane proposals, to starve other nations into submission…I need not go on.
You are either already well informed and simply being disingenuous or too lazy to do your own research in which case, as I said, you could ask his acolyte to lend you her case file.
The missing case file of the alleged bank fraud which went walkies.
[Daphne – John Attard Montalto is perfectly placed to find out where it is. If it still exists, of course.]
Ah – perfectly placed to retrieve it is he? Someone must have secreted it up their behind then.
Little wonder it stinks.
If a Maltese bouncer hits a black client, is that violence or racism? If a Maltese bouncer hits a non-black Maltese client is that violence or racism?
What if I’m hit by a black bouncer? This is getting ridiculous. It’s like: If you hit anyone, make sure they’re the same skin colour as yourself.
Round our parts, all bouncers are black, built like brick privies, and invariably violent. Should I complain of racial discrimination whenever I’m manhandled out of clubs or refused entry?
[Daphne – It’s only Africans, sub-Saharan or from the north, who are violently assaulted by bouncers merely for turning up and asking to enter a club. Some years ago, a Libyan man who did succeed in entering a club was killed when he was thrown out, literally, and his head hit the side of the pavement.]
I’m questioning the legal code, not the events. If we want to end racism, why does the law distinguish between different races?
[Daphne – I get your point. But attacking somebody on the basis of his race or skin colour is considered an exacerbation of what is already a crime.]
Actually, Baxxter, the law does not distinguish between races but expressly forbids such distinctions.
The media always assume that a non-black Maltese bouncer attacking a black patron acts on the basis of skin colour. My point is they cannot prove it, and they’d be denuded of sanctimonious tut-tutting if the skin colour were reversed. The Maltese lead sheltered lives in more ways than one, and their latest idiocy is to assume that when two skin colours are involved, violence is always white on black, and never the reverse.
I’ve seen a British/Maltese half-drunk guy being kicked by five bouncers at Paceville some two years ago. After we convinced him to go away and started to leave, we saw them running at him and giving him il colpo di grazia. Probably they wanted to warm up on him that evening. A punch bag sort of. Bouncers are colour blind.
[Daphne – That’s why they let in the two French men and cracked the Sudanese’s skull when he insisted on going in with them, then, because they’re colour blind. You don’t know the half of it.]
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090610/local/migrant-involved-in-paceville-beating-dies
Oops…forgot to say great post! Looking forward to your next one.
oh who cares about this waste of breath, he died 1 less immigrant in Malta, you forgot the Maltese-Australian incident in Greece and the Maltese footballer that got beaten up by 4 bouncers ?. if you love niggers so much then go live in Somalia
Looks like Dr Veronique Dalli now has a manslaughter case on her hands.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090610/local/migrant-involved-in-paceville-beating-dies
The poor guy died for being black in our country tal-misthija.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090610/local/migrant-involved-in-paceville-beating-dies
I posted this comment on the Times, it applies to you and your group perfectly Daphne:
This man is the same Suleiman Abubaker that last summer was convicted of assaulting one of our policemen.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080706/local/immigrant-insists-he-did-not-assault-the-police
Paceville spiss ikun hemm numru ta’ klandestini jiggieldu mal- bouncers. Mhux incident wiehed biss kien ikun hemm. U mhux dejjem il- bouncers jibdew ! U gieli iweggaw il- bouncers.
Habib tieghi, bouncer, is- sajf li ghadda qala daqqa ta’ flixkun imkisser go grizmejh minghand klandestin. Hadd ma qal li RAZZIZMU!! u hadd ma thassru lil siehbi.
U zgur. Ghax siehbi abjad. Allura ma jistax ikun vittma ta’ razzizmu. Ghax il- Graffiti jiddeciedu!
Interessant kif meta immigrant illegali jaqla’ xebgha tajba kulhadd jaghmel panigierku, u meta is-suldati taghna jaqilghu xebgha jew xi tazza bleach f’ ghajnejhom HADD MINNKOM MA JITKELLEM. Minn isimkom tidhru.
Dejjem l- istess nies u l- istess litanija ipokrita.
Specjalment il- Moviment Graffiti. Meta abjad iwegga klandestin….tghidu razzizmu. Meta klandestin isawwat suldat, jew Malti…ma tghidux li razzizmu.
Ghalfejn dawn id- double standards? Wegbuni please….inkella ikkundannaw kollox….mhux il- hazin tal- Maltin biss.
Charlie Xrieha aka C Zarb:
Here’s the reply to you that I posted on timesofmalta.com
C Zarb: That claim of assault was dubious. The man was beaten, handcuffed and dumped into a van in front of several witnesses who themselves were harassed as a result. That said, how does a claim of assault justify or mitigate what has happened now?
And here’s another reply to you which you seemed to have missed.
Kenneth Cassar (27 minutes ago)
@ C.ZARB:
“Stating that isn’t this guy the same Suleiman Abubaker who was accused of assaulting the police some time ago?”.
Could be. On the otherhand, it could equally be the same Suleiman Abubaker whom several eyewitnesses said was beaten by police officers while he was handcuffed.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080706/local/immigrant-insists-he-did-not-assault-the-police
Don’t you think your comment about a murdered person is a little out of order?
The charge would be homicide not manslaughter.
this goes to Mr. Xrieha…
the point is …. whatever colour or purpose of stay, this is not the way one should treat another human. It is just so sad that things are getting so out of hand. Bouncers, sadly are a target. That goes with the risk of the job. Persons of any colour getting beaten up for asking to go into a club is something else. I pray that the youngsters of today have more intellect and human spirit in their bones. Had i been there, I hope I would have had the courage to do the same… Nobody NOBODY deserves this treatment – it makes a mockery of our Christian and altruistic reputation… and above all a disgrace to our sense of justice.
and to GTX, what planet are you from? Thank GOD, one which isolates you from many others.
I was there that night. That bouncer really kicked him. And even the first time he punched him was very strong and dangerous. He could kill with one punch, and he did it.