Anti-immigration and Western Racism is good for Third World

[IRONm@N]

Anti-immigration and Western Racism is good for Third World
Submitted by zesssto on 12 March 2004 - 11:57pm

I am a Somali who has grown up in the West. I have experienced exclusion and inclusion. What I am about to say has no bearing on the personal relationship between immigrants and natives, or between Africans and Europeans in the West, it concerns the Future of Africa. If the current immigration trend continues, where all the gifted and educated Africans are allowed to flee to the West, Africa’s problems will never be fixed. Africa will never been developed. Simply put, these people (who are coming in droves to places like Netherlands, U.K, France, America etc) are the vital building blocs of their societies, they are the ones who understand and can best resolve the problems. The West by giving them an easy way out, though out of humanitarian compassion, does not take into account the long-term interest of Africa. If the 5% of a given population, which happens to be the educated segment, flee, do you think the 95% who are uneducated will fare any better in fixing their societies up? Imagine, if all the educated European peoples, specifically the academics and professionals were allowed to flee to America after the massive destruction caused by the Second World War. Would post-war Europe be what it is today? I think not. To flee and seek a better life is a human right, but it is a right that Africa cannot afford today. The exodus of these people, who if they were not given that “easy way out” would otherwise have been forced to fix their societies up, to take their societies back from the brutish thugs and warlords, is a shame. If not for these current immigration laws, which allow anyone to come into the West were not in place especially vis-À-vis Africa, the problems of that continent would have been resolved a long time ago. You see, it would have forced the “ Good people” to act. As Edmund Burke said “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing." By allowing them to flee you allow them to do nothing and then you preach to them about “ development and democracy”. I believe you Europeans are hypercritical. For example the U.K allows Somalis and other Africans to come in unrestricted, yet you do not allow Eastern Europeans who are by far more trained and more educated to come in. The answer is simple: You want those Eastern Europeans to learn to fix their problems, not run way from them. I respect that, but I find the lack of it towards my people disgusting and hypercritical. African professional have no real relevance to the West’s development, they are only polishing an already built and fine tuned machine. Their nations need them; their people need them, not you. They can do far greater good in their societies---regardless of what profession or field— than in the West. I hope this anti-Immigrant trend continues and forces these people back to their country. I hope it forces all Somalis to return to Somalia. I hope the neo-conservative and anti-multi-culturalist forces win in the Netherlands. They will inadvertently aid our development. Peace

http://www.opendemocracy.net/anti_immig ... rd_world_0

A Good piece writen by a Somali blogger, and the replies are good too.

[James Dahl]

That's crazy man, if people could solve the problems facing their homelands, they wouldn't have fled in the first place.

It doesn't matter how smart and educated you are, some idiot with an AK-47 can still shoot you in the head.

[qoraxeey]

That's crazy man, if people could solve the problems facing their homelands, they wouldn't have fled in the first place.

It doesn't matter how smart and educated you are, some idiot with an AK-47 can still shoot you in the head.

[bareento]

Who said the problems of a country are solved by the educated folks?
Oftentimes in the competition to grab power they r the ones who bring war, tribalism, religious fanatism etc
But unlike the poor, when things go wrong they dont suffer they just flee to the West.

As for developpement, Africa will develop when it enters the world economic flow. When African has something to propose or to take.
As such I salute the Glorious Somali Pirates: they saw an opportunity they grabbed it
that is the real road toward developpemnt: when u see something take it! when u have something sell it!

B.

[paidmonk]

That's crazy man, if people could solve the problems facing their homelands, they wouldn't have fled in the first place.

It doesn't matter how smart and educated you are, some idiot with an AK-47 can still shoot you in the head.

So you're saying the smart people can't just rally and fight back? You think morons win wars? The intellectual brigades would defeat the army of morons and child soldiers in a matter of weeks not even months, but the intellectuals haven't been put in a position to fight, and they need to be.

And plus, I don't think your input is needed or wanted in this topic.