Opinions of Monday, 8 July 2024

Columnist: Rockson Adofo

Beware African immigrants abroad for the Far-Right parties are winning elections in Europe and the Americas

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The far-right parties are those political parties that are hardcore racists, hating people of color with passion. They campaign on racist-driven policies and promises to rid their countries of immigrants if they were to win elections.

And here we are, they are either winning elections outright to form governments, or making major inroads into winning parliamentary seats, congress seats, etc. to become strong opposition parties.

What signal does this send out to immigrants in these countries?

Are immigrants, especially those of dark skin color, not feeling jittery about a possible order to leave these countries, or these racist nationals turning against them? It is a possibility that we must contend with.

The fact that some immigrants, black people of course, support and vote for these racist parties to power is hair-raising. They are unknowingly digging their own grave.

As long as they are black, or people of color, or are originally not natives of these countries, their skin color and heavy accents give them away.

When a British or American white racist man or woman sees you in the street, all that comes into their mind is they have seen an African immigrant that must be deported to their ancestral homeland, Africa. They don’t care about your naturalized nationality as American, British, French, or German.

By your color, you don’t belong to their society, not recognized as kindred, so you had better vacate their country.

Many times, I feel sick seeing a black person with a naturalized identity behaving as though he/she is whiter than the white man, hence wouldn’t like to see more of his/her fellow same color of race, black immigrants of course, come into the country.

Some offer such flimsy excuses as the immigrants will come to take over their jobs, compete with them for the limited Council accommodations, overstretch the health facilities and deliveries, etc.

For these and other reasons, they will support the racist politicians and political parties to stop any further immigration of foreigners into the countries they live in as naturalized citizens or legal immigrants.

Now that the anti-immigration political parties are winning power to become strong forces to reckon with to the detriment of immigrants, what are the politicians in Africa doing to deter their nationals from moving to countries that they are not, or will eventually not, be welcome?

Let us put pressure on our African politicians to stop their fondness of embezzling public funds. They must serve their countries with a clean heart, ceasing to be greedy and selfish.

Additionally, they should stop flying their pregnant wives to America to give birth, in the sure hope of their children becoming automatic nationals of America by birth.

With the new racist wind of politics blowing across the white man’s land, your children born in America or Europe will be seen as Africans unwelcome in America or Europe. Their skin color will give them away!

Shockingly, when these racists make mention of immigrants, they mean mostly Africans or people from third world countries but not those from countries like Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, China, and Canada.

There is a coming day that black immigrations may face persecution abroad, seeing how the far-right political parties are winning political power.

As I speak, Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) party is leading the first round of the French legislative elections held on Sunday, 30 June 2024. Her party, supporters, and sympathizers are racists to the core.

Immigrants in France are shivering, perspiring profusely, having goosebumps and cold chills descending down their spine. They are frightened. They can perceive what evil awaits them should the far-right National Rally party win massively in the second round to form the government.

African immigrants, beware of these succeeding far-right parties.

African leaders, beware of the current growing trend of political affairs in the developed world where racist parties are ramifying and growing from strength to strength.

I am scared!

To be forewarned is to be forearmed.