Tribes Redux

All over Europe we are feeling the pressure of certain people who think the country belongs to them only, even when their ancestors immigrated to that country which was then willing to receive them and to give them a place to build up a better life. But now their grand- or over-grandchildren do not want to give others such a chance to make something better out of their life.

The far-right (or today also called the Alt-right) becoming stronger in West-Europe and now also spreading like a virus over the United States of America and Canada, should make those who feel more for a democratic system more worried and anxious to take action, for bringing a halt to this fungus which can make our whole nation rotten and a dangerous swamp to live in.

Good that William Hill does not keep his writings private any more.
He likes to start each posting with a quote by someone past or present that speaks to the topic he want to address.Today he starts of with a quote from the young Kenian journalist at Africanews, Euronews and co-host for Ebru News “Aiming at the 4th°. First. Fast. Factual. Final & Future word” who thinks

The world is a sitcom waiting to be written. Start young.

Robert Kodingo who has a news room with French, English African and Nigerian speakers and sends praise from Nigeria (on Periscope TV). Robert Kodingo his quote

“We hate each other by race, color, tribe, wealth, gender etc because everyone wants to feel special and different than the other. I do not however have a solution on how people can stop having an ego that makes them specially superior than the other.”

should make us to see how ego has conquered the capitalist world.

William Hill or Bill his thoughts are sometimes serious and personal, sometimes just humorous, sometimes intentionally provocative (to make the reader assess their own thoughts on the subject and to elicit a comment). He also could see what is going on in Europe.

He also is not blind to notice that loss of old national sovereignty with subservience to Brussels’ bureaucracy might have been a good reason for many to go for a Brexit. {Immigration} He writes

but the largest reason is the huge influx of Middle Eastern and North African immigrants flooding into Europe, financially taxing, particularly the western, northern industrial nations. That, and the fear that embedded among them are terrorists bent on destroying western civilization. {Immigration}

But he suspects there’s a more truthful reason.

“It is interesting…the rhetoric [and] the gathering strength of right wing politics….Everywhere in the West ‘immigration’ [is spoken] in terms of the end of …’culture’, displaying signs of feeling threatened by these ‘others,’ who are portrayed as an invasive force.” ( Himani Bannerji.) {Immigration}

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In Europe our states or countries are free to be part of the European Union or to stay out or like Great-Britain has shown, to leave.For a long time our guest-writer Bill espoused his belief that free, open and unencumbered travel and residency should be a right of all peoples, that globally – that right enjoyed by citizens within the United States and the European Union, respectively – should apply to everyone, world-wide. {The Great Wall of Donald}From his writings we may learn that many American Christians seem to be sitting with a very very old idea

if you worked hard enough you could become a rich, influential person. For centuries the only ones who needed to be educated to succeed were the clergy. {Education in America}

From the same article we learn at our surprise that not many Christians from the U.S.A. are holding postgraduate degrees:

Hindus – 48%

Jews – 35%

Buddhists– 26%

Catholics – 10% {Ed. note: we do not know Bill only looks at Roman Catholics, like often many Americans do or at all Catholics}

Protestants – 9%

(Not mentioned were those without a confessed religion. I wonder what percentage they are?)

If you wonder (as I did at first) why Christians are so far behind other religious, I think the answer is cultural.

Buddists and Hindus both share a similiar belief that the soul’s future condition is dependent on the knowledge acquired by the mind in this lifetime, that knowledge becomes understanding of life, and that is the ultimate goal of life. (It would seem that, contrary to Christian teachings that all understanding will be granted to the soul upon death,  Buddists and Hindus believe understaning is not a gift in the next life, rather something to be strove for in this life.)

The Jews for most of their history – at least in Europe – were not allowed to own land (which was the riches of the day) and they had to be ready to leave on a moment’s notice to escape local progoms against them.  Hence an education was portable and enabled them to find work without being tied to one place.  {Education in America}

 

No wonder than perhaps we can find so many who are carried away so easily by words from some one who knows his rhetoric well. For politicians it is proffered that their folks do not think too much for themselves. Therefore certain countries are trying to give the idea to their inhabitants they are ‘somewhat’ or that they can get a ‘degree’ but that degree does not say much or has not much value opposite the degrees of renowned universities. The Donald Trump University promised to give some money back to those who complained they are ripped off.

It is known that

Males of most species of animals are prone to violence, yet where it is the male that is the primary care-giver and has the greater role in raising the young, it is the females that compete violently with each other. {News that doesn’t sell newspapers}

We could see many republican women who could skin Hilary Clinton alive. But for certain women the other and coloured women may also be a competitor on their market for men. and when they have to see that certain of those women of an other race can climb higher than them it makes it very painful.

Certain politicians playing in on the weak part of their audience made a handy use of the fear the media is creating by lots of people.  As such by the fear mongering in several nations of Europe and different states in the United States, those who found an easy way to point at a target or culprit, proclaiming nationalism, anti-immigrant and religious intolerance.

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To remember

• significant up-tick in the level and number (almost a daily occurrence) of violent confrontations racially + ethnically,
• US, a nation of immigrants + freedom of religion + who for the last sixty years promoted internationalism by multiple treaties of cooperation in multiple areas

For Bill there is a good tombstone epitaph over the grave of humanity after we destroy ourselves.

“Mine mine mine.
That was the curse and power of human beings — that what they saw and loved they had to have.
They could share it with other people but only if they conceived of those people as being somehow their own.
What we own is ours.
What you own should also be ours.

In fact, you own nothing, if we want it.
Because you are nothing.
We are the real people, you are only posing as people in order to try to deprive us of what God means us to have.”
 ― Orson Scott Card

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Preceding articles

Autumn is in the land

Enough with the Clothes Shaming of Muslim Women

American Christians have to think twice before going to vote

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Additional reading

1. Leaving the Old World to find better pastures
2. Migrants to the West #1
3. Capitalism and economic policy and Christian survey
4. The New gulf of migration and seed for far right parties
5. Our political systems and juggling with human laws
6. Objective views and not closing eyes for certain sayings

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Further reading

1. Puritans and Pilgrims
2. “We Are Not Our Grandparents:” Yeah, That’s Pretty Clear
3. To be an ‘Aryan’
4. Standing Rock
5. Ancestors
6. Ancestral Reverence
7. The Past
8. Gifts from our ancestors
9. Echos of ancestors
10. Origins
11. 7 Things Our Ancestors Stockpiled To Survive Winter
12. Friendship Comes in Small Gestures
13. Don’t judge from the cover
14. Let’s clarify! Migration, Immigration, Emigration: the importance of proper definitions.
15. A Migrant By Any Other Name is an Expat
16. 260 White Crosses
17. Jo Cox: victim of ‘Leave’ hate crime.
18. Immigration to the UK from the European Union hit a record high in the run-up to the Brexit vote
19. A record number of migrants have arrived in Italy this year by boat
20. 1,400 migrants rescued in Mediterranean
21. Italy’s Minister Of Interior (Freemason): Surrender Your Homes To Migrants Or Face Jail
22. Calais: the State in total hesitation
23. France and Them: Expats, Migrants, Refugees
24. Swiss immigration quotas: where do we stand?
25. VQR 2016 Prize for Photography – Jason Florio ‘Out of the Sea’
26. Austria News | Asylum-Seekers
27. Bulgaria News | Asylum-Seekers
28. A flirting coach is giving refugees dating lessons ‘to help them integrate’
29. These migrants must be sent back to Africa and Asia. Migrant crisis: Bulgaria orders migrant deportations after riots at camp on Turkey border | World | News | Daily Express
30. My Issue With “Stopping the Boat People”
31. Fate of thousands of missing migrant children in Europe still unclear
32. Merkel says EU and Turkey must stick to migration deal
33. Child asylum seekers subjected to controversial age tests
34. A Word To The Criminal Migrant
35. Recycling means risk of increased crime in Denmark
36. Erdogan threatens to allow 3m refugees cross into Europe
37. Erdogan Warns Turkey Could Open Gates for Migrants if Pushed by EU — After EU Stops Talks With Turkey on EU membership
38. Encounters With Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Bigotry in Germany And Beyond
39. Video: Racist Attacks!
40. Punk: Beyoncé Unleashes Formation
41. The Future President
42. America once turned its back on Anne Frank, just as Donald Trump rejects Muslim refugees today
43. Article of the day: American ethnic politics in comparative perspective
44. Blame Trump on the Rich, Part 4: The KKK and the two Neighborhoods Adjacent 
45. “But why can’t we have white pride?”
46. For White Voters, It Was Education, Stupid
47. Republicans Can’t Be Christians — Sorry!
48. Bridges – Stepping Forward with Lilka and Andy
49. Cartoon of the day
50. Reader letter: Alt-right story ‘refreshing, important’
51. “Doctor Calls Michelle Obama ‘Monkey Face,’ But Says She’s Not Racist”
52. Adichie’s “danger of a single story” and the Rise of Post-Truth Trumplandia
53. 12-2-16
54. The US once gave amnesty to almost 3 million undocumented migrants. Here’s the economic argument for doing it again
55. Ladies and Gentlemen. The President of the United States.
56. He’s Making a List
57. Monochromacy
58. Let’s All Get Vulnerable
59. Sermon Notes – gRace Part 2: Good Fences Make Bad Neighbours
60. Anti-Semitism in Hungary and Its Spiritual Twin Poland
61. Honor Diversity
62. District temporarily pulls classic novels after complaint
63. Top 10 reasons why it’s hard to talk to some white people about race.
64. (12/01/2016) No Less GOD’s Creation
65. Envie de partager ce texte

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Quotes and Thoughts

“We hate each other by race, color, tribe, wealth, gender etc because everyone wants to feel special and different than the other. I do not however have a solution on how people can stop having an ego that makes them specially superior than the other.”

― Robert Kodingo

Some nations in Europe, and lately the United States, have been voting for leaders or policies that proclaim  nationalism, anti-immigrant and religious intolerance. There has been a significant up-tick in the level and number – now almost a daily occurrence – of violent confrontations racially and ethnically, without any indication of possible abeyance.

Things I find loathsome and abhorrent. Especially here, in the US, a nation of immigrants and freedom of religion and who for the last sixty years has promoted internationalism by multiple treaties of cooperation in multiple areas. The incoming Trump administration is still in the formative stages and there…

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