What Kenya is doing to its migrant community should worry every
rational human being that has not lost a sense of history.
The deliberate global perception towards migrants is not in
its entirety new. What is happening is a creation of a dangerous mine field
that will dictate the future of our civilization around the globe. We must
fight against the fear of migrants being created in us and the fear in migrants
against their hosts.
Migrants in recent years are slowly building the biggest
world population in a single category outside race and religion and they
provide the next frontier for the recurring of inhuman expression of violence
since slavery.
If one understands slavery and how it was instituted in the
society one cannot fail to draw parralles. It is without a doubt that most of
those who organized and effected the trade did so with clarity of thought and
an absence of guilt .
Besides the financiers including the big banks of Europe
that still run the world through their multinationals that need labour just
like then the foot soldier, the crew in slave ships the buying slaver, the African
who captured his fellow kin were all pre-meditatively conditioned to see slaves
as lesser being humans who did not deserve any dignity.
Slaves on their part were depraved souls who had gone
through perhaps the most haranguing experience you can afford to man. Pounced upon
while fetching firewood and shackled to band with wrought rusty metal that cut
into their skins. Banded together with a corpse which they dragged with the
shackles that would cut through their skin. Humiliated naked at the cost examined
like beasts and branded. Shipped in spaces not bigger than a coffin in grime
feaces and urine for months next to rotting corpses. 1 third of the whole population
of a continent turned into docile humans to condition them to their situation.
Now take a migrant. Take yourself a Kenyan in 2007 if the
world had not come to your rescue. If this country would have fallen you would
be a migrant like the Somali, Syrian or Iraqi or Afghan. And if you believe
that the migrant question is Islamic then think Nigeria, Central African
Republic, Congo, South Sudan, Ukraine, Venezuela.
Globally social strife is tearing stable countries apart
creating a global movement of migrants. Migrants who have been starved by their
regimes that they have lost the fiber of nation statism. Migrants who have been
so brutalized by their regimes when the table turns like in Bangui its
genocide. Migrants who have walked the desert sands of South Sudan over rotting
black bodies to cross over borders with barely bones holding their stature.
Migrants who enter their neighbouring countries in millions
only to be huddled in concentration camps like slaves and creating a whole generation
of people disrupted from their social economic and religious way of life they
would sell their own mothers for a morsel of food.
Migrants who due to disrupted schooling are engineered to be
on the last wrung of unskilled labourers. Who like in the South Africa mines are the
easiest targets for multinational exploitation and xenophobia. Like in Europe are the basis for re-election (right-wing ideologists get rid of migrant syndrome that has gripped europe)
Men to whose host nations treat like scum and have no one
but their own to turn to. Who understand the plight of each other only in their
seclusion. Whose host population is conditioned to hate them and host security apparatus
has perfected the art of Askaris in the cotton field of America.
It is the migrant population in this century that we will be
guilty of committing atrocities unlike those done to our own forefathers who
fought human oppression.
But it is this same migrant population that we are most
vulnerable to becoming. Remember that all failing Nation states had at one
time, like you, thought they were stable just before they failed.
