AT THE BORDER: A DREAM... SO CLOSE AND YET SO FAR

At the border: Tombs of the African immigrants who failed to reach Europe. Source: Vice News.

By Gundhramns Hammer
April 1, 2015
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They hugged each other for the last time. She had tears in her eyes as she said farewell to her son. He too was extremely sad to leave the loved ones behind. 

He took a bus and headed north. He knew that his trip was going to be dangerous and could even lose his life. But he was full of hope. He had big dreams just like anyone else on this planet. He just wanted a better life for his family and himself.

After a few weeks his mother was anxious to get news from her son. She inquired in town but to no avail. No one knew what had happened to him. 

His mother used to go to bed thinking of her son, thinking of how quickly her little boy (Fig. 1) had turned into a young man. She prayed for him each and every single night.

 

 Figure 1. The future of Africa. Source: Sierra Express Media.

Months went by but she never heard of her son again. No one came back to tell her that he had died trying to fulfill his and her dream. He was buried at the border. There is no name on his tomb. 

A dream... So close and yet so far. So far that he only found the never ending life.

What were his last thoughts before he took his last gulp of air?  Was he thinking of his family before leaving this world? What has become of his mother and the rest of the family in Subsaharan Africa?

His story repeats over and over every day. Year round.

It is the tragedy of many Africans whose only wish is to have a better life. 

It is only natural. All Nature´s living creatures - from the Paramecium to whales and from algae to Sequoia trees -  search for a better spot in life.

Can you blame immigrants for this?

No one can.

Millions of Africans are caught in hell today. And it is no secret that many selfish economic interests are standing in their way, many a times even smashing them dead.

We wonder... Where the fuck has all of the money raised to "save Africa" gone? What the fuck do all of those NGOs do in Africa? Is all of this only a fucking trick to keep Africans deep down in hell so that multinationals can get their minerals to make gadgets like e-tablets and other e-crap to masturbate affluent people´s brains and thus keep well-off folks from dying out of boredom with electronic toys?

The truth is that you cannot make a phone call with your cellular telephone without directly or indirectly killing a human and nonhuman baby somewhere in Africa or elsewhere?

What we have now was theirs once. 

We are all connected on this planet. Everything is connected on Earth. Thus, Africa is all of us. Africans do understand this. 

In the past Africans have shown a lot of hospitality to Europeans. They opened their arms to hundreds and hundreds of "whites" when they were fleeing from wars in Europe. 

Many "whites" have even made fortunes or have found a place to call home in the "black" continent.

Now thousands of Africans have been forced to leave their homelands because of famines, droughts and wars and try to get into Europe. Only the "lucky ones" realised their dream.

Many others only get a slap on their faces, get beaten or find death.

For the unlucky ones, Europe only remains a dream (Video 1).

English/Español (subtítulos).

Video 1. Europe or Die: The Western Mediterranean Route by Vice News.

Worried at home about the negative aspects of this "invasion"? The economy? Social welfare? Jobs? Health? Education?

This issue is delicate and hairy even for the experts. 

But let us face it, as far as food is concerned, for example, there is plenty for everyone on the planet. Nearly 50% of the world´s food is wasted.

How about the rotten apples in this immigration wave? 

No human barrel is free from this problem. 

Can this massive immigration problem hitting Europe be fixed?

Yes it can. We leave the floor to the few amongst the few who run the planet´s economy and are sitting upon trillions of US dollars, some of which have surely been sucked from Africa. 

But these greedy people will not budge so easily. To them poverty is good business.

On the governmental level, Western politicians should be working on really solid, nontrickster and nongreedy-boomerangy aid programmes in Africa instead of building higher fences against the immigrants or screwing Africans with puppet dictators or via paid mercenary armies to terrorise people and cause havock in the countryside, forcing the local folks to flee and empty the land to make room for megaprojects to loot the rich mineral resources. 

The chupacabras in the European Parliament should reduce their juicy salaries too. In 1999 alone, they were spending more than €4 million daily, according to Bueno (1999).

At the individual level, we should stop buying crap which soon finds its way to the trash bin.

In a globalised world, sooner or later, what we do is done upon them and what they do is done upon ourselves.

We all are in the same boat. 

Can you see the others at the other end of this boat?


References

Bueno J. (1999). Babilonia y Babel: El Parlamento Europeo desde Dentro. Ediciones B, S.A., Barcelona, España. 430 pp + Indice & Anexos.