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Apr 13, 2019 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon
What you are about to read happened in one of the oldest countries in the world and a top nation in the European Union. You are not going to believe it but this happened not in the movies but in real life. A group of criminals invaded the North Korean Embassy in Madrid, the capital of Spain.
They beat and tied up the employees. An employee escaped from the top floor, sprained her ankle as she jumped from top of the building. Using incoherent language because she was traumatized, she ran into the street and shouted for help. Two policemen turned up at the entrance of the embassy and knocked on the door.
A Caucasian man dressed up to look like an Asian, speaking in a fake North Korean accent greeted the policemen. They inquired of him, “Is everything all right here?” The criminal said; “Yes yes, no problem man, no problem!”
These two policemen are jackasses or they are deadly racist. It is either they could not be bothered with what happened because it was North Korea or they are hopelessly incompetent. A delirious woman runs to the police saying there is a criminal invasion of her workplace, and they did not follow standard police procedure and ask to take a look inside.
These are the countries that look down upon the Third World. Italy is a far more shambolic, crazy society than most Third World states. The average westerner comes down to the Caribbean; they frown upon our hotel service as if they offer a better quality.
If you haven’t read it, please take a look at my column for Tuesday, February 20, 2018 captioned, “Australian horror: Thank God it wasn’t a Black family.”
On a cruise ship, a family with extended members and relatives and friends got drunk and terrorized an entire cruise ship, meaning both staff and holiday-makers. You only see those things in the movies. None of the major newspapers and television stations around the world featured this modern display of evil.
If that cruise ship had touched down in Jamaica and a group of West Indians had boarded it and got into a drunken brawl, the next day all the tourist magazines in Australia, Canada, Europe and the US would have urged its citizens to avoid the West Indian islands.
None of the West Indian cricketers have ever displayed the philistine instincts that some English and Australian have on the field.
Can one imagine what the English international, Ben Stokes, has done? He was in a nightclub fight in which the scene looked like rabid dogs attacking a pack of wolves and mayhem was the result. Yet the English media was awash with criticism of Shannon Gabriel for making a homophobic remark at the English test captain.
The western mind thinks that it is superior to the non-white world but the myth of that keeps exploding with each passing day.
Western governments act with alacrity in issuing travel advisories on Third World countries once there is a spiral in crime but I have never seen a European travel advisory on the US. The US is a dangerous country in which the level of alienation runs so deep that anyone could lose one’s life at anytime.
In Glasgow, Scotland, you should not go out late at night in certain parts; you can easily be violently robbed.
I grew up believing that Jamaica was the hell hole of the world and that crime had taken over the country. When I grew up I was confused about the US. We all thought that was the paradise of the world but as I grew older I couldn’t understand how such a rich country could have such a violent culture that makes the violence in Jamaica look like a tea party.
I still cannot understand how post-modern US could produce the kind of senators and congress people in the Republican Party that the US currently has. These people’s views are very, very scary. We are not talking about some little obscure Third World country but rich, rich America. What drives those people to be so backward?
We must not exclude the white race in Eastern Europe. The Russians are morbidly racist. Imagine during the World Cup there, a Parliamentarian urged white women not to get pregnant for non-white men visiting for the World Cup because those children will face a lifetime of discrimination. What a frightening country.
I guess in a world where poor non-white countries have to depend on aid and trade from the West, the superiority complex will never go away.
Please share this to every Guyanese including your house cats.
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