For Charles Gauci’s information (August 17), I am in London every month and I only use public transport. Commuters there are far more multiracial than 40 years ago and my impression is that common courtesy is now more prevalent.
Gauci’s claim that Londoners go about their daily business in constant threat of their lives is definitely not my experience.
Gauci is confusing the world-wide religious war Al-Qaeda and its radicalised Islamist sympathisers have launched against the West (referred to as “Crusaders and Jews” – and the UK one of their targets) with irregular immigration from the depths of Africa, in search of a better life, which we are getting.
Warnings of unattended bags on British public transport and at airports dates back to the 1970s IRA bombing campaigns – no perpetrator coloured faces then. Let’s admit it, the British street scene was never completely safe, particularly for women and children, with the likes of Jack the Ripper, the Yorkshire Ripper and other indigenous women and child molesters and murderers, apart from youth anti-social behaviour.
Gauci refers to “those who oppose unrestricted illegal immigration”. Who are these? We all want control of irregular immigration and, therefore, we need to work hard at it within European Union regulations.
The future for too many black people here will be worse than for white Maltese.
It is already bad the way many blacks are employed but the ones brought up here and stay on will eventually face discrimination when seeking jobs and in other aspects of life.
As President Barack Obama pointed out recently, the American experience has shown that, for example, blacks tend to get a longer jail sentence than whites for similar crimes.
If Gauci is a realist he will accept that we shall have some black Maltese. Populist hysteria is not going to make them disappear, particularly so as they’re prepared to do jobs white Maltese may no longer wish to do. I notice other immigration hysteria in the media against Filipino house helps and east European restaurant waiters, other types of work most Maltese now feel is below their status.
Allan Gatt’s contribution (August 19) is little more than intimidating populist untruths, such as, “allowing your population to be so fundamentally altered and subsumed by another”, “we cannot support the whole of Africa”.
To that is added poorly-concealed racist dogma that is barely discernible from that of ‘Arian’ Nazi Germany – “Europe was founded on and developed through institutions and traditions of Caucasian stock”.
A positive contribution to this unfortunate debate is Helena Dalli’s (August 19).
In her article, she offers hope that this African immigration problem might be eventually resolved via the EU’s Schengen area principles.