People of African descent face even more discrimination in the Northern Region of the European Union

BY STEVEN KASZAB

Racism within the northern region of the EU continues to grow, with its direction clearly pointed towards Blacks, particularly migrants, refugees and illegal immigrants. Extreme situations have flared up in particular areas in Finland, Austria and Germany, igniting social pressure upon a pressure cooker of racist tension.  These actions also come from a hidden historical backwash of hate and suspicion towards the many people that have relocated on their own from North Africa, the Middle East particularly Syria and even the Balkans.

The European Union of Fundamental Rights (FRA) commissioned a survey and analyzed its findings over the past six years. They found a large proportion of respondents felt high points of racial discrimination directed against them, or their family members. In the past year these feelings have increased 10% more to a point of 34% feeling threatened or having been assaulted by native EU citizens. People of African descent face even more discrimination than a year before, and it is worse in Finland with 54%.

While crimes by those of African descent are increasing, with young men committing these crimes, the public’s patience has been slipping, and resorting to violence upon their own behalf. Community groups parade through the community in the night facing down groups of young Africans numbering in the hundreds at times. Police view these incidents but cannot initially do anything about it since they are clearly outnumbered.

So, the extreme right with nationalist groups responds with their own forms of violence and intimidation. Drunken young people come out of the night clubs and bars at night hunting these African groups. Ask a police officer about the situation, and they’d tell you they feel helpless at times, with the politicians and council handcuffing them in their abilities to fight both levels of this crime.

The lowest levels of this discrimination and crime were found in: Portugal, Sweden and Poland, where the justice system and police take immediate action to arrest criminals and show no preference to those who commit a crime. Justice is supposed to be blind. Commit the crime and off to the jail you go. Those nations with non-harsh treatment of these two types of groups suffer the most discrimination and ethnic violence. Various EU Officials continue the process of expelling troublesome illegal migrants and criminals. Nationals are forced to spend time in prison, and with a psychologist.

Uniting EU Nations, their organizations, national peoples was one thing, but building a living society that complements itself and all its population is a very difficult thing to do. Once a recession hits the EU, what do you think will happen, who will become the national scapegoat to blame and attack? Economic stress and a crash could cause an ethnic upheaval as well. There are millions of Africans in the EU, many still in desperate financial situations. Their poverty could direct them towards extremist views and actions.

Racism has a powerful pull upon us all. Historical wrongs continue to bring about ethnic hate and disparity. How can the EU reshape itself and its immigration policies to better shape a new and better tomorrow?