Mamadou Ba: "A morte do colonialismo é ao mesmo tempo a morte do colonizado e a morte do colonizador”

 

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"O pensamento de Fanon, por ser uma negação da negação da humanidade do sujeito colonial, é a antítese da resignação ao fardo colonial e seu corolário, a racialização. Há pouco tempo, uma declaração minha ativou um sentimento de filiação ao “homem branco colonialista, racista e assassino” ao ponto de suscitar grande comoção coletiva no espaço público, o que prova que o imaginário colonial persiste nas nossas sociedades e o fantasma da hierarquia racial o ensombra. 

Prova, também, que está por cumprir a visão de Fanon: “A morte do colonialismo é ao mesmo tempo a morte do colonizado e a morte do colonizador”. O colonialismo não morre tão somente pela libertação política e subjetiva do colonizado se o colonizador não o matar em si, política e subjetivamente. O pensamento de Fanon recusa facilitismo, confronta-nos a nunca resignar sempre que a dignidade esteja ameaçada. Era resolutamente contra o status quo. 

A vontade de interrogar e desafiar permanentemente a realidade está bem plasmada na última frase de Pele Negra, Máscaras Brancas: “A minha última prece: ó meu corpo, faz de mim sempre um homem que interroga!” Ele sabia que só assim a rebeldia do espírito de liberdade contra a pobreza da certeza da servidão poderia triunfar.

O legado de Fanon é uma farmácia atual e necessário para curar o determinismo biológico que estratifica e fixa as pessoas em função da sua cor de pele ou cultura mas, sobretudo, para derrotar o supremacismo branco que estruturou todos os seus privilégios acumulados ao longo da história a partir da ideia de superioridade racial. 

 

A invasão muçulmana em Inglaterra

 

A Woman Was Stabbed to Death on a Train. Wikipedia Wants to Erase Her Story.

 

Iryna Zarutska boarded the Lynx Blue Line of the Charlotte, North Carolina, light rail system on August 22 and began looking at her phone. She wore a hat and T-shirt, with trendy wire-rim glasses perched on her nose. Within moments, she had caught the attention of a man wearing a red hoodie seated behind her.

Minutes later, the man took a folded knife from his pocket, opened the blade, and stood over Zarutska, 23, who appeared to have no notion that those moments would be her last. The man who stabbed her, Decarlos Brown Jr., 34, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.

Those are the facts. But a number of Wikipedia editors don’t want you to know about the attack. Since the online encyclopedia’s article “Killing of Iryna Zarutska” was created on Saturday, Wikipedia editors have fought to have it deleted, as I wrote in a post on X.

“An editor has nominated this article for deletion,” says the text in a box near the top of the article with a red stripe running down the left.

It was another sign of how Wikipedia’s idealistic mission to provide all the world’s information for free has been compromised by editors who battle over their version of the truth. Last year, I wrote that the consensus achieved by all that jostling often lines up with the prerogatives of the Democratic Party and the media establishment that supports it. Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has criticized the site as too left-wing.

Zarutska was a Ukrainian immigrant. Nearly three weeks after she was killed, the story broke not in the national news media, but on X. Surveillance footage of the killing began trending online, pinned to rocketing conversations about crime, race, and representation. As the story spread, it morphed from another crime statistic in urban America into a cultural flashpoint, one positioned by the right as an inverse to George Floyd: a white woman, murdered by a black man, and hardly anyone notices.

The story wasn’t just ignored. It was suppressed, at least by Wikipedia. That notion is reinforced by the twists and turns of the article about Zarutska, created by a user called YeraC. The initial statement about the attack was fairly straightforward: “Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee who had fled the Russian invasion of Ukraine, was fatally stabbed by Decarlos Brown Jr., a 34-year-old homeless man with a lengthy criminal history. The incident drew significant attention due to Zarutska’s background as a refugee seeking safety in the United States and raised concerns about public safety on Charlotte’s public transportation system.”

Through the subsequent day’s worth of edits, the article identified Brown as a “34-year-old homeless black man with a lengthy criminal record dating back to 2011,” listing some of the crimes he had been convicted of, including robbery with a dangerous weapon, breaking and entering, and felony larceny.

But then the article began to shift. The description of Brown as “Black” was added and then removed in multiple rounds of edit volleying. So was the term career criminal. Brown’s name remained in the article’s lead as edit skirmishes played out around the question of whether to identify him as “black,” “Black,” or a “career criminal.” Other people argued about whether the body of the article should describe the incident as a killing or murder.

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Mamadou Ba e outros activistas negros apelam à morte do homem branco, assassino, colonial e racista...

 

Mamadou Ba e outros activistas negros apelam à morte do homem branco

 

Mamadou Ba quer exterminar a raça branca

 

Europe’s Growing Muslim Population Muslims are projected to increase as a share of Europe’s population – even with no future migration

 

In recent years, Europe has experienced a record influx of asylum seekers fleeing conflicts in Syria and other predominantly Muslim countries. This wave of Muslim migrants has prompted debate about immigration and security policies in numerous countries and has raised questions about the current and future number of Muslims in Europe.

To see how the size of Europe’s Muslim population may change in the coming decades, Pew Research Center has modeled three scenarios that vary depending on future levels of migration. These are not efforts to predict what will happen in the future, but rather a set of projections about what could happen under different circumstances.

The baseline for all three scenarios is the Muslim population in Europe (defined here as the 28 countries presently in the European Union, plus Norway and Switzerland) as of mid-2016, estimated at 25.8 million (4.9% of the overall population) – up from 19.5 million (3.8%) in 2010.

Even if all migration into Europe were to immediately and permanently stop – a “zero migration” scenario – the Muslim population of Europe still would be expected to rise from the current level of 4.9% to 7.4% by the year 2050. This is because Muslims are younger (by 13 years, on average) and have higher fertility (one child more per woman, on average) than other Europeans, mirroring a global pattern.

A second, “medium” migration scenario assumes that all refugee flows will stop as of mid-2016 but that recent levels of “regular” migration to Europe will continue (i.e., migration of those who come for reasons other than seeking asylum; see note on terms below). Under these conditions, Muslims could reach 11.2% of Europe’s population in 2050.

Finally, a “high” migration scenario projects the record flow of refugees into Europe between 2014 and 2016 to continue indefinitely into the future with the same religious composition (i.e., mostly made up of Muslims) in addition to the typical annual flow of regular migrants. In this scenario, Muslims could make up 14% of Europe’s population by 2050 – nearly triple the current share, but still considerably smaller than the populations of both Christians and people with no religion in Europe.

The refugee flows of the last few years, however, are extremely high compared with the historical average in recent decades, and already have begun to decline as the European Union and many of its member states have made policy changes aimed at limiting refugee flows (see sidebar).

Predicting future migration levels is impossible, because migration rates are connected not only to political and economic conditions outside of Europe, but also to the changing economic situation and government policies within Europe. Although none of these scenarios will play out exactly as projected, each provides a set of rough parameters from which to imagine other possible outcomes. For example, if regular migration continues at recent levels, and some asylum seekers also continue to arrive and receive refugee status – but not as many as during the historically exceptional surge of refugees from 2014 to 2016 – then the share of Muslims in Europe’s population as of 2050 would be expected to be somewhere between 11.2% and 14%.

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Migrants Loitering Outside Schools Taking Pictures - Concerns Grow Over 'Suspicious Activity'

 

Police have told migrants to follow “cultural expectations” after reports of men loitering near a primary school in Deanshanger. They plan to address “appropriate behaviours,” work with a local asylum-seeker hotel, and increase patrols. Migrants have stayed at the hotel for three years, but concerns over suspicious activity, including filming near the school, have recently grown.

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