from "Born and raised in Nigeria, John Abraham Godson is Poland’s first black member of paliament," CNN (found on TalkAfrique)There are thousands of ways to write a news story. But, judging by the way the above article was constructed, I'm pretty sure the BBC wants you to think:
John Abraham Godson, a Polish citizen born and raised in Nigeria, has been sworn in as the first black member of Poland’s parliament [...].
He came to Poland in the 1990s, opening an English-language school and working as a pastor in a Protestant church.* He has since married a Polish woman and the couple have four children.*
A member of the centre-right Civic Platform party, he was appointed to the seat vacated by party colleague Hanna Zdanowskaafter after she became mayor of Lodz.
It is still quite rare to see black people even in the Polish capital Warsaw, Poland’s most cosmopolitan city, the BBC’s Adam Easton reports.* Racism is still a problem in Poland, where it is not uncommon for well-educated people to make racist jokes, our correspondent says.*
Mr Godson was beaten up twice in the early 1990s but he says attitudes to black people in Poland are changing for the better, particularly since the country joined the EU six years ago.* Speaking earlier to Polish radio, Mr Godson said: "I am from Lodz, I will live here, I want to die here and I want to be buried here."*(source)
- Mr. Godson, a Christian, is an ambitious family man who married a native Pole, forgot his old country and loves Poland. (see *)
- Foreignization's opponents are brutal clods who attack good people like Mr Godson; accepting more migrants means more "Mr. Godsons" and justice for good people. (see *)
I will be the first to say that, yes, Mr. Godson sounds like a good man. But it will be interesting to see what the media tries to do with him, like talk about him over and over again until the public becomes familiar with him and wants more migrants who could be like him.
Because when that happens, you will wake up one day and you find yourself paying millions for certain refugees who never assimilated like Mr. Godson. You will find millions who are living off the social state, unlike Mr. Godson; you will find certain migrants who don't want to learn your language, unlike Mr. Godson; then you wake up one day and realize none of them are Christian like Mr. Godson; then you wake up one day and you are told not to say "Merry Christmas" in public because it offends certain migrants; then you wake up one day and your tax money is being used to build mosques; then you wake up one day and the migrants want their own law system - Sharia law; then you wake up one day to find that your cities, now dominated by migrants, are "no go" for "your kind"; then you wake up one day and the children of these migrants are given promotions and educational opportunities over you and your children not because the migrants are smarter, but because quotas have been enacted and too many people of power look like you; then you wake up one day and your culture suggests that it is not "cool" to be from your culture, and everything is done to make migrants more desirable. Any critique is dismissed at best or, at worst, will cost you your livelihood, job and health as you are attacked.
Slippery slope based on a right-wingers anxiety-filled imagination? Please. Each example comes from a real, Western World situation. We have been around this block before. Tread carefully, Poland.
