Travelling The World While Black Is a Tricky & Dangerous Proposition
Ukraine, Argentina, India and China on my mind.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is currently dominating the headlines across the globe. And rightly so.
The footage of buildings being destroyed, of children and families being displaced are now seared into our subconscious.
And what hasn’t been talked about has been the refugee crisis triggered by the ongoing war in Eastern Europe.
Vast numbers of people have been fleeing from Ukraine to the Polish border to seek refuge and to get into the continent.
Among them are Jamaican and Nigerian students.
But what’s special here is that in the middle of what could be a bloody war, we are also seeing Africans being treated with absolute contempt by the Polish and Ukrainian authorities by being made to freeze for several hours without much hope of being able to leave.
It’s as though Black people cant seem to catch a break from racism, wherever we go.