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Black immigrants say they are now under siege in Ireland

Point to taxi driver killed, politician ripping black families

CATHAL DERVAN,

IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Saturday, November 26, 2011, 7:41 AM

Updated Saturday, November 26, 2011, 7:49 AM

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Eric Yao of the Africa Centre, Salome Mbunge of Akidwa, and Clement Esebamen of the Ireland West Africa Business and Economic Council at Ireland's Black leaders press conference.

Racial tensions are rising in Ireland and the government under attack, after black community leaders claimed immigrants are "under siege," while a Nigerian embassy official was critical of attitudes to West Africans.

The comments came at the end of a week that saw a black taxi driver murdered in Dublin and the mayor of Naas forced to resign over racist remarks.

Leaders from across the black community told a Dublin press conference that racial abuse is now at an all-time high in Ireland. Their sentiments were echoed by Dr Georges O Alabi, deputy head of mission at the Nigerian embassy.

Dr Alabi told the conference that he had no choice but to break diplomatic ranks and speak out after a Nigerian born taxi-driver was killed on the streets of Dublin.

“I’m foreign office. I should not comment,” Dr Alabi told the Irish Examiner. “My family and I have personally experienced the stark reality of racism, with people repeatedly phoning our house and calling us niggers.
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“We just need to do more in the area of political leadership. The silence is too much.”

Journalist Chinedu Onyejelem, the editor of the Metro Éireann newspaper aimed at the immigrant community, also addressed the conference.

He said: “There is a widespread regime of verbal, physical and psychological attacks on immigrants and black Africans in particular.

“The Irish Government has to live up to its responsibility to protect all residents and to introduce strong measures to end racism in Ireland.”

A statement from the group who organized the press conference said: “Immigrants in Ireland are under siege - there is evidence of widespread attacks against them.

“We now have a regime of verbal, physical and psychological attacks on immigrants and Black Africans in particular.

“There is evidence of the growing boldness of bigots. We have called this meeting to discuss the racism that has been felt by immigrants, non-native Irish and black Irish folk as a result of unprecedented levels of racist attitudes, attacks, and a lack of leadership by the government and the institutions of the state.”

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MichaelMcGrath | Apr 18, 2013, 02:48 PM EDT

Personally I find most Afican women very ugly and their accents revolting. I don't see how we owe them anything here in Ireland, the Brits colonised them not us. Now there's thousands of young Africans around our streets on the Dole and thousands more flooding in - mostly from England for the extra money from Irish welfare. The Irish people never agreed with all this or wanted them here, and we were never asked either, though it's all our taxes are being paid out to them. You can call me a racist or whatever you like, I couldn't give a shyte, I've had enough of my country being handed away out from under me by the Liberal Elite like Mary Robinson, Fianna Fail and Higgins in the Park. I am voting for no party politician ever again. And I'm not paying property tax to pay for all these Negros and Asians either.

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vetri | May 19, 2012, 06:36 AM EDT

I have seen many nigerian women who give birth to easily 4 children just for the sake of government’s welfare. All irish citizens & other immigrants(Asians, other Europeans) limited to 1 or 2 children. Do nigerians want native irish people to become minority? For god’s sake, these irish nigerians are educated, but they still bear too many children. Nothing wrong in having grudge against these nigerians

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seanomelbourne | Dec 02, 2011, 05:52 PM EST

Not another bigot go join the rest of your neo fascist pals asleep32 etc. etc. What is your shirt colour preference,white robes with a pointy dunce cap

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John844 | Dec 02, 2011, 11:46 AM EST

Do you see whites invading China, Japan and or Africa? Do we have handouts and special loans for whites? All white countries are being invaded and until whites stand up and voice thier concern; which may include violence as the current scheme isn't working. Next up will be the rape gangs that the UK and USA already have! Black Pride, Brown Pride is ok but White Pride is racist?! If you assume that all races are equal then prove it! Thier will never be a utopia of dieversity as it has never existed in the history of man! Does Israel allow illegal immigration? A nationalist puts his country first, one can be a Black nationalist in his own country. Wherever you have africans you have africa ditto for Pakistanis and every other squat monsters that are a drain on all white countries.

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seanomelbourne | Dec 01, 2011, 09:23 PM EST

awoken32 As I read your last post(ing) I had visions of you and your coterie of likeminded dimwits marching through O'Connell Street singing "Der Fahne Hoch" (Excuse the german spelling).What colour uniforms would you like blackshirts? brownshirts? or the good old Irish blueshirts.

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GeorgeDillon | Dec 01, 2011, 12:50 PM EST

Barneykx: Why don't you send that to Bono? It would make a great lyric for a U2 song.

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BARNEYKX | Dec 01, 2011, 04:15 AM EST

Black is Black. White is White. Life is always A racial fight. �Don�t date her.� �Don�t Marry Him.� �He doesn�t match The color of your skin.� Why does it matter? Why do we care? Would you see a difference If the skin wasn�t there? They may use a language We do not speak They may have beliefs We find unique. But deep down inside Beneath that thin shell, You may just find someone You know very well. Friends come in all sizes, colors, and shapes, And you might miss a lot If you see only a face. Each culture has something Unique we can learn To make our lives better, Our souls much more pure. So cast off your prejudice Replace hate with love And look on each person As does your Father above.

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Irishblack | Dec 01, 2011, 04:14 AM EST

GeorgeDillon, not surprised that you had no defense on how badly governance in Ireland is. The thing you guys don't understand is uneducated Irish people will leave. Educated Irish people will stay. Educated immigrants are needed to fill posts. That is no mass immigration. Your views seem to depict a situation where immigrants are flying in droves. I really pity you guys. All ye' can do it talk, and sooner or later, another fat civil servant gets a big pension while you languish on the dole in your worn out addidas sweatpants. It's only in Ireland where priests who sodomize boys walk free and are more appreciated than immigrants. Pathetic.

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TODufaigh | Dec 01, 2011, 03:18 AM EST

don't stop posting Awoken32 - you're the best proof yet of how utterly thick you hate-filled racists really are, with all of your poisonous venom and illiterate rants. Reasonable people don't have to make a case against you and Georgie Boy - you make it against yourselves. If you lived next door you'd be the neighbour from hell - but of course you are skulking somewhere out in Irish-America (although I'm sure many Irish Americans would not agree with your fascist beliefs at all). You have no arguments; anyone who has to post in capital letters doesn't have a functioning brain.

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GeorgeDillon | Dec 01, 2011, 02:53 AM EST

Awoken32, I think you're wasting your time with "Irishblack", because he's no more from Africa than I am from Lapland. He's clearly a dummy created by one of the Mass Immigrationist dummies here, Duffy in all probability, though I have other suspects.

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Irishblack | Dec 01, 2011, 01:49 AM EST

Awoken32, all I can say to you is, I'm black, from Africa, I live in Ireland and there is nothing your sorry ignorant self can do or will ever do about it. You can run around the ring of Kerry or jump off the cliffs of Moher, I'll still be here. Those asking what I'm doing in Ireland, I work in finance and IT. Decent Irish businesses look for skilled people to come and work in Ireland and they don't look at the skin color. They look for people who can take their businesses to the next level. So it is a failure on the Irish government to not see some of these gap and encourage locals to educate themselves and get these jobs. Where I work there over 30 different nationalities so to target mass immigration without understanding it's is thinking like a 5 year old. awoken32, I challenge you to get me the correct figure of the number of Africans in Ireland. Go to the Central Statistics Office website because I have a feeling your uneducated, self-loathing, pea-brain has no idea where to look. Ok mate? HAHA

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awoken32 | Nov 30, 2011, 10:49 PM EST

THE MAJORITY OF IRISH PEOLE DO NOT WANT MASS IMMIGRATION THIS COULD BE EASILY PROVED IN A VOTE ON THE MATTER,AND THESE ARE JUST FACTS,THERE IS NOTHING HERE IN IRELAND FOR YOUSE,THE IRISH CANY EVEN FIND WORK FOR THEMSELVES,BLACK IN IRELAND YOUR FIRST COMMENT ON THIS SITE WAS TO SAY HOW YOU REALLY THINK OF IRELAND,ITS PEOPLE AN CULTURE,THEN YOU GET TWO ANTI-WHITE FOOLS WHO TRY MAKE YOU LOOK GOOD,SO YOU START POSTING IN A NICER WAY,MASS IMMIGRATION IS ILLLEGAL,WE HAVE A SMALL POPULATION IN IRELAND,YOUR FIGURES ARE 100% INCORRECT ABOUT 40000 AS THE NUMBER IS MUTIPLYING BY THE DAY,THE WHOLE OF EUROPE IS SICK OF THESE MASS INVASIONS,EVRY COUNTRY IS GETTING RUINED BY IT,NATIONALIST PARTIES ARE RISING UP AND AN END WILL BE PUT TO IT,MARK MY WORDS,THE ONLY THING THATS KEEPING IT GOING HAS BEEN THE THE SUPPRESSION OF THE MEDIA AN POLITICAL CORRECTNESS/WRONGNESS,ALL THESE THINGS ARE GOIN OUT THE WINDOW,THE INDIGINUS PEOPLE OF EUROPE ARE SICK OF IT,IT WONT TAKE LONG IN IRELAND,A NATIONALIST PARTY WOULD GROW LIKE PUTTING PETROL ON A FIRE,THE PEOPLE ARE SICK OF IT,WHY DO YOU THINK IRELAND NEEDS MASS IMMIGRATION???????? WE DONT,WE NEED THE OPPOSITE

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sirpeter | Nov 30, 2011, 10:29 PM EST

Seano.If it's any consolation I liked you great poet quote.These arguments about Black immigrants doesn't half bring out the fuc*wits.They can't see the people behind the colour.The thing is these Irish Americans are pure racist.But what is scary is they are pure ignorant.It's like they have suffered racism themselves in a big way.

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moygannon | Nov 30, 2011, 07:37 PM EST

It does'nt take some people long to capitalize on "Racism". The squeaky wheel gets the grease. Why are in Ireland in the first place?

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Irishblack | Nov 30, 2011, 07:36 PM EST

GeorgeDillon, I understand your view about grieving parents seeing their kids leave for Oz and Canada and US. Seriously, I'm with you on that one. Now, can you try and think of the root cause of these masses leaving? Perhaps bad governance? Perhaps no drive to create jobs, perhaps too much borrowing? Perhaps building 80,000 houses more a year than was needed, perhaps reckless lending, perhaps six-figure pensions, perhaps Ireland voting yes for EU referendums..dude I could go on forever how many mistakes Fine Fail and Gael have made. The winners in Ireland are the thieves who have mansions in the Hamptons in US and moved all put all their assets in their spouses and kids names. When asylum seekers get to Dublin airport, each has their own story of suffering and yes..I agree, not all are genuine but majority are. Targetting 1% of black immigrants is in my own humble opinion silly. In english it's called escapism. You fail to focus on real issues and aim at the easiest target. I forgot to mention the ridiculous salaries at RTE. Dude, you must really hate black people and love those people earning 500K for a few hours work when normal Irish people have no jobs.

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