Is Spain racist?

So today stayed in gava, gava, gava, where the airbnb is. I honestly could just stay here everyday and be happy. The sea keeps me happy. Besides you could really see the mountains clearly today. It's been pretty hazy.

Every morning there are clouds and sun. Maybe that's the way it is where you are so close to the sea. Maybe the water and air temp are close. I don't know. The last few days have been hazy and humid. Pretty sticky. It's weird , it doesn't get out of the 70's but feel hot in the sun. 

So I decided to take a walk down the boardwalk by the beach a couple miles. Lots more people on a Saturday naturally. There are restaurants and bars along the way. lot a wine drinking going on. 

I come to a place where there are purses, sports jerseys, sneakers, belts laid out on big cloths. The stuff has the brand name on them but they are obviously knockoffs. 

This goes on for couple of blocks. They are all being sold by black men. Here in Spain you see a lot of black people selling stuff. At the beach they sell beach cloths and sunglasses. On the street they sell bracelets. They sold spain flags at the national day of spain. It's always black men.

There are a lot more black people (African) people in Barcelona than there were in Valencia or Madrid. That's not saying much because those cities had next to none. This in a country that is 9 miles from Africa. Spain has remarkably view black people.

1.3 million people in Spain are African. Spain has 47 million people.  So that's about 2 percent. Spain has a lot of immigrants from South America. So it considers itself diverse because of that. Few from Africa. It's obvious they aren't wanted.

Spain and the EU pay and give favorable treatment to Morocco to keep African migrants from coming here. A lot of people would say: "Can you blame them? They are poor and will become dependent. They don't speak the language."

Latin American immigrants share the language but they are also coming for economic reasons. The difference is they are wanted here, encouraged to come here, for unskilled labor jobs. It is easier for them to get citizenship. 

Racism? You decide.

via Blogger https://ift.tt/HjDNths
October 22, 2022 at 06:15PM