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If we do not let them mix with the niggers in the U.S., then they should turn out ok.

Publius Ovidius Naso wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:40:29 -0600, "Thudd" <goes_d@niglette.net>
> wrote:
>
> >New world awaits Bantus seeking refuge in Atlanta
>
> I already protested to all my elected officials.  Fuck the kaffirs
>
> >
> >Mark Bixler - Staff
> >Sunday, February 23, 2003
> >
> >Sometime this spring, in cities around the United States, the first of
> >nearly 12,000 African refugees will step off airplanes and into a modern
> >world as alien and strange as the bottom of the ocean. They will come with
> >hopes of work, education and safety, at last, from a legacy of persecution.
> >
> >They are Somali Bantus, a people devastated by massacre and rape after
> >Somalia crumbled into civil war in 1991. Thousands left rural homes for
> >refugee camps in Kenya. They have languished there for the last dozen
> >years. Now the United States is opening its doors to the Bantus in one of
> >the most ambitious and complex refugee resettlement initiatives in recent
> >years.
> >
> >The U.S. State Department says it has approved plans to resettle the Bantus
> >in 31 states, including Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, South
> >Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Refugee resettlement agencies expect to
> >shepherd up to 635 Bantus in the next two years into apartments in
> >Clarkston, Decatur and Stone Mountain.
> >
> >That will make metro Atlanta one of the top destinations for Somali Bantus,
> >along with Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and Salt Lake City, the State
> >Department said.
> >
> >A cultural challenge
> >
> >They will come in need of more help than most refugees. Few speak English.
> >Many cannot read or write even in their native language. Only in the last
> >few months have most seen telephones, flush toilets and clocks, in classes
> >on American culture at the Kakuma Refugee Camp, on the sweltering plain of
> >northwest Kenya. Some saw a bathtub for the first time and asked whether it
> >was some sort of boat, said Sasha Chanoff, who coordinates the classes for
> >the International Organization for Migration.
> >
> >"They really don't have any exposure to modern development," he said.
> >
> >The Bantus are descended from natives of Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania
> >who were enslaved and taken to Somalia in the 1800s. They eventually won
> >freedom but remained frequent victims of discrimination. They performed
> >menial jobs and lacked political power and access to education. The Bantus
> >also lacked clan affiliation, which made them easy prey for all sides in
> >Somalia's civil war.
> >
> >The Mushunguli
> >
> >The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees sought to resettle the Bantus in
> >one of their ancestral homes, Mozambique, but that plan fell through in
> >1997. Two years later, the State Department recognized the Bantus as a
> >group eligible for resettlement on humanitarian grounds.
> >
> >The Somali Bantus will follow 807,000 refugees admitted to the United
> >States in the last 10 years, but they come at a time of increased scrutiny.
> >The United States suspended its refugee program for two months after Sept.
> >11, 2001. Resettlements resumed with security measures that slowed the
> >flow. Only 27,000 of 70,000 refugees approved to enter in the United States
> >actually came last year, the lowest number since 1980.
> >
> >There are various groups of Bantus, but the ones coming to the United
> >States are those who volunteered to go to Mozambique in 1997. Nearly all
> >belong to a Bantu branch called the Mushunguli. They were subsistence
> >farmers who shunned society. Other Somalis sometimes refer to them with
> >derogatory terms such as jareer, which refers to the characteristic kinky
> >hair of Bantus, gosha, a Somali term for "forest dweller" and adoon, which
> >means "slave."
> >
> >That puts resettlement agencies in a tricky spot. They need Somali-speaking
> >caseworkers but must find staffers able to give even-handed treatment.
> >Agencies also know that most Bantus have led such an isolated existence
> >that "when asked where they entered Kenya," the International Organization
> >for Migration says, "many Somali Bantus responded, 'At the tall metal,'
> >indicating metal telephone towers" at a border town.
> >
> >"Do not assume they can open a door just because it has a doorknob,"
> >Chanoff said.
> >
> >No concept of time
> >
> >Like people of several other cultures, the Bantus do not share the American
> >preoccupation with time. They often date important events such as a birth
> >by referring to some natural phenomenon that occurred at that time.
> >
> >"Where does one begin with people who have never held a pen or read a sign,
> >who have no support network . . . and have no previous information about
> >life in the United States?" Chanoff wrote in a November issue of Refugee
> >Reports, a newsletter published by Immigration and Refugee Services of America.
> >
> >"How does one begin to teach the relevance of time and dates and schedules?
> >What about sensitizing people to the nuances of shopping and cooking and
> >eating, when they won't recognize food in the supermarkets? How does one
> >prevent children from sticking a finger into an electric socket or garbage
> >disposal, falling down stairs, scalding themselves with a faucet or
> >straying into the road?"
> >
> >Resettlement agencies say the Bantus are unlikely to absorb all the lessons
> >they receive in 10-day sessions at Kakuma that also cover U.S. laws,
> >employment, housing and budgets. They envision months of orientation once
> >the refugees arrive in America.
> >
> >"It's going to take a lot of repetition, a lot of times of saying, 'Don't
> >touch the hot stove. Don't touch the hot stove,' " said Mondie Blalock
> >Tharp of Refugee Resettlement and Immigration Services of Atlanta.
> >
> >Many resettlement agencies are looking for additional funding to extend the
> >four months' assistance refugees typically receive, said Christine Petrie,
> >national resettlement director for the International Rescue Committee.
> >
> >In Atlanta, four resettlement agencies are talking about applying for
> >grants that would pay for intensive English classes, day care and
> >instruction in riding MARTA and using kitchen appliances.
> >
> >About 4,000 Somalis have been resettled in Georgia since 1992, mostly in
> >Clarkston. About 1,000 left for Lewiston, Maine, in search of better
> >schools, less crime and more generous housing subsidies and welfare benefits.
> >
> >Among the Somalis still in Atlanta are about 120 Bantus. They form one of
> >the largest Bantu communities in the country, said Abdullahi Abdullahi, a
> >Somali Bantu and executive director of the Somali Bantu Community
> >Organization in Clarkston.
> >
> >43 cities make room
> >
> >The State Department said it plans to resettle Bantus in 43 cities,
> >including Atlanta.
> >
> >At least one city opposed plans to accept Bantus. The City Council in
> >Holyoke, Mass., voted in October to reject nearly $1 million in federal
> >money for a "newcomer center." The city said it lacked money --- even with
> >the grant --- to house and educate the refugees. The vote was largely
> >symbolic because cities don't control federal money and can't legally
> >prevent people from moving in.
> >
> >Since 1980, 48,000 refugees have been resettled in Georgia from countries
> >as varied as Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq and Vietnam. Few faced challenges
> >similar to those facing the Bantus, but experts draw parallels with two groups.
> >
> >Several thousand Hmong refugees from Laos resettled in this country in the
> >'70s and '80s with as little understanding of the modern world as the
> >Bantus. Like the Bantus, the Hmong spoke little English, lacked formal
> >education and knew little of Western culture. Both have views of health
> >care at odds with Western medicine.
> >
> >Some of the resettled Hmong retained their native language and religion and
> >have limited contact with native-born Americans. Others converted to
> >Christianity and blended into the mainstream, said Deborah Duchon, an
> >anthropologist at Georgia State University.
> >
> >'Massive hurdles'
> >
> >The 12,000 Bantus also invite comparison to 3,800 Sudanese refugees who
> >were resettled around the United States in 2000 and 2001.
> >
> >Like the Bantus, these men in their late teens and early 20s, known as the
> >Lost Boys of Sudan, grew up without exposure to modern life. Yet even the
> >Lost Boys had a leg up on the Bantus: Most knew of a developed world beyond
> >the horizon, having caught glimpses of it on TV during eight years in a
> >refugee camp.
> >
> >"We knew a lot of things in theory, but not in practice" is how one Lost
> >Boy in Atlanta, Peter Anyang, put it.
> >
> >Most Bantus first learned of gas ovens and electric stoves in classes after
> >11,800 of them were moved to Kakuma from the Dadaab Refugee Camp, near
> >Somalia's border.
> >
> >"All of us realize that it's going to take a Herculean effort to go far
> >beyond what we normally do," said Barbara Cocchi, Atlanta director for
> >World Relief, a refugee resettlement agency. "We realize the massive
> >hurdles that they're going to have to overcome."
> >
> >
> >
> >chances are like the somalis, the bantus will tire of americoon  t n b  and re-migrate to small-town whitebreadsville
> >
> >maybe this time they'll invade kennebunkport, martha's vineyard, and newport, rhode island
> >
> >just wait for their cuisine contribution
> >
> >
>
> --
>
> Very Respectfully
>
> James Kohegan
> jameskohegan@yahoo.com
> accept no substitutes
>
> Ave America, Ave Imperator
> Get used to it.