Racism is so ingrained that reporting it has been normalized! Leo Messi has spent his childhood and made his fame in Spain, in Barcelona, yet if his country Argentina plays Spain in the world cup, no one will make such a nasty comment.
This picture means something to an entire generation of Dutch people.
I'm one of them.
My parents came to Holland as Moroccan immigrants.
I was born there.
Dutch passport.
Dutch better than my Arabic.
The first 18 years of my life, Holland fed me, schooled me, raised me.
The Moroccans helped rebuild Holland.
Holland gave them roads, schools, a future in return.
Fair trade.
But we never really integrated.
That's not on one side.
That's on everyone.
We learned to speak for our grandparents, because they never got to learn the language.
We brought our food.
We brought our culture. Mosques. Books and humor.
We had fun.
We hung out.
We went to each other's weddings and loved the mix of it.
And still.
We never really became one.
The politicians made sure to categorize us.
They needed us to be outsiders, while we were busy acting like insiders.
So a wall went up between neighbors.
Then yesterday a silly game with a ball put two teams on the same grass.
Two continents.
Two cultures.
Except they're not two teams.
They're teams stitched together by the same life.
The Dutch know the Moroccans. Intimately.
The Moroccans know the Dutch. Intimately.
The Moroccans in Morocco spend every summer selling to the Moroccans from Holland.
The Dutch spend every day next to Moroccans. In School. At The local butcher. The streets.
The Moroccan team is full of Moroccans carrying Dutch passports.
The Dutch team is full of their actual friends, neighbors, and colleagues.
Such a simple game.
Such a complicated story.
When I look at this image I don't see football.
I see high school.
I see pride.
I see distance.
I don't see compassion.
I see resentment.
And that's exactly how we lived in beautiful Holland.
Together. Happily.
And quietly, unconsciously, apart.
I left when I was 18.
I went back to Morocco.
I resented Holland.
For years it was me vs them.
Now I understand what I actually have.
I can read two cultures from the inside.
And I get to choose.
What I carry with me.
What I leave behind.
Because every culture has its gold.
And every culture has its rot.
The trick is knowing which is which.
Love. Be kind to each other.
Whenever you see citizens in a country fully organized and flawlessly coordinated to achieve a highly specific political objective, best believe that such solidarity is absolutely never spontaneous.
Behind these chaotic protests lies a highly active, well-funded network of shadow organizers. These are the people responsible for mapping out the precise routes the protesters use through the city, sourcing and providing the daily food, water, and administrative logistics, and managing the financial miscellaneous. They do not just operate on-site; behind the scenes, they employ elite legal teams to constantly manage court cases, post bail, and prevent a full-scale government crackdown on the demonstrators. It is this massive reservoir of resources that allows these mobs to organize sustained movements spanning several months and even years. The organizers never seem to run out of money to handle endless litigation, coordinate media coverage, and fight toe-to-toe with state security agencies. They always appear to have an infinite supply of capital, legal protection, and transport logistics to sustain the chaos.
This proves beyond any shadow of a reasonable doubt that these xenophobic protests are organized, structured, and heavily funded by actors with state-level financial capabilities. It is obviously not the impoverished Black working class who are independently bankrolling this campaign. They simply do not possess the massive capital, the institutional leverage, or the sovereign resources required for this level of multi-month, nationwide logistical coordination. And even if they did, why on earth would they waste their precious resources chasing out fellow poor African migrants running petty local businesses or working in corporate offices? If they truly possessed that level of organic, state-scale funding and coordination, they would naturally channel that immense zeal, boiling passion, and limitless resources toward the actual oppressors: the wealthy white minority and foreign mining cartels who still systematically control over 70% of their agricultural land, sit on their lucrative gold and platinum mines, and hoard the national wealth to fund their massive corporate monopolies.
So, it is blindingly obvious that it is these exact same European colonizers, domestic oligarchs, and foreign corporate interests in South Africa who are actively instigating, funding, and coordinating these divisive protests behind the scenes. While the average, frustrated South African on the street may religiously believe that these xenophobic movements are entirely organic and patriotic, the tragic reality is that the Black working class is merely being pulled like helpless puppets by their historic masters, sleepwalking directly into their own economic doom.
But I must confess, the participating South Africans have truly let the entire continent down. Because even though it is factually true that the Boers and foreign capital are responsible for orchestrating these massive demonstrations, while the politically uneducated local is merely a tool being shaped for their own destruction, they could have at least demanded a better, more dignified script from their puppet masters. Chasing poor and middle-class African migrants out of your communities under the cheap excuse that they are "taking your jobs" is the ultimate tragedy of self-deprecation. By falling for this elite propaganda, you are indirectly agreeing with the exploitative multinational corporations who claim that the local population is not sufficiently skilled, literate, or capable of handling these jobs. You are essentially internalizing your own oppression and declaring yourself a person of zero substance, relevance, or capability in your own homeland.
At this very moment, every single right-thinking, class-conscious group in South Africa should be organizing massive, parallel counter-demonstrations to aggressively protest against this manufactured stupidity. If this cycle of state-sponsored hatred is allowed to continue, it will forever leave a permanent, ugly stain on the name, history, and face of the Black South African working class.
I have said this. The SE is the easiest place in Nigeria to develop. The only homogeneous region in the country.
One language, one religion, one ethnicity and nearly 40 million residents.
The only thing the Southeast lacks is land mass. It's super tiny. My state, Yobe, is larger than all 5 eastern states combined by a factor of almost 1.5.
This one post has every football fanbase coming together on twitter to congratulate me I can’t lie I’m living my dream!
Thank you for the love my guys 👊🏾
@blackyailo@JamesNicholsJr@Rexleonum_NWA Additionally, in Mark 14:61-62, when the High Priest directly asked if he was the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One, Jesus replied, "I am," and prophesied that he would sit at the right hand of Power, leading to his immediate condemnation for blasphemy.
@blackyailo@JamesNicholsJr@Rexleonum_NWA John 10:30: He declared, "I and the Father are one," which the crowd explicitly interpreted as a claim to be God (John 10:33).
John 14:9: He told his disciple Philip, "Anyone who has seen me has seen the father
Football has closed up.
Nothing is wrong with German talent pipelines. They have a truckload of players coming through. Their current players are in some of the biggest clubs in the world.
Nothing is wrong with the Netherlands. They have a good squad of good players.
It’s those smaller countries, especially those with a strong diaspora talent pool that are getting closer and stronger.
I don’t think Morocco will face any team in the world today and be fazed about their quality. The difference in terms of a team’s processes and gameplay can’t be enormous. They’ve earned their place in the world.
It doesn’t mean they can’t be eliminated in the next round. That’s football. To accept that the game has evolved beyond what we saw a decade ago is important.
Morocco had enough resources to hire a coach who taught coaches for two years. He drew a great structure and they’ve only consolidated on that.
You can’t look at that German team and say they’re lacking in talent. It’s about making a team from those talents. Coaching is also very close these days.
There’s information democracy. Lots of resources are there to work with. Nobody can be left behind in this Information Age.
🇵🇾LA ALEGRÍA PARAGUAYA. La delegación oficial del Pdte Kast esperó en el aeropuerto en Asunción la definición de Paraguay ante Alemania que clasificó a los guaraníes a la siguiente fase del mundial. Así celebraron los policías paraguayos la clasificación