Why didn't the Equalities Minister said " The problem is not skin colour, the problem is us! " if she is a Nigerian woman serving as a Minister in Britain?

 

As I scroll down the demographics stats for E16 and feel miserable at how 1062 rapes/sexual offences were committed within one mile of Schooner Road, and many families are massively leaving the area, I give thanks to live in Bromley where only 42 incidents of the same nature  were reported in the whole county .

Just vehicle thefts, over 426 within the same ratio of Schooner Road which is also plagued with anti-social behaviour, theft, violent robbery, etc.

These statistics make Bromley and Crystal Palace look like a paradise, so what really is the problem with Britain to have the Equalities Minister state that she was brought up in Nigeria and knows for a fact skin is not the problem in these rates of school drop outs, teenagers vanishing from home and high rates of black on black crime?

I know what the problem is because I observed it close hand and I can speak about it. I can speak about woman to woman and I can speak about it here typing to whoever wants to read what I observed.

The root of the problem of Black on Black crime and children dropping out of school and vanishing from their homes does not start with the skin colour , but rather with what statistics tell us about human trafficking and what we fail to hear and understand in the communities of colour , especially the Nigerian community.

I was particularly stricken when I met a woman called A* who dropped out of her pharmacy degree to be a full time mother and had no intention of going to university and would rather stay at home. Her mother was a Housing benefits council worker re-married to an Indian man, her best friend was a social worker whose own daughter was on child protection. Everyone around her had a graduate or middle income work , yet everyone around her said shocking things in terms of passport , identity fraud,  bringing  distant relatives as if they were their own children.

At the time, Child Benefit was still awarded laisse faire, without the cap of maximum two children per couple. One would have thought that this would be okay for her . But no, she told me she had a fall out with a Nigerian girl who came from Nigeria with her passport and was working with her passport as a pharmaceutical scientist( her passport : as someone who was brought up in here). The woman, a mother of two kids, was paying her 250 per week.

Because this Aisha had told her  she wanted more money or her kids belonged to her( she should bring the kids to her) , this woman vanished off the radar with the kids.  In all this, I was just perplexed and as soon as I left the conversation, I never spoke to her again

What shocked me most in this is that a few months before I had met another girl at university and her boyfriend was a police officer who told me his age was 52. I was shocked as I looked at him and he looked maximum 30. Also this girl was too young for him, and I told her that. They both were very light skinned, green amber eyes and looked brothers and sisters but they are in fact from a tribe in Nigeria where people look like this.  

When I met them I was hanging out with other students who I thought were Africans from Nigeria, from  a  Latin American country Guyana and India only, but in reality were all Indian Pakistani who had migrated to Nigeria and Guyana. Yet there were cousins between them , the ones whose parents migrated to Nigeria and to Guyana .

They were very well off and all studying law. All knew someone who was illegal and most important who has brought children from other people and using the children to collect child tax credits to pay mortgages and big cars - while the children starve.

You might say, well Ariane everyone knows that, is something Chinese do it, Indians and Pakistani, all do it that is why their communities are also having problems and Asians constitute the second largest minority group in prison

But there is more to this, and the predation factor, hate factor and group abuse factor also counts. 

When someone brings a child to this country and steals the child identity, the right to their family origins, the right to their biological parents, the right to dignity and safety, because the child tax credits is the money that will pay that mortgage , will pay the big house to their relatives, that child is the servant who will carry the coffee tray, who will iron their brothers and sisters clothes ( real blood children of the traffickers) and will be the child who will get beaten and mistreated because in Africa and Asia they believe that if their own children can mistreat other children behind closed doors, their own  children ego and capacity to behave like a white person will improve.

Is not just the Indians bringing upper caste children or collecting life insurance of their fake children. That child will grow up to be locked up at home making babies or hanging around publicly to give their children an upper caste status. It is the statistics, let's talk about statistics! Let's humanise and give faces to this statistics!

Is not just the Nigerians chopping an Albino person to pieces and carrying his bones in the chest that the individual will have good luck .It is the statistics, let's talk about the statistics and give faces to the Adam children floating in the river without limbs and face! It is the statistics, let's talk about statistics! Let's humanise and give faces to this statistics!

Picture Above: This boys torso was found in London back in 2001 BBC Picture. He was poisoned and paralysed but was alive during ritual. Source: My London News

For the superstitious Nigerian, opportunity is also a factor, so when a white racist teacher is doing racism or a co-worker is doing racism, the Nigerian will always side with the racist, especially if against a mixed race person, a Caribbean or  an Afro American person ( "akala") because it will give him the opportunity to be useful and needed for the future and will make his life easier.

Equally , their biological children will have support classes in the many Nigerian tuition centres which are all over the country , especially in deprived areas, while the children they are using for their child tax credit will be overworked at home or forbidden to set their feet in the house until 10 pm when the family is ready to go to bed. 

If the couple has taken their biological babies to Africa or a relative have come with a different baby and swapped them, then the biological child will be in a Nigerian boarding school paid by the child tax credit, while this child who was brought in, will be kicked out of the house once they reach 15 and the money stops coming in.

The child brought up in here cannot use their real name by the age of 15, the child brought up in here is straight into a situation where they cannot work legally , yet they were brought up legally. The child has to come up with money to marry someone who has a legal stay or to be adopted by someone who has the say and will charge him money for sponsoring his visa.

This is a cliché situation being done by people who are educated, who will not look like your average criminal, yet they will do horrible things like this doctor and nurse who were criminally charged after keeping a man as slave in Britain for 24 years.

This cliché situations are not being addressed with deadly consequences for areas like Schooner Road E16 

An area that could well look paradise but which just last year had over 426 vehicle thefts within 1 mile of the centre of the street.

This cliché situation is also not being addressed by the Government because the matter is again left to Nigerians, the community who mostly predates in other minorities and who most Africans and Caribbean truly hate and have experienced in one way or the other double oppression based on race and economical class.

Yet the British Equalities Minister, a Nigerian woman, will simply say " Skin Colour does not matter!". Will she ever say the rest?

Ariane Brito