No one talks about our situation. People talk a lot about us, but not
with us. You might look us strange and change to the opposite street.
Sometimes they call us immigrants, sometimes refugees, but always
pejoratively. As if we are not humans. We are told we have to adapt.
Whoever does not, can fly out. Out to Afghanistan, back to the war. A
war your democratic government has brought upon our lives. Or out to
Serbia, Kosovo, Albania. There is not even a war there, they say. Next
it will be ‘Go back to Syria’.
They build expensive apartments that we, and like many, cannot
afford. They say, we should wait a little longer. Put some effort. Then
it will work. With the integration. We are diligent on the
language-course, work, children at home, minimum wage and zero
job-security. Now can we please stay?
Your police are controlling us. Day after day, Night after night.
Because we look different. Because we have black hair? We are a danger,
experts say. Many believe it. You can choose to do so too. There are
already too many who do.
Yet, we are the happy survivors. The ones who made it. Too many do
not succeed. Starving in Libyan concentration camps, paid for their
failure at their fences, to try it over the sea. That is why they want
to build even higher fences, even further south. For that there is
plenty of money. But not for cheap apartments, they say. Or for more
Kindergartens. For all our children.
But we are many. And not alone. Many want to understand, many want to
help. But we do not want any help, no charity event. We want
solidarity! We want everyone to have the same rights. We stand for the
right to stay. We do not want anyone to be humiliated by the likes of
Job Center or the police. That money is there for the needs of all and
not for their weapons and profits.
That is why we come together. That is why we show ourselves. Show our
will and our ideas for a completely different living together!
