There are lots of South Sudanese in Egypt who go through the same abuse and racists taunts everyday. I once blogged about Egyptians are trying to woe the Southern Sudanese here. And last month Hosni Mubarak was in Juba, a visit that evryone knows was about the Nile water. I wonder what he will tell the South Sudanese if he read the story.
At least Muna spoke about it.
"The racism I saw on the Cairo Metro has an echo in the Arab world at large, where the suffering in Darfur goes ignored because its victims are black and because those who are creating the misery in Darfur are not Americans or Israelis and we only pay attention when America and Israel behave badly.
We love to cry "Islamophobia" when we talk about the way Muslim minorities are treated in the West and yet we never stop to consider how we treat minorities and the most vulnerable among us."
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Hmm interesting. I blogged about similar issues regarding racism in Egypt in my blog. I wrote about Racism in the egyptian media specifically, here's the link to that post:
http://sudaneseoptimist.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/racism-in-egyptian-movies/
Can you also pls expose the Dinka worlds dirty secret too? The Sudan tribune is crying all the time about Dinkas abusing other tribes and stealing their land and cattle. Isn't that racism too?
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