Donald Trump recently talked about migrants coming to America to steal “black jobs”. Zoran Milanović yesterday he explained how “we and our children will have to do those jobs that we thought we would leave to some people there who are a little darker than us”.
Trump never explained what “black jobs” would be like in a country that had a black president and now has a dark-skinned vice president. Except, of course, he alluded to the fact that blacks in America do poorly paid and low-skilled jobs, which was such a typical racist outburst for him.
He wanted to win black votes by scaring them of the influx of migrants and presenting himself as the protector of their “black jobs”. He didn’t imagine that blacks were doing some “white jobs”.
Darker affairs
Croatian Trump, the president of Milan, complained yesterday on Hvar that Croats will do jobs that they thought they would leave to “some people over there who are darker than us”. He did not explain which jobs and people those would be, but it is clear who he was referring to.
And so, after we witnessed Milanovic’s chauvinism and xenophobia in the past years, he has now stepped into the racist quagmire.
The president of the country could have talked about the import of workers from abroad, any foreign country, from Serbia and BiH to Nepal and the Philippines, he could have talked about foreigners and people, but he still decided to mention people “darker than us”, for whom those jobs that Croats would not want to do are reserved. But they will soon be forced to do so.
Can some “brighter than us” get these jobs?
Brighter than us
Can the “brighter” ones in Croatia still take out the garbage, clean the streets, cook, serve, plow and dig, or is it really only reserved for “a little darker than us”? And can “darker than us” do jobs that Croats do not avoid?
For someone who should be a career diplomat, an experienced politician, a hardened rhetorician, a well-known intellectual, the president of the country, and even a formal candidate of the leftist party, Milanović it is too easy to divide people according to their skin color.
Which, again, is not unusual for the former head of the SDP, who admitted in 2006 that in his youth he “recognized the Serbs” in his neighborhood by “what clubs they support”. It was obviously very important to him.
Did Milanovi, as a former SDP member, really want to divide society into those who are lighter and those who are “darker”?
Division by skin color
The definition of racism implies the division of people by the color of their skin, as well as their classification by economic or social categories. Also, as a rule, racism points the finger at one group, especially a visible minority, which is therefore exposed to stigmatization and prejudice, and this is the experience that Croatia has had with the Roma minority for centuries, and will have now. with strangers.
Milanović is truly vaccinated against political correctness.
Croatia imports and for years has imported workers with the same skin color, from neighboring or other European countries, who often did lower-paid jobs, and they still do them today. Are we going to emphasize today only those who are “darker than us”?
Cultural fit
In his presentation during his visit to Jelsa Milanović also warned that the process of arrivals of foreigners to our country must be “strictly and permanently monitored” with the aim that “when someone arrives, they must fit in culturally, learn the language, accept the local culture”. At the same time, he defended himself and said that “he is not thinking about religion, but about culture”.
What does that even mean?
How is the local culture accepted?
What Milanović do you think how these foreigners “darker than us” will behave in Croatia, how will they threaten the local culture? Will they light bonfires, organize pagan rituals in the squares, have ritual sacrifices, some voodoo, what does he think they will do here and why do they have to fit in?
And what then, when it’s moreć found that topic, thoughts about Filipinos singing karaoke in Zagreb’s Jarun? It wasn’t really part of the local culture until now.
Responsibility on foreigners?
But even more important, what Milanović as the president of the Republic, does he undertake to get the Croatian state involved in the easier acceptance of foreigners into our society, for example to help them learn the language? Given that this is very important to the Croatian president.
Is all the responsibility really on these foreigners, exposed to the arbitrariness of intermediary agencies and employers, and foreigners at whom the head of state himself pointed the finger and called them “darker than us”?
This is, apparently, what Milanov’s campaign for the second term will look like. Some will be told that “this is a house for everyone”, others that there are people “darker than us” who must “fit in culturally”.
He recently accused migrants of coming to Croatia only to get social assistance, portraying them as parasites. And now he is talking about the fact that we thought to give the worst jobs to “darker than us”.
There is no doubt that the voters of the Homeland Movement, Most and other right-wingers will be delighted.