Monday 16 May 2011

I have been attending Greek language classes at the migrants social centre for about 6 weeks now. Normally its attended by about 20 or so people from all over the world. I have talked about it in previous posts. Anyway, today there were only three of us; me and a Romanian couple. We are also usually the only white students. We three students and the 2 teachers sat in the centre and talked about why the turnout was so amazingly low. We were certain it was because of fear after the recent wave of random fascist attacks on anyone who looked like a migrant in central Athens. It was so sad and disappointing to be sitting there, the white skinned students able to attend class, the black skinned ones afraid to come. I suggested organising some kind of car pool, to bring people to the centre. Let’s see if it’s possible. Constant participation seems like a very positive form of resistance to people who think the colour of your skin a) identifies your nationality b) is in some way important.

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