If you are anything like me you have heard the tumult of voices proclaiming how this group or that group of immigrants are supposedly destroying this nation or that nation.

You know the type. Loud, brutal, vicious attacks proclaiming this group of non-white people, often fleeing countries destabilised by a long history of Western interference, as the worst living human beings that could ever exist, you know, Nazis.

Of course they would never make that association because of two reasons.

Nazis were white.

And more often than not the people spouting the hatred agree with a lot of what the Nazis did and said.

But people fleeing the devastation of their own nations, to the nations often historically responsible for that devastation, are the one who are the danger, the ones to be wary of, to be afraid of.

I mean we all know how badly the Irish and Italians ruined America, or the Vietnamese destroyed Australia, the Indians and Britain, need I go on?

Yes, the total obliteration of those great white nations with things like flavours, foods and a bit of a different culture.

And we all know they got nothing in return.

No workers, no aforementioned foods, flavours, no new ideas, no extra consumers and taxpayers that constitute integral parts of their nations.

No, they don’t need you in their country, don’t want you in their country, and definitely know exactly how much you are part of your local community, definitely know how much your employer needs you, how much of a change, not only to you and yours, but to all those who’s lives you interact with, would occur should you suddenly leave all that behind.

I mean, it couldn’t be that they are ignorant racists who don’t see the value in anyone who isn’t white, who can’t comprehend how non-white people can be capable, industrious, caring, considerate, humane, decent, sociable, accepting, and all round better human beings than they are.

No, they really can’t comprehend that.

Not at all.

Because in the end, your skills, your dedication, your decency, your humanity, are wasted on small minded, petty, ignorant, ungrateful, unimaginative, troglodytes like them.

No, if we could do anything, anything at all, it would be to give you all a better home, a better place to live, secure in peace and love, away from these fools, away from their covert and overt racism, away from their ignorance and hate, and leave them with their empty cities, devoid of so many of the workers, so many of the people they don’t deem worthy of their respect, that keep their society functioning in the first place.

Wouldn’t that be an interesting dream to come true?

Saeed Parker - Speech at Immigration Justice Rally