What Goes Around, Comes Around

CAMPED OUT in substantial numbers at Calais, France, hoping to hop a ride to Dover, England, through the tunnel which sits beneath the ocean floor, are refugees from Africa and the middle East. Delayed, if not instant karma. The chickens have come home to roost, so to speak. The Europeans have not the faintest idea what to do about it, other than to accuse each other of not doing enough to help the victims fleeing from war and famine in places like North Africa and Syria. For the most part, the refugees are well educated, middle class professionals, not criminals. A veritable hot potato motivating European countries to build fences, enact legislation, and avoid responsibility. Quickly reviewing, we note that, beginning with Christopher Columbus, extending from the sixteenth to the late twentieth centuries, European colonial imperialism reached out into the world, exploiting everybody and everything in developing countries in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The European powers were looking for gold and whatever else they could get their hands on, while piously claiming to be bringing the benefits of Christian civilization and enlightened governance to backwards countries. Now the refugees can rightfully claim to be bringing the fruits of colonialism back to Europe. Americans know all about it, or certainly should. Having stolen half of Mexico from the Mexicans using similar twisted reasoning, we now see the Mexicans flooding back into what was once, and probably should still be, their territories, subjugated under United States occupation since 1846. Most of these Mexicans are hard working and upstanding; Donald Trump and his ilk are seeing far too many criminals in the crowd. Verily, what goes around comes around.