Blame it on eumelanin

Joseph Muscat had been born with significantly more eumelanin pigment in his skin cells, he would look something like the image above. Black supremacists believe that people with more eumelanin are superior to inferior whites.

So there you go.

And I doubt he would have been elected leader of the Labour Party. He could have perhaps gathered a few progressives around him, but nothing like the crowds that gathered at his mass meetings before March.

To illustrate perfectly the way most Maltese deal with the issue of colour, just read what happened to a dark-skinned Maltese woman who happens to be an Arriva driver.

On Friday, a woman - a second Maltese woman, who also has relatively dark skin but who thinks she is white - decided to verbally abuse an Arriva driver, whom she obviously assumed to be from Lesotho.

(By the way, most Maltese think that Lesotho is the trade name of Vaseline. In fact, it is a country in Africa, where civilisation kicked off thousands of years ago.)

The driver was called "black", and it was suggested to her that she should go home. Home, in this case, was Malta.

It is a great pity that the discerning passengers on the bus were unaware that their ancestors must have been Arabs. It is worrisome that they seemed ignorant of the religion of those same ancestors: they were Muslims.

The stark truth is that whereas European racists are bloody stupid and sick in the head, they can at least boast of having white skin and looking truly Caucasian. In our case, many of us could easily be mistaken for Libyans, Tunisians or Lebanese.

Maltese are in the vast majority rather dark-skinned - and they all speak a Semitic language and are usually completely devoid of any culture or historical insight.

There are exceptions. For example, Joseph Muscat is neither dark-skinned nor stupid.

He is however rather pig-headed when it comes to migrants. A shocking revelation, considering he fancies himself to be progressive and an icon for the liberal Maltese.

I'm afraid that he may just have lost them overnight.

The immigration issue is not about a threat to our economy or our cultural identity (whether we have one or not is another matter). Rather, it is a reflection of our hysterical response to colour.

On the contrary, most economists would welcome an injection of migrants to our society. They would pay taxes like the doctors and lawyers (sick joke) and contribute their national insurance for an ageing population.

Let us for a moment just imagine that instead of dark-skinned Africans we were invaded by a dinghy full of Ukrainian or Russian women.

Obviously our stereotype of the female Slav is that she beds anyone and provides unbounded sexual pleasure.

Stereotypes are difficult to dispel, most especially when your brain's neuron density is equivalent to that of a sea urchin.

A society devoid of culture and identity is a threat to its own existence.

We are a racist country, with the odd exception. The real issue is that we are unable to deal with the colour black and with a supremacy fixation (meaning an inferiority complex) that we are Christian, white and at the centre of the world.

In the last 10 years an average of 1,387 migrants a year reached these shores, and most of them did not stay with us. They moved on.

The fact that most were not integrated but forced to hang out in their usual ghettos - identified as either detention centres or open centres - raised the 'racism' barometer in Marsa, Safi and Birzebbugia.

Muscat has jumped on the anti-black bandwagon, knowing that he cannot lose points in what I call the 'gift scheme' of doing politics.

Muscat has definitely managed to attract the attention of the European Union and the Libyans, but managed to enrage those he would probably describe as 'the bohemians'.

Well, the bohemians are not like that uncouth, overweight Maltese racist who taunted a Maltese, dark-skinned Arriva driver to go back home. They are definitely more comfortable and better off, but they are also the ones who rallied around Muscat to make things happen for him.

Dottor Joseph Muscat met up with the EU council president and the Libyan deputy prime minister and emphasised that the solution is very simple.

Strengthen Libya's southern border controls and stop those bloody Eritreans and Somalis from entering the country.

Let them rot in their own countries and fight between themselves and kill each other.

And then, when the first chance suddenly appears to make a donation to some mission fund, let us be the first ones to prove ourselves charitable.

As long as they don't set foot in this blessed country. That is the motto.

The 1,300 migrants who reach our shores every year are not an issue.

The issue, I am afraid, is the politicians and the people who cannot quite accept the fact that black people or dark-skinned people are human beings after all.

During the campaign, there was always the token appearance of a dark-skinned child or adult.

I hope you all realise that this was all a whole load of baloney.

I'm really confused.

The Church speaks out for migrants but has a problem with gays.

The Labour Party speaks out in favour of gays but has a problem with migrants.

I wonder whether I should just lock myself up in my study and read the writings of the Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran: "Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."