Some prose and Skywatch Friday

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It's been a while (nine years?) and I miss the Skywatch community. In the meantime I started weekly posting a short story or a poem. "So why not do both?" I asked myself. And here I am.

How 're all you lovelies doing in your parts of the world?

Still some time to spend in Mechelen, so here are some pictures taken on my walks, the studio were we rehearse in Schelle and even one from a trip from the one place to the other.

"Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-van-Hanswijk" is the name of this basilica and Catholic church, I asked my Google device to 'move':

The studio building where we rehearse has an architecture I think I will call 'pragmatic':

On one of my walks around Mechelen I found this fountain:

There are a lot of interesting buildings like this one in Mechelen:

Took this shot from a moving car halfway our two main locations:

And don't worry: I wasn't driving.

And of course I had to visit a 'frietkot', a typical Belgian snackbar:

This week's poem is inspired by a colleague:

Focus

Her musky scent 

almost threw him off

and for a moment 

he was lost in time 

and almost in space 

Because he drowned in her eyes 

and heard an angel sing

But a deep voice 

called him back:

"Focus!"

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Anti-immigration is about skin colour

Would you believe it if you were told over 60,000 people of a single country illegally live (and work) in the USA and Trump-voters don't care? Simply read this article to find out why.

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For racists it has never been about being 'foreigners', 'immigrants', 'legal' or 'illegal'. It was always simply because the colour of the skin of the newcomers that make racists hate them. 

Dutch racists support their 'Norwegian Brothers'. Because they are white and racist too. But hate people whose grandparents were born in Morocco. Because of the colour of their skin. Just like their British counterparts:

"We are not racists but hate áll immigrants!" Define 'Immigrant". "That person or one of the (grand-)parents was born outside our country." So you hate Thierry Baudet because his grandfather was French and Geert Wilders because his grandmother originates from the largest Muslim country in the world, Indonesia? And Donald Trump because his mother was a foreigner?" "Well...er...that's different because...er..."

"Now say why you hate all immigrants but not immigrants like Donald Trump and Thierry Baudet. Extra handicap: you can't say 'skin colour'. Good luck!"

"Yeah, but our ancestors came to the United States legally!" Sorry but you've been lied to, Mrs. DeVos and Mr. Cardona: if your ancestors entered the US before WW I, they were undocumented immigrants. 

European racists hate Americans, Israelis, Russians and even each other. Because they don't discriminate but hate every foreigner.

Do you hate foreigners? Remember that to most people in the world you are a foreigner.

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