During the Cold War tens of thousands of black students went to study in the Soviet Union. (I know some South Africans who did.) That world is now far away as this video report on Globalpost by journalists Miriam Elder and Dmitri Venkov show. Instead It’s largely a life of drudgery, survival, poverty and fearing arbitrary attacks from racist rightwing thugs. (Thanks Dmitri.)
Simply harrowing…
Yeah well things are not much better, often much much worse for a whole lot of people who were born in Russia and did not choose to go there like he did. He lives very close to Moscow, has a roof over his head and a safe haven to go to once in a while. There are so many Russian primary school kids who have to travel for three hours every day just to get to school, as age 6. Yes the cold is not good, but it does get scorching hot in the summer.
If he doesn’t want to be attacked by “racist rightwing thugs” then he should go back to Africa.