Tunisian President’s Racist Remarks Shocked Moroccans

The Tunisian president went so far as to say that Africans were the root of most of Tunisia’s problems in an effort to “Africanize” the country and break it away from its “Arabness” after criticizing and making racist remarks about African immigrants who fled their home countries for safety in Europe due to poverty, famine, and conflict.

These comments have sparked a great deal of anger and a visceral rejection of the statements made by the Tunisian president against African citizens who are rightfully seeking a better future for themselves and their children in Morocco, where African migrants enjoy full social rights and are integrated into the Kingdom’s social fabric.

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If the Moroccan citizen is not accustomed to interfering in the internal affairs of another nation, the Tunisian president’s racial and despicable remarks have shaken him violently.

To ignore the resounding outrage of African countries over President Saied’s defamatory remarks is unethical.

The president of Tunisia, a university professor, should not disregard the fact that migration enriches the host society, and his claim that Africans are the root of Tunisia’s problems demonstrates a serious lack of understanding of Tunisian reality.

The assertion that immigrants want to “Africanize” Tunisia and eliminate it from its “Arabness” is another irrational claim.

The writer of these comments would have known that Tunisia is already on the African continent if they had only taken a quick look at a map of the world. It is just as afro-centric as Niger, Congo, or Tanzania