Since the beginning of time, non-African cultures have participated in history shows the dehumanization and systemic racism towards black people all around the world, even in the Middle East. This injustice is being ignored by the rest of the world, and Arab nations aren’t doing much to stop it, because in their minds it's justified. There is a superiority complex, in which Arabs view themselves above Blacks, and majority of Arabs treat them accordingly. This superiority complex developed in the Middle East because arabs view themselves as the best people since great religions such as Islam, Judiasm and Christianity and great people in religion such as Jesus, muhammed and Moses were all from the middle east. Many East Africans seek refugee and asylum in wealthier Arab countries, such as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. These refugees usually end up doing service work. They take on jobs like in-house maids, waste-collecting, janitorial services for very low wages. There are over thousands of reports of mistreatment, abuse, and underpaid wages for these workers.on refugees. Just this April, a video was released, recorded by a Kuwaiti woman filming her in-house maid, clinging to the window for her life. In the video you can see the maid begging for her employer to help her, while she records and speculates not helping at all. Eventually the woman falls 7 stories and miraculously lives, while the Kuwaiti woman is still recording, and refusing to help her. The maid, an Ethiopian refugee, is another victim of brutal racism and discrimination amongst the Arab community against Blacks. The Kuwaiti saw herself superior, therefore didn’t help, even though she had the ability to. She let the black woman fall because she doesn't view as human enough, she didn’t care if she were to die from the fall. This stems back through generations of normalized discrimination. The privileged Arabs is used as an advantage to be able to commit such heinous crimes and be congratulated by some in their communities. Often times black people are refereed to as “Abeed” which translated from Arabic means slave.
In the United Arab Emirates, various organizations have withheld their foreign employee’s passports to force them to stay in the country and work. This is an obvious violation of human rights that Arabs are accustomed to. “According to a Human Rights Watch report, foreign workers constitute 88.5 percent of the UAE population, and low-paid workers are "subjected to abuses that amount to forced labor." It is estimated that there are three million such workers in UAE alone, and 61 percent of them come from South Asian or African countries.”stated Pacific Standard. With that high of a percentage of migrants working forcefully, and the UAE’s government's support there is no regard for the well being of these foreign workers. There is no initiative to stop these inhuman acts, so the cycle of indecency will continue on with no consequences or punishments to these racists officials. This is modern-day slavery.
In conclusion, the systematic superiority complex that allows racism to continuelive in these Arab countries has been prominent since the beginning of time. There is no denying these horrendous acts of human indecency. It seems to be, that no matter where Black people are, oppression follows.
