Welcome Nyamko Sabuni

Let me present; Mrs. Nyamko Sabuni, Sweden's new minister of Integration and Equality.

As you may know the Social Democrates lost the election for the Swedish parliament to the "Alliance". The Alliance is; the Liberal Party, the Moderate Party, the Christian Democrates and the Center Party.
Sweden's new Prime minister is Mr. Fredrik Reinfeldt and he had the courage to give Nyamko a post in his new goverment. Congratulations to both of them.

Nyamko is a direct and straight forward person. This is not very Swedish. She is not afraid to demonstrate her self esteem, which is not very Swedish. And on top of that she is black, which is not very Swedish. It is sad but you should be aware there are lots of Swedes who are provoked by these facts already.

Nyamko became famous because of her fight for the many young women in cultures and religions who are; circumsised, put in fanatic religious schools, repressed by the so called culture of honour, are forced to wear a veil and forced to marry against their will.
You may wonder what all this has to do with Sweden? But according to Nyamko there are hundreds of thousands of women, in multi ethnic Sweden who are at risk of these assaults.

Nyamko has also become known by explaining, to us Swedes the history behind; why it is insulting to call a black person a negro.

Nyamko also wants to inspire women to take more political power and she explains that doing that has a price and require sacrifices. It is definately a men's world in politics.

I may not agree with everything Nyamko stand for in politics. But I'm very encouraged to see this colorful person among all these white men in Swedish politics.

Nyamko, I will stand by you "when the going gets rough".