Dinesh Kamath's Editorial 'Do justice to non-whites' that was published in Newsband

Do justice to non-whites

The gun attack killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina.  This is racism at its worst. The election of Barack Obama as the first black President of the country in 2008 had raised hopes about the dawn of a post-racial era. But African-Americans are still being frequently targeted.

The American polity claims to cherish freedom and fairness. “The policeman of the world”, which invaded two nations to keep Americans “safe” from terrorists, is seen to be clueless on how to deal with home-grown terrorism. No doubt America has shown its humanity to world either by helping countries for fighting epidemic like ebola or by fighting Terrorism in Islamic states but in between these events it has ignored its homegrown racism.

What makes it more lethal here are the country’s gun laws. The Obama administration’s attempts to bring in stricter gun laws have failed in Congress despite a number of mass shooting incidents in recent years. Unsurprisingly, Obama has now renewed his calls for stricter gun laws.

Both whites and blacks in America have inherited forcefully occupied lands from native Americans. The whites came from Europe while blacks brought from Africa. So they should learn to co-exist and whites should not claim exclusive rights over others.

Obama government need to take some bold steps and remove these remained societal flaws. Also it need to change its lethal Gun laws which are half responsible for such crimes.

When American Journals and President are bothered more about minority in India, they appear to be least concerned about their black people being killed by their white people due to racial discrimination. Let America learn how to treat their black people on humanitarian ground before advising others.

By the way, why some Indians are hell bent on something happened in America. USA has moved on and it is best country for all races compared to India. USA learns from the mistake and moves on, India does not. Indians who live in USA know it. Bigotry, Racism, discrimination - all exists in one form or the other in every country. US is one of the most integrated societies (that is probably why more people like to go to US than any other country and that is a fact). Try integration in Saudi Arabia or China. There is probably nothing to integrate.

In the meantime US should do something drastic about Racism and guns which are the twin pathological failures of the American system. It has to tackle urgently these challenges, politically and legally. Else, no force would be able to halt the decay of moral fabric in the country" The world is clearly divided into a European Class (Westerners) and Non-European class. All of us (non-Westerners in more than 150 Countries) in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Island nations are second-class humans to the westerners. This is evident in the manner in which the NATO and other Groups led by the USA belittle all others and decide things unilaterally favoring themselves on all world matters. Will this change?