White, Yellow, Brown and Black Races should unite
Is it hypocritical of
India to say attacks on Africans were not racist? There has been repeated cases
of Africans being assaulted by Indians. It is high time the government took measures
to stop such attacks.
The Africans call such repeated
attacks as “xenophobic and racial” in nature. Indian officialdoms insist that
such attacks are not racist. According to Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, these
“were not any kind of racial attacks” but “spontaneous” and “criminal.”
Are such assaults motivated
by an African’s physical appearance? The
fact is that any person of black origin who lives in India faces verbal abuse, social ostracisation, and
discrimination in such issues as housing.
New Delhi is quick to
declare attacks on people of Indian origin in the West as racist. What when
such things happen in our own country.
These attacks can also be
attributed to the failure of policing. Few Africans are involved in various
illegal activities like drug smuggling and cheating innocent people in the name
of lotteries etc. It is the duty of civilized Africans to report about illegal
activities of their fellows from that continent. Quick and exemplary punishment
needs to be meted out to the miscreants.
Is there no colour
prejudice in India? The popularity of "Fair & Lovely" type creams
tells clearly how much at least North Indians detest dark complexions. North
Indians think they are white people in India and treat all dark skinned people
very poorly and with total disrespect. However, when the same North Indian goes
to Australia or US, he gets brandished as brown skinned and is attacked. A
natural equilibrium is thus maintained in the ecosystem. A white shoots a yellow,
who shoots a brown, who in turn shoots a black.
A black person finding a
house in any of our big cities will not get it anywhere simply because of his
color. The same landlord will jump to allow a white person inside his house. Even
though we are colored, we discriminate based on our own color so many times, an
Indian from the North East is ignorantly termed as Chinese, dark skinned South
Indians are termed 'Madrasis' by so many ignorant people from the North (No one
bothers to clarify to then that not all South Indians are 'Madrasis'). The sale
of fairness creams in this country is enough to prove this point.
Race might not be an
issue. It’s just the color that discriminates. The survey from 2013 lists India
as World's "most racist" nation on earth.
We have in our country plethora
of castes, sub castes, discrimination by way of reservations. Hard to find
another country on this planet that can equal India when it comes to this
issue. Almost inevitably, dark skinned Indians are either lowly placed (even
the villains of Indian movies are all almost black in colour) or 'scheduled'
groups.
No dark skinned Indian
will ever hold a position of importance in the whole of India - we are now
talking of corporate ladder, social strata. Would Smith, Obama, Mohamad Ali,
Usain Bolt, Viv Richards - to name a few - have achieved greatness in India?
Why don't we accept the
fault in our society for what it really is - a dirty, dark desire to
discriminate and discriminate between various groups of people? Be it language
or color or caste or whatever else you want to add. We discriminate based on
just looking at the other person. Color plays a big factor in this, most of the
times we don't understand the race at all. Its just too black, and too fair,
and too Chinese and blah blah blah.....
Keep grouping and
compartmentalizing things in this fashion and India will never be united the way
it should be. It is high time that White, Yellow, Brown and Black Races united
and respected each other.
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