Three Africans attacked in New Delhi by a racist mob. For no good reason. Dark skin be damned. We are bigots. Stop pretending we are not, you wheatish complexioned brides, you hordes of idiot men buying skinfair cream. She is nice but she is a little dark, mama, can you we see the other girls.
Rich coming from a colored nation. It is this whole savage Africa thing plus American slavery plus hardcore advertising guilting a nation into bias.
Black people in Delhi pay a price. A famous restaurant in Mumbai once put a ban on their entry. My friend married an Afro American brought her home, the neighbors fell over with laughter and Mumsie took to bed with palpitations.
Too much stereotyping. We think all black people are aggressive, they will hurt us so let’s hurt them first, they have to deal in drugs they are black, it is natural, they are criminals by perception. And why are we so stupid?
Thank you Hollywood. Indians fall for that trap. Add to the mix our affection for fair skin and feeling ‘superior’ and the result makes apartheid fail in comparison for criminal hurt.
We yap endlessly about being anti-discrimination and we discriminate the most. When the Commonwealth Youth team came to Delhi all the whites were invited to Indian homes. The two blacks were invited to a coffee shop.
I once had a good friend who was Ugandan. Whenever we went out together, shopkeepers, waiters, attendants, cab drivers would have that ‘you must be getting it’ look on their faces. She was a highly talented expert in nuclear medicine.
Sure, we are afraid of what we don’t know and the prejudice is deep rooted. Don’t go in the sun, no one will marry you. From childhood they warn us, they tell us that the fair shall inherit the earth, never mind the meek. Will no one rid me of this pigment, a million Lady Macbeths rubbing at the damn spot.
The way we are behaving, the sun has already gone down and the night is riding in. Hypocrites all of us. And how we scream when we are treated badly in another country. This conduct is worse than a strip search, this is a national dishonor.
