Brown-on-black racism boggles my mind. The notion that people who are discriminated against for the color of their skin in western countries should in turn push the same prejudice onto those of a darker pigmentation than themselves is absurd. Whither human compassion? Sadly, this is all too real and endemic in the self-described “world’s largest democracy,” India. Vineet Thakur, a researcher at the University of Johannesburg and an expert on India-Africa relations, shares “Generalizations are bad, but this one I’m happy to make. Indians are most certainly racist.”
The scariest thing about big media in the West is its ability to shape global narratives. It is the 800-pound gorilla gatekeeping information in the internet age. Moreover, when …show more content…
Given that tens of thousands of African nationals–including some 30,000 university students–presently call India home, the depressing frequency of such incidents greatly peeves African diplomats.
Following Oliver’s murder, these diplomats as a group warned New Delhi that, “Given the pervading climate of fear and insecurity in India,” they were “left with little option than to consider recommending to their governments not to send new students to India unless their safety can be guaranteed.” This was their second warning of the year. Previously, in February, the African heads of missions had logged a strong protest with the Indian government after incensed locals in Bangalore stripped a young Tanzanian women naked, thrashed her and torched her car in a case of mistaken identity over an earlier …show more content…
In India, they are enclaved in the states of Karnataka and Gujarat, while those in Pakistan populate the Makran coast and Karachi’s Lyari township. Unlike Karachi, though, where "Mombasa Street" and "Sheedi Village" are part of the city’s social palette like any Chinatown abroad, Indian anthropologist Kiran Kamal explains the Siddis in Karnataka “live in dense forest areas, literally cut off from everyone.” Why? Because “there is a strong fear of Non-African Indians. Indians also have a very disrespectful attitude towards them, despite using them for all the hard labour,” Kamal
The scariest thing about big media in the West is its ability to shape global narratives. It is the 800-pound gorilla gatekeeping information in the internet age. Moreover, when …show more content…
Given that tens of thousands of African nationals–including some 30,000 university students–presently call India home, the depressing frequency of such incidents greatly peeves African diplomats.
Following Oliver’s murder, these diplomats as a group warned New Delhi that, “Given the pervading climate of fear and insecurity in India,” they were “left with little option than to consider recommending to their governments not to send new students to India unless their safety can be guaranteed.” This was their second warning of the year. Previously, in February, the African heads of missions had logged a strong protest with the Indian government after incensed locals in Bangalore stripped a young Tanzanian women naked, thrashed her and torched her car in a case of mistaken identity over an earlier …show more content…
In India, they are enclaved in the states of Karnataka and Gujarat, while those in Pakistan populate the Makran coast and Karachi’s Lyari township. Unlike Karachi, though, where "Mombasa Street" and "Sheedi Village" are part of the city’s social palette like any Chinatown abroad, Indian anthropologist Kiran Kamal explains the Siddis in Karnataka “live in dense forest areas, literally cut off from everyone.” Why? Because “there is a strong fear of Non-African Indians. Indians also have a very disrespectful attitude towards them, despite using them for all the hard labour,” Kamal