2009-06-27
Racism In India
If this guy looks familiar, I have posted his Youtube videos on the blog before. Very interesting guy with some very interesting points. He is half black american/half african who grew up in the American south. He is also gay and involved in an interracial relationship with a German. He is also working on his PhD. I love this guy!!!!!
I do have one criticism of this video. For some reason we always go to Gandhi as this bastion of love and equality for all. Gandhi wasn't a big fan of black people. He felt that indians were superior to blacks, which to me is so funny considering that he was struggling for indians (at least higher caste ones) to gain equality with whites, who felt indians were inferior to them.
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I'm so in agreement with you on the Gandhi thing. Such hypocrisy.
I respect Gandhi’s idea of non-violent protest for change, but the man was a perpetrator/victim of the racist caste system that was (and is?) prevalent throughout India. This is why it is important to know history and historical figures in a realistic (and complete sense). Such knowledge keeps you from completely deifying or demonizing individuals (allowing you to appreciate to good despite the bad).
Even though Amanda, the troll racist (who thinks illustrating how much other groups hate blacks will be shocking to black people when its not), has stated this idea in the previous entry and from your past post on Gandhi, it is well known fact that Gandhi thought blacks were subhuman even though MLK personally admired Gandhi's philosophies and read extensively about him—he even visited his followers in India.
This obviously cloaked his racism about Blacks because King saw his non-violent approach as an inspiration to the Civil rights movement and thus people see King and Gandhi as equals even though Gandhi thought Blacks were inferior. Also Gandhi was part of Brahmin’s the high end of India’s caste system, thus his ideas of Black inferiority were bred into his cultural belief system since he was technically on the top of India’s food chain and was not interested in dismantling the caste system but gaining ascendancy over White British. Also Gandhi lived in South Africa under Apartheid and of course he was not concerned with the inhuman way that Blacks were treated but with the Indian community and fighting for them to gain parity with Whites. And this attitude with East and South East Asians is still prevalent. Because of the Model Minority ideal—most believe they are at the very least-- superior to Blacks.
I'm not surprised, the colorism is so strong there. They discriminate against darker Indians so it only follows that they'd discriminate against Africans especially with the image medias provides of Africans.
As an African muslim (living in the U.S.) I have experienced plenty racism from middle easterners while attending mosque, etc. I have even had a little girl tell me and my sister her parents told her not to pray next to black people and we are not real muslims.
My parents and their parents as well as their parents parents were all muslim... but we are still not real muslims.
Its pretty widely known we [black people] are the lowest of the low when it comes to race and ethnicity across the GLOBE. Every groups wants to feel superior, so all those who can't measure up to western standards feel the need to belittle black people to make themselves feel a little better.
I found out about Ghandi being racist towards blacks not too long ago. I was shocked in a way because he is always being held as this peacemaker and fighter of equality and it's a big joke. I wonder if King knew this about Ghandi. I work with alot of Indians here in my hometown and alot of them are racist and in denial of the cast system in India. I have never wanted to visit India in the first place. I feel really sorry for the Indians who suffer at the hands of ignorant racist Indians living there. I don't understand how minorities allowed white people to brain wash them into following their racist beliefs. To me any minority who falls for this is inferior, to logical thinking people. That goes for blacks, asians, hispanics and arabs.
Indians always make me laugh when they start complaining about other people being racist towards them while they are one of the most racist groups I will probably ever meet.But they are so quick to point fingures.God forbib that you meet an Indian who is darker than you!I had a friend who was light skinned in the same class with a dark skinned indian and he was so obssesed about her skin it was beyond creepy.
If you want to see how truly racist Indians are, go to an African country where they exist in large numbers.
What amazes me is how they come mourning to you about racism when in White society yet they would treat you exactly the same way in a different environment.
No doubt Indians hate Blacks (do you remember the Indian father-in-law in Atlanta who paid to have his Black daughter-in-law killed?).
But I think some Indians simply believe they are superior to everyone. I've heard stories of Indian parents going crazy when introduced to White partners of their children and pushing their children into arranged marriages with their own kind.
Perhaps it is Hinduism with its rigid caste system which explains the dislike of darker skinned (including darker skinned Indians) peoples.
Kind of strange though that I know of many Indian males who marry Black women in the Caribbean (for example, Jamaica, Guyana and Trinidad) and Africa (for example, Kenya and Tanzania). I guess their hatred of Blacks is strongest where Hinduism is concentrated.
That guy and I have a lot in common. I am half African-American and half African and I was raised in the American South, too.
I never knew about Ghandi's opinions of black people until I started following your blog back in January. I totally agree with Mr. Noface in that we need to be realistic about our historical figures. We have the tendency to deify people and it's really not helpful. I can see the same thing happening with President Obama.
I never knew that about Ghandi. Damn.
That's why I don't have any sympathy for the Indians in Australia. They can dish it out by they can't take it. That's why in Africa Idi Amin kicked them out. Black people need to come together, abandon these race mixing fantasies, get a backbone and distance yourselves from these hateful races.
Love the title of the blog. I was called siditty by my family the whole time i ws growing up. Oh, well.
I knew of Ghandi's racism. He does not deserve deification.
I worked with an Indian woman (I know this is not ALL indians) who's pigment was similar to mine. I am a medium brown skinned man with pink lips light nail beds. She had dark lips and darker nail beds. She was complaining to me about not finding a lip tint that gave her the same look as her white counterparts. I advised her to buy lip color from a black cosmetics line. She became enraged! She didn't appreciate the reality check she was given. I found that very telling. I have been treated as an idiot by several Indian doctors one of which who told me in response to a query I made regarding a heart procedure I was having: "YOu wouldn't understand it if I explained it to you." He was summarily told off and reassigned from my case. He refused to aplogize to me for his arrogant comment. I also found that a more than a little telling. My eyes are open for additional insight. Thanks for this post. I'll be back
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