So are we racist or not?
Finally I had to bow down to the debate. Despite my best efforts I can’t help being a ‘me-too’.
The raging debate over are ‘others’ more racist? Thanks to Shilpa Shetty, Big Brother and of course the media. I think it is really a question of the mind.
I am sure all us feel racism…in office for the “not-so-georgraphically” inclined, I’m a Madrasi.
At the entrance of a plush hotel, I am scorned at because of my dressing. Hindus abuse Muslims and vice versa…all of us swear at each other at the slightest instigation. (Fair skin vs colored skin debate has given rise to a multi crore industry)
So, I think the question is on expressing this racism.
My theory is similar to yours. We abuse, reprimand, fight, swear, kill, shout etc. as an act of defiance…an expression of anguish or frustration at being shaken from a comfort zone. An even simpler cause could be someone questioning our thoughts, beliefs etc. All these make us do things that we don’t want to do.
And we do things thinking that doing this will help us regain the comfort zone… “maybe with this I will express my displeasure…and the other person will understand.” Not for a moment realizing that this expression will be the stimuli for the other person. And then it gets on from there. Becomes like a chain reaction.
The world would have certainly been a better place, if we really thought before we spoke. These racist slurs will happen as long as we seek power. As long as we just react.
Bimbettes do that, jack asses do that and for the media it is just another few column centimeters.
But it is not that we are really concerned about it. Because we all know that it is a reality. World has not become that pure for us to stop abusing.
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