Racism against blacks in IPL

[shastarSingh]

https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/darren-sammy-furious-kalu-racist-word-ipl-srh-6446203/

[Premi5]

20 minutes ago, shastarSingh said:

https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/darren-sammy-furious-kalu-racist-word-ipl-srh-6446203/

Not a surprise s, a lot of casual racism embedded in the Indian mentality 

[puzzled]

Not surprising in India even Indians call dark skinned Indians kalu.

Some black cricketers are popular in India,  Chris Gayle used to be popular. But because of their skin colour in their head Indians would always discriminate against them regardless of their talent.

Don't know why Indians mock dark skin, once you go past Delhi your average Indian is the same colour as dark skinned Africans. 

[ChardikalaUK]

Indians are deeply racist. My chachi in India says some disgusting things about black people. These same Indians then complain when a white person is racist against them.

No wonder the Indians were kicked out of Africa, good on the Africans doing this as those East African Indians are horribly racist to this very day. They call the Africans 'Boy'.

[MisterrSingh]

12 minutes ago, ChardikalaUK said:

Indians are deeply racist. My chachi in India says some disgusting things about black people. These same Indians then complain when a white person is racist against them.

No wonder the Indians were kicked out of Africa, good on the Africans doing this as those East African Indians are horribly racist to this very day. They call the Africans 'Boy'.

 As others have mentioned, the Indian aversion for dark skin is idiotic. Probably a hangover from the Varna mentality. I wonder if that's part of the reason why South Indians are a tad hostile to North Indians.

[genie]

Racism is within all communities, not gonna excuse the racism within asian communities because its evidently there and its wrong.

However we must also acknowledge that there's plenty of black racists and supremacists out there just look at youtube and social media at some of their views and incidents against non-black people. Alot of people of indians and asian heritage witnessed and suffered from black racism and violence growing up in the west. Edi amin the brutal racist African black dictator ethnically cleansed all the indians/pakistani's/asians from uganda. Alot of the ugandan asians still to this day do not speak up of the horrendous crimes that happened against them just because of their race. Similar things happened to kenyan asians and tanzania asians in 1970s-80s

And its real life experiences from racism and attacks from the black community that form some of those negative views about them from the indian community. Just like real life experiences from what racist white imperialists did in india and punjab that formed the negative view of white people generally until indians left india and migranted to the west and learnt not all white people are bad and oppressors. And black peoples negative views of white people are formed everytime a cop kills them unjustly and they are not given a job purely based on the colour of their skin or race.

So racism is just not ignorance but also a negative perception because of what a person or persons may have experienced from another racial group.

As for the protests going on in the west against racism. I am all for it, as there is endemic systemic racist policies in place in the west that deny people of colour to progress in employment and equal status in western white centric society. Also these racist policies from the european establishments filter down to oppression and illegal foreign wars and covert state funded terrorist operations to undermine the progression of non-european countries and peoples around the world.

 

[puzzled]

In the kamasutra it says the ideal woman is not to dark and not to light either. Now a days the lighter one is more attractive they are considered.

Indians have not always preferred light skin. If you look at the paintings in the ajanta caves from the gupta period then most the women are painted with darker brown skin and they were considered beautiful. 

I think this obsession with light skin is linked to the varna system, because bhramins are at the top and bhramins in general are light skinned than most indians.

Secondly India witnessed light skinned people invading them from the west for 1000 years. Some point during these invasions light skin, sharper and foreign features etc became occosiated with power and beauty. 

Rama was dark skinned and considered/described as a handsome man. The ramayan describes his as.

"He has broad shoulders, mighty arms, a conch-shaped neck, a charming countenance and coppery eyes;

he has his clavicle concealed and is known by the people as Rama. He has a voice (deep) like the sound of a kettledrum and glossy skin, is full of glory, square-built and of well proportioned limbs

and is endowed with a dark-brown complexion."

So in ancient times skin colour was not an issue.

I think buddha is described as having a golden brown complexion.

[puzzled]

Iv hardly spoken with any punjabi/indians from africa but I knew this hindu girl whose family were from africa and she said indian were really racist to the africans. 

I'm not surprised they are destroying gandhi statues. 

[CHaamCHrick]

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[shastarSingh]

I personally love black people.

West Indies is my favourite team.