Will the irrational indifferences based on our skin colour and facial features fend or will they continue till the end?……
Racism-this is a term which has been lingering from ages, even in today’s modern time where mind sets have changed or mabey are still trying to be changed people are still stuck to old beliefs and myths which they are not ready to leave, when will the day arise where we stop distinguising ourselves based on the colour of our skin or even based on our facial features, when will the day arise where we shall stop distinguishing Africans from Americans and just call ourselves as humans. Many of us look forward for a day where we stop tagging ourselves and live under one name that is “Humans of Mother Earth”. We have the same red blood running in our veins and we live, we eat and we work in the same environment which is equal before us all, but still distinguish and discriminate each other based on our colour.
The case of George Floyd has shook us once again, once again hue and cry has mixed its chaos with the flood of fury. Unrest has spread its wings over the land of liberty. Even though several civilizations have passed and our surroundings have drastically changed but we have been unable to adapt our mind towards the terrifying truth. This sensitive issue is just a reminder for us all that even in the modern age of twenty first century where people have reached the moon and are striving to go on mars we still are here with our narrow and conservative mind sets lurking around the same issue and ruining our lives and putting lives of many others at risk, education does not really change mind sets and that’s true after all. Great voices like Martin Luther king who had a dream to see a country free from any kind of racism or discrimination or Obama who with his leadership highlighted the concept of unity in diversity or Rosa parks who defied a man of a different colour in poisonous times where racism was like a plague and stood for equality and raised her voice over the wrong.
Racism is not only a problem which exists in the land of the free and the home of the brave but it also exists in India as well, from time to time we see news and headlines surfacing newspapers, news channels and social media over racist attacks based on colour and facial features, calling out derogatory terms to people of other communities and insulting there culture is just one of the reasons which has widened the divide between West and East and North and south in India. Even after so many awareness campaigns, education, laws, and millions of protests and unwanted bloodshed the cycle of terror, tumult and trauma just does not seem to end. Not only that gender indifferences and social indifferences still slither like a poisonous snake in our society, such indifferences which are increasing day by day not only destroy societies but also damage mental health, they leave behind a wound whose scars pass on for generations and can become the spark to a ferocious fire.
I would like to quote James Baldwin “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Will the disturbances and disarray in society be solved soon when the whole country is moved or will the disorder continue after all this comes back to a standstill.
- Abdhi Upadhyay
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