In the latest controversy making headlines all over the Indian and the British newspapers, I just wanna give a perspective over the racism in West. We recently saw Shilpa Shetty being a victim of racial bullying and we also saw the main accused of these racism, Jade Goody was evicted by popular poll. Although we don’t really know if she really was evicted because most of the white people of Britain gave a major disapproval against racism, or it was a combined job of the non-white community of Britain(I am not saying that the producers of Big Brother rigged it to kick Jade out, but its possible).
I live in US and honestly speaking in this country racism has its own roots. Of course an average white American adult will try hard to show that he is not racist, and almost skin-color blind, but its not true. He just voices his opinion very highly against the racism and pretends that he does not see color, but sub-consciously he is every bit of racist.
Take for example today, just when I was coming out of Starbucks after having my daily dose of coffee, waiting to cross the street, a group of four teenage kids(they were probably 12 or 13 years of age), started shouting “You kicked my dog”(its from a prank phone call clip involving a guy with American-Indian English accent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerpal). At first I just thought they were playing among themselves, but then I realized that although they were pretending to not look at me, they saw me in the cafe from outside even before I came out and had planned it.
That really pissed me off, Americans don’t teach their kids enough about various cultures and races and then expect them to grow up being racial color blind. I decided to teach these kids a lesson, I liked the attitude of African-Americans in this regard, people fear them, (One of my favorite qutoes “It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.”- Niccolo Machiavelli). Of course since they weren’t having any direct attack on me, so I couldn’t afford a direct attack on them, plus they were kids, I would be in a disadvantage if I tried anything. So I took my cell phone out, put it to my ear, and started shouting so that they could hear it.
“Yes, I f***ed your Mom, yes all of you… the redhead was really good…”(and whole other bunch of obscenities)
Those guys were shocked beyond capabilities. There prank was being rebounded. Then without giving them time, I did another attack.
“And you, the blond kid, I hadn’t have a chance to F*** your mom, don’t worry I will follow you to your home, and do the honor”
And then I pretended to hung up, put my cell back in my pocket, and retreated to the corner of the street and pretended to wait(I was on crossroad and about to cross just before that), and gave these kids a sneaky villainous look. These kids got in a real panic and screamed and started to run in opposite direction. I pretended to follow them(which made them go into further panic and one of them fell down) and I entered Starbucks again, had another Grande Coffee and headed back to home.
Now of course I did a lot of immoral things, but they were necessary. White Americans don’t give a shit to anyone unless they are afraid of someone. I am sure if they were a bunch of black kids then it would have done been less probable that they did something like(on the basis of race).
I don’t have anything against anyone, and its not like that I face situation like this everyday, almost everyone likes Indians here in America. Indians are seen as very humble and friendly people, and don’t worry if I treat a few more people like these, we won’t be considered criminals or bullies like a few racial groups are considered in America(unless Indian kids start mugging people on road, its not going to happen in near future).
The point I am raising here is that white America, despite of what they claim, is still racist. These kids will never shed their racism, but soon learn how not to show it, some will be successful in honest believing that they are not racist, but on sub-conscious level they will remain racist, and some day when one of these is in situation of Jade, where he/she is under stress will pass racist comments like that. We need to work on this, a lot.
