Recently Tannishtha Chatterjee updated a status about how she faced racism on national television on a popular TV show. It’s 2016, and we still live in a country where ‘Fair n Lovely’ and ‘matrimonial ads with fair brides’ are given more importance over natural beauty.
But looks like it’s not just India which is drowning with still persistent racism. People in various countries like the USA are still facing racism because of their skin colour.
With the rising violence against black people in America, Serena Williams wrote this powerful post on Facebook and it is going viral.
Today I asked my 18 year old nephew (to be clear he’s black) to drive me to my meetings so I can work on my phone #safteyfirst. In the distance I saw cop on the side of the road. I quickly checked to see if he was obliging by the speed limit. Than I remembered that horrible video of the woman in the car when a cop shot her boyfriend. All of this went through my mind in a matter of seconds. I even regretted not driving myself. I would never forgive myself if something happened to my nephew. He’s so innocent. So were all “the others”
I am a total believer that not “everyone” is bad It is just the ones that are ignorant, afraid, uneducated, and insensitive that is affecting millions and millions of lives.
Why did I have to think about this in 2016? Have we not gone through enough, opened so many doors, impacted billions of lives? But I realized we must stride on- for it’s not how far we have come but how much further still we have to go.
I than wondered than have I spoken up? I had to take a look at me. What about my nephews? What if I have a son and what about my daughters?
As Dr. Martin Luther King said ” There comes a time when silence is betrayal”.
I
WON’T
BE
SILENT
Serena
WON’T
BE
SILENT
Serena
We hope this breaks the walls people are living beneath and influences people to look at every human being with the same amount of respect and dignity because they deserve it.