Everything has a name and Names like Rascism makes circulation of Newspapers go high . Its economic.

This is biased journalism, the author trying to derive maximum benefit for himself, misleading readers with his assumptions and incorrect interpretation. Perhaps deliberately.

I have lived in both worlds, the white-man’s and our coloured.
I have seen people with varying preferences, from strict to perverse.
I see people claim to uphold individuals rights and freedom.

Then I read an article like this where an author uses twisted logic to call Indians racist, while true racism is rages on in white community.

If a white Australian cricketer abuses a coloured Indian it is defined a sledging, a tough approach to playing the game.
But if a coloured player allegedly abuses another coloured player in an otherwise all white team, that is racism.

Pathetic.

What I want to differentiate is personal choice from discrimination.
If someone has to choose between two individuals of the same community, language, religion, and obviously race, to be a life-partner, and chooses a fair or dark individual for what ever reason, then that is the individual’s personal choice and not racism.
There are many Indians who will prefer a dark person.
There are white individuals who prefer blondes over brunettes, surely is not racism.

We cross into the domain of discrimination when a person prefers one to the other from the belief that one group is “superior” than the other in any aspect as a person.

And that belief becomes racism when it is equated to a whole race; i.e. coloured individuals are inferior, Indians are coloured so ALL Indians are inferior.

My objection to this authors article is he has raised issues which are irrelevant to the situation in reference.
He feels he has to prove Harbhajan Singh was being racist because Indians are racist in general.

That is deliberately irresponsible.

What’s ironic is that in most American shows it’s the darker Indian actors & actresses that get face time. You rarely see a fair Indian actor on one of the many shows out there that have begun to incorporate Indo Americans in their shows.

When is India going to learn that out here in the West, the darker chocolaty skin tone is envied, and so desperately desired.

No I don’t think the investigation is justified against the Indian cricket player for his choice of words. They are definitely not racist. But the author does bring up some interesting point. I do feel that India is racist when it comes to skin colour. I hear comments like, (oh she’s pretty, she’s white fair), which is totally ridiculous. I know plenty of fair girls who look like horses, but their fairness is equated with beauty. I also know plenty of darker girls who have the most beautiful features. Unfortunately they do get overlooked.

Ironically once an Indian person leaves India and makes for the West, darker skin tones is not so much of an issue nor a factor, but a thing to be desired.

Nice post! Thanks for letting me hog your comment space.