A black PhD student experiences extreme racism in India

[Yehuda]

Living in India was a childhood dream that deepened with my growing understanding of India and America's unique, shared history of non-violent revolution.

 

[GetInTheTruck]

@Napoleon

 

[606onit]

go live in a pile of shyt with shyt people with shytty internal organs and be angry that they're acting like pieces of shyt towards you. No tengo ganas a ir a lugar de mierda como alli

 

[Cabbage Patch]

Guy in the article sounds like a herb. They may have been looking at him crazy cause he was gay and with a white man.

Except they afforded his gay white partner privileges they did not extend to him.

At this point, India being racist is old news -- I want to know what his gay white partner did. Was he on some 'oh that's too bad' shyt while subconsciously believing that the differences in treatment were fair/to be expected/just the way it is -- or did his gay white partner stand up for him.

 

[Cabbage Patch]

The hell is this nikka doing in India??


Go home nikka!

India is a shythole - maybe he thought he could eat there before packing it in

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Serves this bed buck right


And fuk India

 

[Michael9100]

Brazil > India

 

[GetInTheTruck]

Except they afforded his gay white partner privileges they did not extend to him.

At this point, India being racist is old news -- I want to know what his gay white partner did. Was he on some 'oh that's too bad' shyt while subconsciously believing that the differences in treatment were fair/to be expected/just the way it is -- or did his gay white partner stand up for him.

The whole article reads like an exagerration. Homosexuality isn't looked at positively in India and a black African hugged up on some white boy toy will get stares over there no doubt. If India were as racist as you say so many Africans wouldn't be able to go there, live, and get an education in the first place. India's relationship with African countries is positive. Meanwhile south Africans apparently treat other African migrants like shyt, tears down their businesses and attacks them on the regular but I don't see too many of you guys calling that a racist country. Uganda expelled it's Indian population and that gets a lot of support here..India can easily do that to Africans but if they did you guys would throw a fit.

 

[Lord Scion]

People with a basic grasp of the caste system knows that light skinned Indians hold a attitude towards dark skinned ones. How did he as a black dude think he was gonna fare?!?!

And he's gay???

 

[Rell84shots]

I'm sayin tho

IN WHAT WORLD is that a fukking dream?

That's like a persons dream car being a Ford Pinto

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

Living in India was his childhood dream ?

Thats what his c00n ass get

 

[feelosofer]

I think it was more because he was gay than Black. Don't get me wrong they're racist as fukk, but they tend to keep to themselves more than anything, at least that was my experience over there, I could see the sort of dismissive racism happening.

 

[the cac mamba]

everything about this story was

 

[NoGutsNoGLory]

Indians are racist and happy about it

A Black American's first-hand experience of footpath India: no one even wants to change
DIEPIRIYE KUKU





In spite of friendship and love in private spaces, the Delhi public literally stops and stares. It is harrowing to constantly have children and adults tease, taunt, pick, poke and peer at you from the corner of their eyes, denying their own humanity as well as mine. Their aggressive, crude curiosity threatens to dominate unless disarmed by kindness, or met with equal aggression.
Once I stood gazing at the giraffes at the Lucknow Zoo only to turn and see 50-odd families gawking at me rather than the exhibit.

On a visit to the Lucknow zoo, people gawked more at me than at the exhibits.
Parents abruptly withdrew infants that inquisitively wandered towards me. I felt like an exotic African creature-cum-spectacle, stirring fear and awe. Even my attempts to beguile the public through simple greetings or smiles are often not reciprocated. Instead, the look of wonder swells as if this were all part of the act and we were all playing our parts.
Racism is never a personal experience. Racism in India is systematic and independent of the presence of foreigners of any hue. This climate permits and promotes this lawlessness and disdain for dark skin. Most Indian pop icons have light-damn-near-white skin. Several stars even promote skin-bleaching creams that promise to improve one's popularity and career success. Matrimonial ads boast of fair, v. fair and v. very fair skin alongside foreign visas and advanced university degrees. Moreover, each time I visit one of Delhi's clubhouses, I notice that I am the darkest person not wearing a work uniform. It's unfair and ugly.

Discrimination in Delhi surpasses the denial of courtesy. I have been denied visas, apartments, entrance to discos, attentiveness, kindness and the benefit of doubt. Further, the lack of neighbourliness exceeds what locals describe as normal for a capital already known for its coldness.

My partner is white and I am black, facts of which the Indian public reminds us daily. Bank associates have denied me chai, while falling over to please my white friend. Mall shop attendants have denied me attentiveness, while mobbing my partner. Who knows what else is more quietly denied?

"An African has come," a guard announced over the intercom as I showed up. Whites are afforded the luxury of their own names, but this careful attention to my presence was not new. ATM guards stand and salute my white friend, while one guard actually asked me why I had come to the bank machine as if I might have said that I was taking over his shift.

It is shocking that people wear liberalism as a sign of modernity, yet revert to ultraconservatism when actually faced with difference. Cyberbullies have threatened my life on my YouTube videos that capture local gawking and eve-teasing. I was even fired from an international school for talking about homosociality in Africa on YouTube, and addressing a class about homophobia against kids after a student called me a 'faq'.

Outside of specific anchors of discourse such as Reservations, there is no consensus that discrimination is a redeemable social ill. This is the real issue with discrimination in India: her own citizens suffer and we are only encouraged to ignore situations that make us all feel powerless. Be it the mute-witnesses seeing racial difference for the first time, kids learning racism from their folks, or the blacks and northeasterners who feel victimised by the public, few operate from a position that believes in change.

Living in India was a childhood dream that deepened with my growing understanding of India and America's unique, shared history of non-violent revolution. Yet, in most nations, the path of ending gender, race and class discrimination is unpaved. In India, this path is still rural and rocky as if this nation has not decided the road even worthy. It is a footpath that we are left to tread individually.



(The writer is a Black American PhD student at the Delhi School of Economics.)


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Like you know its not a big deal or anything but is it just me or is he going out of his way to not say he is gay? . And yeah fukk India.

 

[Self_Born7]

b b b but the worlds largest country of black people is India