Her and her running mate
just b/c your skin is a lil lighter don't mean it's any righter.
When Rini Sampath decided to run for student body president at the University of Southern California, some students told her she would never win, she said. She was a young woman and a minority, and she was running on a ticket with another young woman, who was also a minority.
Their advice? Choose a white, male student as your running mate.
Sampath, 21, says she is no stranger to discrimination. She was born in Theni, a district in Tamil Nadu state in India, and she moved to America when she was 6. Classmates in Arizona asked whether her mom was from Mars, she said. Others told her she couldn’t play with them.
Why? Because she had brown skin.
Her struggle — no doubt the same for many minority students, she said — came into focus Saturday night when Sampath said she was walking back from a friend’s apartment.
Someone leaned out of a fraternity house window, she said, and shouted: “You Indian piece of s—!” Then he hurled a drink at her.
What is wrong with ppl?
“Once his fraternity brothers realized it was me, they began to apologize,” she wrote online. “This stung even more.
“I couldn’t quite figure out why their after-the-fact apologies deepened the wound. But one of my friends explained it to me the best this morning: ‘Because now you know, the first thing they see you as is subhuman.’ ”
“It makes me wonder what would have happened had it been someone else. That’s an aspect that concerns me. It just makes me wonder: ‘Is this how they see us first and foremost — for the color of our skin?'”
What came out of that fraternity house window, Sampath said, “continues to ring so loudly in my ears I still can’t shake it from me.
A frat guy shouted a racist slur at USC’s student president, and she decided not to stay quiet
just b/c your skin is a lil lighter don't mean it's any righter.
