First 5 lines awesome. On Apr 11, 2017 7:07 AM, "KP Sasi" <[email protected]> wrote:
Anybody who says that there is no racism in India is a racist. Anybody who says that there is no casteism in India is a casteist. Anybody who says that there is no gender discrimination in India is only justifying patriarchy. In this case, BJP leader Tarun Vijay, has expressed his racisim quite clearly from his own words. Not only he has denied the existence of racism in India, he has projected his `tolerance' levels of `living with black people and black South Indians'. His statement has been heard loud and clear and there is no misinterpretation on it: `If we are racist, why should...all the entire south - you know, Kerala, Tamil, Karnatka, Andhra - why would we live with them? We have blacks...black people around us'. Thank you very much Mr. Tarun Vijay for` tolerating' us black South Indians, because you have no choice but not to `tolerate', since our identities are also part of the Indian Constitution.. But we really do not wish to live with people like you. You are not `tolerating' us. We are `tolerating' you. Can the BJP leaders in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra and Karnataka, express their views on what is being articulated by BJP leader Tarun Vijay, please? https://scroll.in/latest/833983/if-indians-were-racist- why-would-we-live-with-black-people-in-the-south-says-bjps-tarun-vijay RACISM IN INDIA <https://scroll.in/topic/11884/racism-in-india>If we were racist, why would we live with South Indians, black people around us: BJP’s Tarun VijayHe has apologised for the statement, which he made during an interview on Al Jazeera on the attacks on African nationals in Greater Noida.[image: If we were racist, why would we live with South Indians, black people around us: BJP’s Tarun Vijay]PTI Bharatiya Janata Party leader Tarun Vijay is facing criticism for responding to a question on the allegedly racist attacks <https://scroll.in/latest/833005/4-nigerian-students-injured-during-violent-protest-against-africans-living-in-great-noida-locality> on African nationals in Greater Noida by saying if India was, indeed, racist, we would not “live with” “black people around us”. “If we were racist, why would....all the entire South – you know, Kerala, Tamil, Andhra, Karnataka – why do we live with them?” He added, “We have blacks...black people around us.” He made the statement during a discussion on TV channel Al Jazeera, while responding to another Indian panelist, Bengaluru-based photographer Mahesh Shantaram, who asked, “Why are people saying Indians are racist? Why are Indians saying Indians are racist? Why are people abroad and those who visit our beautiful nation feeling that Indians are racist?” Vijay’s remarks triggered outrage soon after the interview was shared on social media. He took to Twitter to clarify his statement. “In many parts of the nation, we have different people, in colour and never, ever did we have any discrimination against them...My words, perhaps, were not enough to convey this,” he said, apologising to those who felt he spoke “differently from he meant”. The BJP leader also said that Indians were the “first to oppose any racism and were, in fact, victims of the racist British”. Vijay explained that he had meant to convey how Indians did not face racism even though the country has “people with different colour and culture”. “I can die, but how can I ridicule my own culture, my own people and my own nation? Think before you misinterpret my badly-framed sentence,” he said, further claiming that he never called South Indians “black”. You can hear his statement around the 7.42 mark: Play The BJP leader made the remarks even as the Centre has maintained <https://scroll.in/latest/833751/attacks-on-african-nationals-in-noida-should-not-be-called-racial-yet-sushma-swaraj> that the assaults on African nationals in Greater Noida could not be called racist yet. External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Wednesday said an independent inquiry was already under way. Her response came after the African Group Head of Missions accredited to India called <https://scroll.in/latest/833567/indian-government-has-taken-no-known-action-against-racist-and-xenophobic-attacks-african-envoys> the recent attacks on expatriates from the continent in Greater Noida “xenophobic and racial”. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. 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