Alright guys I have a thought
For anyone who disagrees or does not understand where I'm coming from, you are entitled to your opinion. And I am to mine. So kindly move on, thank you.
Alright so like I was just reading an article of sorts. And the author decided to comment that they were not interested in a specific movie because it's too white. They further went on to make some comments that I found very controversial towards white people.
Before you read any further, I would like to tell y'all that I'm an Indian. I'm not some white kid from a great background who's sitting and half assedly defending white people. I've been an Indian in an all white school and have faced discrimation. When I first arrived in the British school, I wasn't spoken to at all by some of my classmates and I kept getting weird ass looks as well. Later, I found out that they believed that I was a 'spy' from another country, because that's the kind of stereotype they heard from parents at home. Of course my experience are some of the better ones. I know that there are many who face so much worse and my full support and love and strength goes to them. I am completely for equality and the end of racial discrimination.
But here's the thing. The end of racial discrimination is the end of putting any one race above another. It does not help if people, in the spirit of bringing black and coloured people up, bring white people down. In the future, a time could then arise where black supremacy and white inferiority exists. This would be a vicious, never ending spiral of establishing dominance, not equality.
I don't like comments that say a book or a movie or anything else is "too white" for them. I don't like people saying that a story that is white centric is automatically less than a story black centric. Black and coloured representation is so important, I completely agree and stand by that, 100%. But in the process, unconsciously or conciously bringing down another race is wrong.
So what if a book centred in a sub urban British town that is predominantly white exists? So what if a movie takes place in a school that has a majority of white kids? There are actually places in the US and the UK where you don't find many immigrants, where whites make up the majority. Just because one story is told where representation is low, it does not mean that it is automatically bad. Granted there are lines. Shrewd, rude or offensive comments in a story of course can be addressed. Misconceptions or incorrect depictions you can stand against loud and clear. But just to bring up and give strength to blacks and people of colour, don't bring down every single white out there. Sure, there are too many of them that are hippocrates. But there are also many of them that are humans. Who are friends to blacks and people of colour and who stand by them and would truly support them. Trust me, I know these people first hand. And I trust them.
So let's not spread this unnecessary hate.
Let our aim be equality, not dominance.
