This word is enough to cause turmoil at a place of peace, and with the situation of the current world, it exists everywhere, like literally EVERYWHERE! In sports, social media, fashion world, Trayvon Martin, Yvette Smith, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Laquan McDonald, Tanisha Anderson, Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice, Jerame Reid, Natasha McKenna, Eric Harris, Walter Scott, Freddie Gray, William Chapman, Sandra Bland, Darrius Stewart, Samuel DuBose, Janet Wilson, Calin Roquemore, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Joseph Mann, Terence Crutcher, Chad Robertson, Jordan Edwards, Aaron Bailey, Stephon Clark, Danny Ray Thomas, Antwon Rose, Botham Jean, Atatiana Jefferson, Michael Dean, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and add to these names a 16 year old Makhia Bryant. These are just some names who have, well sacrificed themselves for a long-waited justice, which in majority cases never comes. Let me ask you all a question now, ‘What was their fault’? Its another one which can be added to the long list of questions that are still unanswered.
Let me answer this for you, their fault is that they thought the people that they were living around are as nice and sweet, as they themselves were. Well, there’s this old saying that, “It’s darkest before the dawn”, but sometimes there is just darkness. Believe me when I say it, that darkness is Racism. That stillness when you feel like time and almost everything has stopped around you and you find yourself helpless knowing that the people you trusted have turned there back on you. These people who died, it wasn’t any of their fault they were just way too nice to be a part of this, cruel and ‘eat you alive’ world. They are only the ones who suffered this fate through the law reinforcers around them. If you talk about victims of racism in other fields, they all separately have a very long list to show for it.
Since we are talking about it, let me mention about a new kind of racism that has emerged outta nowhere, “ASIAN HATE”. This kind is a bit dangerous, because this one is not just about colour. It’s about caste, it’s about religion, it’s about ethnicity and it’s probably about everything that makes you asian. Like for example, at this very point of time , every asian who is present in any corner of this world is responsible for spreading the coronavirus, like as if its in our genes. Every ‘brown’ person in this world, and yeah by brown I mean asian, is deemed to be coming from a family that has probably has a lineage of people who never deserved to be part of this world in someway or another. Like WHY?
I’d hope you give me an answer about it, but before I end, I just want to say that we are all the same. It does not matter what our caste, colour, creed, religion, ethnicity or continental roots are, at the end of the day we are all the same. We all have two eyes, a nose, two ears, a pair of lips, two arms, two legs and a healthy body given to us by one almighty. So be THANKFUL and yes:
STOP HATRED, STOP ASIAN HATE, STOP RACISM