Racism

Racism is a mental illness and unfortunately, we do not know how to fix it or fix it or not. Less or more racism lies in all of us because we have grown up like this.

By watching films where hero and heroines are blonde, TV ads to make your skin fair or by learning white means good and black means bad. We raised with this thinking.

All we have read the story of Lord Krishna, he was not blonde boy but when we see pictures of Krishna at home or watch mythology series, Shree Krishna is portrays as fair skinned. This is why because nobody wants to see their hero in black. Since childhood, I was little confused about the poster hanged on wall of Mahatma Gandhi. Every year on 2nd October, we celebrated his birthday, I always used think why this picture of Mahatma Gandhi is shown as fair skinned while in history books, those archive photos shows he was dark skinned man. Again, we don't want to see our freedom fighter as a black skinned man.

Another argument is it all matters in presentation, but how colour of the upper of side of body matters? A popular quote 'Don't judge a book by its cover' then how someone could judge a person without knowing their thought, capability, talent, spirit, etc. How a person could be hired without having skills? How a person could be loved without having beautiful heart? How a person could be a human being without having pure soul? So without these all fair skin is useless. 

This mentality grows with a person. You all travels in metro or local trains. Have you ever suspected any white man as pickpocketer? Have you ever read jokes on blonde people? These perception has been created by some people and it been passed to us by generation by generation. This mentality is as virus. Its been spread in all over the world by many centuries. This mentality drowning the humanity. 

Powder and cream for the white skin has become usual but we have ever wondered why the blond is leaning important. We are just following the blind race. Nobody teases fair skinned people for having fair skin. But it is usual to keep nicknames(kalu, kale , kauaa etc.) of black skinned people like they did some crime by being black. Dark or blonde are just genetic. It doesn't have any relevance with the personality of an individual. This simple thing we don't understand.