Thursday, January 18, 2007

Race and Disgrace

It has suddenly exploded. Racism, that isFirst poor Shilpa Shetty was at receiving end, and then unfortunate Pakistanis. Oho, this world is heavily tilted against the browns(and blacks) it seems!

Shilpa's was a sob story. And what did it achieve ? Well, millions of TRPs, if not anything else. What more, even our Parliament, and British Prime Minister foolishly added to that.

Herschel Gibbs was shown the door for "racially" abusing some of the Pakistani fans. No, I must put in this way - Herschel Gibbs was shown the door for "racially" abusing and getting heard on the microphone.In private it is OK to abuse, but Thou Must Not Get Caught.

Hello, but did any one bother what Pakistanis said ? Certainly not nursery poems. I wonder if there is any criminal way to racially abuse Whites.

Come on guys, whom are we kidding? We all practice this stereotypes whether it racial, sexual, regional in our daily private lives. So what's the big deal if something like that has happened in front of media. Our crime is no less.

Don't we ridicule a Doodh Walla Bhaiyya, Lungi Clad Madrasi, Kanjoos Marwadi, Motel Wala Patel, Kaam Wali Ghatin Bai, Musically Accented Gulti, and above all our favourite whipping boy - Sardar Ji!

So lets chuck off this Holier Than Thou attitude, and act in a matured manner. If this world is a global village, these things would happen. Individuals should handle these at their own level. Instead of crying, she should have confronted it firmly.But if everything was a gimmick, which I think it was, then its ok.
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