Alone I was when I started towards my destination, but
People kept coming along, the caravan kept growing
~Kafila.org
Feeling Rebloggy
The threads of violence and state-ordered discrimination weave their way not only between Sanford, Faridabad, Ferguson, and Dadri, but reach into the recesses of history, knitting together stories of lives taken, families ripped apart, women raped, and minority cultures hurled into the bowels of mainstream society by racist or communal states. In these instances of violence, the victims become mere abstractions, and the perpretrators puppets, proudly enacting the script of a gory story of dominance and hegemony they have accepted without question.
Current-day parallels between White supremacy in the U.S. and minority discrimination in India are easily identified. Black people in the U.S. account for about 40% of the prison population, while constituting only 13.6% of the overall population. 53% of prisoners in India are Muslims, Dalits, and tribals, while these groups account for only about 39% of the country’s population. There is a long history in India of racism towards people from the North-East; while for the most part it simmers quietly in the form of daily microaggressions, it boils over every now and then, and an innocent life is lost. Modi’s reactionary silence in the wake of minority killings is mirrored in state silence and lack of accountability towards minorities in the U.S. when they are killed, deported, or denied access to education. Separated as they are by divers bodies of land and water, these systems of violence don’t merely exist in parallel; rather they are connected by a nebula formed out of a complex history first of solidarity and then of racism and assimilation.
~Lavanya Nott
Kafila.org
Read More: http://kafila.org/2016/01/14/the-need-for-black-south-asian-solidarity-lavanya-nott/
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