compare racism with the casterism in india in tamil sentence
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Indian racism towards Black people is almost worse than white peoples’ racism” An Interview with Arundhati Roy
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June 8, 2020
We ourselves live in a pretty sick society that seems incapable of feelings of sisterhood, brotherhood, solidarity
An Email interview with Arundhati Roy
DC: How do we support the movement in the US and how does one show solidarity with people protesting in India?
I’m assuming that you mean the massive protests that have erupted over the cold-blooded killing of George Floyd—the latest in a series of killings of African Americans by white American police. I would say that the best way of supporting that movement is to understand where it comes from, first of all. The history of slavery, racism, the civil rights movement—its successes and failures. The crude as well as subtle ways in which African Americans in North America are brutalized, incarcerated, disenfranchised within the framework of “democracy”. And to understand the role that the majority of the Indian community in the US has played in all of this. Who has it traditionally aligned itself with? The answers will tell us a lot about our own society. We can only support that really grand show of rage across cultures and communities that is happening there, if we address our own values and actions with some degree of honesty. We ourselves live in a pretty sick society that seems incapable of feelings of sisterhood, brotherhood, solidarity…