If you cant be white, at least be Red!
One, I am not a racist! Two, I am not very black. I don’t even know the colour of my skin. Is it coffee brown, lemon brown, orange orange or yellow orange?
Two people are dead in similar circumstances, the difference is that one is red the other is black. The black kid knocked down is no news; that the red Indian (investor) dead is news. (Headline!) Two Ugandans reporting! Even our super Journalist are not concerned! wait a minute, maybe they are, but the story won't sale. Whatever happened to Humanitarianism.
Rawal is like any other Ugandan doing Kyeyo abroad! That he died before he married the love of his life is very sad, something I wouldn’t wish for my worst enemy, but it is not a matter of national security! To the extent that red topped boys (military police) should be put at every Indian home! Its sad for anyone to die, so it is as sad that the young boy that was knocked down.
And how many Ugandans die there and no one is concerned. I don’t blame the Indians, or whites for that matter. I blame Ugandans for being so black at heart that they believe the worst is meant for them, and not for the reds and whites! I don’t even know the kid’s name, who knows him? (ani amumanyi?)
Two people are dead in similar circumstances, the difference is that one is red the other is black. The black kid knocked down is no news; that the red Indian (investor) dead is news. (Headline!) Two Ugandans reporting! Even our super Journalist are not concerned! wait a minute, maybe they are, but the story won't sale. Whatever happened to Humanitarianism.
Rawal is like any other Ugandan doing Kyeyo abroad! That he died before he married the love of his life is very sad, something I wouldn’t wish for my worst enemy, but it is not a matter of national security! To the extent that red topped boys (military police) should be put at every Indian home! Its sad for anyone to die, so it is as sad that the young boy that was knocked down.
And how many Ugandans die there and no one is concerned. I don’t blame the Indians, or whites for that matter. I blame Ugandans for being so black at heart that they believe the worst is meant for them, and not for the reds and whites! I don’t even know the kid’s name, who knows him? (ani amumanyi?)
posted by Rae | 8:31 AM
4 Comments:
Well, you know, I also noticed that there was thick silence about the other deaths, and the Indian guy grabs the headlines. Death is the damn same for all. I don't see why it was that way. But there is a way to rationalise it. I think it is shocking in a country where such a death - a mob killing a guy who has done nothing - is quite severely shocking. And you've go to feel something different for a guy who dies away from home.
Besides, that we are shocked (and the papers sensational) about it shows that, in their hearts, all sane people would not agree with it. That's a positive from something otherwise awful.
I know that feeelin! Such things do irk me too!
your coffee brown and your black
its all i can say, am sorry we lost patel/gupi/singh/rapesh
it must have been one those.
don't know if i agree with you fake it philosophy, even if it does make some sense. i like the post tho.
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