Hari Kondabalu on Indian skin-color bias.
Colorism, obsession with fairness, darkness, all that shit, its our cultural poison. Can a people hate themselves MORE than we Indians do, to literally want to not look the way we do? If you watch our movies, you get a fucking skewed idea of what Indians look like — the truth is, we’re DARK. We are a dark, non-Aryan people. We have racial features that do not cleanly correspond to those of our European counterparts, no matter how many billboards Ashwariya Rai’s face is plastered on. Our hair is wild and coarse and very very thick, and doesn’t do the same kinds of things that white people hair does.
I know that the vast majority of my desi followers agree with me on this stuff, but I always get one dumbass Indian guy wanting to know what’s wrong with having a “personal preference”.
Decolonize your mind, asshole. You’re not white, and you’ll never be white. And most of us are not high-caste brahmins, and fuck you if you want to be one.
Even some of us “high-caste” brahmins have dark skin and get treated like second-class citizens.
Preach on, Hari. Ily.
“I mean, before he used to look like a Black, but now it’s so different because he has light skin.”
Nice way of addressing anti-Blackness in Indian societies as well.
(Source: anedumacationisnomore)
Ugh god yes. I am so fucking tired of talking about James Holmes. I don’t give a fuck about James Holmes. I don’t care about what he was like as a child, I don’t care about how he was such a good student or whatever, I don’t care if he was an premature ejaculator, I don’t care if he liked soymilk or not, I don’t care if the motherfucker hated the way his feet looked. I could not give a fuck about that pasty, murderous motherfucker. Stop trying to paint this dude as anything other than a motherfucker killer, GOD.
(Source: popca)
