"Growing up in India, I was, unfortunately, no stranger to racist biases. Some of my aunts believed fair skin was more beautiful. Villains in books…were usually portrayed with darker skin…A South Indian friend who moved to Bombay was…called 'Kaalu' (black) at school. We might try to pass off these examples as 'small things' but they aren’t…even subtle bias against dark skin can build a wall between South Asians and other communities of color."
https://indiacurrents.com/silence-is-violence-examining-our-own-bias/
#SouthAsianAmerica
Anirvan Chatterjee /
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