Friday, June 26, 2020

The new business

The new business

Saying, staying, and being positive is the key to let leaders do what they're condemned to do. 

Saying positive things has suddenly become a growing business. Millions of followers and 'likes' make the person concerned richer and richer. Countless videos displaying heartwarming bonhomie and camaraderie float around the space.

Industries, leaders from all over the world praise such positive minded people because they serve their purpose. Thanks to them they can continue with their win-lose models, their destructive constructions, their  underhand activities. No citizen of the world has the power to stop such disastrous, violent activities. 

India and Pakistan will continue to fight, there's no one who can stop this nonsense from happening, Jerusalem will continue to be the apple of discord, no one will dare to alter the fate with understanding and affection, love will continue to be sold in words, while in action, hatred and animosity will sell like hot cakes.

©Supratik Sen

Monday, June 8, 2020

Disappointed with Kutchina products and, above all, their service.

I bought Kutchina water purifier and Kutchina chimney on May 29, 2019. Within three months, the tube of the water purifier Dewdrop DLX stopped functioning. I reported it to Unique Water Purifier Pvt. Ltd. They came and immediately replaced it. I was happy, but still, I asked the service engineer how it was possible that within three months I had a problem with the water purifier. He gave me a wise smile and went away. It was okay this far. In April this year, during the lockdown, the water purifier started malfunctioning again. I tried their toll-free number 1800 419 7333, it said, ‘the number doesn’t exist’. I called a sales executive by the name of Satyajit (82936 26621) who said all the products of Kutchina are full of complaints. Since this was helping me at all, I tried another sales executive Ajay Mondal (90641 9808) who said he couldn’t help me anyway because of the lockdown, but he also suggested that I write an email to them so that it stays on the record. I immediately wrote to Unique Water Purifier (uwp.pvt.ltd06@gmail.com) with cc to Kutchina’s Customer Care (customercare@kutchina.com) on 26 April stating clearly what the problem was. Since I didn’t get any response, I sent several emails in English and Bengali pleading them to contact me. They were silent. Even this far, it was okay, because the whole city was under lockdown.

I called Urban Clap twice because it was difficult for me to survive without clean water, even today I am boiling water and storing, difficult for an old man who stays all alone by himself. I got the water purifier in order to avoid this in the first place. Both the Urban clap mechanics said that the problem was with the PCB board and that it can only be replaced by Kutchina, by none else.

The true picture was revealed when their office (Unique Water Purifier) reopened on Monday 1 June 2020. The lady who spoke to me at 98310 88903 (also their WhatsApp number) was very cordial and was trying to be helpful. She said we can send an engineer but you have to pay for one year has passed. When I narrated my sad story, of how I tried to contact, how I sent them mail after mail. She stopped for a while and said that she did not receive any mail from me. Had she received my mails, she would have definitely rectified it for free. I asked her to check because none of the emails I sent at uwp.pvt.ltd06@gmail.com bounced. She said it could be because their internet wasn’t up and about, that she’ll get back to me as soon as the internet is restored. I called, wrote on WhatsApp to check if she could dig through the mail. She called me and asked me to forward the mail. Since it would be easy for me to search, I asked her about their email address. ‘Why’, she snapped, ‘sir you are telling us that you wrote us, then you should be able to find it.’ Saying this, she did hang up. Was she trying to tell me I was lying? Okay she might have a point, so I tried to search, and I got back the total mail-trail, sent to them on 26 April till 13 May! I called her immediately, she asked me to forward which I did.

After quite some time, I get her call. This time around, she was very polite. ‘Sir, I spoke to my sir, I know you wrote within the period, but nothing we can do, sir said, you have to pay for the PCB board.’

I stopped and told myself I will not spend one rupee as a matter of principle. As customers, they say we are at the helm of affairs, but at the time of crisis, it just the opposite, we are the worst sufferers. I know nothing can be done now. I told her I will escalate, but then I thought there was no point. Kutchina will NOT listen to me once I have become their customer; they will do anything I ask for when I am their prospect. I am disappointed not only with their products but also with their service and with their culture.

Please do not buy any Kutchina products, and if you do, you will face the music, soon.





Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Black and white - solution

Black and white – solution [PART 2]

Yes, I have come back to lay bare some ways the non-whites can follow to put an end to the serial killings by the whites under the behest of their government and administration. I might sound a little adamant if I refer to the ways as 'solution' but despite thinking hard on this, I couldn’t find a better word. These are ways that are productive, creative, energizing, challenging, affectionate, lovable, and above all, engaging. 

Newfound revolution – Yes, my friends, I am trying to prepare you for a newfound revolution. However, this revolution needs discipline, that of thoughts (Mansa), words (Vacha), and actions (Karmana). If you see some light in this madness, you can definitely construct a new world for yourselves, a world where there is human dignity, equality, love, acceptance, and equanimity. But, as I said, this needs discipline, and when the project comes into fruition, you will how it enables you, empowers you. There’s a saying that if you do what you did before, you will get what you got before. Therefore, this newfound revolution is all about doing things differently.

I will first start with the proscriptions (things you should STOP doing). When I say 'you' I mean the non-whites. 

The proscriptions (the don’ts)

·        Protest – do not protest. The moment you protest, it places you in a weaker position. You remain weak like you have, for hundreds of years. Can you ever imagine the whites protesting against you? Besides, think what you are protesting against, and to whom are you saying what you are saying? Rest assured; they are all falling in deaf ears. Protesting is by far the most negative way of doing things, you neither move forward nor backward. Your voices are NOT getting heard. Get this clearly into your brain. 

·        Fight – yes, I put that as a different bullet because I don't think it is the same as the previous one. Fighting, in my opinion, is when you are showing your anger, your mistrust against a person, or a situation as the case may be. Anger and mistrust are again negative energies that mislead you, detract you from your goal. That is why you so far are NOT able to overcome, you had to succumb, despite Michael Jackson, Martin Luther King junior singing and dancing. So, stop fighting for or against a cause. Stop fighting.  

·        Demand justice – I find this rather laughable. You are demanding justice from the whites? Go add sugar to the sea. It’s like trying to make the sun move around the earth. Do not waste your precious time from now on trying to demand justice from the whites. Please relieve them from this burden, they don’t deserve it. 

·        Fair white – they may be very fair in their complexion, but they are not fair in their behavior. They have different rules for them, and different for the others. That is why fair white is an oxymoron. Whites are fair to the whites, get this clearly inside your heads. Of all the races in the world, I don’t know if whites can be termed as a race or not, but, contrary to the popular belief, they are the most intolerant of all. How many whites enjoy your foods? How many of them dress like you, on the contrary, they compel you to dress like them, talk like them, even do your hair like them. Don’t you know what they did to the aboriginals? They killed the parents, adopted their children, and made them think and behave like Australians.
Wikipedia tells me this: “Arabic, Somali, Berber, Amharic, Oromo, Igbo, Swahili, Hausa, Manding, Fulani and Yoruba are spoken by tens of millions of people. Twelve dialect clusters (which may group up to a hundred linguistic varieties) are spoken by 75 percent, and fifteen by 85 percent, of Africans as a first or additional language.” Now tell me, how many whites do you know who speak your languages? For God’s sake, they’re now teaching mandarin to their toddlers to penetrate into the Chinese market, but have they made any effort to learn your language, your culture? How can they then understand you, and if they don’t understand you, can they ever be fair to you? To be honest, they regard your language as the language of the slaves. Not so long ago, you were regarded as negros, niggers, their literature is full of stories that talk 'only' of the miseries and poverties. John Locke, an ivory merchant who sailed to Africa, and who later indulged in the slave trade, left a fascinating account of the Africans, says Chimamanda Adichie in her TED talk entitled, ‘The danger of a single story’. After referring to Africans as beasts who have no house, Locke said, ‘they are also people without heads, having their eyes and mouths in their breasts.’ According to Adichie, Locke represented the beginning of telling African stories to the West. He painted Africa as black, dark, full of negatives and Africans, in the words of the wonderful poet Rudyard Kipling, ‘are half devil and half child.’ And now, let me turn towards the Asians, how many whites know your languages dudes, and even if they do, it’s a great favor, isn’t it? But if you learn their language, do they think that you’re doing them a favor, or do they think you are getting civilized? How many of them dress like you, or allow you to dress your way inside the office premises, in a professional zone? So, please do not expect fairness from the whites, they have failed you since the very beginning of the story.
 

·        Disrespect – Knowledge is good, as long as you do not get into a judgment mode. For example, if you start disrespecting the whites because of what you just read, the whole purpose will be lost. Please understand that the whites have also fed you and your families for years. You have also got some very good friends who are whites. Allow them in your orbit, allow all the injustices that you have received so far, but do not disrespect the whites, they do not merit your disrespect. Disrespect again is a negative emotion, it is weak and gets the person(s) involved in a blaming mode, and if you ever get into a blaming mode, you will fail to achieve your goal. Your world, which is the third world, is now used as their dumping grounds, they dump their wastes, toxic or otherwise onto our lands. The whites, whether from the East or from the West, have wasted you and have ruined your world; they will continue to do so for as long as you allow them to continue. You cannot prevent it by disrespecting them, you have to wake up and do something really worthwhile so that your lands are no longer used as dumping grounds. So when you experience the germ of disrespect conquer you, like a virus, know that it is going to turn you lazy, and make you choose the easier way out. Think of the enormous good the whites have done for society, think of their contribution to literature, medicine, science, and technology, and to free thinking. So no not disrespect, but do not fall prey to their gimmicks either.  

·        Fall prey to gimmicks – It is superficial, melodramatic, and will never ever help. On the contrary, it means that things are just going to be the same. Gimmicks from their side would mean when a white policeman hugs a non-white, and gimmicks from your side will mean organizing condolences with candles. 

·        Candles and condolences – they show your weakness. By this, you are sending signals to the universe of its repetition, and the universe only says ‘tathastu’ (so be it). If today it's the condolence of George Floyd, tomorrow it is invariably going to be someone else's. I know when emotions run high, it’s not so easy to rationalize, but think, think hard as to how you can really change your fate. And changing your fate will mean focusing on your growth, your development, mental, physical, spiritual. Getting into a victim mode will not help. Getting angry and taking revenge, not either. 

·        Revenge – No revenge. Success is the sweetest revenge. I will share how, with a little bit of organized sacrifice and selflessness, you can achieve an outstanding success you truly deserve, year after year. However, success doesn’t mean being greedy. 

·        Being greedy – ask yourselves why you have left your own land and come in the lands that do not belong to you. It is not because of your need; it is because of your greed. But I have to fair to you, you have also come because you couldn’t cope with extreme poverty there. So you came here, and look at what you have got, you have cars, houses, good food, accessories and what have you. You are still not happy. The problem with greed is that it not only makes you weak, and dependent, it also clouds your brain, it entices you to want for more. If you want to see the change, don’t play ball with greed because it also makes you violent. The whites are greedy for wealth, and control, that’s why they are violent. End of story. 

·        Violence – in your movement for the next 50 years, being violent is a taboo. If I am intolerant about anything, it is violence. It is self-defeating and makes you insecure. Violence is suicidal. Abstain from violence.

The prescriptions (the dos)

·        Non-violence – I cannot tell you how important this is. Non-violence is an absolute pre-requisite in this newfound revolution. By this, I do not mean only non-violent action, but also non-violent words and actions.
Much before you begin to found an organization that, in fifty years, will enable all non-whites to vacate the first world for good, you need to be complete masters in non-violence. This will also help you to be thankful for everything that has happened so far with you. Be thankful for the whites for torturing you, insulting you, killing you in broad daylight, making you work like slaves, depriving you, treating you as second-grade citizens because all these behaviors helped you wake up and say thus far and no farther.  Non-violence makes you stronger, you get connected to your inner self. Violence makes you weak, unconscious, it defocuses you from your goals and kills you from the inside.

·        Conflict resolution – this is also very important. You do have racism in you too, don’t you? You can resolve your own conflicts by following some techniques suggested in the last bullet.

·        A larger-than-life goal – in the absence of a goal, this entire research will be of no use. What is your goal? I have thought about it at length on this, and I am of the opinion that you need to quit. Yes, I know winners don’t quit, and quitters don’t win, but not in case of addiction. In the case of addiction, quitters do win. Staying in the first world is indeed an addiction. Your goal now is to focus on your respective motherlands. You abandoned your own motherland and had come to the first world to earn a good lifestyle, a good living, isn't it? Now, what if I told you that, with organized effort, you can have everything you want, you crave for, in your own motherland, would you still like to stay in a foreign land? Question yourselves, sincerely question yourselves.
Have you heard of the word brain-drain? Mostly, the non-whites are the ones that are responsible for the growth and development of the first world. The whites categorically allure the cream from the non-white countries to serve their purpose. From their point of view, they are right.
Even during colonization, they took away all kinds of wealth possible from your land. After independence, they are taking the brains from your lands. The whites have always done what was good for them.
If you think that you, in all fairness, should also to do things that are good for you, then immediately find the core team and work each day to see what kind of plans would be effective in transforming the third world as good as the first world, in terms of comfort and convenience. Don’t look at ‘reality’, look at the possibility; that’s why there needs to be some madness, but at the same time, there needs to some methods in this madness.
There’s no doubt that you have the capability; in the first world, tell me one place of work that thrives without your contribution. IT, Banking, Manufacturing, Insurance, Education, Travel and Tourism, Yoga and meditation, Automobile industry, NASA, Military, Navy, Aviation, Sports, and gymnastics – tell me one place where there are no non-whites. If you did this for years for the first world, can’t you do for your own world? Don’t you owe this to your motherland?
Don’t worry at all for funds, if you are convinced that you can together make it work, funds will not only flow, they will overflow. You need honesty, integrity, discipline, conviction, and insanity. But your goal is to QUIT the first world so that there is not a trace of one single non-white in the first world by 2070. You will take back with you even the one handicapped child whom the Pied Piper failed to take. And unlike him, you will take them slowly, not at one go. I will tell you how.

·        The magic number – You don’t need all the non-whites to come into this fold overnight. For this goal to come into fruition, you need twelve insane people. These jewels will chalk out the road-map to leave the first world for good, step by step. If you have whites among these core members, so be it. As I told you that good whites far outnumber the bad whites. In every Hollywood film you see, the ones that are based on true stories, you would always see a white helping a non-white. The last film I watched was 'A time to kill'. Without Jake Brigance, would Carl Lee Hailey be able to be seen as ‘Not guilty’? Therefore, count on those white people who might be eager to join this newfound revolution. 

·        Sacrifice – this newfound revolution is not possible without sacrifice from the selfless core team. Period.

·        Challenges you should face– you will have to face many challenges  

o   The learned people will complain of an imbalance of population following the exodus. They would opine that the third world wouldn't have the wherewithal to accommodate the huge number of immigrants back in their own lands. My argument is that more than 90% of immigrants have their own land or property in their homelands. Even if the percentage is slightly lower, you can still be hopeful that no non-white country will have to make additional efforts to accommodate them? 

o   Resistance from the immigrants. 'Third world is no longer livable, it’s full of heat and dust, it’s dirty, it’s the dumping ground of the first world. How can people stay there? Especially those who are used to the luxury and comfort of the first world? Impossible. I mean it’s okay to go for a vacation for a month or two, but staying there for good? I mean are you out of your mind?’ To counter this, you need to chalk out a robust plan as to how you can rebuild and create opportunities in the third world. It needs work. Homework. But it’s possible.

o   ‘Why should we leave? Are we cowards? This whole thing is crap.’ These resistances will come. But in five years, when they will see unimaginable changes, these people will be the first to go back. The truth is that NO ONE WANTS TO STAY IN A FOREIGN LAND. They leave their land for money and comfort. I am asking the insanely dedicated team to think hard as to how you can generate money and provide the same comfort that offers the first world.

o   You may face challenges from the political parties of your respective countries.

·        Stop working – Once you have decided, have a good writeup on what you want to achieve, circulate it in every possible social media, and wait for funds to come. In the meantime, stop working for the whites. The twelve-member core team will have to stop their work immediately. I am not suggesting non-violent civil disobedience by all the non-whites, they need time to be convinced, all I am asking is that the core team should stop working for the whites. Immediately. QUIT. As a reason for resignation, they might simply write in lowercase, that nigger george floyd.

·        Inclusiveness – Non-whites would mean all immigrants. 

·        Challenges from the non-whites – you may face many challenges from your side, that of power, and position. That’s why I told you that this 'newfound' revolution will comprise a selfless twelve-member core team, the real masters, the real leaders who will not feel threatened to create other masters, other leaders in the days to come.

·        Focus on the following growths in your motherlands – I am not at all competent in this. I will depend on the quality dream-team for this. However, here are some points, to begin with, if at all

o   Land – your land is way too fertile than what it is projected. Crops, livestock is by far the best source of income and growth. What you can do with your land has no limits, for example, if you focus on one crop that grows best in your land, then that crop alone can work wonders for you. Plan, invest, and reap the benefits.

o   Indigenous artistry, mining, and industry, establishing IT MNCs in your own motherland.

o   There are many other ways of generating income. So far, you have never ever looked at the possibility because you had an easier way out. Now think that the first world is going under the sea, all will die. This insane thinking can show you the way.

·        Found your organization

o   Name – the immediate name that comes to mind is The Pied Piper. Think of a name that best represents what you have set out to achieve, and achieve it you will.

o   Logo

§  George Floyd and the Police

§  Christian Cooper and Amy Cooper

o   Mission (immediate goal, say, by 2030, we will achieve this)

o   Vision (to provide the third world with all the comforts and opportunities that the first world enjoys).

o   Goal (to completely evacuate the first world, to release the first world of the white man’s burden

§  Short-term

§  Long-term

o   Model – your organization should have a robust business and revenue models.

§  Business

§  Revenue           

·        Some techniques to combat internal resistance, and negativity – there are many techniques. Here is a list

o   Praying – regular praying, chanting, seeking divine help to make the project successful. However, praying may not be okay for those who do not believe in praying. For them the other techniques can work

o   Writing down the goal – it’s important to have a clearly written goal

o   Visual board – clearly picture the image of how you want your motherland to be, see it regularly, change it from time to time. Take help from the internet.

o   Yoga and exercise – you have to be fit, physically, and mentally. For this, you need to practice Yoga and any other forms of exercise. This will also help you to control negative emotions like anger, hatred, jealousy, and so on

o   Forgiveness – all major stakeholders of this newfound revolution, have to learn the art of forgiveness. Read books, take help from the YouTube, from spiritual healers on this.

Conclusion

Begin the process to make this happen. QUIT the first world. There is no other way. In 2070, when you will see that you have actually achieved your goal, the second world would no longer be an object of pity, it will be a great service to human dignity. Protesting, fighting for, or against any cause is essentially negative in nature, it is a sheer waste of time.

Clarity

You are not fighting here, neither for nor against anything or anyone. You are founding an organization whose mission would be to help the third world countries grow and develop so that the children of the soil are mobilized back into their homelands where they will get the human dignity they truly deserve. Remember, success is the sweetest revenge. It is liberating and exhilarating. Besides, you owe this to your homelands, to your motherlands, don’t you?


#blacklivesmatter


Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Black and white

Black and white [PART 1]

Subsequent to the incident of the murder of George Floyd on one hand and a police complaint lodged by Amy Cooper against an ornithologist Christian Cooper, an African-American allegedly trying to ruin her life while he asked her not to let her pet loose in a public place, I started going into the root of the problem. I started my research on what the actual challenge is; why is it that even after hundreds of years, the disparity between the two sets of people have not moved one inch towards peaceful coexistence, despite the filming of Mississippi burning in 1988, and The Central Park in 2017.

I told myself that I had to begin from somewhere to get into the root, and I was surprised at my own revelation! Should I call it a white paper? Why not! Everything that is good has to be white, like the White House, isn’t it? So, I can call this a white paper. Before I begin, let me very clear at the outset on the future of this research; it has no future because it might appear that this article is primarily against the whites. Then why am I writing it at all? It is because I am also hopeful; I know for a fact that good whites – those who are philanthropic, educated, those who want to be of some meaningful service to humanity far outnumber the unfortunate whites – those who don’t know why they are doing what they are doing. That is why, out on the streets of the US of A, you see many whites merging with the blacks to show the picture of injustice to the world. This is one reason. The second reason is America itself. I have great faith in the land; it has offered great life to my fellow citizens for decades. So, therefore, I think if any change in the way we think has to come, it will come from America. This doesn’t mean I am underestimating Europe, Russia, Australia, and New Zealand, but it has to begin from America because it has allegations of the nursing many racist groups in its soil for centuries.

No violence, no punishments, no justice can work

We cannot solve anything. Certainly, not through violence, not even by demanding justice, or by giving punishment to one particular Police, who is also a victim of horrible education received through nexus.
We cannot expect justice either from the government, it’s like begging money from a pauper, or asking an illiterate person to read an article and make sense out of it. It is not that the government is incompetent, it is because they are confused, it’s like trying to understand which side the sun belongs to by looking at a photograph that could be that of a sunrise or a sunset. So, let’s try to understand where this skin confusion is coming from, if at all.

Religion is not the problem, color is

Many books reveal that the difference in religion is the root of all problems, as many bloody battles, ‘holy wars’ have been fought whose root cause was religion. I think the problem is far deeper; it is not a religion, the problem is the whites fighting against the non-whites to maintain their supremacy, their aristocracy, their mastery. Please read on.

Dictionary

Many pedagogues, litterateurs, and men of letters have said that we are nothing but words. It was this belief that prompted me to start from the dictionary, and here’s what I found.

Synonyms for black

1.      Sad, depressing, somber, doleful, mournful, funeral

2.      Sinful, inhuman, fiendish, devilish, infernal, monstrous, atrocious, horrible

3.      Nefarious, treacherous, traitorous, villainous, unfair

Besides these, there are expressions like black choice, black humor, black day, black image, blackout, blackguard, black money, black market, blacklist, black sheep black tie, and so on. That black also represents solemnity and authority, that has the ability to absorb all colors or is the absence of all colors (hence impartial) is not often highlighted.


Synonyms for white

1.      Clear, clean, bright, fair

2.      Innocence, purity, goodness

3.      Integrity, honesty, loyalty, enlightenment

In essence, a white guy means a good guy and a black guy means a bad guy. We become what we are repeatedly told.

Now, what if Amy Cooper and the white police have learned and internalized these meanings right from their childhood days? Can you really blame Amy if she tries to take advantage of a black man jumping out of the bush and trying to teach her that she should not unleash her dog in a park? And what about the black kids who also go to school and learn the synonyms of the color of their skin?

We are words, after all. The damage is when it doesn’t remain restricted to the skin; the blacks know themselves as blacks, it’s a noun here, and all the grim images get automatically imprinted in their brains; this is precisely what is happening in the world now. From these images can the blacks come back? From this, it is not difficult to understand the narrative of the world that belonged essentially to two major groups, the whites, and the non-whites. History also tells us loud and clear that whites were the masters, the non-whites, slaves.

Slaves

Much has been said about this throughout history. To cut a long story short, the non-whites were the slaves of the whites for centuries. Through generations, the whites have learned to be the masters, the oppressors, the torturers, and the non-whites have learned to accept atrocities from the whites. Hence the Police, Amy Cooper on one side, and George Floyd, Christian Cooper on the other.

The origin of the whites

If we look at the whites of North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, we seem to understand that their origin was Europe. We all know of the Civil War and Louis XIV’s generous contributions towards America’s independence. However, if you thought they left America, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, you might be deluded; they left, only physically, but they left their snobbery, their intolerances in the soils of the mentioned countries and continents. In this article, therefore, Whites are mostly referred to as Europeans. Intolerance is discussed in detail later in this article.

The Whites and their treaties

They have fought many bloody battles against each other; the list of their treaties and their deviations is endless, be it the Treaty of Paris in 1303, the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, or the Treaty of Warsaw and Treaties of Tartu in 1920. Although the first ever recorded treaty was the Treaty of Lagash and Umma of Mesopotamia in 2100 BC, later treaties came to be associated more with Europe than with any other continent, in my opinion.

Interestingly, just before they set out to ‘conquer’ the world, it seems they made an unwritten agreement not to fight against each other. Perhaps it could be because they learned, from History, how wars were counter-productive! Therefore, the Dutch and the French went back from India and set foot in parts of Africa, and elsewhere, the Portuguese were still there in Goa but left after a while. Likewise, they would have mutually agreed to share the wealth they wrongly snatched from different parts of the world. But in what capacity?

Unwanted guests?

Maybe that’s a very polite way of putting it, they were plunderers, looters, invaders, intruders. The whites came and looted the wealth from countries that belonged to the non-whites for centuries. Their brutality is well recorded in the wailing pages of history, some examples of which we still see in the soils of America, Australia, South Africa from the way they treat the immigrants and refugees, and ‘natives’ even today. Hence, Amy Cooper and Christian Cooper may carry the same surname, but the baggage they carry is not the same. They may not even enjoy the same privileges because the whites were notoriously famous for being partial (unfair) in their laws, acts, bills, and what have you.

Whites were rulers, non-whites are immigrants

It might seem very strange, but it’s true that during their periods of stay, they did not require any papers; they were the rulers who were in control of our economy and administration, but the non-whites are constantly and continuously treated as second graded citizens, the whites call the non-whites as immigrants.

Whiteman’s burden

We are much too familiar with this term. For years and years, the whites tried to help countries of Africa and Asia. Did anyone question as to why African countries are still poor, why their children still do not have one square meal while the white children have food in excess. Are the whites so incapable that they could not improve the situation of those countries despite trying so hard? Or was it by design? The intention was never to eradicate poverty; if it was truly so, it would have been possible by the blacks, by growing crops, plants, trees, livestock, and some such empowering devices which I, with my limited visibility and understanding cannot figure. As it stands, the whites proved to be the burden of the non-whites. Whites suffered from an undetected disease called ethnocentrism.

Ethnocentrism

By definition, ethnocentrism is the belief that one’s culture is superior to all other cultures. It is a term mostly used in social sciences in reference to the act of believing that one’s culture is superior to all other cultures. Since the whites suffer from this syndrome, they have taken it upon them to ‘civilize’ people all around the globe. This syndrome also makes one intolerant towards other cultures. In order to understand how it had created havoc in the world as the most notoriously imperceptible virus, thousand times harmful and deadly than the coronavirus, let us understand what intolerance means.

Intolerance

The dictionary definition of the word ‘intolerance’ is ‘unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, or behavior that differ from their own’. No matter how hard we try to label an ‘outfit’ as intolerant, the truth is somewhat different. Sadly, the race that was known for its manners (tehzeeb) has become the prime suspect in many countries, they are regarded as being intolerant par excellence. But the truth is that whites are the most intolerant in the world. I will try to substantiate my point of view through some examples.

How does one evaluate tolerance level; it is evaluated on the basis of behaviors like food, shelter, clothing, language, values, and ethics.

Whites have a problem with anything that is non-white, if they are intolerant about the heat and dust of the APAC regions, about the poverty they witness in African and Asian countries, they are also intolerant about the opulence they witness in the UAE, as if such wealth should not legitimately belong to them.

I will not get into detail. I want everyone to understand why whites throughout the world are the most intolerant ones. Look at the way the non-whites dress, eat, talk for them to be considered ‘cultured’ and ‘civilized’ and you will understand what I am trying to explain. You will rarely see a white who knows more than one or two languages, hardly find a white dressing up as a non-white in offices and parties, and would perhaps never ever find whites cooking like a non-white. I would like to be proven wrong, but only after you have gone from door to door and taken statistics of whites who know any language other than their mother tongue, who would dress up, eat like a non-white. For the African-American ladies, even the hair matters.

The hair

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of the novel Americanah, in conversation with Synne Rifbjerg said that if Michelle Obama wouldn’t straighten her hair, Barack Obama wouldn’t have won the election. African-Americans ladies who don’t straighten their hair are either considered as radicals or as difficult. So African ladies, who want to conform, have to put chemicals in their hair in order to look professional. According to her, African-Americans are those who were brought to American as slaves. She went on to say that ‘Racism is America’s original sin’. Although she said that smilingly in the interview, but in the present context, we can understand the depth of her statement.  She recounts how surprised some of her American friends were when they found her laughing when they called her fried chicken or watermelon. She said their surprise was because they were expecting her to be angry. She said racism still existed in America, but people acted as if it belonged to the past. They don’t want to talk about it.
I am sure the police who beat George Floyd to death would have also used the same adjectives to hundreds of non-whites. It is only under these extreme circumstances that we get to understand the extent of damage racism can do.


The language

Sadly, I thought myself to be superior (for a long time I was, before being aware) to my folks because I could relatively read and write well in English and in French. This is like a two-edged saw; on one hand, I feel inferior and inadequate, and, on the other, whites feel adequate and superior. As a consequence, the non-whites feel subdued and intimidated by the sheer presence of the whites; receiving punishment, therefore, is regarded as getting attention from the whites. If you availed a metro in especially the European countries, you will find whites, even octogenarians, who prefer to stand, but they wouldn't sit beside a non-white. And, if you had the fortune of listening to their conversation, the way whites talk about the non-whites, you can definitely get a clue as to where the beatings and tortures are coming from. Very slowly, the world was divided into three parts, viz. first world, second world, and the third world. Since the second world was Russia which got fragmented in the latter half of the last century, we will talk about the two worlds and the dynamics they have with each other.

 

The first world

This also comes under the topic of my research because all white countries, except Russia, belong to the first world. The countries are North America, Australia, New Zealand, Western Europe. They are all interconnected through NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).

The European population has literally stopped working now, some of the countries in Europe have transformed as cities of museums, and parks thanks to the wealth from the non-white countries they are sitting on because of which, they belong to the first world and we, to the third world. Let me clarify why this is also considered as one of the important factors of racism. You see the right to hit an African to death in broad daylight doesn’t come overnight. The condescending attitude the whites have towards the non-whites does have a history. Non-whites are negros, niggers, bloody niggers and they cannot have the same treatment. They deserve to be treated; NOT as equals. They are considered as garbage, as wastes. As dirt. Their lands are also the first world’s dumping ground which can be regarded as toxic colonialism.

Toxic colonialism

Toxic colonialism, defined as the process by which “underdeveloped states are used as inexpensive alternatives for the export or disposal of hazardous waste pollution by developed states,” is the core critique against the global waste trade.[15] Toxic colonialism represents the neo-colonial policy which continues to maintain global inequality today through unfair trade systems. Toxic colonialism uses the term colonialism because “the characteristics of colonialism, involving economic dependence, exploitation of labor, and cultural inequality is intimately associated with the new realm of toxic waste colonialism.”

No violence, no-nonsense, please

Anything that is worthwhile cannot come from violence. The purpose of this article is only to show the variables that are causing the problem. All headings may be regarded as variables. I must also quickly add that I have very limited understanding and visibility of the actual situation. That is why, the purpose is to share my views with people who are in power, people who are selfless and sincerely want our beloved America to heal, and not take advantage of the pain this great land of opportunities is going through.

Problem map

Who is going to help? How? So, it demands an engaging and a collective effort to get into the root. We can do that if we understand the problem map from a holistic perspective. Without understanding, nothing works, shortcut methods are only temporary, that does not help. If we have the problem map in front of us, we can understand where, why, and how we need to change by putting all the headings (variables) mentioned here and by seeing as to how they are interconnected.

Conclusion

Sometimes I wonder if the whites need more healing than the non-whites, for their unspeakable tortures, for their injustices, for being so openly unfair. I am sure their inability to openly admit their flaws puts them more in a fragile position, it’s as if they are in a cage, or in a cul-de-sac from where they are not able to come out. But will they ever admit I wonder! They have to come out in the open, consider the world as their confession box and throw away, once and for all, all the sins they have been carrying from their ancestors.

Before they do, let us not go by the gimmicks, that of white police hugging a black citizen; both, whites and the non-whites need patience for any change to happen. Those in power and position can very easily draw a road-map, the ‘how’ is no rocket science, the major shift, if at all, has to come from the willingness to change.

If they do not admit, no change is possible. No matter how desperately Pink Floyd sings, ‘we don’t need no [horrible] education’, the same age-old education will continue, despite Michael Jackson’s attempts of dancing hard on the floor, ‘It don't matter if you're black or white’, it will continue to matter. And even after a hundred years from now, we cannot sing we have overcome, we will still demand justice from the government, and sing the song of Martin Luther King Junior, ‘we shall overcome’.


#blacklivesmatter