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    Hashim Amla admits Darren Pattinson's call-up caught South Africa by surprise. Like everyone else

    Jul 19, 2008

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    Natural born prejudices?

    By Will 5 months ago, 9 Comments »

    A thought-provoking piece from Soumya Bhattacharya who tells India to grow up:

    I thought of it because in that swirl of emotions, we Indians have tended to lose sight of a problem we need to tackle: we are still in denial that we are a deeply racist country. Often, we are racist although we are not conscious of being so. (It’s time we were.) We, with our fondness for light skin tones, tend to be prejudiced against those with darker ones. We don’t think of it as racism. But the world does. And it is. It can’t go on. We need to grow up.

    A few examples. In the aftermath of the overturning of the ban, a board administrator was quoted as having said something like: “We shall not stand for our boys being called racists.” Our boys? Racists? Gosh. Cue incredulity, shock, horror. (Denial.)

    Don’t shoot the messenger, etc

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