Racism in a Tube – “OS”

11:59 PM - racists by default…!!!!! are we??? Current mood: crazy Category: Life   everything that glitters is not gold…. Sorry people if you are getting tired of my cyncism and contstant whys???? and all those question marks ,but i cannot seem to help myself…lol….bitching about the world and life in general seems to be fun,but then in the same breath i try to think of myself as a positive person,hmmmm…i got to soemhow convince myself that these rambling are positive…wll being a lawyer i guess i can convince myself.hehehe. Today was a dull boring day and most part of it i was gaurding the house since all the others were away,was watching tv .”.that most passive of all entertainment,where all you got to do is switch of ur brains and just become a vegetable and that mighty instrument called a telly entertains you with its flickering glow”- calvin n hobbes.Ok now to the point about racism, today my mum and sis went to attend a function ,acutually the naming ceremony of my second cousin’s new born daughter,she must be around 21 days old.Well mom got back from that “do” and she was telling about the happenings there and she happened to mention that how everybody i.e all the tom,dick and harry and jane,jill and all and sundry who attended the function it seems where bothered or were speculating the baby’s skin colour and they seemed to think she was dark skined .On hearing this i was………………………………………….during that pause  i was pulling my hair and wondering why cant people grow up a little . Hey!!!! this is a very sad scenario in our country ,this empahsis on fair skin, just pick up any major newspaper and look at the matrimonial columns and we will know what i am speaking of .Maybe all this obsession for fairer skin if not totally white atleast lighter shades of brown,is a colonial thing which rubbed on to us,and we still stink of it.We should change our attitudes,well calling ourselves racists will be too hard on us i guess ,but then we seriously need to look beyond the colour.Well at least some people are smart to make aneat tidy profit from all this sillyness of ours,the cosmetic majors,yeah!!!! in india we have this ridiculous market called  THE FAIRNESS CREAM MARKET  if you think that sounds ridiculous  then check out the adverts/commercials for them, they stink – like guys sneaking into girls dorm to steal their fairness cream and then the company makes a new fairness cream for the guys too, or a girl doesnt get job/married/life because she aint fair complexioned and hence life is not fair to her…arghhhhhhhhhhhh thats how jarring they are on my nerves.Wonder where all the women’s lib ladies are when they watch this crap. WELL ALL I CAN SAY IS WE ARE SILLY NOT RACIST….