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HEADLINE: Dwayne Bravo: We ask for equality and respect
CaribbeanCricket.com
Jun 10, 2020, 3:24:12 AM
West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo became the third cricketer from Caribbean islands after Darren Sammy and Chris Gayle to openly talk about racism. While using hard-hitting words against racial comments around the world, Bravo said he would never ask for revenge but now ‘enough is enough’ and times has come they black people demand ‘equality and respect’.
Bravo’s comments came after the Black Lives Matter campaign came into being after the killing of African-American man George Floyd in the USA.
“It’s sad to see what’s going on around the world. As a black man, we know the history of what black people have been through. We never ask for revenge, we ask for equality and respect. That’s it,” Bravo told former Zimbabwe cricketer Pommie Mbangwa in an Instagram live chat on Tuesday.
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Dukes
Jun 10, 2020, 9:27:15 AM
Bravo’s comments came after the Black Lives Matter campaign came into being after the killing of African-American man George Floyd in the USA.
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ray
Jun 10, 2020, 9:32:37 AM
In reply to Dukes
ray
Jun 10, 2020, 9:33:03 AM
WHy do white people love the Caribbean?
Casper
Jun 10, 2020, 9:47:34 AM
So, whom do you believe - first Sammy, then the Universal Boss, now Dwayne Bravo. All taking abut racism in India. I was going to say Indian Cricket, but the Indian Cricket is just a reflection of the society.
Anyone who has dealt with Indian in North America, in any close relationship and talk to them, one would get to understand where this is coming from - North/South divide, the lighter-skinned Indian vs the darker-skinned Indians and the other complexities involved.
Let’s talk about racism. It's time to bring it in the open. The colorism of India, AND please don't forget the West Indies. No clean hands there; no heads in the sand.
“Aap toh south Indian dikhti hai par aapki behen Indian dikhti hai.” (You look like a south Indian but your sister looks Indian.)
These words from a decades-old conversation with a Delhi beautician came back to me when Tarun Vijay, a former BJP MP and ex-editor of the RSS publication Panchjanya, recently tried to defend India against charges of racism. “If we were racist,” he said, “why would have all the entire south [India] which is complete… you know Tamil, you know Kerala, you know Karnataka and Andhra… why do we live with them? We have blacks, black people around us.” (sic) Many south Indians revealed their own white-skin fixation when they protested against Vijay’s comment by objecting to being termed black. It is just as telling that most north Indians would be aghast if they knew that the racial descriptor “black” is used by Europeans and Americans not for people of African origin alone but for Indians too, and not just the dark-skinned among us. The offensive aspect of Vijay’s statement is not in these sensitivities though, but in his condescension, the implication that the north can choose whether or not to “live with them”, and in the othering of the south
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There you have it.
Halliwell
Jun 10, 2020, 9:50:35 AM
In reply to Dukes
As I said
NOT allies.
Barry
Jun 10, 2020, 10:04:38 AM
In reply to Dukes
A black intelligent man and elder laughing at possibly black or probably young writers . . . WOW
Chrissy
Jun 10, 2020, 1:37:21 PM
In reply to Dukes
Ignorance is bliss
Chrissy
Jun 10, 2020, 1:38:02 PM
In reply to Barry
Do your homework - simple.