Racial Equality – Written by revered Rakesh Chandra

Famous French philosopher, Rousseau has said that man is born free, but is always in chains throughout his life. This is, undoubtedly, the best summation of existing position of human beings on earth. As soon he takes birth, tagging starts instantly in the name of class, caste, religion etc. This is true of all societies belonging to all the countries in this world of ours. If the birth of a child is godly affair, his nomenclature and further baptization takes place under the laws made by the humans themselves. A million dollar question is whether humanity can survive irrespective of such qualifications or not? Only the sociologists can answer this ticklish question.

    Probably the worst such qualification is racial inequality which is prevalent in the different forms world over. The most significant form is the racial discrimination on the basis of colour. The unbreakable wall of black and white or the brown and white seems to be causing serious concerns in recent times which is termed as computer age. There are many George Floyds spread everywhere, who regularly face ignominy and insults by the people on the other side who deem themselves to be a superior class. They also lose their lives often in petty skirmishes.

    This is a strange irony that with the growth of humanity, such ill-practices are growing day by day. Education and literacy are on the rise. Still we are not able to shed our time-worn prejudices and predilections. 

    Racial equality is one of the most important attribute of civil society. Any discrimination on the basis of racial inequality is abominable and despicable both. We are most educated and literate people gradually entering into an age of technology. This is unbecoming of such people to cling to old and dead-skin like value-system which was never accepted by the majority at any time in the history. This is high-time we should think over hard and change our rotten values. Racial equality is the need of the time. We should unshackle ourselves with the chains we are wearing by our own volition. Racial inequality is meaningless which must be erased from the modern lexicons. We have to reemphasize the fact that everybody is born equal and that is the undisputable reality.

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