SHADES –STILL ON THE RUN

Racial discrimination is an age old social issue and its skill doesn’t seems to be obsolete in today’s world. The world still speaks of the harsh reality of racism prevelant in the western world. Discrimination on the basis of racism creates a sense of tragedy in our minds which arises from the inpedinents of human themselves. Man’s treatment of man is the cause of misery, slow progress and degradation. Black men till date fail to understand the reason of their being inferior to their western counterparts, just because of their colour of their skin.

Racial discrimination still continues to exist and it shall continue because it is deeply routed in the minds of the people. This racial prejudice is prevelant in the world of white people. These white people are foolish enough to judge others on the basis of the colour of the skin rather than their character .

Since the last time 1893, Mahatma Gandhi was thrown out of the train because he entered a compartment ment only for the white, till date when indian students have been killed in Australia, nothing has changed except the fact India is now a free democratic country. But what use of india being a free democratic nation when there is racial discrimination still taking place.

 There are many pieces in literature that speaks of racial discrimination. The poet Wole Foyinka seems to be apologetic in his poem ‘Telephone Coversation’ because of being born a black man.

The young writer Annie Frank, who was a jew also faced racial discrimination and through her diary made it known to the world, the discrimination the jews faced for not belonging the Aryan race.

In Shakespeare’s play ‘The Tempest’, we also see the discrimination Prospero creates regarding Caliban, who is thought to be the native of the island.

Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela had all fought against racial discrimination and the struggle still carries on with the same taste as racial discrimination is comitted.