"It is intolerable arrogance to discriminate between one human being and another because of the colour of his skin. They all have the same heart, the same feelings, the same expression of love and hate. They all smile the same way, they all weep the same way.

The countries in which coloured people are born are their own countries. They may be primitive or backward but no foreigner, not even a white man, has the right to occupy their lands forcibly by using guns and cannons against unarmed natives.

Imagine the brutality of black human beings being treated as slaves. Although slavery was abolished, the colonial white powers continued to inflict unspeakable insults and torture on the poor and simple people of their colonies.

If the history of colonial rule in Africa, Asia and Latin America were written truthfully and objectively, the enormity of crimes committed by white rulers would shock humankind.

I have myself experienced some of this during the period of British rule in India. The British arrived in India without an entry pass or visa and stayed on for nearly three hundred years. Now, when Indians travel to the United Kingdom with proper visas, their experience of questioning by the Airport Immigration Officers is generally horrendous. I was holding a Diplomatic Passport, being the wife of a senior diplomat, and yet I was asked rude and insulting questions, all because I was an Indian, a non-white.

Once they subjected me to a body search, for no reason whatsoever. This was nothing but blatant racism. The white races seem to think that they have a divine right to be rude and insulting to the 'inferior' coloured races."

From Meta Modern Era by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, 1995.

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