Comments on: Fuss hushed http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/10/25/fuss_hushed/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Saheli http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/10/25/fuss_hushed/comment-page-1/#comment-32588 Saheli Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:02:35 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2415#comment-32588 <p>"Parks died Oct. 24 at 92. Days later, Congress approved resolutions allowing her body to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda, the first woman to do so." (<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/31/AR2005103100370.html">Link</a>)</p> “Parks died Oct. 24 at 92. Days later, Congress approved resolutions allowing her body to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda, the first woman to do so.” (Link)

]]> By: Reincarnation http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/10/25/fuss_hushed/comment-page-1/#comment-32071 Reincarnation Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:03:43 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2415#comment-32071 <p>Rosa Parks story is similar to our own desi dawg, M.K.Gandhi, getting thrown off a train in South Africa. The ripple that started there turned into a tsunami that wiped off the British Raj from India. What Rosa Parks did was give the colored people in the US of A, the conviction to stand up for themselves. Good job, Rosa. RIP.</p> Rosa Parks story is similar to our own desi dawg, M.K.Gandhi, getting thrown off a train in South Africa. The ripple that started there turned into a tsunami that wiped off the British Raj from India. What Rosa Parks did was give the colored people in the US of A, the conviction to stand up for themselves. Good job, Rosa. RIP.

]]> By: RC http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/10/25/fuss_hushed/comment-page-1/#comment-31886 RC Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:26:39 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2415#comment-31886 <p>We all owe something to Rosa Parks. I was amazed and shocked by the negative comments about Rosa Parks in the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303714/"> "Barber Shop" </a>movie.</p> We all owe something to Rosa Parks. I was amazed and shocked by the negative comments about Rosa Parks in the “Barber Shop” movie.

]]> By: kamal http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/10/25/fuss_hushed/comment-page-1/#comment-31883 kamal Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:48:02 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2415#comment-31883 <p>Word to that, Dr Keshav.<br /> The segregation of pre-Civil Rights America has waaaayy too many similarities to the mechanics of the caste system in India. We left India, but it still rings true in the back of many an old-school NRI's mind. Until this attitude is eliminated, we will still be purveyors of segregation, albeit a Desi variant.<br /> Segregation was justified as a tradition in the Southern culture - it was just "the way things were", the subjugation of one group to benefit another. There was resistance to integration because of the fear of change. The Civil Rights Movement brought black and white communities together against all odds, yet until the South Asian community can look at it as an example of previously separated groups co-existing successfully, the sacrifices of Rosa Parks and Dr King will be in vain.</p> Word to that, Dr Keshav.
The segregation of pre-Civil Rights America has waaaayy too many similarities to the mechanics of the caste system in India. We left India, but it still rings true in the back of many an old-school NRI’s mind. Until this attitude is eliminated, we will still be purveyors of segregation, albeit a Desi variant.
Segregation was justified as a tradition in the Southern culture – it was just “the way things were”, the subjugation of one group to benefit another. There was resistance to integration because of the fear of change. The Civil Rights Movement brought black and white communities together against all odds, yet until the South Asian community can look at it as an example of previously separated groups co-existing successfully, the sacrifices of Rosa Parks and Dr King will be in vain.

]]> By: Dr.Keshav Mandalaneni http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/10/25/fuss_hushed/comment-page-1/#comment-31869 Dr.Keshav Mandalaneni Thu, 27 Oct 2005 05:05:45 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2415#comment-31869 <p>All de time we cry foul at racism(meted to us)and all we tend to forget wots happenin bek home.What we are referring to as a sick thing in a civilised world does exist in India and we dont give a damn about it."Hypocrites We". Dalit ain't mean a ting back home and who gives a damn abou tribals and dem culture,we are civilised,we build dams and sink dem villeges and kill dem culture."Hypocrites We". How many "Desi Rosa Parks" do we need to get inspired and put an end to the desi variant of racism?</p> All de time we cry foul at racism(meted to us)and all we tend to forget wots happenin bek home.What we are referring to as a sick thing in a civilised world does exist in India and we dont give a damn about it.”Hypocrites We”. Dalit ain’t mean a ting back home and who gives a damn abou tribals and dem culture,we are civilised,we build dams and sink dem villeges and kill dem culture.”Hypocrites We”. How many “Desi Rosa Parks” do we need to get inspired and put an end to the desi variant of racism?

]]> By: swamy http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/10/25/fuss_hushed/comment-page-1/#comment-31846 swamy Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:27:25 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2415#comment-31846 <p>Necessity is the mother of all invention. Fatigue and tiredness in this case was the catalyst for an entire nations civil rights movement. I think i speak for all my desi brotheren when i say "thanks for all that u've done for us miss Parks"</p> Necessity is the mother of all invention. Fatigue and tiredness in this case was the catalyst for an entire nations civil rights movement. I think i speak for all my desi brotheren when i say “thanks for all that u’ve done for us miss Parks”

]]> By: Salil Maniktahla http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/10/25/fuss_hushed/comment-page-1/#comment-31844 Salil Maniktahla Thu, 27 Oct 2005 01:08:11 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2415#comment-31844 <p>I grew up in rural Mississippi. You don't have to look all that hard to find direct links between Rosa Parks (or practically anyone in the civil rights movement in the 1960's) and us South Asians.</p> <p>For starters, to quite a few Mississippians (god, they need a shorter name), anyone who is not white is...colored. That means expect liberal misuse of the n-word. Rule: when in doubt, it's a nigger.</p> <p>When I was a mere third-grader, our school bus would take us from our school (fairly far in the countryside) towards the center of town. If you didn't live on the route, then the final stop was a Western Auto (think Pep Boys or Trak Auto, you Yanks) parking lot. My sister and I would get off there along with 10 or so other redneck kids and wait for mom or dad to come pick us up. It could be a long wait in the summertime, and Mississippi ain't got the dry heat, so we'd hang out in the Western Auto in the wonderful air-conditioning.</p> <p>One day after school my sister and I were walking around in the store, cooling off and waiting for mom. I was admiring the dune buggies and three-wheelers (yeah, even then I loooved my motorcycles), and then the store manager came up to us, tipped his trucker hat up, and said, "Hey now, how about y'all get on outside? Y'all don't need to be in here."</p> <p>He was an adult, so my sister and I obliged politely. But I didn't really notice that we were the only ones sitting on the curb until my mother pulled up and asked us why we were sitting outside on a 100-degree day like that.</p> <p>Racism lived then, and lives now. We may not sit in the back of the bus, and I may now be able to walk into any auto-parts store without being asked to leave, but it's still quite a ways from being right just yet.</p> I grew up in rural Mississippi. You don’t have to look all that hard to find direct links between Rosa Parks (or practically anyone in the civil rights movement in the 1960′s) and us South Asians.

For starters, to quite a few Mississippians (god, they need a shorter name), anyone who is not white is…colored. That means expect liberal misuse of the n-word. Rule: when in doubt, it’s a nigger.

When I was a mere third-grader, our school bus would take us from our school (fairly far in the countryside) towards the center of town. If you didn’t live on the route, then the final stop was a Western Auto (think Pep Boys or Trak Auto, you Yanks) parking lot. My sister and I would get off there along with 10 or so other redneck kids and wait for mom or dad to come pick us up. It could be a long wait in the summertime, and Mississippi ain’t got the dry heat, so we’d hang out in the Western Auto in the wonderful air-conditioning.

One day after school my sister and I were walking around in the store, cooling off and waiting for mom. I was admiring the dune buggies and three-wheelers (yeah, even then I loooved my motorcycles), and then the store manager came up to us, tipped his trucker hat up, and said, “Hey now, how about y’all get on outside? Y’all don’t need to be in here.”

He was an adult, so my sister and I obliged politely. But I didn’t really notice that we were the only ones sitting on the curb until my mother pulled up and asked us why we were sitting outside on a 100-degree day like that.

Racism lived then, and lives now. We may not sit in the back of the bus, and I may now be able to walk into any auto-parts store without being asked to leave, but it’s still quite a ways from being right just yet.

]]> By: Ang http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/10/25/fuss_hushed/comment-page-1/#comment-31743 Ang Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:27:07 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2415#comment-31743 <p>RIP Rosa Parks.</p> <p>There's not even the slightest doubt in my mind that the civil rights movement is related to the freedoms we enjoy.</p> RIP Rosa Parks.

There’s not even the slightest doubt in my mind that the civil rights movement is related to the freedoms we enjoy.

]]> By: Kush Tandon http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/10/25/fuss_hushed/comment-page-1/#comment-31740 Kush Tandon Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:20:49 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2415#comment-31740 <p>Sumita,</p> <p>I haven't kept touch with the professor otherwise I would have definitely requested him to write. I do not live in Baton Rouge anymore.</p> <p>He never talked about it - it is others who told all of us about his active role in civil rights movement <b>with great respect</b>.</p> <p>kush</p> Sumita,

I haven’t kept touch with the professor otherwise I would have definitely requested him to write. I do not live in Baton Rouge anymore.

He never talked about it – it is others who told all of us about his active role in civil rights movement with great respect.

kush

]]> By: Sumita http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2005/10/25/fuss_hushed/comment-page-1/#comment-31736 Sumita Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:06:20 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=2415#comment-31736 <p>Kush</p> <p><i>I know an Indian-origin Professor in Chemistry from Deep South who used to actively take part in marches and lunch counter "sit-ins" during the civil rights movement.</i></p> <p>That is amazing. would love to know he views the kind of issues of brown identity we read about here?</p> <p>Would he write/share his POV? Am not sure about others, but I(and am sure others here) would be interested in knowing what he thinks.</p> <p>Sumita</p> Kush

I know an Indian-origin Professor in Chemistry from Deep South who used to actively take part in marches and lunch counter “sit-ins” during the civil rights movement.

That is amazing. would love to know he views the kind of issues of brown identity we read about here?

Would he write/share his POV? Am not sure about others, but I(and am sure others here) would be interested in knowing what he thinks.

Sumita

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