Oh, for a moment I thought you meant the slave-like H1B visa.

But the fact of the matter is that Indians have a skin colour similar to blacks and hispanics, and we are currently the most successful ethnic minority in the US (and indeed in the UK). Obviously, we have it much easier now than blacks and jews had it 50 years back, and such success would never happen in the 1950s where there were laws that would have prevented us from achieving what we have today. Obviously, I do believe that the legacy of repression certainly has its effects in the black community today, but I don’t believe that skin colour is a handicap to success at this day and age.

It’s not at all an equitable comparison, and your analogy completely ignores the very biased immigration selection processes that also turn out more professional, highly-educated desis into the system. I’m not so reductionist to believe that skin color is the only thing that makes or breaks class and social barriers, but this model minority pandering also downplays the role of desis in civil rights struggle and our historic presence in the U.S. for over 100 years.

i applaud your colourful double-entendre, HMF, but I doubt you can keep it up.

I’d respond, HMF, but the GAP is closing soon and I need some Khakis.

No I haven’t. it’s unclear how all that mumbo jumbo you spewed relates to my contention that, the qualities you said you embrace (or at least would like to) when viewed in an american context take on different meaning.

well, to put it another way, whether or not the free market is good for POC is debatable. Not everthing is an issue like aparthied, where the postion a POC would take is relatively ovbvious. I know how you feel since you’re certain about your politics. I think its pretty obvious that globalization is good for India, but I still don’t believe Arundhati Roy suffers from self-hatred.

I wasn’t the one to bring up Farrakhan or the NOI in this discussion, rather it was Manju who did. (#221 & #224)

#177: “Most of the ‘Jewish exploitation of black’ literature comes from the nation of islam and other such sites, which will always be classified as ‘hate speech’ “

Maybe HMF is John Ford/Fard Muhammad, the Founder of NOI, returned from his period of occultation. One theory these days is that this mysterious founder of the NOI was the son of a desi-Muslim father and a kiwi-Brit mom. It’s at least as likely as Intel intentionally insulting a significant section of its customer base

I wasn’t the one to bring up Farrakhan or the NOI in this discussion, rather it was Manju who did. (#221 & #224) As a matter of fact it wasn’t even me who brought the Jewish question up (# 126) it seems he’s quite the master-baiter.