This is an image of some black people jumping into a “whites only” pool at a motel in Florida in 1964. The hotel owner poured acid into the water to force them out. The civil rights movement was littered with such horrific incidents, and most white Americans vocally opposed it.

can indians even imagine beating someone up for ordering lunch at the “whites only” line, unleashing attack dogs and violently hosing down protesters, and vehemently opposing integration in schools?

this is what oppression by the majority looks like. public lynchings and hangings, hate crimes, arson, rape, bombings, unfair imprisonment/torture by the police. it wasn’t even that long ago, to attribute it to “society back then” - it went on till almost the late 60s/early 70s.

no community or caste within the Hindu fold ever faced this sort of brutality - it was Hindus as a whole that were subject to worse atrocities for centuries at the hands of Muslim and British invader-colonisers and still remain mentally colonised by both their oppressors.

The modern indian socialist state has a warped sense of its own history while handing out lakhs of crores in freebies annually and creating victim narratives out of thin air. Its counterproductive to true growth - both in terms of levelling the playing field and creating capital.

It’s imperative that every caste/community honestly re-examine their own role, interactions, and financial status in pre-colonial india, put in into perspective - and demand constitutional and policy changes that appropriately reflect their true status and contributions.

*”opposed it” = opposed the civil rights movement. In 1963, 78 percent of white Americans said they would leave their neighborhoods if Black families were integrated into them. Most of them opposed MLK Jr as well. It was brutal racism.