If Indians were racist, why would we live with black people in the South, says BJP’s Tarun Vijay

[manlion]

. “In many parts of the nation, we have different people, in colour and never ever we had any discrimination against them...My words perhaps were not enough to convey this,” he said, apologising to those who felt he spoke “differently from he meant”.

 

[ashok321]

We have blacks all around, entire south, we aren't racist: Tarun Vijay:

And those blacks south Indians never vote BJP.
This is the bone of contention here.
The more educated you are, the less you vote for BJP.
Its proven in India.

Check the top ten for example:

 

[ranjeet]

His words are being misinterpreted, but yeah we might have an issue to discuss on prime time debates.

 

[AndrewJin]

I think Indians are black.

Nothing wrong with having dark skins.

People should be proud of it.

 

[SBUS-CXK]

what will South Indian sanghis say to this ?

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Tarun Vijay is facing criticism for responding to a question on the allegedly racist attacks on African nationals in Greater Noida by saying if India was, indeed, racist, we would not “live with” “black people around us”. “If we were racist, why would....all the entire South – you know, Kerala, Tamil, Andhra, Karnataka – why do we live with them?” He added, “We have blacks...black people around us.”

Vijay’s remarks triggered outrage soon after they was shared across social media. He took to Twitter to clarify his statement. “In many parts of the nation, we have different people, in colour and never ever we had any discrimination against them...My words perhaps were not enough to convey this,” he said, apologising to those who felt he spoke “differently from he meant”.

https://scroll.in/latest/833983/if-...ack-people-in-the-south-says-bjps-tarun-vijay

Probably.. Probably... To show off India's internationalization".
Look, there are so many black living in our India, our India is really an internationalization country!

 

[india2050]

Lol he's telling the truth.

Lol..thanks for letting us know that little sh*t stains like you still exist in India ...

 

[manlion]

Probably.. Probably... To show off India's internationalization".
Look, there are so many black living in our India, our India is really an internationalization country!

He tried to bluff the international community there's no racism in India but ended up inadvertently passing racist remark on S Indians. Thanks to AlJazeera for exposing his true colors

 

[deckingraj]

Probably.. Probably... To show off India's internationalization".
Look, there are so many black living in our India, our India is really an internationalization country!

So just because he used a wrong word(and later apologized) we should miss the gist of his post?? What he meant was that saying Indians are inherently racist and look down people with darker skin color is absurd...had that been the case South India would not been part of India...IMHO how can actions of few be used to pain the country of 1.3 billion people??

 

[Taimoor Khan]

pot calling kettle black

LOL. They all look the same tbh.

 

[padamchen]

Don't find anything wrong in his statement really.

India is probably the one place on earth where you'll find an essentially 60:40 split between two distinct races, with both living together as complete equals.

 

[Mugwop]

Having dark skin doesn't make you black, dumb asses!

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Big difference between Black people and Indian Black

Indian

Black folks wear dimond in their ear and Indians don't

 

[SabzShaheen]

Tarun Vijay is a senior member of the ruling party of India

An Indian politician who said Indians were not racist because they lived alongside south Indians has sparked a strong response on social media.

Tarun Vijay, of the ruling BJP, was speaking to al-Jazeera about recent attacks on African nationals in India.

African envoys have called the incidents racist in nature.

But defending India, Mr Vijay said: "If we were racist, why would we have the south? Why do we live with them? We have black people around us."

The comments triggered an immediate response on Twitter, with many south Indians asking if Mr Vijay was implying that the rest of India "chose" to live with them.

Much of the outrage stems from the fact that there have been historical tensions between northern and southern Indians, based on language, culture and even skin colour.

Mr Vijay quickly tried to carry out some damage control on his Twitter account, saying that he had "framed" the sentence badly and adding that Indians were victims of the "racist British".

What he was trying to say, he said, was that Indians had fought racism and had "people with different colour and culture" but did not have any racism.

However, Mr Vijay's attempts to explain did not seem to convince too many people, who continued to ridicule him.

A spokesman for the party admitted that Mr Vijay could have "worded the comment differently".

Mr Vijay was talking to al-Jazeera about attacks last month in Greater Noida, near Delhi, on a number of Nigerian nationals. Five Nigerian students were attacked by crowds, while another was beaten by a mob inside a shopping mall.

Police say five people have been arrested over the violence and India's Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj has promised an "impartial" inquiry.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-39530215

More tweets:

https://twitter.com/x/status/850281866913558529

https://twitter.com/x/status/850267579062996992

 

[Chellam]

RSS and Siva Sena are waste People they don't even have Common scene, why we need to worry about this kind of people

Ex, if some mentals(Brain less People) when say something about us why we need to worry

 

[SabzShaheen]

RSS and Siva Sena are waste People they don't even have Common scene, why we need to worry about this kind of people

Ex, if some mentals(Brain less People) when say something about us why we need to worry

Because these "waste People" with no "Common scene" rule your country.