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RACIAL DISCRIMINATION

A Sad Reality Still Facing Our World
By Abigirl Phiri, Zimbabwe.

t is saddening that racial dis- prits for being misinformed, hence Up to now in sports such as crick-
crimination is still taking place the reason why they continued with et and rugby, you find many black
worldwide, yet we are one this inhumane treatment but now people being segregated and looked
Ipeople regardless of our skin bringing back those painful and down upon due to racial discrimi-
color. This issue has raised a lot of deeply buried memories does not sit nation issues. In my own opinion,
eyebrows, whilst causing headaches well, especially with us black peo- there needs to be a paradigm shift
and pain in this world. In fact, some ple. Truth be told, we didn’t choose of looking at our different skin col-
have committed suicide over this to be born with high levels of the or. Needless to mention that we are
matter. Being made to feel like scum melanin pigment. Despite all that is one people and we all deserve the
underneath somebody’s feet is a bit- thought of us, we do pride ourselves same respect due to every individual
ter pill to swallow. One ends up feel- in our heritage, although we are the alive on this planet earth. That said,
ing as if your sheer existence on the most preyed upon people by racists. let us not bring back the slave trade
face of earth is a bad joke. However, period through veiled racial dis-
despite the efforts being made to This is to some extent why the crimination stunts. Currently even
conscientize and educate the masses, African continent came to even be in some work places, the white and
still racial discrimination is rearing nicknamed the “Dark Continent” Chinese people see themselves as a
its ugly head like a snake about to with regards to our skin color plus cut above the rest by the way they
strike. Back then, during the coloni- the misconception that we are prim- roughly handle their black workers.
zation era, we could pardon the cul- itive in all the ways that counts. Consequently, blacks have been

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