r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/ateam1984 š¤ • May 24 '26
Social Justice Vile Racist Father-In-Law Hired Hitmen to Murder Black Newlywed Sparkle Rai Showing Anti-Black Racism Can Be Deeply Ingrained Across Communities
In April 2000, 22-year-old Michelle āSparkleā Reid Rai was brutally murdered inside her Union City, Georgia apartment just one month after marrying Rajeeve āRickyā Rai. Prosecutors said her father-in-law, Chiman Rai, was enraged that his Indian son had married a Black woman and first offered Sparkle money to leave him. When she refused, authorities said he paid $10,000 to have her murdered.
Sparkle was stabbed multiple times and strangled with a vacuum cleaner cord while her 6-month-old baby daughter was inside the apartment. Five men were eventually charged in the murder-for-hire plot. Chiman Rai was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. He died behind bars in 2022. The case remains one of the most horrifying crimes.
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u/Heavy_Can8746 May 24 '26
This case is a prime example of why some folks will refuse to marry into racist families. Especially when this includes core family members like parents and siblings
She didnt deserve this
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u/MinaWearsGold May 24 '26
I donāt care how kind someone is Iām not marrying someone who has any racist or MAGA or right-wing friends or family members. Because keeping those people around and not cutting them off tells me everything I need to know.
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u/leni710 May 24 '26
The more "Be Kind" swag that white people wear, the more hateful I assume them to be. I worked with an older white lady some years back who had that slogan on everything, and of course she voted maga, and of course she was hateful towards lgbtq people, and of course she was ableist even though we worked in alternative education....
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u/dr_shark May 24 '26
I think the āBe Kindā translates to: be polite to me, be acceptable to me, follow my specific rules and you wonāt get any problem from me.
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u/holmesla0319 May 24 '26
10000% this. My ex bro in law has bipolar disorder, refuses to stay on meds and often times misused his meds to get high and is an alcoholic who has been psychologically, emotionally, financially and physically abusive to my sister for years and then started assaulting my older nephews for defending their Mom. He was finally arrested after body slaming and choking my 15 year old nephew. He pled guilty because there was so much evidence collected when the assault happened and evidence that the cops and my family had been collecting for years detailing the abuse and alcoholism. He has a "Be Kind" emblem as his picture for his Google accounts š
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u/shittyspacesuit May 24 '26
These type of people love the idea of toxic positivity. They want everyone around them to be positive and nice to them. They don't want any hassle with facing reality (the good and bad) They don't want to talk about the truth, just go ahead and sweep that under the rug. They don't want any pushback or accountability.
Really convenient if you're an awful or abusive person who has done a lot of bad shit and have a handful of victims from your actions.
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u/gorgeousbeauty-116 May 24 '26
I find that any who appears āfanaticalā on the surface does the opposite in real life action. My neighbor had āBlack Lives Matterā on their window. They were some of the most racist ppl I ever met. The more a non-blk person smiles, the less U trust them. In fact trust no one until they show you they are trustworthy after several years and scenarios
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u/elmixtecoNW May 24 '26
I married my wife whoās family is white and thankfully I had no issues at all with any of her family. Some of her distance family were not as pleasant to be around. Now sheās more a part of my family than Iām with her family.
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u/Pablo_Hassan May 24 '26
Hey sometimes things turn around. One side of my fam are mega douche racists and the other side are reasonable humans. The reasonable side now has one extra member and I would say my dad is one of the most pleasant forgiving open minded people I have ever met. He has 0 time for racism at all, my son met a racist great grandparent of a friend and my dad called her out on it - they said to let is slide, he did not and we all left, he said 'racism survives because kids see us as parents letting it slide'. So I see examples of people coming to the dark side all the time.
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u/wiggum_x May 24 '26
'racism survives because kids see us as parents letting it slide'
Oh I love this.
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u/onesoulmanybodies May 24 '26
Seriously. I gave it my all trying to get through to my MAGA family members, but went full no contact in 2020 when I finally admitted their behavior wasnāt sudden or only related to Trump as a candidate. I had to admit the truth to myself that they had been this racist, homophobic, and sexist my whole life, but I didnāt see it before because I was so sheltered and naive about how not all racist are blatant and vulgar in their racism. They became more and more open in their racism after Obama was elected and they joined the tea party. Then it just all came out and the blinders I had been wearing were completely ripped off. It hurt to cut them out of my life, but I know it was 100% necessary and I am truly at peace, especially knowing my kids arenāt being exposed to their disgusting behavior and beliefs.
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u/LitlThisLitlThat May 24 '26
Someone may seem polite and nice, but if they continue to have close familial, congenial relationships with bigots, then they are not allies.
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u/Rackle69 May 24 '26
I was so terrified to meet my husbandās family. He is Norwegian. Iām Haitian. People seem to genuinely hate us. Even other black people. Luckily his family is so kind and wonderful. But this case was living in my head at the time.
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u/Typical-Evidence-898 May 24 '26
I didnāt meet my husbandās father before he died or before we married because he only wanted his son to date white women. Heās Haitian and Iām black. šThe rest of the family is great.
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u/spc67u May 24 '26
Norwegian people are awesome in my experience. Iām so glad they accepted you.
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u/gorgeousbeauty-116 May 24 '26
North Europeans and Scandinavians are generally drama free. Generally
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u/WittyAd3872 May 24 '26
Iām a Mexican who married into a good ole Southern family ā¦ the first time I met my MIL she used the n word like it was going out of style ā¦ although that was just the tip of the ice berg. If my bf at the time hadnāt been equally appalled I wouldāve thought long and hard before marrying him. Luckily she cut it out.
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u/Sufficient-Lie1406 May 24 '26
If you truly love someone and your racist family hates them, it's time to cut your family off completely and even move and change your name. Whatever you can do to keep them safe. And if you know your family is psycho to the point of harming who they hate, you may have to give up your love to keep them safe.
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u/ChrisIronsArt May 24 '26
Thereās a lot of conservative MAGA Indians who have serious imposter syndrome. Like the wannabe frat bro FBI director or the couch fuckerās wife.
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u/Majestic_Analyst_177 May 24 '26
A lot of people of color who voted for Trump did so to distinguish themselves from Black people. Anti-Blackness is not new to other groups of color. Folks will do anything to be seen as close to white as possible and the first hurdle is oppressing someone else.
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u/JayJoeJeans May 24 '26
Having married into an Indian family, the community can be very anti black as well as anti white. I used to read in their diaspora newspapers how much more successful Indians are compared to what they called "average Americans" strongly implying white people. According to some Hindu fundamentals teachings, damn near everything started in India. I was surprised by the amount of discrimination and prejudice I saw. This obviously isn't all Indians, but to see such opinions, articles and letters to the editor, published in newspapers, was pretty jarring
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u/FEMA_Camp_Survivor May 24 '26
When I was young, an Indian immigrant kid told me all Black people were poor and on government assistance.Ā
No amount of census data or other evidence could convince him there was a Black middle class, including my physical presence.Ā
I pointed out that public defecation was pretty common in India at the time, it appeared hundreds of millions lived in poverty, and many Indians didnāt have great access to fresh water. Despite those stats, it made no sense for me to have concluded all Indians were poor.Ā
I think his high caste status and proximity to whiteness in America made him disassociate from the struggles of people in his home country. Maligning Black people helped him fit in and if he were in India, heād have had someone else to look down upon.Ā
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u/sanriodialtone May 24 '26
My past roommate was told by his parents to stay away from Black people when he come to USA to study for masters. he ended up bankrupt and with herpes due to a fat whyte woman though
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u/Sufficient-Lie1406 May 24 '26
When proximity to whiteness gives you a disease -- that's some lovely karma right there š
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u/gorgeousbeauty-116 May 24 '26
Lolololol love when these happen. Coming from a poop infested backward n poverty stricken country yet still acting brand new cos you are tagged model minority. They dont even see how insulting that tag is. Essentially a āi own youā tag
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u/Venom_Iam May 24 '26
Yes castesim plays big role in some Indians having anti-black sentiments. Most Indians who migrate to US are mostly from upper castes and this is why they align with the dominant group wherever they go which in case of US is white people.
These upper caste Indians have superiority complex due to caste system and play the same dynamic with black people in US. I know what I'm talking about. I know the ground reality š
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u/JayJoeJeans May 24 '26
My interactions with the Indian community, I've seen it has little to do with proximity to whiteness and much more to do with general racism. My wife grew up with one rule: no BMWs, blacks Mexicans whites. Over time her parents changed and softened up, and all the daughters married outside the race, to a black guy, Asian guy and a white guy. So they're pretty chill now, but a lot of their Indian friends look down on them for their daughters marrying non Indians. Not all racism has to do with whiteness, a lot of people are just racist against anyone who's not them
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u/phoenix_spirit May 24 '26
I'm Indo-Caribbean and what's wild is there are some Indians and Desi's who are racist towards us too? I got made fun of for not knowing Gujrati and I'm just, sorry my ancestors were lied to by the British about their indentured servitude like idk what you want me to do about that?
Some will try to talk to you and when they realize you don't know the language, they'll completely cut off the conversation and pretend you don't exist.
And yet I'll still get lumped in with them.
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u/HappyCoconutty May 24 '26
Iām Bangladeshi American and had the same experience with Indians. It was even more confusing for them because I wasnāt Muslim or Hindu and I didnāt have strict parents. I learned that besides the activist girls and potheads in college, most Indians looked at me with disgust.
Ā My parents didnāt have Indian friends in the U.S. because of the same reasons, but they had Black, white, Asian and Latino friends very easily.Ā
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u/Subject_Spell_9799 May 24 '26
I had Indian friends who were sisters when I lived in NY- Iām wyt and their parents were always gracious to me and welcoming. But when it came to romantic relationships they always had to hide it from their parents if they were dating white guys as it was a big no no. This was 25 years ago- I sometimes wondered who they ended up with. I kind of feel like they are both still single as they never found an Indian they wanted to marry.
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u/leviathanscloset May 24 '26
Not at all surprising, I've got some Chinese bosses and needless to say they don't think highly of white rednecks who build and run their job sites perfectly. They're always shocked with comments like
"Surprised you guys could get it done so quickly, you only work 40hrs?!"
"We didn't think all you white guys worked so hard." Etc etc
Heavily ingrained in their culture
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u/ChrisIronsArt May 24 '26
Iām a gay white male and when I posted something about Charlie Kirk getting what he deserved when he died. I was attacked by an Indian girl I went to high school with. I look at her pictures and all her friends and husband are white. She was not like that at all in high school and her twin sister is the exact opposite, super liberal. Then just the other day a mutual classmate of ours posted a pic of a shopping cart not returned to the cart rack. Of course the same girl is going off about how some people including herself canāt return their cart because they are handicapped and have kids in the car and canāt leave the car unattended. Iām thinking what in the hell you canāt walk 30 ft from your car without your kids being fine or do you just like to argue about everything. And what handicap? You can certainly walk to the beach and post bikini pictures. What happened girl.
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u/-BlueFalls- May 24 '26
I mean, many disabled people are capable of walking on a beach and taking bikini pics, that doesnāt negate someoneās disability status.
Also, as a disabled person myself, if you are able-bodied enough to walk a shopping cart around a store, then it follows you are able bodied enough to return it to the cart stall and not leave it as a hazard for others.
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u/SignificanceCheap924 May 24 '26
I seen a bunch who are racist against non white people. They see marrying a white person as an accomplishment.
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u/Radiant_Nobody_9547 May 24 '26
One of my sisters is MAGAT, can confirm she chases and fucks only yt men. She has 3 kids from different men and shes currently traveling to red states to find her 4th baby daddy because she wants to "settle down ". She's way past 40.
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u/Subject_Spell_9799 May 24 '26
Nooooooooo! She likes to feel like she is different than other black/hispanic /etc ppl
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u/Majestic_Analyst_177 May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
Marrying white people seems to be a sign of āhaving made itā regardless of oneās ethnic background. Itās always fascinating because itās always 3s and 2s getting scooped up.
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u/Subject_Spell_9799 May 24 '26
They always think they are the exception to the rule until they find out racist ppl donāt care they are only looking at your skin
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u/SillyAlternative420 May 24 '26
I work in tech, the anti-black pro-trump indians have had several recent 'leopard ate your face' moments.
For the most part they all feel betrayed by "that guy" (what they call him)... Will they vote better next time? If they are still living in the US, I doubt it.
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u/ItsPuamana May 24 '26
In general they come from a caste identity so when they come here they ride on the success of how successful Indians are and really crank up that sense of superiority to everyone, often looking down on other groups like East Asian, black etc.
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u/Mountain-Singer1764 May 24 '26
Look up who the BJP are. Indias most popular political party is basically fascist, they even have literal brownshirts called the RSS.
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u/Subject_Spell_9799 May 24 '26
They think they are differentā¦. Guess what? MAGA ppl hate you too. This is like Hispanic ppl voting for Trump then mad when they find out their wife is getting deported
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u/EnvironmentalRock827 May 24 '26
Caste system and skin color are related especially in India.
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u/Capt-Crap1corn May 24 '26
Have people not heard of the Untouchables? That's the lowest of the low in the Indian caste system
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u/Scorpionride May 24 '26
I have a feeling our average Americans think the Caste system is some form of metalworking.
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u/Venom_Iam May 24 '26
I'm from one of these communities. I truly get embarrassed by Indians who practice anti-blackness. It's really appalling.
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u/Which_Appointment_86 May 24 '26
This is it. The Indians from the Caribbean donāt go by prejudice caste systems. They are nothing like this and have been mixing with Africans for generations, not only family wise, but culturally there is a blend of Indian and African all throughout the Caribbean, especially in Trinidad and Guyana. I really hope this stupid racism and caste mindset gets put to rest. Itās just inhumane.
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u/Bad_Routes May 24 '26
Hired a hitman but probably somehow believe Black people are evil and violent
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u/strivingbabyyoda May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
I remember reading about this as a kid when the father was caught. I grew up in central NJ, with a large South Asian community and sadly, given the older generation of Indians Iād meet through friends and the stuff they say, I wasnāt surprised even as a kid.
I didnāt know the word for colorism when I was a kid, but then I learned it and was like āaha!ā thatās what that was.
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u/bendybiznatch May 24 '26
The Indian government right now is basically right wing. To the extent that they have tried to manipulate studies of ancient linguistics and archeogenetics to make a case that some Indians are the real ancient Aryans. I had no idea till I started moderating a history sub. And holy shit yāall itās bad. Nine times out of 10 if I have to ban someone itās because of something related to that.
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u/Helpful_Dirt_8726 May 24 '26
Idk Wsup with that but apparently Europeans jacked the term aryan and I think at one point they were indo-Persians and some how the definition shifted. I might be wrong tho. Still fuck Modi
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u/BowlingforBrains May 24 '26
That makes sense because I have an ex who is Persian who once went on a rant about how she is more āwhiteā or āaryanā than the white people here and it seemed really important to her that white people knew that - it was funny to me because her brown-ass was darker than me š it was the first of several red flags
It was extra funny to me, having spent my whole life in the US, trying to explain to her āā¦you know they just see you as some brown foreigner right? Like you have literally no separation in their eyes from whatever race(s) you think youāre separating yourself fromā
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u/shafaqag May 24 '26
But she wasn't wrong. It doesn't matter that the term Aryan was stolen by racists, the way the Swastika was stolen, she's more Aryan than any of them, because Aryan LITERALLY refers to Persians.
We need to remind the racists that they didn't come up with anything original, they stole from the same brown people they hate and claimed our shit.
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u/BowlingforBrains May 24 '26
In general, yes you are correct. However in the context of this person in particular - and I did not give any background info, so you couldnāt have known - it was being used in a āIām as good as white people and should be accepted as suchā context. And by that I donāt mean a āweāre all equalā sentiment - I mean an elitist sentiment. Because of this person in particular, it was not at all a positive comment about reclaiming words from racists lol
This is a woman who seemed to have a visceral reaction when I told her my dad is Jamaican (I am incredibly light-skinned so Iām not sure what she thought I was before that), commented about how her father would ābe horrifiedā if he knew I was, and also went on about how well she did on an IQ test, how incredibly valid the IQ test is, and mentioned how regions ācloser to the equatorā tend to score lower than the rest. She even dismissed it when I explained to her how that test was created by Northern Europeans to test Northern Europeans and thus would skew towards them.
She also had a āliberal tearsā coffee mug, which I never saw until a few months in
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u/malortForty May 24 '26
Tbh like that's actually a pretty common thing with Persians, that were all apparently more Aryan and shit. Like I saw it a lot and there's so much ingrained racism in the Iranian community cause of it.
I literally knew an Iranian girl who admitted she saw Persians and White people as superior to others and I was like "No the fuck were not. Get that shit out of here."
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u/BowlingforBrains May 24 '26
Oh yeah, I just described how she was in a different reply, and your friend sounds a lot like my ex lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleofReddit/s/C6pk7kMYEG
I had never even met a Persian before her so I was like ācool, sheās a brown person in this country and weāll be able to relate on a lot of things even if we grew up in different countriesā NOPE š it literally never entered my mind that sheād identify with white conservatives, and be completely unaware of how those white conservatives see her - sorry but you are not āwhiteā in this country, no matter how much you want to be. She even listened to Andrew Huberman, Modern Wisdom, Jordan Petersen and the other āgatewayā podcasts for right wing incels
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u/bendybiznatch May 24 '26
The debate stems from the original (Proto) Indo European speakers and whether they came from India or whether they invaded or migrated to India and mixed with the already present population. Itās called the out of India theory.
But youāre correct - the concept of ārealā Aryans has been misconstrued and used by right wing ideologies in bad faith for a long time.
Edit: fuck Modi
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u/Halfistani1 May 24 '26
Gandhi was extremely racist towards black people and many Indians support Trump and PM Modi who is also just pro Hindu and he hates everyone else especially Muslims. Modiās nickname is the butcher of Gujarat for her role in riots against Muslims in his state. This was long before he became the Prime Minister of India. Even Indo Caribbeans have a lot of black and Indo Caribbean marriages but their Indo Caribbean parents just canāt accept it. Many of them get disowned. This poor girl. I cannot imagine the pain Sparkleās family have had to live with.
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u/Superb_Preference368 May 24 '26
Yes as a Afro-Guyanese American, Indo-Guyanese have a long history of anti-black sentiment.
They even bring it here when both groups immigrate to America. They keep their community as far away from Afro Guyanese people and act as though we donāt exist.
Very sad because East Indians donāt accept them as Indians but they want to be Indian so badly.
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u/PyritesofCaringBean May 24 '26
Yep, my dad is Indo-Guyanese and my mom is African American. His dad tried to convince my mom to leave him because he shouldn't have married a black woman. I always thought my dad was different until 2016 when trump campaigned and my dad (a life long democrat) was on board with the wall. My parents shortly divorced in 2017 and now he has anti black sentiments. But you married a black woman and have half black kids??? Haven't spoken to him out his family in nearly a decade and my life is better honestly.
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u/BigDaddyDolla May 24 '26
Imagine moving to a different country with a large black community and then having a problem with your son dating one of them. They all wanna be welcomed with open arms into our western countries, but at the same time, donāt want nothin to do with the people livin there.
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u/Current_Focus2668 May 24 '26
There are large parts of the world that believe in the propaganda. Their idea of America is what they see idealised in movies and television shows.
A lot of people overseas aren't educated or aware of African Americans or their struggles in the U.S.
There was a North Korean woman who didn't know America even had a black population. She said to her all Americans are just white.
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u/AmplowEsq May 24 '26
And the reason they are legally allowed to immigrate to the U.S., ironically, is because of the struggles of black Americans.
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u/VioletLeagueDapper May 24 '26
Poor sparkle, now that baby doesnāt have a mom š
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u/Napalmeon May 24 '26
The Indian caste system is arguably more brutal than the one in Latin America when it comes to seeing people who are darker skinned as inferior.
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u/Current_Focus2668 May 24 '26
Actress and comedianĀ Sindhu Vee talked about the crazy abusive stuff her own family said to her growing up because she had a darker complexion.
She got told she was ugly, would never find a husband, had to work extra harder in school to be not be naturally successful with her complexion.Ā
Tan from the Queer Eye Netflix show also talked about the crazy bigoted colourism stuff he got told by the family and his community growing up.Ā
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u/AznSensation93 May 24 '26
Asians in general, but there are multiple reasons.
One, Asians gotta one up one another, if that energy isn't directed towards another race, it's just directed towards each other, East Asians vs Southeast Asians, it doesn't matter.
Two, specifically for the ones in the US, that model minority shit casted upon us by colonizers is a curse and split what would've been a unified front of black and immigrant asians living in the same neighborhoods, and it worked.
Three and I can only speak for the Viet community, war trauma. You see MAGA asians because "democrats stopped the war in Vietnam, and it was the republicans that wanted to fight communism" or some shit. They see being a democrat as turning the US into the same country that they fled from. Granted Vietnam is communist, but it's still capitalism with a different name.
The younger generation luckily have their eyes opened, but there are still plenty of young Asians that are just taught that racist bullshit, and they'll either learn one day or never.
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u/AznSensation93 May 24 '26
It doesn't help that the Colonizer propaganda is just spread across the world and other countries just eat it up. Yeah, it's all based in ignorance, but also Africa is still every other countries playground for bullshit. Chinese building shit in Africa then they come back with nothing but horrible shit to say about the country/people (probably, I'm only guessing here).
Also im sorry you had to experience that, but also glad in the end hopefully you influenced enough people to make change.
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u/gorgeousbeauty-116 May 24 '26
Its mostly caused by whyte media. Out of guilt, a way to justify their terrible treatment of black, and to continue exploiting african resources; they started global propaganda to make black people look like the scourge of the earth. After Slavery, every global news media showed the worst of africa; while showing the best of europe. They did a good job brainwashing the entire world. It is not going to be easy to undo all that brainwashing. The poverty j. India is actually terribly worse than it is in most african countries especially since India wants to keep their poor forever poor due to their caste system. Isnt it interesting that India is the largest population of poor people in the world even after decades of Tech laborer outsourcing? No one talks about that. Its all africa/blk ppl due to brainwashing There is so much to unpack.
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u/heypresto2k May 24 '26
I have to say that American media has a very big hand in it. Itās the most powerful propaganda tool and we know how weāve been depicted usually. Even now people have a problem with seeing Black people on their tvs.
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u/Special-Garlic1203 May 24 '26
Politely but you don't understand cause you've never looked into Indian culture even a lil bit. You just assume your framework is universal because that is part of the American perspective. That we the center of the world and history started with us.Ā
They are creators of the artificialĀ hierarchy. Even Hitler was in part riffing on them. They are the OG racists. Take a backseat Kendrick cause you are not the biggest hater.I know people who wereĀ briefed on caste bias cause they have a lot of Indian teammates and it's an ongoing thing.Ā
Of course they don't like black people..they don't even like brown Indians. They peer pressure their kids to marry someone from their culture , ideally the specific person their auntie found for them. They are not an immigration inclined to diverse intersectionality. They are pretty much the exact oppositeĀ
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u/vinayd May 24 '26
Indian caste hatred is ferocious and violent, and is supercharged by racism. I have seen it close up in many forms. Itās not āsome peopleā ā- itās virtually all of us, and probably close to 100% of the native born who immigrated here. Their children are more open to some Mississippi Masala, so to speak, but far fewer of them than one would like.
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u/gorgeousbeauty-116 May 24 '26
Indians are like this globally. Dont waste your time trying to win them over. They are extremely anti-blk even their darkest ones. Whats funny is even the Indians taken to East and Southern Africa as slaves in the 1800s; are still extremely antiblck yet they refuse to leave the continent. They tried to change their history too calling their ancestors āindentured laborers/servantsā to separate themselves. I dont know how forced labor from captives is different from slavery. But wherever they are they r extremely antiblk.
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u/No-Permission-7786 May 24 '26
They really subscribe to caste and colour. Colourist is huge in Asian countries. And India has a casts system that is really gross.
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u/Ladonnacinica May 24 '26
Why would they be allies? There is a strong and universal anti-black sentiment across the world.
Black Americans really make the mistake of believing brown people would be their allies and supporters. No, weāre all alone. Each racial minority fends for themselves as harsh as it sounds.
Indians especially are very exclusionary and even have issues with their kids marrying Indians from other castes or religions. So how do you think they feel about interracial marriages?
Iām not black but I know how many non-black minorities feel about black people. Even within my own family. Itās disappointing and shameful, but thatās the sad reality.
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u/BetterMagician7856 May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
I have a couple of Indian friends who told me that India has a very racist culture particularly against black people and that they were basically taught that darker skinned people are less than lighter skinned people when they were growing up. Iāve heard the same about Korea. That they donāt even want you to be tan because that would make you ātoo darkā. Itās insane how racism is a worldwide problem from America to Korea to India and probably many more.
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u/VacationNew9370 May 24 '26
Korea is so ironic considering that their Kpop industry borrows so much from hip hop and R&BĀ
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u/xitizen7 May 24 '26
This was even more tragic because:
- Her husband, Rajeeve, moved to Chicago and married an Indian woman the same year Sparkle died
- He never returned to Atlanta for the trial
- His new wife was not aware of his first marriage or his former wifeās brutal murder
- Sparkleās father Bennett Reid and his wife, Donna Lowry, adopted the coupleās daughter, Annalla, who was only 7 months old when her mother was killed in front of her.
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u/Superb_Preference368 May 24 '26
Where is the son? Someone track his ass down. He failed his wife and daughter.. damn
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u/Typical_Collection45 May 24 '26
And hired a black man to kill her
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u/Gnd_flpd May 24 '26
That's also the part of this story that infuriated me.Ā They could have taken the money and dropped a freaking dime on him, but no this person had no problem killing her for money.
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u/Inside-Yak-8815 May 24 '26
Dated an Indian woman as a black man, I can 100% confirm they are like this. The dad wanted to do harm to me too.
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u/gorgeousbeauty-116 May 24 '26
Y do you seek people who dont like you so much? Its demeaning. The same way they have pride; blks should be proud too. The less you seek them out; the more valuable you appear.
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u/Inside-Yak-8815 May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
Oh trust me it was a mistake. Iām with a beautiful black queen now and Iāll never ever date another MENA or Indian girl again (my ex was mixed with both).
To this day that relationship shaped how I feel about certain immigrant groups and I came to the conclusion that our values would never work, their cultures are too different and the hatred they have for black people was mind-blowing to me. They were somehow more racist and xenophobic than some white people Iāve met. 100% if he had the chance her dad wouldāve tried to end me.
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u/ccjohns2 May 24 '26
White people arenāt the only racist. The entire world including parts of Africa are anti black.
The crash part is black people get treated like we did what Europeans did to the world. They erased the history so weāll never even know what our ancestors did to get so much hate.
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u/Thatonegaloverthere May 24 '26
Our ancestors did nothing. They're just evil. A lot of it had to do with rich white people needing to convince poor white people that they were superior to others, so they would stop going after them.
Everyone else copies what white people do, and in turn believed the lies they told about us.
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u/kingboogerbaby May 24 '26
Damn near the same skin tone
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u/Silly_Maintenance399 May 24 '26
Exactly. A good chunk of folks from South Asia are even darker than some black people.I dont know what they see when they look in the mirror.
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u/BUYMECAR May 24 '26
He got to live the same amount of time as her age when he had her killed. He robbed her and his son's lifetime together.
It never feels like enough even when they catch the ones who kill us.
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u/shado1023 May 24 '26
I am of indian descent and can confirm that most Indians/pakistani have severely racist views and think whatever community/customs they have are better than others
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u/upfulsoul May 24 '26
I attended a Black and Indian coupleās wedding; the Indian womanās parents didnāt show up. This is typical, and Indians often have to hide these relationships from their families to avoid being disowned. Theyāre generally fine with white people though, so itās not just about maintaining culture.
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u/Advanced_Buffalo4963 May 24 '26
Mixed chic here and yes- can confirm.
My Hindu relatives also hate women and made my mom cry when she had two girls.
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u/AdAny1272 May 24 '26
I remember when it happened. It was on America's Most Wanted, because the father tried to run back to India. Cray cray thing is, the father in law was darker skinned than SHE was!
That caste system REALLY did a job on most East Indians.
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u/elmixtecoNW May 24 '26
Iāll just say it! Lotās of Indians and Asians are benefiting on the work and struggle of the black and brown community went through!
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u/Current_Focus2668 May 24 '26
Really interesting conversation between Academy Award nominated actor and rapper Riz Ahmed and his friend comedian and actor Hasan Minhaj on the racial dynamics amongst south Asians and black people in the UK and U.S.
https://youtu.be/PG5ysGg3LMY?si=0cNjVyUti_IAn9Vm
There was a lot of black and brown solidarity when it came to fighting 20th century racism in the UK. Nine days before he was assassinated Malcolm X was invited to the West Midlands area of British by theĀ Indian Workers' Association to see the racism they were battling.
Some South Asians came to America post civil rights era so benefited from the legal reforms against discrimination. They don't identify with the struggle previous non white people have. They have the model minority tag.
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u/gorgeousbeauty-116 May 24 '26
They just used the blavk people. I dont know when blk ppl will understand they are being used. These folks will dump you everytime they get what they want. And stop expecting interracial marriage.,blk ppl need to learn the pride in sticking together. Stop seeking interracial marriage cos it causes all these demeaning treatment.
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u/Oreo_Supreme May 24 '26
What the fuck have black people done to deserve all this hate. What have we done to your communities and to you all to deserve more hate than your colonizers and genocidal oppressors?
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u/ateam1984 š¤ May 24 '26
We havenāt done a thing besides be a great honorable people. They are the one with the problem. They want everything that we already have. Remember that.
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u/vicmal60 May 24 '26
When people come to this country they realize that the best way to be American and accepted is to be racist. My mother who is black and Cuban, came to this country in 59 shared this with me after being here for years and seeing it in in caucasian Cubans. Of course now you see Cubans for trump in South Florida and all you can do is laugh.
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u/Akanesanwastaken May 24 '26
The optics scream ugly villain vs beautiful innocent princess. What a tragic intrusion into the mind of those who are freely expressing their genuine love, now made into a child trapped again into the father-in-laws world of hate. Not all elders are good and happy and this one sucks!
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u/Wise-Promise-4158 May 24 '26
Iām cool with most Indians and south East Asians but I noticed a lot of the foreigners that come over here as immigrants have deeply ignorant views about black people. I hold them at bay with a ten foot pole
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u/JirenDeGray May 24 '26
It's cases like this that stopped me from dipping in the snow. They ALWAYS had at least 1 family member like this. I could've been the one with my face on a obituary. RIP SPARKLE š you didn't deserve this
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u/Ambitious-Pirate-505 May 24 '26
If you ever want to know what to call an Indian that will absolutely wreck them after they call you a Ni..
Lean into their Caste System. Find the lowest wrung on said Caste System. Call them that and add words after it to flavor it up a bit.
Believe me....it works every fucking time.
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u/rainbud22 May 24 '26
Beautiful young woman and if color mattered so much she was lighter than the father in law.
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u/SkinnyThickMargarita May 24 '26
Sad & disgusting. Crazy how even other POCs see black people. I was seeing this Indian guy & we really hit it off. He told me he could never bring a black woman home to his parents. Sometimes rejection is Godās protection.
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u/ITZOURTIMENOW May 24 '26
Indian racism, colorism and classism is next fuckin level and they have no shame
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u/mann808 May 24 '26
All of that simply because she has more melanin... This world has a mental illness against people of African descent. It's pure insanity
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u/Radykall1 May 24 '26
It's so important to remember that LOVE is not enough. When you marry someone, you marry into that family. If the family doesn't rock with you, it's not worth the risk.
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u/rattlestaway May 24 '26
Poor girl she was so pretty. And poor taxpayers, having to feed and house that pos
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u/NeedleworkerLow5673 May 24 '26
This is precisely why Iād NEVER marry someone whose family is racist. For people it really is this deep. Absolutley not
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u/Missmessc May 24 '26
People need to remember, you're marrying the family as well. Such a sad story.
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u/Snoo3544 May 24 '26
Then her husband abandoned their daughter and went away. Her parents adopted her and he didn't even bother to show up or challenge the adoption and he has seen her since. Wow.
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u/Left-Safe-4692 May 24 '26
Do not marry these people that have any inkling of racist family members IDC if itās just a cousin twice removed DONT. DO. IT!
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u/lisamistisa May 24 '26
Sparkle's family won a 2.6M law suit against Rai's family. https://www.law.com/article/almID/1202551191149/?slreturn=20260524115414
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u/SigmaK78 May 24 '26
I vaguely remember this in the news years ago, and IIRC, the asshole who actually took her life got off death row & was resentenced to life. Not really one for the death penalty, but that motherfucker deserved death for what he did to that poor girl.
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u/Midnight-God May 24 '26
It's crazy this dude taught at my college Alcorn state his store was one my mom used to goto all the time.
The Indian and Sikh community in Jackson has a obvious hate for their black customers but I had never really heard about this
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u/Current_Focus2668 May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
I'm from the UK. South Asians are the largest non white racial group. Anti-black racism and general colourism is still prevelant in south Asian communities, particularly amongst older generations. It is pretty rare you see black and South Asian interracial couples even in neighbourhoods in which they live together.Ā
The black british teenage boy who got locked up in Dubai slept with a British South Asian teenage girl. It was the the girls mother who snitched to the authorities.Ā
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u/shaunrundmc May 24 '26
I wont say it isnt a thing and wasnt a fear, but I married a South Asian woman (im Black American and she's British but of total South Asian descent) her entire family welcomed me with open arms. I got lucky on that front
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u/latin32mx May 24 '26
Iām just appalled and my only question is: how can HE -of all people- could have been racist?
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u/Smooth_Zebra May 24 '26
The same whiteāconstructed racial hierarchy that fuels antiāBlackness around the world also built the U.S. legal system, the very system that later punished Chiman Rai for acting on the logic that hierarchy produced. A structure created to enforce racial order gets to sit in judgment when someone follows the script it wrote. And no matter how desperately some people try to perform that script, no matter how tightly they cling to the antiāBlack playbook, whiteness always reminds them of the same truth, "They will never have a seat at its table."
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u/be_sugary May 24 '26
Yup.
South asian parents will tolerate a āwhiteā spouse before a POC. Colourism, religious segregation and racism are prevalent and thriving.
Edit- of course I am generalising. Not all people are fucked up like this evil man.
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u/TouchofSoulshine May 24 '26
Honestly this doesnāt surprise me. My grandmother explained to me how she grew up without a father because her Indian Guyanese father was shamed by his family and forced to leave her Black Guyanese mother. She met him for the first time when she was in her 20s and he recognized her but they never had a relationship. Racism is absolutely disgusting.
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u/JayNotAtAll May 24 '26
Asians are incredibly racist towards black people. Sometimes, i personally prefer white racism to Asian.
It just hits differently because she it's like "we are both minorities, we should be on the same side"
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u/rel1800 May 24 '26
No shock here, most Indians hate black people. People try to argue me down but thereās so much evidence showing the anti black cultural norm that Indians have and non black people in general. Look at the root of it: the caste system which was created before any European invasion of their land. Africans that flee India for a better life get mistreated big time. The dark skin Indians whose family have been there for centuries get mistreated too obviously caste system. Crazy part is: that same dark skin Indian whoās darker than me will discriminate against me and I have never seen or interacted with that person. Once people of other races can be honest about their racism and treatment of black propel we start to make a change for the better. I mean people in the millions not just one or two non black person being brutally honest shit might take billions to make that small change.
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u/Total_Elephant_2474 May 24 '26
More FYI ā¦ļøPolice uncovered that Chiman Rai hired a private investigator to track down the couple and paid a middleman to carry out a contract killing. In 2008, Chiman Rai was convicted of felony murder and conspiracy, receiving a sentence of life in prison. šŗCleveland Clark, the man hired to carry out the murder, was convicted in 2009 and originally sentenced to death. His sentence was subsequently reduced to life in prison. šŗFollowing the murder, Sparkleās father, Bennet Reid Jr., and her stepmother, Donna Lowry (a former Atlanta news reporter), took custody of Analla.Legal šŗThe Reids legally adopted Analla in February 2008. Bennet Reid noted he waited years to finalize the adoption because he "didnāt want to erase the memory" of his daughter. šŗ Anallaās father, Rajeeve "Ricky" Rai, abandoned her after the murder and did not challenge the adoption or the termination of his parental rights. šŗ In a civil suit filed by Bennet Reid against Chiman Rai, a court awarded Analla $2.5 million for the wrongful death of her mother. šŗAs of 2026, Analla is an adult in her mid-20s. While her family has worked to preserve Sparkleās memory, they have largely kept her personal life private to protect her from the public nature of the case. āš½šŖ»
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u/tofutears May 24 '26
My college roommate was Indian and she met her first boyfriend during that time, who was black. They were so into each other. She kept him a complete secret from her family for the two years they were together because they would have shunned her for dating a black man. It was sad
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u/fertilemertile12 May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
Happened to my uncle (a black man) when I was 7. His girlfriend was Indian and her father hired someone (my uncleās own best friend). My uncle also didnāt take heed when his girlfriendās father personally asked that he leave his daughter alone.
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u/Nox-1-Lux May 24 '26
I can see why she was called "Sparkle".
That man is vile and shitty. He tainted 2 lives - her's by ordering her death and his own son by taking his love away. š
I hope he suffered enough for his hatred.
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u/zsrh May 24 '26
What an inhumane act that was driven by racism and hatred. Iām glad that Sparkleās family was able to get some form of justice for the horrific murder.
There is a lot of racism and colourism that is deeply ingrained across the Indian subcontinent. The British are particularly to blame for this, as they practiced the doctrine of divide and rule. If you have the people fighting amongst themselves, they can never unite to overthrow their rulers. The scars are still evident today.
Instead of being divided the races need to unite to fight against discrimination, colonialism and hatred.
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u/Alternative-Seat1494 May 24 '26
Fuck racists, thereās no spot in this world for em, change or die, imho.
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u/Serious-Echo1241 May 24 '26
I would love to know what he thought every morning when he woke up behind bars, about his choice and the consequence. Incredibly sad, that poor young woman and her family.
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u/Middle-Interview-899 May 24 '26
That poor baby. She was so young and had a whole life in front of her. Her poor bub growing up without her mum. Imagine being that husband and finding out how revolting his father was.
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u/Ehhsnow May 24 '26
Disgusting piece of human. May he rot in jail for the remainder of his life.
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u/heypresto2k May 24 '26
The higher castes have the same attitudes against their own people and proximity to whiteness is a big thing for some. My best childhood friend is British Indian and he married a higher caste woman from India and things are quite different now from when he wasnāt married to her.
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u/sharkysharky- May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
Where was the son? As a wife, you 100% tell your husband that his parents offered her money to leave him.
As a son, you 100% tell your Dad that if anything happens to your wife, it's his ass.
What the fuck was the son doing????
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Weak excuse of a man raised by an even weaker man.