Roy n Racism

Much has been said about the Andrew Symonds racism controversy.

It is probably time when International folks really understand the Indian psyche and the way they look at Racism. There's no such thing as racism in India and Indians do not understand it. Until this moment, I was unaware that Andrew Symonds is black. To me he only looked like a mix, and that is to a person who has lived abroad in a multiracial nation like USA for 6 years. While calling a spade a spade, if Indians did want to racially discriminate a black guy, as is being purported, they would much rather do it to a West Indian. But in that case too, its hard to imagine Indian crowds going after someone's color or race unless he's an Indian (or someone from the subcontinent) and is extremely black. Any organization coming out and making statements against Racism is only a nominal thing and falls in the realms of the paradoxes of Bureucracy.

Now, is this article alluding to the situation that the crowd hasn't mobbed Andrew Symonds? No. What has happened is a crowd booing at someone they don't like or is causing them trouble. If this is the way various Cricket organizations across the globe react to this incident, you can apply a similar reaction to Inzamam's harassment case in Toronto. There was no element of racism to that, but hey, what the heck. Make a statment that we are doing something about it. Amidst all this, the Australian media certainly seemed to miss the point here.

Well, one of two things is for sure. Either the crowd does seem to understand what ticks off Andrew Symonds or it could be one of the regular fare Australian mind games, in the name of "this is the way we've been playing our cricket".