Racist..Who?

...the legend of early days America goes as saying that "America will have a black President only when pigs can fly"! Pigs flying indeed!

To say that Racism doesn't exist would probably be synonymous to "pigs can fly"!
But I really see no pigs flying! Meaning Racism is very much here and will remain!

Marginalizing Native Americans and Afro Americans, and slavery are those pages in their history, which the Americans do not want to read. To say that they have evolved would be politically correct, however so, they needed stricter laws to actually allow the Blacks into mainstream life and resource sharing.

Germans of the past would boast that they took more Jew Refugess than the EU State Members combined, and so how they can be called Racist? However the state of Refugee camps was once quoted as "..one where even animals would be unhappy..". This tells a story in itself of utmost disregard and poor treatment.

That my very own society has Biharis, Bhaiyyas, Southies, and Ghattis being called so in very poor light. I learned history chapters with Harijans, Dalits and Brahmins.

Why, we always had specific kids at school and selected college-goers to pick at?

Was'nt this done only because they were either weak personalities, soft targets, just different, a dull guy or simply not good looking?!

My argument:
The racism what we see today is an outcome of we Humans who harbor a feeling of "superiority over fellow beings".

Society was always divided and shall remain so, because we humans politically enjoy this at the very deep sub-conscious level. Even though most of us are compassionate and respectful of everyone , we inadvertently want to remain elite in some way or the other!
And if divisions and layers are formed, naturally there is hierarchy that is originated.
With Hierarchy comes an instinct of domination over the "lower layers" or let us just call it as "lower groups".

Isn't this purely a human tendency even within ones own companies, large families, even organizations? Isn't the "power of domination" in whatever way it comes a subtle boost to ones ego, if not the obvious one?

Well Racism is an off-shoot of this phenomenon.

When similar individuals come together, the individual ego now transforms to a "collective ego". Within the same group, they would have their sub-divisions however, collectively they seem coherent and wrest a larger power. A larger control. A larger superiority over the others.

A very popular College or School Gang by virtue of being rich kids or "academically brilliant kids" or just "jazzy ones" would always appear arrogant and disregard the others!

Racism is a form of "disregard" when it comes to communities and Nations at large.
The disregard unfortunately manifests itself in violence or in form of slavery historically or in any other way of expressing hatred. It is an amplified expression of hate by a select few.

Even if most of us come to terms with coexistence, and in true sense accommodate "various groups" there remain a handful which shall engage in the act of racism against those.

I touch a tricky subject here.
India as a society within itself has the maximum "disregard" for one another purely on the variety of diversity we inherit.
That a common cause and conditions that still keep us united, that is in noway makes us lesser racists.
We are a nation whose history is full of slavery and harijans and "higher caste" and "lower caste".
We are absolutely in love with an obsession of proving one's own self as the "absolute" and not accommodate another's opinion as well!
We accommodate by force rather by good heart.
We are on one hand excellent hosts who go beyond to perform "atithi-devo-bhav", while even refuse to greet our neighbor should in case he come along!

Racist attacks on Indians in Australia past month and a half have to be condemned, but also it is an opportunity to introspect within.
Is it a boomerang of sorts of what we really are?