Australia is not racist they say... hang on... who’s ‘they’...??

Some Indian bloke representing the Indian community in Australia comes on the morning show to say that Indians in Oz don’t believe that Australians are racist. Personally I don’t have anything to refute this comment...lived for over a year in this country and I have never faced racial bigotry myself. If anything, I have dealt with more prejudice in India; I was kaali or blackie in school (referring to my dark complexion), called as south Indian or madraasi in Delhi, north Indian in Chennai...to the Australians however, I’m always the young Indian lady... sounds so much better...

But eight attacks on Indian students and hundreds more similar cases now coming out in the media...c’mon people...get real... there has to be something wrong somewhere. Who knows what the truth is... some say the attackers are not Aussies but kids from other ethnic communities...some say the attacks are on another community and it’s being twisted by the media to look like Indian racist attacks.

But the fact that Indian students continue to be soft targets, makes it a tad difficult to believe that these are purely opportunistic crimes. The so called well settled, well paid Indian community representatives need to realise that the victims are students coming from India; ones who don’t have the money to live in the better suburbs of Sydney, who have to work late shifts to make end meet, who cannot afford to take a cab home on late nights...

Again, I do not make any claims of racism; but the fact that these attacks continue unabated does indicate an underlying apathy towards Indian victims