This African Student’s Hard-Hitting Letter Questioning India’s Culture Is Going Viral[MUST READ]

India is a beautiful country celebrated for its diversity, values, and secularism. It’s a best place in the world known for great respect and hospitality shown towards the other country people. As the popular phrase “Atithi Devo Bhava” (meaning: The guest is equivalent to God) says everything about India. Yes, welcoming guests and treating them with grace is something that is taught to us as a part of our culture. However, all of those teachings went in vain when a mob attacked six African students in a mall in Greater Noida recently. The mob brutally attacked these men using everything within their reach as weapons. This whole incident has shattered India’s integrity, it certainly states that people in India are still drenched in the acts of violence, and racism is its prime reason. It is infuriating to see Indians taking law into their own hands, and becoming a disgrace. There have been multiple reports of attacks on African students after an Indian student named Manish Khari allegedly died because of a drug overdose. Since then, African students have been a target of mob justice all over Greater Noida. Raising a voice against the attack, an African student studying in India, Nana Kofi Yalley, wrote an open letter expressing his shock over how a country which appeared friendly in the beginning is a terrifying one today. Here’s what he wrote: “It was a dream country to visit one day, only to find my dream come through by having a chance to migrate and stay here for 3 years an offer that was more than wished for. India was an amazing place I always daydreamed about from hearing about the Taj Mahal to the popular movie who wants to be a millionaire to the pretty faced actress in Bollywood movies. I felt it was worth the price to at least come one day to see this beautiful country.” The fact that they had different cultures, traditions etc. Made me fall in love with country more on my arrival but little did I know that it was a terror within. Where the educated will gel and want to know more about you the non-educated saw you as a threat and a human eater-cannibal. Really in this century who feeds on the flesh of another human. But little did I know that the country I so much fell in love with living outside was a nightmare to live in. Where the people who you lived your daily life with will end up turning against you just in case there was a problem. They will call an attack on blacks non-racial but will attack anybody with a dark skin irrespective of the difference in the 54 countries there in the continent of Africa. But say we all the same? Is that not racial? Just because we look same don’t make us same people because behind the dark skin we all have different identities. But yet attack all of us when one person does something wrong and you call it non-racial? The government of India will only speak for matters to cool down but will not pass laws to condemn racial abuse. It’s not even a case of only blacks, the case of North-easterners as well same people who come from India are even hated. What else are you guys looking for? But yet you apply for H-1B to live in another man’s world and no one harms you. We were here when Indians in Dubai sent a video of how they were being molested in Dubai and the whole India were talking about it like it was so cruel but yet the forget that they were putting people through the same situation even when they were not taking their jobs but educating themselves. I’m saddened and frustrated, can’t seem to understand what is bringing this hatred within. Someone please explain to me. Must we also start ganging up on your fellow citizens who have gone to stay in our countries? You say who cares just because you don’t have a relative there to be attacked but if you were to be attacked yourself will you dare to live to be attacked in another man’s country where you are vulnerable? That’s the choice you leave us. But we are too civilized to do unto you what you do unto us. We are the same people investing in your economy. you wonder how? We renting your flats at high prices, paying a huge amount of dollars for fees, and spending the monies we bring in here and not saving them outside India but in the same Indian banks. Please give us some respect. The recent attack in Noida is something I can’t really understand where innocent people will have to be hospitalised for a crime they didn’t commit. Who pays for the bill? Why make someone suffer something he knows nothing about. And yet the press only tell a one sided story and no one will want to listen to the African what even breaks my heart Is when they tried a press conference the police came in and stopped it. It’s only a fool who fears what he doesn’t know. Let our voices be heard. With so many human right lawyers and activists none of them are out there talking the truth just because they fear. While the letter that the student wrote is brutally honest one and depicts the terror these guys are living in, it also makes me question the future of our country. Whatever the cause of death of that one student was, this type of behavior is absolutely unacceptable. We cannot attack people of a particular community or race just because one student died of a drug overdose. Isn’t that what is happening with racial attacks against Indians abroad? Aren’t we doing the same here at home? What’s your take on this? Let us know your views in the comments section below.