Black Lives Matter… Unless They’re in Gaza (or Guangzhou) - Part 2/2

This piece will not raise my humour rankings.

Beyond the Levant: Global Blindness

The Arab world does not hold a monopoly on anti‑Black racism. India’s mobs lynch African students in Greater Noida (2017). Chinese landlords in Guangzhou evicted Africans en masse during COVID — “health measures,” they called it.

Russia’s skinhead gangs hunt Africans in metro stations; Eastern Europe’s far right spits slurs like “crow” (cioară) at Black migrants. Mauritania still had hereditary slavery in 2024. And yet, Western activists reserve their moral thunder exclusively for Europe and America.

My Indian friend had a beautiful baby girl. Her mother’s first question? “Is the baby fair?” Not “Is she healthy?” Not “Is she breathing?” Fair. As in pale. As in not too brown. India’s billion-dollar skin-lightening industry — Fair & Lovely now coyly renamed “Glow & Lovely” to spare us the obvious — exists for a reason.

Surveys by India’s own National Commission for Women show that 70% of women believe fairer skin improves marriage prospects, and matrimo…