The Price of Keeping Our Heads Down

Indrani Sen
Momentum
Published in
2 min readSep 2, 2020

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Screenshot via YouTube

Anti-Black racism remains rampant among South Asians, as some of the reactions to vice-presidential hopeful Kamala Harris (who is of Indian and Jamaican heritage) show.

In this YouTube video, a Sikh American lays out eloquently the complicity of South Asians who submit to the “model minority” myth and ignore and participate in anti-Black systemic racism:

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Indrani Sen
Momentum

Editorial director at Medium, mom, gardener, cook. Formerly at Quartz.