Brown Girls: Everyone's A Little Bit Racist?

Thursday, October 23, 2008

32 comments:
Anonymous said...

the answer to the question is YES, everyone is. this is funny and sad.

Anonymous said...

awesome! and very true. love the brown girls!!

Anonymous said...

FANTASTIC

Anonymous said...

Best one yet! Love seeing South Asians in this medium, please keep this coming!

Anonymous said...

Good work Devis! Been reading the blog since the beginning but have not commented. I love this comic and want to know if there are back issues online? This is so telling and I know people who feel this way. Like the humor plus the reality of it.

Anonymous said...

Good work Devis! Been reading the blog since the beginning but have not commented. I love this comic and want to know if there are back issues online? This is so telling and I know people who feel this way. Like the humor plus the reality of it.

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Anonymous said...

Good stuff. Really innovative animation style I assume they are real photographs? Very cool effect--like comics walking amongst us.

Anonymous said...

Love this comic. And I want that dress! GO OBAMA!

Dhrumil said...

Hey Deepa!

"!!!" means find me a girl friend so I can forward her these funny ass comics.

Much love,
D

Anonymous said...

Pitch-perfect! Way to expose the hipocrisy.

Anonymous said...

Just for the record: bringing a black man home to meet your conservative Indian parents is much better than bringing a 72 year old white man who does this weird thing with his tongue.

Anonymous said...

Very nice! I especially like all the details (the dress, the tote bag, etc.) Where can we see more?

Anonymous said...

This is great. We have read about the Bradley effect everywhere, but it's insightful to see how it plays out on an individual basis--especially for Desis for whom there is an underbelly of distrust towards African Americans. (Even that is rarely discussed). Nice job.

Anonymous said...

hard enough for a guy to bring a gujju girl home....sorry ladies, part of being a devi is to marry them damn Indians ;->

Anonymous said...

great social commentary.

Unknown said...

Wow! You Indian girls are so exotic!

(PS OK for Indian guys to take African-American women home?)

Anonymous said...

wonderful!

Veena said...

Jarod sounds hot.

Mira said...

This is wonderful! So true and witty at the same time.

Anonymous said...

this is hilarious!!! i can't believe nobody has pointed this out yet!!

Anonymous said...

I am not a Devi nor do I have a baby. A friend directed me to this site to see this comic and I'm impressed. Have you considered a separate venture for the comic? If not, you should.

Anonymous said...

Well, let's not forget the flipside to this, given that a desi woman dates outside of race, if black men are avoided, which one is obviously preferred. It's the flip side to disadvantage.

Anonymous said...

This is wonderful, as is the conversation about it at Sepia. You guys have a tough act to follow but we can't wait to see it.

Anonymous said...

So true and anybody who says otherwise is lying to themselves or about themselves. The arguments on Sepia notwithstanding, the culture of insiduous racisim vis a vis African Amercians (on the part of we Desis) is as palpable now as it has ever been. Whether Obama changes that in the dating sphere is going to be proxy for whether he changes that in the larger sphere. My fear is that nothing will change.

Anonymous said...

Have you seen the dialogue this has provoked on Sepia?

http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/005482.html#comments

shimarella said...

ouch. I know Indians of my parents generation still feel this way. But seriously? Are there still younger brown desi divas who think this? Of course, my brother and I both married outside the culture so maybe I'm just not clued in.

Anonymous said...

Great comic! Saw a mention for you guys on Masala Chai. Then looked into all the debate this prompted. Pretty illuminating (and at times just silly) stuff...especially because on the one hand the comic is just plain good funny! Looking forward to more.

Anonymous said...

"hard enough for a guy to bring a gujju girl home....sorry ladies, part of being a devi is to marry them damn Indians ;->"

And can you tell me why I have to marry an Indian in order to be a "devi", Ankush???

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Very true; everyone is a little bit racist!

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