Look back at the riots that broke out in USA this year against racial prejudice. Millions world over voiced their pain at the humiliation they had to endure, all because they belong to a different race. It was centuries of pent up anger and sorrow pouring out. These fires of racial discrimination have been passed on as behaviours and meal time stories by grandparents and parents to grandchildren and children.
For centuries we have hurt our fellow human beings not because they did something wrong to us, but simply because the color of their skin or the shape of their nose or eyes was different.
We hurt them because they speak a different language, worshipped a different God or bear the tag of a different caste.

KRISHNAJI IN CONVERSATION WITH MENG FOON, RACE RELATIONS COMMISSIONER, NEW ZEALAND
When Preethaji and I spoke to Meng, we were very touched by his simplicity and delighted by his humour. As race relations commissioner of human rights he is the perfect person for us to have this conversation.
Question:
How do we bring about a change to dissolve racial discrimination in the world?

We can train our minds consciously and ensure that what we are saying to people and what we are doing to people is for the betterment because obviously if we think about it we can’t say something nasty. Would you actually like that particular aspect come to you?

So putting myself in other people’s shoes is very important. I think when we say actually have a bit of life experience and knowing what has happened to myself in the past then I do not want it to happen to other people. That is very important.

I will give you a prime example of me generally and may be its across the world. Mean when they get sick they do not acknowledge that they are sick, they feel the pain but they won’t go to the doctor. They think this is going to be self-healing.

And when we put it into a racism context or discrimination context people know that it is wrong but they don’t want to admit that they are wrong. The prime issue is we don’t self acknowledge that there is a problem here and I need to change.

And I mentioned before if you put yourself into their shoes of the receiver, victim you may actually say, gosh! i didn’t realize it was so hurtful. I am actually listening to myself and the words i am saying in perpetrating so am I going to change? and that’s a brave person, a brave person will say, look I have been wrong in the past. I apologize. I need to actually change and I hope that change.

The important thing is that we need some people to change and we need those people to be proactive to be anti-racist, like people are anti-plastic, make sure our waterways are clean. anti-plastic means I am not going to buy any more plastic I will see, and plastic on the shelf I am not gonna buy it. but also I am going to lobby that the super market doesn’t actually have nay more plastic. So in terms of the racism part when people are active and making sure that they call out or tap somebody on the shoulder anytime when some one says something derogatory that is hurtful to somebody they actually say - can you please stop it, can you please be kinder.

When are we going to realize that we are a part of this ocean of one humanity?

We are inseparable from each other.

Every human being needs to awaken to peace in consciousness. We need to realise

Ekam Sath - Vipraaha Bahudhaa Vadhanthi.

Which means that beyond all the forms, appearances, colours of our bodies as different races, beyond all religious beliefs, beyond all our biological and emotional inclinations, we are part of one cosmic reality, the one - Ekam.