{"id":103268,"date":"2020-06-07T15:16:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T22:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=103268"},"modified":"2020-06-07T15:16:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T22:16:36","slug":"black-and-white-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/06\/07\/black-and-white-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Black and White."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>White-skinned invaders came to Africa and Asia and made colonies settle down. Most of them not only scraped the national wealth and sent it to their counties some\u00a0of them settled down in these countries and started living with local women leading to children becoming lighter in skin colour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In South Africa and in few other countries including Asia \u00a0the population gradually became light-skinned<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the light-skinned people in Asia were the decedents \u00a0 of Light-skinned Arabs who migrated via Hambantota ( we call them Hambayas) \u00a0and yet some remained darker due to the Arabs who came from Arabic world of dark-colored people\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite all these intermarriages and having children of darker colored decedents, white people consider all darker people are inferior to them<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In America, it is quite obvious and many other white communities are racially biased\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is difficult to understand why the whites think that they \u00a0are superior and some in our part of the world also think done way\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The irony is that dark-skinned people especially women try to make their skin \u00a0white by applying various herbs and creams because their own men prefer light-skinned partners\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I even wonder whether we had a leader who was dark-skinned other than Premadasa. I wonder whether we like light-skinned politicians?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then why we lament about whites who discriminate dark-colored people?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is quite interesting to\nlisten to the song in the attached video&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Sarath Obeysekera <br> CEO Walkers Colombo Shipyard <br> Colombo <br> Sri Lanka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera White-skinned invaders came to Africa and Asia and made colonies settle down. Most of them not only scraped the national wealth and sent it to their counties some\u00a0of them settled down in these countries and started living with local women leading to children becoming lighter in skin colour. In South Africa and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}