…if you are thinkin about my baby, It don’t matter if you are black or white… Remember the smash hit single by Michael Jackson? How it set the sales chart on fire and the cash registers ringing—A rare combination of a song that had a strong social message and also earned laurels and cash for its makers.
The song released in 1991 advocated harmony between the Black Americans and the White Americans in the United States for years to come and still is like an anthem for both the communities. It had a soothing effect on both the races which even after surviving together for hundreds of years were still not comfortable with each other. But that was then and in today’s America, it appears that things have improved by leaps and bounds.
But also true is the saying that one man’s meat is another man’s poison. The song which proved to be a blessing for the country in troubled times will certainly have no value in our country. Simply because the black and white divide in our country is much more dangerous, deep and devastating.
Over the years the problem of B&W has inflated to colossal proportions. It has plagued our nation to the core and blunted its development. It has created a rift between the citizens of the country. It has increased the national crime rate, exploitation and suicides. Our problem may not appear to be treacherous on the surface but beneath the surface it is more threatening than America’s.
Now, before some of you start scratching your head trying to figure out India’s African connection while others fear the resuscitation of an Indian Ku Klux Klan by the radicals, hold your thought. We Indians are predominantly BROWN, so there is no point of B&W divide among the population. The B&W problem I am talking about concerns our ECONOMY.
The divide is between the black money which has been accumulating illegally in banks around the world in Switzerlans, Seychelles, Singapore, Macau etc. since 1948 and the white money, earned by the hardworking population of the country.
Simply put, black money is the income earned illegally, usually in cash, and not reported to the government so as to avoid paying taxes on it.
According to data revealed by these banks, about Rs. 20 lakh Crore or 1500 billion dollars of black money belonging to Indian is lying in such banks which is 40 percent of our Gross Domestic Product.
Just imagine if all this money would have been pumped in our economy or building infrastructure or simply used to provide food and shelter to the poor, we would not have been chasing the goal of becoming a developed country by 2020 and continue to beg for aides from the World Bank.
Everybody from the politicians, to the bureaucrats to the corporate world, everybody is involved in it. These selfish, greedy and despicable thieves have slowly sucked and drained the wealth of our nation and deposited it in their accounts in banks all over the world.
For me, this is the baap of all scams and the Commonwealth Games scam or the 2G spectrum scam, which was the biggest ever in the history of India up till now have been dwarfed by this black money scam, which shockingly is 12 times the 2G scam.
As always our government is desperate to save these people because many of them would be funding their elections and donation millions as party funds. It is a rotten nexus of looting the country.
This statement is further cemented by the fact that the government is treating black money as a tax evading issue when it is simply a theft of the Indian economy. The government is simply diluting the charges.
So, come to think of it, it was a good thing that the legend was an American and not an Indian. Otherwise, if he had witnessed the black and white divide here, history would have been deprived off one of the greatest songs ever created.
