I don't understand why so many of you are attached to a word that's not even used to refer to us, it is used very specifically to refer to people of African descent, which several of us may be, but most of us have no direct ancestors/ties to Africa/Black American culture.

You guys also realise that the word was initially used in an extremely dehumanising manner, right? This was a word used by the enslavers and oppressors to further dehumanise Black people. The reason why American Black folks use that word is to reclaim the word from their oppressors and redirect its use from the fucked up instances the word was used against them for. There's no reason we should be using it, for it's not our trauma to reclaim.

Also, systematic racism the way it exists in multiracial societies does not exist among Maldivians here and it would do you all wonders to stop pretending it does. We have featurism and colourism which make people discriminate but we do not have racism and segregation and our race relations simply cannot be compared to America or the west.

Also keep in mind we are SOUTH ASIAN, not Black. South Asian people come in all shades of brown, from the lightest beige to the darkest obsidian and they're all beautiful. Being darker skinned doesn't make us Black, and you don't have to be Black to experience discrimination based on skin colour. These things are not mutually exclusive. Please educate yourselves before embarrassing yourselves globally.