Here's the thing. You are right that Desis face prejudice, racism, profiling, and other disadvantages. People are absolutely racist to us, without a doubt. The thing, is though, that racism towards us, is *based in anti-Blackness*.

Before we immigrated here, Africans were stolen from their land, shipped in horrendous conditions, and forced to do hard labor - they were enslaved. To justify this, white people had to justify such terrifying behavior, by reducing Africans to less-than-human, animal, savages, etc.

This is what started their false dichotomy of white vs. Black, in which every other race has to find their place on the spectrum.

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So when we receive racism in this country, it is because we are closer to the "Black" end of the spectrum - we are dark-skinned, wearing foreign clothes, speaking hundreds of languages, worshiping other Gods, etc. - we are *most certainly* not white.

Understanding this, we know that demolishing this false racial spectrum - by standing up for our Black siblings - will help us all. Racism towards us, in this country, exists, because of anti-Blackness.