Burns--First Black CEO

Ursula Burns is the first black (woman) CEO screams a headline in the inside pages of The Economic Times.

Is this news to rejoice or to be ashamed of? In an era where the world is shrinking to a global village, where scientists may not have found the cure for AIDS but can certainly produce artificial rains, where experiments have proven that you do not need a man for procreation—we are still fighting the biggest war—the color of the skin!

Really shameful and pathetic, isn’t it? Recent surveys show that the color of the skin plays a major role in procuring a job. The surveys published results that fairer people tended to reach the corporate ladder faster than their relatively melanin-enriched counterparts.

Apartheid may be abolished only on paper but bias towards color continues.

I dream a world that does not need a lady to use Fair and Lovely cream to get the job of her dreams! I dream a world where men are not suckers for women with lighter skin shades and lighter hair color even if they themselves look worse than a King Kong!