The Iron Walls of My Life: "Hey Untouchable," "Hey Gay," "Hey Black," "Hey Worker."

 

The Iron Walls of My Life: "Hey Untouchable," "Hey Gay," "Hey Black," "Hey Worker."

“When I was a child,

My mother used to tell me

You careful with people

I did not understand.

Why did she say that?

She told me repeatedly.

Dogs, cats, crows are humane than humans

I did not understand her words.

She never stops cautioning me.

About humans

I never understood her words.

When I am still a child

My mother told me

Your father and I married

By breaking the iron walls of India

I still did not understand her words.

She never stops sharing her life experience

With me and with my older sister

We never understood her life story.

My mother never stops sharing her personal experiences

With people who constructed iron walls

But we never understand what iron walls mean.

But when we start attending school,

We are not allowed to sit with them.

That we never understand

We are five students sitting on the floor.

Thirty-five students were sitting on benches.

We asked my mother

Why we never allowed to sit on the bench?

When other students are sitting on the bench?

She told us they were iron walls.

That we did not understand what "iron wall" meant

Our school teachers are beating us severely.

But they never beat some students

Who have a priestly look?

That's what we asked my mother about that discrimination.

School punishments are so inhumane.

Students are so inhumane.

Classmates are so inhumane.

Teachers are so inhumane.

The public is so inhumane.

When I asked my mother about inhumane

She told us that iron walls are inhuman.

That we never understand

My sister never showed an interest in education.

It is due to our poverty.

She discontinued her fourth class.

I continued in my government school

I never stop learning.

I went to school, College, university

But like school teachers,

College teachers

University teachers are the same

Wherever I am going

Discrimination is following me.

Educational are places of hell

Schools, colleges, universities,

Knowledge centers are places of hell on earth.

Bullying, eve-teasing, humiliating, violating, and persecuting are my friends.

Everywhere, there are ideological state apparatuses.

Everywhere, religious apparatus

Everywhere cultural apparatues

Everywhere, conservative ideology

Everywhere purity, impurities

Untouchables are not exempt from this taboo.

When I attended Central University

I was harassed for being gay.

Hey gay is coming is my name

Gay is my name.

It was named by Ambedkar's followers.

Like Gandhi followers

like leftist followers

like feminist followers

Every ideology is a black skin, brown mask

Every skin is masked with white paint.

Persecution is omnipresent.

I am sub-humanized.

I am dehumanized.

I am persecuted.

I am victimized.

I am traumatized.

I am stressed and humiliated everywhere.

Humiliation is not new to me.

It is not new to my caste, race, gender, and class.

When I asked my mother

She said iron walls

I started understanding iron walls right from my schooling

But I don’t want to hurt my mother

so that I pretended to be innocent.

When I experienced that iron wall,

The iron wall is not new to me.

It is not new to my father.

It is not new to my sister.

But it is new to my mother.

She born in iron imposed space

We born in suffocated iron walls

Iron walls, iron walls

Everything is iron wall

Iron wall is determining our life and death

Iron wall of our life is caste

We are controlled by iron walls.

Every moment is a life and death

Untouchable has no choice

Untouchable has not life

Untouchable has no breath

Untouchables are things in their eyes.

I escaped my iron walls to snow nation

Iron walls are not leaving my black skin.

Iron walls are not leaving my son

Iron walls are not leaving my African wife.

The iron wall is so strong.

It is so strong, like that cast-iron wall.

Wherever we go, snow hates us.

Wherever we go, snow is stopping us.

Wherever we go, snow is blocking us.

My mother does not know her snow is hating us.

She used to say that snow nations are humane.

But she is wrong.

Snow nations are inhumane.

Just like my caste iron walls

Browns are inhumane.

just like their white

White and brown are inhumane.

Just like my caste lords

Iron walls are not leaving us

We are suffocating.

Iron walls are suffocating us.

Iron walls are inhumane forever

Iron walls are not leaving my black skin.

Even dogs, cats, animals in snow nation are hating my black skin”

 This is my, my four-year-old son's, and my Ethiopian wife's personal experience with the inhuman caste system, untouchability, and racism in India and Europe. Black skin, white masks are so deep-rooted in Europe. Every state and non-state actor, including so-called global human rights organizations, discriminates against the black community in Europe. So-called human rights and LGBTQ organizations are entirely white, or Eurocentric, and brown-centric. These European-based human rights bodies are black-skinned, white-masked organizations, just like India-based human rights bodies.

Dr. Suryaraju Mattimalla, (he/they), B.A.,M.A.,M.Phil.,Ph.D(History), John Rawls Good Shepherd, Author, LGBTQ Rights Activist, Human Rights Activist, Anti-Corruption Activist, Whistleblower Activist, Anti-Pedophile, Anti-Slavery, Anti-Caste, Anti-Race, Anti-Untouchability, Rationalist, Writer, Scholar, Poet, Critic, Atheist, YouTuber, Philanthropist, Humanitarian, Former Assistant Professor, Outspoken, And Blogger.

Truth and Justice Matter-John Rawls, A Theory of Justice.

“There will be no death penalty, extrajudicial killings, or judicial killings. Judicial killing is a crime against constitutional morality, and extrajudicial killing is a crime against humanity. Even criminals have the right to life in prison.” Dr.Suryaraju Mattimalla.

Author of the globally acclaimed "Compatibility of the Death Penalty with the Purpose of Criminal Punishment in Ethiopia".

Why I Am Not Indian: The Untouchable Rejecting India's Citizenship.

LGBTQ Rights Campaigner + Untouchable Lives Matter Campaigner + Black Lives Matter Campaigner + Human Rights Campaigner+ Anti-Death Penalty Campaigner + Anti-Cremation Campaigner

“Cremation is a crime against humanity”

Dr. Suryaraju Mattimalla (he/they), black, untouchable caste, labour, founder of Equality Religion.

"India had never seen me as a fully human being because of my untouchable caste background, my black skin color, and my gay background."  Dr. Suryaraju Mattimalla (he/they), black, untouchable caste, labour, founder of Equality Religion.

“Europe had never seen me as a fully human being because of my black skin and African features. In front of every white man, woman, and child in Europe, I am untouchable, unshadowable, unseeable, and unapproachable, just like my social status in India.” Dr. Suryaraju Mattimalla (he/they), black, untouchable caste, laborer, founder of the Equality Religion.