Media 2 Week 3

Sibani Roy: Trouble Maker or Saint?

The media that I chose was from the ethnic news watch website in the News India Times. The article is called Meditation against racism.

An Indian-born meditation teacher, Sibani Roy, fights racism in Great Britain. She said that the "British National Party (BNP) has learnt the hard way." Roy runs a holistic healthcare center in Bay of Colwyn. This is where she can educate people about meditatio for their well-being, and can also mare people more aware of how to live well. Being a popular person, Roy got elected to be a member of the town council. That is when the war between the extreme right BNPs and herself began. Her campaign to stop the extreme right wing racists caught public attention and soon enough, they resigned from the party and remained independent councillors. The community is doing everything that they can in order to keep their politics anti-racism now.

This article relates to our class because it is talking about racism (which is something we do quite frequently) and it talks about the privileged. The privileged would be the BNP but Roy conquered the privileged to make herself be more privileged than them.

I am proud of Roy and wish that I had heard this sooner. It is good to see that people are still fighting everything from just slight racism to extreme racism. I feel that this is a big uplifter to me and to others who have heard this story. I actually kind of wish that I could have been involved. I feel a little bit jealous. I would love to be involved in something controversial or an uprising against the more privileged. Things like that happened in my parents and my grandparents generation. I just wish that I could participate more in the equality of people.



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The website for the picture is at (http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/sites/colwyn/images/hindubride135.jpg)