This #AmbedkarJayanti I urge everyone to read Ambedkar. Especially if you are Dalit & still searching for your identity/place in the world. Nothing will fill you w/ more pride, confidence & a total zeal to take on the world than reading how he talks about our place in the world.
As Dalits, it's not always easy to access Ambedkar. Esp when it risks revealing the identity we've carefully hidden from the world + when reading/displaying/associating w/Ambedkar can come w/ rejection, discrimination and even violence. #AmbedkarJayanti
If you're Dalit & have never read Ambedkar don't do it simply coz he was a 'Dalit leader' (he was an Indian statesman who was Dalit & led everyone)
Or coz everyone is telling you how imp he is (facts)
Do it coz no one else will tell you that you are not lesser than anyone else
I came out earlier but reading Ambedkar finally helped me realize that the caste system is fake bs created to keep Dalits perpetually in servitude
That we've been so skillfully convinced of our inherent lowerness that it seems normal. Ambedkar shatters that myth like no one else
Good places to start: His 1917 Columbia paper on caste, Annihilation of Caste (the original version which is SO MUCH cheaper and free online), History of the Mahad Satyagrah, His letters to Gandhi.
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