Thread by @Godmade__

1; Thread - Torr makhi (Black Face; Kalay)
Over the last few weeks, I have been noticing a well-grounded outrage pouring out on social media first, about how PTM leaders used the word Kaliya in a negative connotation & currently @SarfarazA_54 is rightly being owned for calling

2; SA player kala. Some want us to cut Sarfarz some slack, and their contretemps is,” What else would you call a black person if not black, what’s all this outrage about?” Well! let us all just call spade a spade and lay it out on the line. It is racism and discrimination.

3; A personal account.
As a Pukhtoon man, the first myth about Pukhtoons that I want to tackle head-on here is that you have to be light skinned to be characterized as a Pukhtoon, be it a woman or a man. All of my life I have faced it, I have always been called toor/toora

4; in the family and outside the family ‘are u even Pukhtoon?”
It all started with my grandfather calling me tor (black), coz i literally was the only dark-skinned kid in the family and then my paternal aunties & uncles started calling me tor makhi (black face)

5; So most of the time my name was not Farhan it was toriya (kaalaa) and it haunted me as a kid.
The color of our skin in our society dictates how people treat us and view us. Honesty we have been brainwashed into thinking that light color is associated with purity, innocence

6; success etc.
Whenever I would get into a fight with my czns my maternal aunties would always blame me for all the damage without even looking into the matter first coz to them, it was always a yell ” it is tor makhki, we know he did it, his heart is as dark as his skin”

7; The moment I would tell someone I belong to the XYZ family; I would get the vibes, from their body languages that they are already judging me. Bcoz, hey! No one is that dark in THAT family. Within my extended family, my relatives would tell me that I am not one of them but

8; Someone from a lower caste coz of the color of skin. BINGO!
To this day, when i tell someone im Pukhtoon they roll their eyes twice at me to make sure they are looking at the right person :)
To some, It might just be I, putting my business out in the streets & to some

9; It might be a lesson they critically need to take. Therefore; I decided to pen it down. I know most of my words won't move a dial on this racial discrimination issue that we have in our society but if it could even change the mind of one person am here for it.

10; This moment here is an opportunity for me that I won't take for granted so I thought long an hard about how I would use it to talk to the men and women that I hope to inspire. Remember! The color of your skin is not the blueprint for survival.

11; All those who are asking those who are calling Sarafaz and PTM lead out on this kala issue, to call a truce with them and that they really don't mean it. They just used it as a figure of speech. You guys are not helping, it is a socially concerning issue,

12; If we did not fix it now it will pass on to our generations to come.

Correction it’s paternal aunties not maternal