Skin colour

Human beings' nationality and racism have featured very highly in the media recently. With good reason. Some contributors seem to resent the mention of someone's nationality and/or the colour of their skin. Others object to the mention of an individual's nationality if a name does not match the country he comes from.

The recent report on the church incident created some reaction about the person being Indian and English. Had I been Indian I would definitely had been more upset with the lack of information given because I would have wanted to know if he was an East or a West Indian, North American, African or, besides others, even a Maltese Indian.

Surely, I wouldn't have wanted the reputation of my people tainted.

I conclude that this person, who for some unknown reason disrespected a symbol of our faith, chose to make England his home or was even born there.

Incidentally, for the racists and the white supremacists among us, most of the Indians of the world are classified as Caucasian.

So, this English Indian, or Indian English if you prefer, is a "brother" in more than one sense.