Zayn might be cocky, he might be arrogant, he might have copied you…he might even be the most beautiful thing to ever set foot on this planet. But what he definitely is not is a Punjab. Which by the way is not even the correct terminology to begin with. Punjab is a place, and the people from Punjab are called Punjabi’s, a beautiful people with a proud culture from a beautiful state from an even greater country. Let me begin by saying that this will be one of two rants that I am going to be doing through my posts about western peoples and their appropriation and discrimination towards not only my people, but also any other brown races that they have put down in the past.

The problem with race is that it creates divide. With every culture comes a new reason as to why another culture can consider them different or the other. My whole life is a classic example of this. And despite all my years and all the racial torment I have never hated anyone more as Azealia Banks. You see racism stems from lack of knowledge, lack of education. Only stupid people think in terms of racial discrimination and even stupider people act on it. The world is too diverse to continue to create a divide between people of different ethnicities and yet that is all Western society does. For centuries white people have been seen as heroes, not realising the damage they cause. But with the recently reviewed circumstances of Captain Cooks landing in Australia as invading rather than settling, I thought that the western world were actually starting to get it.

But clearly I was incorrect. Don’t get me wrong, the vast majority of people do believe in racial equality and are heavily against racial discrimination. But with the good also comes the bad and unfortunately, this time, the bad has come in the form of a know-nothing human being called Azealia Banks. Now I don’t usually care what dumb people usually have to say, because quite frankly the world has much more interesting things to offer, but this really can’t be ignored, especially since this has become a popular occurrence in all western peoples, especially girls. Azealia Banks has culturally appropriated, and then subsequently dissed a person who is from the same background and did so for the whole world to see on social media. No matter how hard the rest of us try and get through the world, trying to fight discrimination and racial slurs, we will always have to face someone like Azealia Banks. Not only does it prove that she’s a jealous little shit, but also that she cant take it when someone who isn’t from the “great ol’ U S of A” is more famous and has a much larger fan base. And that’s always going to be a massive obstacle that any person from any ethnic group will face when in a western society.

I will not go into what she said in detail, I’m sure you have read what she said and had your own feelings, either as a white person or a brown person or as a person from any other culture, because my purpose isn’t to tell you this is wrong, you should already know that. What I’m going to do is tell you is that I wear my culture proudly. I am a curry-scented bitch and I don’t give a flying fuck what anyone else has to say about it (even though I smell like Calvin Klein). Not only is this an insult to my family and my culture but all the Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi women and girls out there who have been ridiculed because of who they are.

I agree with Jus Reign, that amazing Punjabi man, wear it with pride. Wear it like armour, because if we choose to let people like Azealia Banks tear us down with racial slurs and hurtful words then we have already lost the battle. I will never let them bring me down and neither should you. And no I don’t accept your apology Azealia Banks, I think you’re a racist and I think you of all people should know what it feels like to be put down because of your culture. So screw you and your stupid music video. #allpraisezayn