African Protests Against “We Toil Like Negroes” Billboard

Racism rears its ugly head, this time in Russia

It is indeed unfortunate that a problem that mankind has been trying to eradicate over the past few decades has surfaced again in Russia.

Members of the African community, especially young students, are unhappy about a billboard slogan that read "We Toil like Negroes" which was making referrence to black people working as slaves.

The saddest thing about this is that the offense was not committed by an individual but by a company rich enough to afford advertising space on a billboard. Now there is a saying that goes "With great power comes great responsibility". This company obviously did not practise the 2nd part of that phrase. Just like the Danish media, they have committed an act that was inconsiderate and foolish.

For all of mankind's great exploits, he has still been unable to learn basic values such as the importance of respecting others. I wonder how the people from the company which put up those advertisments would feel if an advertisment with derogatory remarks about them and their family were put up in public.