किसी की भी जिंदगी तब तक मायने नहीं रखती जब तक अश्वेतों का जीवन मायने नहीं रखता : डु प्लेसिस

फाफ डु प्लेसिस ने अपने इंस्टाग्राम पोस्ट पर लिखा, 'पिछले दो महीनों में मुझे यह महसूस हुआ कि हमें यह तय करना होगा कि हमें किससे लड़ना है. हम अपने देश में कई तरह के अन्याय से घिरे हुए हैं जिन पर तुरंत ध्यान देने और उन्हें ठीक करने की जरूरत है.'

जोहानिसबर्ग: दक्षिण अफ्रीका के पूर्व कप्तान और स्टार बल्लेबाज फाफ डु प्लेसिस ने नस्लवाद के खिलाफ अपना समर्थन व्यक्त करते हुए शुक्रवार को कहा कि किसी की भी जिंदगी तब तक मायने नहीं रखती जब तक कि अश्वेतों का जीवन मायने नहीं रखता.

अमेरिका में अफ्रीकी मूल के जार्ज फ्लॉयड की एक श्वेत पुलिसकर्मी के हाथों मौत के बाद विश्व भर में ‘ब्लैक लाइव्स मैटर’ (अश्वेत जीवन भी मायने रखता है) आंदोलन चल रहा है.

फाफ डु प्लेसिस

इंग्लैंड और वेस्टइंडीज के बीच टेस्ट श्रृंखला के पहले मैच से पूर्व दोनों टीमों के खिलाड़ियों ने खुलकर इसका समर्थन किया। डुप्लेसिस ने कहा कि अब नस्लवाद से लड़ने का समय आ गया है.

इस 36 वर्षीय क्रिकेटर ने अपने इंस्टाग्राम पोस्ट पर लिखा, "पिछले दो महीनों में मुझे यह महसूस हुआ कि हमें यह तय करना होगा कि हमें किससे लड़ना है. हम अपने देश में कई तरह के अन्याय से घिरे हुए हैं जिन पर तुरंत ध्यान देने और उन्हें ठीक करने की जरूरत है."

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  In the last couple of months I have realized that we must choose our battles. We are surrounded by many injustices in our country that require urgent attention and action to fix them. If we wait only for the ones that attack us personally, we will always live for “my way vs your way” and that way leads us nowhere. So I’ve remained silent, with the intent to listen, but not respond. Slowing down my point of view, but quicker to hear the pain of someone else. I knew that words would be lacking and that my understanding is not close to where it needs to be. I surrender my opinions and take the knee as an intercessor. I acknowledge that South Africa is still hugely divided by racism and it is my personal responsibility to do my best to emphasize, hear the stories, learn and then be part of the solution with my thoughts, words and actions I have gotten it wrong before. Good intentions were failed by a lack of perspective when I said on a platform that - I don’t see colour. In my ignorance I silenced the struggles of others by placing my own view on it. A race problem is a human race problem, if one part of the body hurts ,we all stop, we empathize, we get perspective, we learn and then we tend to the hurting part of the body. So I am saying that all lives don’t matter UNTIL black lives matter. I’m speaking up now, because if I wait to be perfect, I never will. I want to leave a legacy of empathy. The work needs to continue for the change to come and whether we agree or disagree, conversation is the vehicle for change.

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  In the last couple of months I have realized that we must choose our battles. We are surrounded by many injustices in our country that require urgent attention and action to fix them. If we wait only for the ones that attack us personally, we will always live for “my way vs your way” and that way leads us nowhere. So I’ve remained silent, with the intent to listen, but not respond. Slowing down my point of view, but quicker to hear the pain of someone else. I knew that words would be lacking and that my understanding is not close to where it needs to be. I surrender my opinions and take the knee as an intercessor. I acknowledge that South Africa is still hugely divided by racism and it is my personal responsibility to do my best to emphasize, hear the stories, learn and then be part of the solution with my thoughts, words and actions I have gotten it wrong before. Good intentions were failed by a lack of perspective when I said on a platform that - I don’t see colour. In my ignorance I silenced the struggles of others by placing my own view on it. A race problem is a human race problem, if one part of the body hurts ,we all stop, we empathize, we get perspective, we learn and then we tend to the hurting part of the body. So I am saying that all lives don’t matter UNTIL black lives matter. I’m speaking up now, because if I wait to be perfect, I never will. I want to leave a legacy of empathy. The work needs to continue for the change to come and whether we agree or disagree, conversation is the vehicle for change.

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  In the last couple of months I have realized that we must choose our battles. We are surrounded by many injustices in our country that require urgent attention and action to fix them. If we wait only for the ones that attack us personally, we will always live for “my way vs your way” and that way leads us nowhere. So I’ve remained silent, with the intent to listen, but not respond. Slowing down my point of view, but quicker to hear the pain of someone else. I knew that words would be lacking and that my understanding is not close to where it needs to be. I surrender my opinions and take the knee as an intercessor. I acknowledge that South Africa is still hugely divided by racism and it is my personal responsibility to do my best to emphasize, hear the stories, learn and then be part of the solution with my thoughts, words and actions I have gotten it wrong before. Good intentions were failed by a lack of perspective when I said on a platform that - I don’t see colour. In my ignorance I silenced the struggles of others by placing my own view on it. A race problem is a human race problem, if one part of the body hurts ,we all stop, we empathize, we get perspective, we learn and then we tend to the hurting part of the body. So I am saying that all lives don’t matter UNTIL black lives matter. I’m speaking up now, because if I wait to be perfect, I never will. I want to leave a legacy of empathy. The work needs to continue for the change to come and whether we agree or disagree, conversation is the vehicle for change.

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उन्होंने कहा, "मैं मानता हूं कि दक्षिण अफ्रीका अब भी नस्लवाद के कारण बंटा हुआ है और यह मेरी जिम्मेदारी है कि मैं इसके समाधान का हिस्सा बनूं."

यह डुप्लेसिस के पूर्व के रवैये के विपरीत है जब उन्होंने नस्लवाद पर बात करने से इन्कार कर दिया था

स साल के शुरू में तेम्बा बावुमा को टीम से बाहर करने पर उन्होंने कहा था कि, 'हम रंग देखकर चयन नहीं करते.'

डुप्लेसिस ने कहा कि ‘ब्लैक लाइव्स मैटर’ अभियान को उनका पूरा समर्थन है. उन्होंने कहा, "इसलिए मैं कहूंगा कि किसी की भी जिंदगी तब तक मायने नहीं रखती जब तक कि अश्वेतों का जीवन मायने नहीं रखता। मैं अब बात कर रहा हूं क्योंकि अगर मैं उचित समय का इंतजार करूंगा तो वह कभी नहीं आएगा. बदलाव के लिये काम जारी रखना जरूरी है और हम सहमत हों या असहमत बातचीत बदलाव का वाहक होती है."