Masaba Gupta speaks about racism and says her father, Vivian Richards, struggled with it

Recently, the top fashion designer and entrepreneur mentioned how her father would tear up talking about his struggle with racism.

Top fashion designer and entrepreneur Masaba Gupta opened up about her father, Vivian Richards, and how he struggled with racism. Masaba is the daughter of actress Neena Gupta and legendary West Indian cricketer Vivian Richards.

Masaba Gupta talks about racism.

The ace fashion designer has often spoken about her struggles with racism. In an interview with Faye D’Souza, she opened up about her father, Vivian Richards’ struggles with racism. She said, “Now I know why my father felt so strongly about it (racism) for so many years. Till today, if you ask him, he’ll have tears in his eyes, or he’ll have this rage in him, where he will answer with a lot of pride. He grew up in the worst of times. He played professional cricket in a time where the color of your skin came in the way of your ability to move ahead in the world. It’s there, everywhere. It’ll keep being spoken of until we fight for it, and it’s only going to happen if everybody fights for it.”

Masaba speaks on racism toward her unborn child.

She went on to speak about people being racist toward her unborn child and she gets pregnancy advise on how to give birth to a “lighter” child. She added, “It happened to me just yesterday that somebody who came up to me for some pre-natal something telling me, ‘You must eat a rasgulla every day’ because your kid has to turn out lighter than you. And then, 15 days before that, I was getting another pre-natal massage, because that’s what I do, and she (her masseuse) said to me, ‘Aap na doodh liya karo (you must consume milk). Saawla nahi hona chahiye, nahi honi chahiye, whatever (your child must not turn out dusky).’ It was said with so much innocence. You have no choice – what can I do? Punch my masseuse? No.”