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GANDHI WAS A RACIST
Mohatma Ghandi was a racist. It's hard to believe but the answer is an emphatic yes. Couple of things to point everyone in the right direction.
#1 - Don't let the emotion of who you believe Gandhi to be to get in the way of actual facts.
#2 - Gandhi was a Hindu. Hindus believe in the caste system which states that individuals are born into castes and this is where they live and die.
#3 - Gandhi's early struggle in South Africa was predicated on the idea that Europeans should treat Indians better than they did because the Indians were better than Blacks
#4 - Gandhi has many published quotes where he refers to South African Blacks as lazy and aimless.
#5 - His views softened somewhat as he grew older but his campaign of non-violence was for the equal treatment of Indians not Blacks.
#6 - Just because he employed the amazing strategy of non-violence doesn't mean he advocated for everyone.
#7 - Just because everyone employed his techniques of non-violence doesn't mean he approved of them after all most who used his techniques came almost 20 - 40 years AFTER him.
#8 - Just because he was racist doesn't negate what he has done in the world it only reaffirms the complicated ideals that occupy the human heart.
Here are words recorded in multiple locations attributed to Gandhi.
"Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness."
"It is one thing to register natives who would not work and whom it is very difficult to find out if they absent themselves but it is another thing -and most insulting - to expect decent hard-working and respectable Indians whose only fault is that they work too much to have themselves registered and carry with them registration badges."
"Clause 200 makes provision for registration of persons belonging to uncivilized races resident and employed within the Borough. One can understand the necessity of registration of Kaffirs who will not work but why should registration be required for indentured Indians who have become free and for their descendants about whom the general complaint is that they work too much?"
Sunday, June 16th 2013 at 3:14PM
Siebra Muhammad
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Provide your sources....SM
Monday, June 17th 2013 at 9:45AM
Earl Brown
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That should have read: "It will show Gandhi was not only a supporter of Hitler..."
Monday, June 17th 2013 at 10:59AM
Siebra Muhammad
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great QUOTE,
Mohandas Gandhi was a GREAT friend of Muslims that were antiCOLONIALISM
if I may Mr. Earl Brown(siebra has blocked and deleted me for Years)
may I comment to your commentator siebra?
siebra has NO sources for anything.................
she still has NOT read AlQur'aan and the Sunnah of Mohamed(saw)----and believes NEITHER....
Mohandas Gandhi grew up in India, a britishCOLONY around Muslims and Hindus.......
Mohandas Gandhi was an Indian Nationalist...........
Mohandas Gandhi worked in South Africa as a civil servant for the britishCOLONY there
...... Mohandas Gandhi viewed the british as Evil, and as 'christians' who many Muslims believe are 'people of Words of Allaah-AtTaurat and AlIngeel........
-------Mohandas Gandhi saw the South African Natives as animal or paganWorshippers and called them ------kaffir.......unBELIEVERS
sounds CORRECT to me
----- and as an INDIAN NATIONALIST he sided with those against the British Colonialism JUST as MOST Muslims and other britishCOLONIZED people
Monday, June 17th 2013 at 12:36PM
powell robert
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Thank you Robert..... about the unbelievers.
Monday, June 17th 2013 at 3:57PM
Earl Brown
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GANDHI ON BLACKS AND RACE RELATIONS (Zulus and Kaffirs were African tribes in South Africa)
“A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.” (Reference: The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Government of India (CWMG), Vol I, p. 150)
Regarding forcible registration with the state of blacks: “One can understand the necessity for registration of Kaffirs who will not work.” (Reference: CWMG, Vol I, p. 105)
“Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian Location should be chosen for dumping down all the Kaffirs of the town passes my comprehension…the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location.” (Reference: CWMG, Vol I, pp. 244-245)
His description of black inmates: “Only a degree removed from the animal.” Also, “Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.” - Mar. 7, 1908 (Reference: CWMG, Vol VIII, pp. 135-136)
The Durban Post Office: One of Gandhi’s major “achievements” in South Africa was to promote racial segregation by refusing to share a post office door with the black natives.
Sergeant Major Gandhi: Learn how Gandhi became a Sgt. Major in the British Army and eagerly participated in the 1906 British war against the black Zulus.
Gandhi and South African Blacks: Gandhi wrote extensively about his experiences with the blacks of South Africa. He always termed them “Kaffirs” and his writings reveal a deep-seated disdain for these African natives.
If Dr. King had known about about the Zulus (African tribe) and the Kaffirs (African tribe), he surely would have voiced his concern.Gandhi condones Zulu massacres and defends the British. Aug 4 1906
Dr. King may not have read Time Magazine and the explosive stories about Mr. Gandhi’s personal life. The s*x life of Mr. Gandhi, and his failures as a politician
Dr. King probably knew only about the propoganda clips of Mr. Gandhi and never really knew the man. The myth of Mohandas K. Gandhi debunked. He gets an “F” on South Africa, Salt Match, Non-Violence, and independence
Dr. King on moral high ground condemned wars. He would have been shocked to find out that Gandhi supported the British wars extending the British empire. Which war did Mohandas Gandhi support. All of them. There wasn’t a war that the prophet of Non-Violence did not support. He was Sergeant Major in the British Army and won a medal for his war duties
Dr. King was probably unaware about Gandhi’s open racism.Gandhi’s racism. The truth behind the mask. Behold Sergeant Major Gandhi who supported the British during the Boer war, Zulu rebellion. Behold the prophet of peace who worked to stratify the South African society.
Dr. King did not know that Gandhi did not bring the British Empire down.
Dr. King would have been appalled if he knew that Gandhi insisted on calling Hitler his “friend” and that his advice to the Jews was horribe piece of Anti-Semitism Gandhi’s letter to his friend Hitler.
Gandhi was a racist, plain and simple. Of course without divine knowledge our people would not know this. Dr. King waited too long and was too afraid to accept what he admitted was the TRUTH!!!!
Tuesday, June 18th 2013 at 10:49AM
Siebra Muhammad
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Mr. Earl Brown -- I for one ----Admire Mohandas Gandhi;
------ as I have MANY Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi Friends for the past 45+ Years
.......One is my Imam
Your Blogs are Always based on READING and Learning....thank you again.
but to our Gandhi hater?
The Indian SubContinent had 700,000+ People in ---1900--- had 60% Hindu and 40% Muslim
The British Empire ruled SouthAfrica from about 1800 AND brought colonizedIndians to manage the civilService and armedForces to Africa from India.
Mohandas Gandhi may have been HINDU, but he was Familiar with the colonizingBritish Empire of India and his nation of 280 Million+ Muslims-----
Mohandas Gandhi, a GREAT MAN
----- is REVERED in the History of Two Muslim Nations of 300 Million---PAKISTAN and Bangladesh as coFounder
-----and the History of India by 400 Million Indian Muslims
.....a large majority of Hindus and Muslims supported hitler against the BRITISH EMPIRE, Mau Mau of East Africa, Nigerians, Moroocans, Egyptians, Sudanese, Senegalese, Gaboni, Ghanan, Chadian, Tanzanian, Zambian, and South African..............
siebra---------" an African tribe---- kaffirs----" does NOT exist!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the Muslims of India and Sri Lanka Also referred to Sri Lankans as "kaffirs", besides the primitive Africans and others....they encountered............
siebra WRITING
---- seems to ALWAYS, PULL stuff out of her New Orleans GUMBO mesh of ideas that MOST at BIA, have concluded are ERRONEOUS and I might ADD "full of CRABBY racistIgnorance".........
Tuesday, June 18th 2013 at 11:24AM
powell robert
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As always.... Robert. My blogs are open. I welcome your scholarship, intellectualism and insight. It is my belief, that dialoguing is good and healthy for intellectual growth. Again, I delete no comments. This is an public venue(BIA!)... Let us all continue with the stated preamble of Black In America.
Tuesday, June 18th 2013 at 12:50PM
Earl Brown
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I have deleted Truth Be Told comment.... I will not tolerate childish behavior. I have raised to sons.... and, I will not raise adult kids in the Virtual World! Profanity, Filthy words directed towards commentators on my blogs will not be tolerated! They will be deleted/blocked permanently. Mr. Robert Powell, I appreciate your professional and your decorum. You are welcome!
Tuesday, June 18th 2013 at 1:02PM
Earl Brown
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