Ghana: Call to remove Gandhi statue over 'racist views'
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Not All Peaceful: 13 Racist Quotes Gandhi Said About Black People
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All quotes are direct quotations from The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi. They are taken from his writings and statements during the years he spent working as an attorney in South Africa, before he went back to India in 1915 to fight for independence. Note: “Kaffir” is an offensive term in South Africa considered on par with “n*gger” in the U.S., though in Gandhi’s time some historians claim it was considered more neutral.
Gandhi at 19
Indians Dragged Down to the Kaffirs
Before Dec. 19, 1894: “A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the 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.”
Gandhi in South Africa
Kaffirs Pass Their Lives in ‘Indolence and Nakedness’
Sept. 26, 1896: “Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, 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.”
Kaffirs Would Not Work
Oct. 26, 1896: “There is a bye-law in Durban which requires registration of coloured servants. This rule may be, and perhaps is, necessary for the Kaffirs who would not work, but absolutely useless with regard to the Indians. But the policy is to class the Indian with the Kaffir whenever possible.”
Indians ‘Infinitely Superior’ to the Kaffirs
Before May 27, 1899: “Your Petitioner has seen the Location intended to be used by the Indians. It would place them, who are undoubtedly infinitely superior to the Kaffirs, in close proximity to the latter.”
Boer War, Indian Ambulance Corps (Gandhi is in middle row, fifth from left)
Indians Shouldn’t Be Taxed Like Kaffirs
May 24, 1903: “The £3 tax is merely a penalty for wearing the brown skin and it would appear that, whereas Kaffirs are taxed because they do not work at all or sufficiently, we are to be taxed evidently because we work too much, the only thing in common between the two being the absence of the white skin.”
Indians Forced to Live with Too Many Kaffirs
Feb. 11, 1904: “I venture to write you regarding the shocking state of the Indian Location. The rooms appear to be overcrowded beyond description. The sanitary service is very irregular, and many of the residents of the Location have been to my office to complain that the sanitary condition is far worse than before. There is, too, a very large Kaffir population in the Location for which really there is no warrant.”
Gandhi with friends
Calamity Coming for Johannesburg
Feb. 15, 1904: “I feel convinced that every minute wasted over the matter merely hastens a calamity for Johannesburg and that through absolutely no fault of the British Indians. Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian Location should be chosen for dumping down all the kaffirs of the town passes my comprehension.”
Gandhi in UK
No Mixing Kaffirs With Indians
Feb. 15, 1904: “Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians, I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.”
Kaffirs Less Advanced
Sept. 9, 1906: “Even the half-castes and Kaffirs, who are less advanced than we, have resisted the Government. The pass law applies to them as well, but they do not take out passes.”
Gandhi (right) with brother
Even a Kaffir Policeman Can Accost Indians?
June 4, 1907: “Are we supposed to be thieves or free-booters that even a Kaffir policeman can accost and detain us wherever we happen to be going?”
Kaffirs Can Be Pleased With Toys and Pins
Feb. 2, 1908: “The British rulers take us to be so lowly and ignorant that they assume that, like the Kaffirs who can be pleased with toys and pins, we can also be fobbed off with trinkets.”
Kaffirs Are Uncivilized Animals
July 3, 1907: “Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised – the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals. Each ward contains nearly 50 to 60 of them. They often started rows and fought among themselves. The reader can easily imagine the plight of the poor Indian thrown into such company!”
Indians Must Stay Away From Kaffir Women
Dec. 2, 1910: “Some Indians do have contacts with Kaffir women. I think such contacts are fraught with grave danger. Indians would do well to avoid them altogether.”
He was living in a black country though, and cried about the oppression of the Indian meanwhile advocated for the oppression of blacks. This is why people of color doesn't exist.
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@bbcasiannetwork come on! All old school indians have that raciat streak in them... just speak to any babba or bibbi
@bbcasiannetwork I am sure all great leaders at some point or the other on their journey to self discovery were incorrect, scoring points ??
So what if he was? Nobody claims he was an angel, just that he played a key role in liberating an entire sub-continent.
bbcasiannetwork No, he was a good man.
NO, a superiority complex working for the Raj @bbcasiannetwork to call #Gandhi a racist is shortsighted & disgraces all Asians #AsianNetwork
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Why should Africans "wake up" about religion. When we are the ones who created religions. And the greatest west african kingdoms were religious. From the nri, to songhaiso happy ghanaians are waking up.
take that shyt down...
cant wait until they start waking up about religion
first time i ever heard that before...
and what do mean no they arent? LOL... I said "a lot of indians" its not some qualifying figure to which you can say "no they aren't" There's over a billion of us.
@ "no they aren't"
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fukk a Ghandi. You think they have black statues over in India? He should've never got one in the first place.
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first time i ever heard that before...
and what do mean no they arent? LOL... I said "a lot of indians" its not some qualifying figure to which you can say "no they aren't" There's over a billion of us.
People who aren't Indian are under the impression that all or most indians worship Gandhi when that's far from being the case.
As for the racism, let me ask you, why should what Gandhi felt about black people when he was young and ignorant matter to Indians? The only thing Indians should shyt on him for is dividing the nation.
once again , Ghanaians proving we the realest 
if you really have to ask that idiotic question then you, like a lot of indians, are lost.
the world is bigger than india. im telling you that in the same way i would tell a white person that the world is bigger than their privileged safe enclave.
if you dont understand what im saying to you rn, then youre not even worthy of being in this debate.
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