Not All Peaceful: 13 Racist Quotes Gandhi Said About Black People

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I bet you new age zombies didn't even know Gandhi was a racist and btw MLK loved this man and his tactics.........:mjpls:

Notice the trend also of guised racist behavior towards our people from our resident dot heads and half breed dot heads......@Mephistopheles and @Napoleon



http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/03...racist-quotes-gandhi-said-about-black-people/

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.

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Gandhi at 19

1. 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.”

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Gandhi in South Africa

2. 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.”

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3. 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.”

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4. 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.”

5. 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.”

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6. 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.”

7. 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.”

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Gandhi in the UK

8. 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.”

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9. 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.”

10. 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?”

11. 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.”

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12. 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!”

13. 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.”





 
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http://trak.in/tags/business/2013/10/02/5-famous-personalities-deeply-inspired-mahatma-gandhi/

Barack Obama

In the year 2009, Barack Obama, US President was having chit chats with 9th graders at Wakefield High school in Virginia, US. A student Lilly asked him, which person, living or dead, would he like to have dinner with? He replied, “Mahatma Gandhi”.

So much inspired and motivated Barrack Obama is with Mahatma Gandhi that his portrait hangs in the Senate office, just to remind that the real results won’t come from Washington DC, but from people.

Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King was the famous American activist and revolutionary who led the Civil Rights movement and inspired millions of African-Americans to fight for their rights, using non-violent ways. He was greatly inspired by Gandhi and used his philosophy and teachings while preparing his own strategies and speeches for the Civil Rights movement in America.

He famously said, “Christ gave us the goals, and Mahatma Gandhi tactics.”

Nelson Mandela
Mahatma Gandhi had a huge impact on Nelson Mandela’s vision and thinking. Often called South African Gandhi, Mandela never met Mahatma but has referred to his teachings and leadership lessons several times.

In his fight against colonialism and apartheid in South Africa, Mandela derived strength and inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi’s words. In a recent speech, Harris Majeke, South Africa’s ambassador to India said, “While Nelson Mandela the father of South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi is our grandfather.”

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It is widely acclaimed that the Satyagraha March by Gandhi deeply influenced Nelson Mandela’s thought process and motivated him to fight the oppressions inside his own country.
 

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...pired-by-gandhi-visits-his-memorial-in-india/
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Obama, long inspired by Gandhi, visits his memorial in India

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NEW DELHI -- President Obama has long shown a fascination with Mohandas Gandhi, hanging a photo of the slain Indian independence leader on the wall of his office and citing Gandhi in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

On Sunday, Obama visited Raj Ghat, the site that holds Gandhi’s ashes, slowly walking around the memorial and scattering rose petals on it.

Obama is in India for a trip that is rich in symbolism as the United States and India look to strengthen a relationship that has been cool for years and as he and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi seek to cement a friendship they hope will benefit both countries. And the leaders are turning to Gandhi for inspiration.
That bond was forged in Washington in September, when both men visitedthe Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington. Obama decided at the last minute to join Modi at the memorial, and the spirit of Gandhi permeated the visit.

Many here in India are proud that King was inspired by Gandhi’s nonviolent protests, traveling to India in 1959, and Obama has evoked both men in the past.
“As someone who stands here as a direct consequence of Dr. King's life work, I am living testimony to the moral force of nonviolence. I know there's nothing weak -- nothing passive -- nothing naïve -- in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King,” Obama said during his Nobel speech in 2009.

Obama alluded to King again Sunday, writing about him in the guestbook.

“What Martin Luther King, Jr., said then remains true today. The spirit of Gandhi is very much alive in India today,” he wrote. “And it remains a great gift to the world. May we always live in his spirit of love and peace among all people and nations.”


Obama has paid tribute to Gandhi in India before, visiting the memorial and Gandhi’s former home in Mumbai. Obama wrote in a guestbook that Gandhi was a hero not only to India, but to the world. And he has evoked Gandhi and King with other Indian leaders.

"There was a discussion between the President and the previous Prime Minister, Prime Minister Modi’s predecessor, about the relationship -- or at least the intellectual relationship between Gandhi and Martin Luther King," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said in September, "and that they pursued in trying to bring a chance in their countries a similar commitment to nonviolence that I think Prime Minister Modi and certainly President Obama greatly admires."

When he was asked by students in 2009 which person, dead or alive, he would like to have dinner with, Obama said Gandhi.

“He’s somebody I find a lot of inspiration in,” he said. “"He ended up doing so much and changed the world just by the power of his ethics."

After scattering flowers on the memorial, Obama was supposed to plant a tree, but it was already in the ground. He spread dirt around the sapling and watered it with a pitcher.

“Big and strong,” he said to the plant

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Well, since I've looked into this bit of trivia, I think it's time I let y'all in on the reasoning behind these quotes. They are due to the prevailing theory of 'races' devised by Christoph Meiners and Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring. Both of these scientists based their work on the 'degenerative hypothesis' theory devised by Johann Freidrich Blumenbach who was decidedly anti-racist, unfortunately, it became an established orthodoxy in the 19th Century which led to the creation of 'scientific racialism' which was prevalent throughout Europe and it's colonies of which India was one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_Blumenbach

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Meiners

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Thomas_von_Sömmerring

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