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

[Medicate]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...pired-by-gandhi-visits-his-memorial-in-india/
1/25/15
Obama, long inspired by Gandhi, visits his memorial in India

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

Ol boy a Superc00n

Glad you posted this.....

 

[Medicate]

Gandhi has been dead for 67 years.
Is this really important?

You're not wrong.
It's just....are we gonna make threads about all the racist shyt that was said before polio was cured?

It never fails with you all.........The truth brings the devil out each time..........

 

[Tommy Knocks]

in 2015, i'm still surprised a film hasn't been made about his life yet

there is no way they're going to make a film about that unless its someone like tarentino.

Joe Brown was cold cacs killing cacs for cacin'

 

[Remote]

It never fails with you all.........The truth brings the devil out each time..........

Nah B.

 

[NobodyReally]

Gandhi has been dead for 67 years.
Is this really important?

You're not wrong.
It's just....are we gonna make threads about all the racist shyt that was said before polio was cured?

Actually, I find it very shocking considering the narrative that we're indoctrinated with about his message of love and peace. I'm glad the OP posted this.

 

[Bobby Reds]

Fucc Gandhi

and fucc anyone that loves him too

 

[Raava]

I will rep you later

I gotta neg @Raedawn07 first

 

[Remote]

Actually, I find it very shocking considering the narrative that we're indoctrinated with about his message of love and peace. I'm glad the OP posted this.

Look man,

I think people are getting the wrong impression behind what I was trying to say. I don't have a problem with OP pointing out Gandhi's racism. He's right to point that out.
I think it was a bit of a waste of time ....IN MY VIEW...because I knew this already, and I thought most other people knew this too.

I'm not trying to excuse Gandhi's racism. I just thought there are more recent, pressing issues to discuss when it comes to racism. Not a guy who was killed almost 70 years ago.

But, to be fair....maybe a lot of people on the coli DIDN'T know this about Gandhi. So maybe it's good that OP is enlightening them to that part of his life.

 

[Medicate]

I actually usually like you despite you not being black but your post is all kinds of stupid, I think this should definitely be put out there so blacks who are unaware know this and don't look at this racist hypocrite Indian who wanted equality for his people but views others as subhuman. No black person should ever look to him as some sort of moral beacon.

Real interesting at the response ain't it?

 

[NobodyReally]

Look man,

I think people are getting the wrong impression behind what I was trying to say. I don't have a problem with OP pointing out Gandhi's racism. He's right to point that out.
I think it was a bit of a waste of time ....IN MY VIEW...because I knew this already, and I thought most other people knew this too.

I'm not trying to excuse Gandhi's racism. I just thought there are more recent, pressing issues to discuss when it comes to racism. Not a guy who was killed almost 70 years ago.

But, to be fair....maybe a lot of people on the coli DIDN'T know this about Gandhi. So maybe it's good that OP is enlightening them to that part of his life.

OK, well, if you already knew this, then I can definitely see why you don't think this is particularly news worthy.

 

[TGainz]

Rest in Piss Ghandi .....#thatshytghandi.com

 

[mbewane]

He had said something along the lines of congolese having no fight in them, or nah?

Yeah I think that's it, like "Without us they wouldn't be able to do shyt" or something

 

[GetInTheTruck]

Gandhi was a c00n when he was a young lawyer in south africa. He wisened up later on in life but still kept his agenda pro indian.

With that said I'm not a Gandhi fan.

 

[Medicate]

Look man,

I think people are getting the wrong impression behind what I was trying to say. I don't have a problem with OP pointing out Gandhi's racism. He's right to point that out.
I think it was a bit of a waste of time ....IN MY VIEW...because I knew this already, and I thought most other people knew this too.

I'm not trying to excuse Gandhi's racism. I just thought there are more recent, pressing issues to discuss when it comes to racism. Not a guy who was killed almost 70 years ago.

But, to be fair....maybe a lot of people on the coli DIDN'T know this about Gandhi. So maybe it's good that OP is enlightening them to that part of his life.

I don't believe that was your reason at all....I believe most of you trolls are agent provacateurs, who's task is to shut down any forward thinking progress in regards to young black men and women of past generations, but more specifically present generations.

You know damn well, none of these young folks knew Gandhi was a racist, as a matter of fact, not many older folks who were and still are sheep to the mainstream brainwashing theme they were presented about Gandhi know this.

The fact that the most leading figures in the movement to keep black people peaceful in the face of oppression quote and love Gandhi is profound and also disturbing, when if Gandhi had his way, he would be the Oppressor of our people just as this caucasoid.........

Most importantly is that Gandhi's thought process is actually very prevalent in India today and was back then, so the 20's(of which this is not when he made the quotes) are no different than today.

 

[GetInTheTruck]

He was an agents who's actions led to the fracturing of his country in half. And he was a fukkboy

I have some respect for him but the country being split is definitely his fault, you're right. He opened the floodgates for every wack job in India to demand a separate state.