Racist' Gandhi statue banished from Ghana university campus

[crossovernegro]

ok dude.... I guess you just didn't want to type the words into your google/bing search window, so I'll post some stuff for you. His own grandson admits it, although he tries to clean it up a bit. Remember, before he was the Gandhi we all know, he was a practicing lawyer in South Africa, and I believe he ran a newspaper also... there is primary source material out there (his own writing) that you can easily find too. You can actually look it up yourself, but here's the grandson's quote below:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34265882


excerpt:
Rajmohan Gandhi, says the younger Gandhi - he arrived in South Africa as a 24-year-old briefless lawyer - was undoubtedly "at times ignorant and prejudiced about South Africa's blacks". He believes Gandhi's "struggle for Indian rights in South Africa paved the way for the struggle of black rights". He argues that "Gandhi too was an imperfect human being", but the "imperfect Gandhi was more radical and progressive than most contemporary compatriots".

I see a lot of you are taking queues from Donald trump. You accuse someone of being racist and post no proof and we are to believe what you said because you are you, and anyone who doesn't know what you know must be ignorant.

 

[Flawless]

ok dude.... I guess you just didn't want to type the words into your google/bing search window, so I'll post some stuff for you. His own grandson admits it, although he tries to clean it up a bit. Remember, before he was the Gandhi we all know, he was a practicing lawyer in South Africa, and I believe he ran a newspaper also... there is primary source material out there (his own writing) that you can easily find too. You can actually look it up yourself, but here's the grandson's quote below:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34265882


excerpt:
Rajmohan Gandhi, says the younger Gandhi - he arrived in South Africa as a 24-year-old briefless lawyer - was undoubtedly "at times ignorant and prejudiced about South Africa's blacks". He believes Gandhi's "struggle for Indian rights in South Africa paved the way for the struggle of black rights". He argues that "Gandhi too was an imperfect human being", but the "imperfect Gandhi was more radical and progressive than most contemporary compatriots".

So the Indian guy showed preference to Indians over Africans? Who would have guessed.

 

[crossovernegro]

He was racist... something you were calling bullshit on. He wanted white people to treat indians like white people instead of black people and didn't want indians to have to sit in the same train cars with us Kaffirs.
You threw shade at people for mentioning this and implied that it wasn't true. I'm simply showing you the proof you requested. Nobody is saying that it should be a shock to anyone; we're just saying how he was. You didn't know something before and now you do... see, we can learn things every day.

So the Indian guy showed preference to Indians over Africans? Who would have guessed.

 

[Flawless]

He was racist... something you were calling bullshit on. He wanted white people to treat indians like white people instead of black people and didn't want indians to have to sit in the same train cars with us Kaffirs.
You threw shade at people for mentioning this and implied that it wasn't true. I'm simply showing you the proof you requested. Nobody is saying that it should be a shock to anyone; we're just saying how he was. You didn't know something before and now you do... see, we can learn things every day.

I think you read someone else quote because I never called it bullshit. I just said if you are going to claim he is racist atleast post some proof instead of wanting us to take your word for it

 

[crossovernegro]

sounded like you were implying that what we were saying wasn't true. If that's not what you meant, then cool. Now you know...now you've seen proof.

I think you read someone else quote because I never called it bullshit. I just said if you are going to claim he is racist atleast post some proof instead of wanting us to take your word for it

 

[Esther]

Gandhi was a racist, castiest and a pedeophile.

 

[Esther]

I see a lot of you are taking queues from Donald trump. You accuse someone of being racist and post no proof and we are to believe what you said because you are you, and anyone who doesn't know what you know must be ignorant.

n 1893, Gandhi wrote to the Natal parliament saying that a "general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are a little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Africa".

 

[Nzinga]

Stfu

You as a homo would have loved Ghandi because he would fucked
you in the ass

 

[Flawless]

n 1893, Gandhi wrote to the Natal parliament saying that a "general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are a little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Africa".

if he thinks Indians are superior to blacks I cant call him racist for that because everyone looks out for their own and think they are superior to others. No different from me bragging that while we were engineering pyramids in Africa white people were eating raw meat in caves, obviously I'm going to be biased when it comes to my own.

 

[BlackRob]

Gandhi was a racist, castiest and a pedeophile.

I thought it was removed (per OP) back in 2016? Anyway, they finally took it down this past Tuesday. After many complaints and protests over the past two years


Africa
University Of Ghana Removes Gandhi Statue After Faculty Outcry
December 14, 201811:05 AM ET

A controversial statue of the Indian civil rights leader Mohandas Gandhi has been removed from the The University of Ghana campus, two years after it was installed and faculty promptly began protesting for its removal.

The lecturers opposed to the statue pointed to what they called, Gandhi's "racist identity," highlighting remarks in which he repeatedly referred to native Africans using a slur and indicated that Indians were superior to Africans. Gandhi is famous for leading India's independence movement against the British and for pushing for other reforms across the country, but he spent more than two decades in South Africa working on civil rights issues.

A petition from the faculty members also noted that the University of Ghana's campus did not have statues of African heroes and heroines.

As NPR previously reported, the statue was installed on campus in 2016 and controversy over it was almost immediate:

"The statue was unveiled in June [2016] by Indian President Shri Pranab Mukherjee during a state visit to Ghana, and professors began rallying against it in September [2016].

"In a statement, Ghana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was following the controversy with 'deep concern,' and added: 'While acknowledging that human as he was, Mahatma Gandhi may have had his flaws, we must remember that people evolve. He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world."

The ministry stressed that the 'unfortunate verbal attack' against Gandhi could potentially 'create disaffection not only at the level of Government relations, but also between people not only in our country but all over the world.' "

In its initial response to the protests, the ministry said it wanted to "relocate" the statue, to tamp down the outrage while also protecting the artwork itself.

But it remained in place until this week.

The statue "was removed in the middle of the night on Tuesday, leaving just an empty plinth," The Guardian reports. It's unclear exactly where it is now.

The university told the BBC that Ghana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration was responsible for the statue's removal.


https://www.npr.org/2018/12/14/6766...na-removes-gandhi-statue-after-faculty-outcry

 

[Ballatician]

FYI, it was an African American Professor who alerted the other African Professsors on campus about Gandhi’s racist comments. Had he not done that, the fucking statue would still be there.

 

[Crooklyn13]

A statue of Mahatma Gandhi will be removed from a university campus in Ghana after professors launched a petition claiming the revered Indian independence leader and thinker was racist.

The statue of Gandhi was unveiled in June at the University of Ghana campus in Accra by Pranab Mukherjee, the president of India, as a symbol of close ties between the two countries.

But in September a group of professors started a petition calling for the removal of the statue, saying Gandhi was racist and that the university should put African heroes and heroines “first and foremost”.

The petition states “it is better to stand up for our dignity than to kowtow to the wishes of a burgeoning Eurasian super power”, and quotes passages written by Gandhi which say Indians are “infinitely superior” to black Africans.

More than 1,000 people signed the petition, which claimed that not only was Gandhi racist towards black South Africans when he lived in South Africa as a young man, but that he campaigned for the maintenance of India’s caste system, an ancient social hierarchy that still defines the status in that country of hundreds of millions of people.

Ghana’s foreign ministry said it had followed the controversy with “deep concern” and wanted to relocate the statue.

“The government would therefore want to relocate the statue from the University of Ghana to ensure its safety and to avoid the controversy.” it said. “While acknowledging that, human as he was, Mahatma Gandhi may have had his flaws, we must remember that people evolve.”

Statues on university campuses have recently prompted bitter arguments in Africa as students wrestle with the legacy of colonialism and history of racism on the continent. Last year students in South Africa successfully campaigned for the removal, from the University of Cape Town campus, of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, a notoriously racist mining magnate who died in 1902.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...roes?CMP=fb_gu

Growing up in the rural areas of Guyana, I always wonders how the fuck these coolies became so racist. Gandhi instill that belief in them as they made their way as “ indentured servants” to Guyana to work in the sugar fields after slavery was abolished..

 

[shaddyvillethug]

I never cared for that dude

Even when Martin was talking about him

Nigga never did shit for me

 

[World B Free]

I never cared for that dude

Even when Martin was talking about him

Nigga never did shit for me

He was simple & plain....

 

[SPECTRE1]

They be pushing those racist bell curve theories and filing those grand standing lawsuits/propaganda along with Asians claiming they were denied opportunity because a less qualified minority was chosen over them. This clown went onto CNN pushing this racist propaganda.

A couple of them were sic on me either by whites or they decided to come at me trying to disrupt my work. Nobody black bothers their people, maybe I need to start harassing Sundar Pichai or Satya Nadella.

 

[Nzinga]

FYI, it was an African American Professor who alerted the other African Professsors on campus about Gandhi’s racist comments. Had he not done that, the fucking statue would still be there.

We Africans know our history. Black South Africans demanded the removal of Ghandis statue from a square more than 10yrs ago

 

[SPECTRE1]

The End of Racism
In 1995 D'Souza published The End of Racism, in which he claimed that exaggerated claims of racism are holding back progress among African Americans in the US; he defended the Southern slave owner, and notes that "The American slave was treated like property, which is to say, pretty well".[38] A reviewer for The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education responded by posting a list of sixteen recent racist incidents against black people.[39] Michael Bérubé, in a lengthy review article, referred to the book as "encyclopedic pseudoscience", calling it illogical and saying some of the book's policy recommendations are fascist; it is "so egregious an affront to human decency as to set a new and sorry standard for 'intellectual'".[40]

The book was panned by many other critics as well: John David Smith, in The Journal of Southern History, says D'Souza claims blacks are inferior and opines that "D'Souza bases his terribly insensitive, reactionary polemic on sound bite statistical and historical evidence, frequently gleaned out of context and patched together illogically. His book is flawed because he ignores the complex causes and severity of white racism, misrepresents Boas's arguments, and undervalues the matrix of ignorance, fear, and long-term economic inequality that he dubs black cultural pathology. How, according to his own logic, can allegedly inferior people uplift themselves without government assistance". D'Souza's "biased diatribe trivializes serious pathologies, white and black, and adds little to our understanding of America's painful racial dilemma".[41] Paul Finkelmancomments on D'Souza's trivialization of racism, and says, in a review article called "The Rise of the New Racism", that much of what D'Souza says is untrue, and much is only partially true; that the book is "like a parody of scholarship, where selected 'facts' are pulled out of any recognizable context, and used to support a particular viewpoint". In Finkelman's opinion, the book exemplifies a "new racism", which "(1) denies the history of racial oppression in America; (2) rejects biological racism in favor of an attack on black culture; and (3) supports formal, de jure equality in order to attack civil rights laws that prohibit private discrimination and in order to undermine any public policies that might monitor equality and give it substantive meaning"

 

[Nzinga]

There is a Ghandi statue in Kenya and dirt poor Malawi is spending $10million to erect a Ghandi statue ...and the people are angry

 

[Nzinga]

The End of Racism
In 1995 D'Souza published The End of Racism, in which he claimed that exaggerated claims of racism are holding back progress among African Americans in the US; he defended the Southern slave owner, and notes that "The American slave was treated like property, which is to say, pretty well".[38] A reviewer for The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education responded by posting a list of sixteen recent racist incidents against black people.[39] Michael Bérubé, in a lengthy review article, referred to the book as "encyclopedic pseudoscience", calling it illogical and saying some of the book's policy recommendations are fascist; it is "so egregious an affront to human decency as to set a new and sorry standard for 'intellectual'".[40]

The book was panned by many other critics as well: John David Smith, in The Journal of Southern History, says D'Souza claims blacks are inferior and opines that "D'Souza bases his terribly insensitive, reactionary polemic on sound bite statistical and historical evidence, frequently gleaned out of context and patched together illogically. His book is flawed because he ignores the complex causes and severity of white racism, misrepresents Boas's arguments, and undervalues the matrix of ignorance, fear, and long-term economic inequality that he dubs black cultural pathology. How, according to his own logic, can allegedly inferior people uplift themselves without government assistance". D'Souza's "biased diatribe trivializes serious pathologies, white and black, and adds little to our understanding of America's painful racial dilemma".[41] Paul Finkelmancomments on D'Souza's trivialization of racism, and says, in a review article called "The Rise of the New Racism", that much of what D'Souza says is untrue, and much is only partially true; that the book is "like a parody of scholarship, where selected 'facts' are pulled out of any recognizable context, and used to support a particular viewpoint". In Finkelman's opinion, the book exemplifies a "new racism", which "(1) denies the history of racial oppression in America; (2) rejects biological racism in favor of an attack on black culture; and (3) supports formal, de jure equality in order to attack civil rights laws that prohibit private discrimination and in order to undermine any public policies that might monitor equality and give it substantive meaning"

There you go

 

[SPECTRE1]

Eerily similar to white propaganda that was being pushed out in the 80's. Today, this movie could not be made in Hollywood, a white actor wearing black face. However, an Indian American may be able to get away with it since they are not using black face to do it.

 

[Mr.Mojo]

Goddamn Indians shittin in their streets and wanna feel superior to somebody. foh..no wonder they wear those wraps..just rip off a piece..wipe your ass n keep moving.



Fuck ghandi!

 

[SPECTRE1]

Goddamn Indians shittin in their streets and wanna feel superior to somebody. foh..no wonder they wear those wraps..just rip off a piece..wipe your ass n keep moving.



Fuck ghandi!

Alot of them vote Democrat and supported President Obama. I do not know why TV uses these clowns to trash us.

 

[Soul On Ice]

Goddamn Indians shittin in their streets and wanna feel superior to somebody. foh..no wonder they wear those wraps..just rip off a piece..wipe your ass n keep moving.



Fuck ghandi!

dont forget this also

 

[dasmybikepunk]

Such a shame that he was Dr. King's inspiration, I remember going to the King Center in Atlanta and seeing Gandhi's earthly possessions on display, sandals, glasses and such, I wonder if they removed them too.

 

[bubba2k5]

Took my mother and Aunt to the civil rights museum in Memphis about a year ago and the first thing I saw was a Gandhi exhibit. I wanted to turn around and ask for my money back. But I didn't want to spoil the day for my fam.

 

[Mr.Mojo]

dont forget this also

Nasty..and got the nerve to judge others..can't even watch their porn..all bad lighting and dingy surroundings.
Dingy skin looking bitches..nah I'm good.

 

[Mask]

Nice bump, I didn’t know if this

 

[Joe Money]

Growing up in the rural areas of Guyana, I always wonders how the fuck these coolies became so racist. Gandhi instill that belief in them as they made their way as “ indentured servants” to Guyana to work in the sugar fields after slavery was abolished..

It far precedes Gandhi. Most of it is a product of the Aryan Invasion of India, the Manusmriti (Laws of Manu) and the caste system.

Took my mother and Aunt to the civil rights museum in Memphis about a year ago and the first thing I saw was a Gandhi exhibit. I wanted to turn around and ask for my money back. But I didn't want to spoil the day for my fam.

Gotta take the good with the bad. Gandhi's methods of boycotting and non-violent resistance were studied and used by King and Bevel during the Civil Rights Movement.

 

[SPECTRE1]

How does CNN reconcile firing Marc Lamont Hill with featuring this racist propaganda about college admissions?