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The bronze statue of Mohandas Gandhi has sat behind the Ferry Building since 1988. A group is demanding its removal.
1 posted on 10/02/2010 9:47:49 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

I don’t know if I would call him racist but certainly not worthy of his legend.


2 posted on 10/02/2010 9:49:24 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: SmithL

The Muslims don’t like Ghandi. That’s what this is really all about. They are a minority in India (by design) but they want to take it over and make it part of Pakistan.

So once again Islam rears its filthy head.


3 posted on 10/02/2010 9:52:37 AM PDT by livius
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To: SmithL

Haven’t these protesters learned anything from the left? Only white people are capable of racism.


5 posted on 10/02/2010 9:55:28 AM PDT by death2tyrants
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To: SmithL

Ghandi advised the Jews to submit to the NAZIs.


10 posted on 10/02/2010 10:11:09 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Judas Iscariot - the first social justice advocate. John 12:3-6)
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To: SmithL
I don't know about the racism but the best sign I saw at a tea party in Washington was a quote

First they ignore you
Then they mock you
Then they fight you
Then you win

We're at step 3

14 posted on 10/02/2010 10:26:38 AM PDT by hans56
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To: SmithL

Gandhi had many faults, chief among them a sort of fanatical naivete, the source of his unshakable belief in non-violence. He was lucky that his British opponents were just the sort of tolerant and indulgent people on which his propaganda could work.

That said, he was in fact quite the opposite of a caste-bigot. He was happy to cross caste and religious lines, sometimes quite scandalously by conservative Hindu standards. He was in fact assassinated by a Hindu supremacist.


16 posted on 10/02/2010 10:29:57 AM PDT by buwaya
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