Posted on 12/16/2018 5:19:09 PM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Mahatma Ghandi is known as a beacon of peace and the nonviolent leader who helped India extract itself from British colonial rule. But his writings use racial slurs and stereotypes against people from African nations.
A controversial statue of Mahatma Ghandi has been removed from the University of Ghana on the grounds that the peace icon was too much of a racist to be on display as a pioneer for equality.
The statue came down overnight earlier this week, according to Al Jazeera, after protests from both students and faculty that erupted as soon as the statue was erected on the main campus in Accra, the capital.
An online petition launched in September 2016, asking that the statue be removed, had garnered 2,267 signatures of the 2,500 it was looking for. It was not clear whether this contributed to the statues removal, as university authorities did not comment to Al Jazeera. A Ghana official told Al Jazeera that it was "an internal decision by the university.
Ghandi is famous for spearheading nonviolent action against colonialism. But critics say he was blatantly racist when it came to Africans. He lived and worked in South Africa for years.
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Didn’t Ghandi live in Africa for a while?
He practiced law in South Africa during the late 1890s or so.
The Kaffir Wars were fought against the Kaffirs.
You don’t have to like every other people or culture.
‘Product of his time’ doesn’t seem to be working for slave-owning Founders, and is only recently slipping off the shoulders of Woodrow Wilson. History, once agreed upon, should probably be left alone.
Ghandi supporters should reveal she was a Gay Transvestite undergoing Sex reassignment, and she identified as a 17 year old Black autistic girl.
That would give Ghandi enough PC points to go to the top of the Entitled, Offended Elite pecking order, and save his statue.
Nobody at msn knows how to spell Gandhi?
Theres that word again, irredeemable.
What gives a liberal the godlike right to proclaim someone irredeemable, particularly someone who acccomplished a lot of good?
All he was saying was the British wanted to keep Indians at the primitive level of Africans at the time.
On the bright side, we can now accuse Liberals quoting Gandhi that they’re “racist”.
Yeah he did, and I remember seeing some things he wrote about black Africans that I knew would upset the perpetually indignant. Not being a Gandhi fan I find this amusing.
I’m so disappointed in Ghana.
Only if you think it does, you ignorant kaffir! lol
Most of them struggle to spell their own names correctly.
“Ghandi supporters should reveal she was a Gay Transvestite undergoing Sex reassignment, and she identified as a 17 year old Black autistic girl.”
And on the rag...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3713357/posts
He wasn’t black enough.
Oh dear, what a to do.
Oh dear, what a to do.
India would be better off if they had listened more to Winston Churchill.
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