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To: ameribbean expat

The following news item is from 13 years ago:

Gandhi branded racist as Johannesburg honours freedom fighter

The Guardian, Friday 17 October 2003

It was supposed to honour his resistance to racism in South Africa, but a new statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Johannesburg has triggered a row over his alleged contempt for black people.

The 2.5 metre high (8ft) bronze statue depicting Gandhi as a dashing young human rights lawyer has been welcomed by Nelson Mandela, among others, for recognising the Indian who launched the fight against white minority rule at the turn of the last century.

But critics have attacked the gesture for overlooking racist statements attributed to Gandhi, which suggest he viewed black people as lazy savages who were barely human.

Continues here:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/oct/17/southafrica.india


3 posted on 10/05/2016 5:39:00 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Jyotishi

Sure go ahead and remove all statues and artifacts of the peacekeepers and replace them with Satanists and barbarian nutcase murderers.


9 posted on 10/05/2016 6:30:57 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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