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'Racist' Gandhi statue removed from University of Ghana
BBC ^ | December 13, 2018

Posted on 12/13/2018 2:20:50 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

A statue of Mahatma Gandhi, the famed Indian independence leader, has been removed from a university campus in Ghana's capital, Accra.

University of Ghana lecturers began a petition for its removal shortly after it was unveiled in 2016 by India's former President Pranab Mukherjee.

The petition said Gandhi was "racist" and African heroes should be put first.

In the wake of the row, Ghana's government at the time said the statue would be relocated.

Lecturers and students told the BBC that the statue, originally located at the university's recreational quadrangle, had been removed on Wednesday.

The university confirmed this, saying that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration was responsible.

Law student Nana Adoma Asare Adei told the BBC: "Having his statue means that we stand for everything he stands for and if he stands for these things [his alleged racism], I don't think we should have his statue on campus."

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: africa; gandhi; ghana; india; nanaadomaasareadei; racist; statue
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To: SaveFerris

Awesome


21 posted on 12/13/2018 3:14:08 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: raygunfan; Gamecock; Larry Lucido; KC_Lion; FredZarguna; PROCON

He would dip his head in oil....


22 posted on 12/13/2018 3:14:23 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: BenLurkin

Likes a good steak, too.


23 posted on 12/13/2018 3:14:54 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Total simpletons.


24 posted on 12/13/2018 3:17:53 PM PST by myerson
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The Gandhi Affair -- Seinfeld

Seinbytes {The Gandhi Affair} Seinfeld NBC

25 posted on 12/13/2018 3:28:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: SaveFerris; Larry Lucido
<gravely.voice> The passion.
26 posted on 12/13/2018 3:30:44 PM PST by Gamecock (In church today, we so often find we meet only the same old world, not Christ and His Kingdom. AS)
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
Gandhi was also extremely clever in the way of his countrymen. The idea was that if the Congress could get the Brits to leave the Japanese would never have enough troops to really occupy India. The big cities such as Calcutta and government centers such as Delhi, yes. The massive bulk of India , no. Especially as the Mahatma calculated the Japanese would have the bulk of their land forces tied up in China indefinitely. The Japanese might kill alot of Hindus but in the end they would be strategically frustrated by mass civil disobedience. Even if it took some years, what was that in the enormous spectrum of Indian history. Gandhi didn't care for big cities and modernism anyway , he saw the essence of India in the masses of peasants adhering to an unchanging pattern of rural life. The Japanese would grow tired and mostly leave, the British would be gone, India could return to its eternal cycle of life pretty much undisturbed by modernism. For the rest they would have to figure it out for themselves.
27 posted on 12/13/2018 3:39:14 PM PST by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“...African heroes should be put first...”

Like who? The racist, commie Mandella filth and the hate-filled, murderous Mugabe garbage?


28 posted on 12/13/2018 3:42:35 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: SaveFerris

Ghandi with a Thompson Gun, I love it.


29 posted on 12/13/2018 3:42:40 PM PST by robowombat (Orthodox)
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To: RedMonqey

I like what you did there ; )


30 posted on 12/13/2018 3:45:21 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: A_Former_Democrat
Pliny the Elder wrote, "There's always something new out of Africa."

Little did he imagine...

African heroes? Hannibal? Khufu? Cleopatra? Augustine of Hippo? Hatshepsut? St. Athanasius? Septimius Severus? Thutmose III?

31 posted on 12/13/2018 3:52:59 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: House Atreides

They’re probably thinking Mobutu Sese Seko, Jomo Kenyatta or Moïse Tshombe


32 posted on 12/13/2018 4:02:01 PM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Strangest civil war in history, only one side is shooting.)
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To: golux

Gandhi had lots of secrets. Like serving in an India regiment of the British Army in WWI and attaining the rank of sergeant major.

Like maintaining close relations with the Indian community in South Africa and making it clear that they were racially separated from whites only by superficials such as skin tone. Even Hitler regarded Hindus as Aryans.

A Hindu once boasted to me, “Our skin may be dark but our hair is straight!”.

His call for nonviolent surrender to the Axis powers was based on his experience with the civilized British. BTW, he bent the British to his will by going on hunger strikes; they feared the chaos that would erupt if he died & they never called his bluff. After all, what good are naked teenybopper groupies if you’re dead?

Almost think the Africans may have a point here. On the Dark Continent, Gandhi was closer to British colonialism than in India itself.


33 posted on 12/13/2018 4:05:34 PM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Ghandi was gay and for awhile he had a real “thing” for some Jewish German body-builder guy, back in the day:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/04/11/i-was-gandhis-boyfriend


34 posted on 12/13/2018 5:03:09 PM PST by gaijin
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To: gaijin
Here he is younger with hair, and on the right the Jewish guy who was his squeeze at the time:


35 posted on 12/13/2018 5:06:48 PM PST by gaijin
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To: gaijin

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/9836759/Was-Gandhi-gay-Intimate-letters-go-on-display-in-India.html


36 posted on 12/13/2018 5:09:57 PM PST by gaijin
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To: carriage_hill

Uncle Idi Amin Dada.

At least one of his sons is in the UK with a homicide conviction.


37 posted on 12/13/2018 5:36:32 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke

Didn’t he used to kill, cook and eat his enemies? I read that somewhere.


38 posted on 12/13/2018 5:54:23 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: carriage_hill
Didn’t he used to kill, cook and eat his enemies? I read that somewhere.

Amin also loved the cartoon 'Tom and Jerry' so much he had his own collection.
39 posted on 12/13/2018 6:02:40 PM PST by farming pharmer
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To: carriage_hill

Idi Amin loved cannibal jokes, like what do you call a cannibal who devoured his mother in law?

Gladiator!

Badabing badaboom!


40 posted on 12/13/2018 6:19:41 PM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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