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'Racist' Gandhi statue removed from University of Ghana
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| 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."
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: africa; gandhi; ghana; india; nanaadomaasareadei; racist; statue
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
drinking a glass of his own urine once a day The British actress Sarah Miles does the same, in his honor.
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posted on
12/13/2018 7:06:54 PM PST
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LouAvul
(The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
To: House Atreides
#6. Re “African heroes” - don’t forget Tarzan!
To: rightwingintelligentsia
"Having his statue means that we stand for everything he stands for"NO, stupid person. Statues do NOT mean that at all. They have nothing to do with you personally.
Moron.
To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
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posted on
12/13/2018 9:03:30 PM PST
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fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
To: LouAvul
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posted on
12/13/2018 9:04:00 PM PST
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fieldmarshaldj
("It's Slappin' Time !")
To: rightwingintelligentsia; House Atreides; Jhadur; Verginius Rufus; Calvin Locke; carriage_hill; ...
"African heroes should be put first"And that would be "Big Daddy" Idi Amin Dada - hands down!
A veritable Colossus of mythical proportions, a giant among men. Look on his works, ye Mighty, and despair:
- Military might: Along with a few Arab-speaking allies, he took on the mighty armed forces of Israel, and whipped them so badly at The Battle of Entebbe that the IDF had to withdraw their entire force from Uganda and go home.
- Champion of the Middle Class: Prior to his enlightened reign, the Ugandan government extracted huge sums of $$ from the middle class via income / sales / property taxes.
But (and note how this ties in with the "African-Indian" theme), after Big Daddy's hand of friendship reached out to Indian expats in Uganda to enlist their resources in a brilliant new economic plan, the government, starting the next year, collected next to nothing from them in taxes!
- Friend of the Earth: Prior to Idi, the agriculture in Uganda was so huge that they exported food to many neighbors. But this came at a terrible cost in terms of global warming, through the outsized carbon footprint spewed out by diesel-burning tractors / farm machinery, vehicles on traffic-clogged roads, and in the exhalations of surplus human beings (who scientists have recently discovered are spewing out Mother-Earth-harming CO2 toxic waste gases on a 24x7 basis!)
But after a year or two of Amin's "economic restructuring" - emissions from vehicles and farm equipment dropped to near zero, and human CO2 emissions nationwide were nearly cut in half!
- Many more triumphs .... EG: Creative fertilization techniques on arable fields, via large volumes of hemoglobin. Combatting mass starvation by quickly realizing it was caused by a tenfold increase in the "Population :: Food Ratio" due to disappearing food supplies, and working overtime to bring that ratio back down to normal. And much more.
Sorry there, Cecil Rhodes, Uncle Bob Mugabe, Ozymandias, and the rest. But you have met your match.
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12/13/2018 11:40:58 PM PST
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CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
To: fieldmarshaldj
Yeah. She doesn’t look a day over 100.
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12/14/2018 4:29:20 AM PST
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LouAvul
(The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Gandhi was racist to blacks — that’s a known
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12/14/2018 6:00:01 AM PST
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Cronos
(Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
Gandhi had good ideas and bad ones. He was just a man at the end of the day
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12/14/2018 6:00:31 AM PST
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Cronos
(Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
Good points. But Emperor Bokassa may be the runner-up.
To: rightwingintelligentsia
At least one million and possibly as many as two million Indians died in the civil unrest that accompanied the migrations into and out of Pakistan and East Pakistan following the partitioning of India. This was a foreseeable consequence of Ghandi Gee’s push for independence, particularly his failure to anticipate that Muslim Indians would seek the same freedom from Hindu rule as Hindu Indians sought from British rule, and the utter lack of preparation for the mass migration.
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