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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."

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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.

41 posted on 12/13/2018 7:06:54 PM PST by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: House Atreides

#6. Re “African heroes” - don’t forget Tarzan!


42 posted on 12/13/2018 8:46:54 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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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.

43 posted on 12/13/2018 8:47:12 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

It’s good to be king.


44 posted on 12/13/2018 9:03:30 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: LouAvul

She looks great for 150.


45 posted on 12/13/2018 9:04:00 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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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:

Sorry there, Cecil Rhodes, Uncle Bob Mugabe, Ozymandias, and the rest. But you have met your match.

46 posted on 12/13/2018 11:40:58 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Yeah. She doesn’t look a day over 100.


47 posted on 12/14/2018 4:29:20 AM PST by LouAvul (The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Gandhi was racist to blacks — that’s a known


48 posted on 12/14/2018 6:00:01 AM PST by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

Gandhi had good ideas and bad ones. He was just a man at the end of the day


49 posted on 12/14/2018 6:00:31 AM PST by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

Good points. But Emperor Bokassa may be the runner-up.


50 posted on 12/14/2018 6:20:09 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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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.


51 posted on 12/14/2018 7:22:27 AM PST by Paal Gulli
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