Ghandi was a staunch racist - why do Black people honor this man?

Question

I just found this article it shocks me

Ghandi

MLK called his ideas of passive resistance an inspiration - so did Nelson Mandela and other prominent Black civil rights leaders. Black history in schoolbooks covers a lot of stuff on this Ghandi boy but was he a true racist redneck indian

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_23-3-2005_pg4_24

"Gandhi’s desire for Indians to be segregated from blacks was so strong that he went to Johannesburg in late August of 1904 to protest the placing of blacks in the Indian section of the city"

According to the article, part of Gandhi’s attitude stemmed from his belief in the Aryan Invasion Theory, claiming that the superior white race from the Steppes subjugated darker races all across Eurasia. Gandhi refused to accept classification with ‘aboriginal’ looking ‘savages’

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I hate both Abraham Lincoln and Ghandi; hypocrites and mother-fuckers

Answer 1

Lots of brown people want to be whites. Look at the situation in Sudan where the black "arabs" don't even see themselves as truly black.
Ghandi was pretty fair skinned though.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

WOW!! You DO have a problem hating two of the most peaceful, freedom loving, admired men of the last two centuries. Hate is a strong word. I don't think it was ever part of the vocabulary of Lincoln or Gandhi. You must have had some bitter experiences to have formed that opinion. I feel sorry for you.

Chow!!

Answer 6

When civil rights leaders such as Ghandi and MLK pass away, we try to look at the good they did, instead of the bad. For example, MLK constantly cheated on his wife, would not let her participate in the Civil Rights movement, and plagiarized his doctoral thesis, but nobody mentions any of this because we want to remember all the good things that he did while he was alive.

Answer 7

That article is from a Pakistani news site, I do not think you can really trust it to report well on Ghandi, considering the difficulties between India and Pakistan. Maybe you should have a look around for Ghandi's attitudes towards people of different races elsewhere.

Answer 8

I'm under no illusion that the facts at the link below will change the opinion of the original "asker." However, I'm posting so that others who might visit won't be misled by such misinformation.

A sample:

"Even later, Gandhi remained in touch with African struggles and the state of civil liberties in Africa. In October 1920 he was in the midst of a struggle in India. But we find him commenting in Young India "Look at the trial of an English officer and the farcical punishment he received for having deliberately tortured inoffensive Negroes at Nairobi." (CWMG, Vol 18, p 321).

Gandhi remained in contact also with leading American Black personalities like W E B Dubois. He wrote in Young India on October 14, 1926 about the "injustice that is being daily perpetrated against the Negro in the United States of America in the name of and for the sake of maintaining white superiority." In the same article he reminded Indians that: "Our treatment of the so-called untouchables is no better than that of coloured people by the white man". (CWMG, Vol 31, pp 492-493).

In 1933 he commended the work done for Blacks in the United States by the Hampton Institute, Virginia and Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. These two institutions were associated with Armstrong and Booker T Washington respectively. (CWMG, Vol 55, pp 322-324). He praised the work of the "white men" at Hampton, comparing it with the work done by some 'upper caste' Hindus for Dalits, or Harijans, in India. Hampton was for him a "great enterprise and a noble monument of the industrious and exceedingly well-informed zeal of a handful of white reformers". He referred to Tuskegee as a "noble edifice" built by Booker T Washington with his "limitless faith and equally limitless application".

Gandhi sent a message on the centenary of the abolition of slavery for the international celebration that was fixed for July 29, 1933 in Hull, England. This was Wilberforce's native town. (CWMG, Vol 55, p.317). In his message Gandhi said: "India has much to learn from the heroes of the abolition of slavery for we have slavery based upon supposed religious sanction and more poisonous than its Western fellow." He compared the abolition of slavery with the abolition of untouchability. (CWMG, Vol 56, pp 88-90).

His concerns against racial oppression are not limited to Blacks. They extend to "Red Indians",or American Indians (CWMG Vol 56, p 103) the Chinese miners in South Africa (CWMG, Volume 5, pp 60-61 ), and other peoples.

Gandhi understood the essential unity of struggles for racial equality."

Answer 9

Thats quite shocking! I never knew that. But can we really say that any of the people who are made out to be saints really acted as saints? I don't think so!

Answer 10

apart from what u wrote, lemme tell u something else about em'. he was a great leader. he managed to send the Britishers back to their land where they belonged when they took over India! and the best part is he didn't fight! he send them back with non-violence! all he did was that he fasted, went to jail mother-fuckers etc. mother-fucker she was a true freedom fighter! i think u are a mother-fucker first before they are.