Comments on: Orissa temple for Gandhi prepares for I-Day celebrations http://www.bloggernews.net/19446 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:56:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Webmaster of Gandhism http://www.bloggernews.net/19446#comment-75699 Webmaster of Gandhism Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:26:10 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/19446#comment-75699 Mahatma Gandhi trained as a lawyer in London. Lived in South Africa. Known as an Apostle of Non-Violence. A messiah, a Hindu deity, a visionary. Hailed as a catalyst of the American Civil Rights Movement. Praised by black leaders from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Nelson Mandela. Admired by world leaders of every political persuasion. After taking their oath of office, Indian politicians then submit at Raj Ghat, Gandhi's tomb. Dignitaries and heads of state throw roses upon Raj Ghat when visiting India. Statues of him, most funded by the Indian government, dot the world. A Gandhi statue stands at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center in Atlanta, Georgia. What did he REALLY believe? http://gandhism.net Gandhi was hired to serve as legal adviser to wealthy Indian traders in Colonial South Africa in 1893. He arrived there prior to Apartheid, but during a time when the nation still suffered severe political unrest and racial segregation. Gandhi soon initiated a movement for the creation of a third entrance to the Durban, South Africa post office entrance. The Durban post office had two doors - one for blacks and Indians and another for whites. Being Indian, Gandhi was of course required to share a door with black South Africans, which deeply offended him. In his Collected Works (CWMG), Vol. I, pp. 367-368, Gandhi wrote: "In the Durban Post and telegraph offices there were separate entrances for natives and Asiatics and Europeans. We felt the indignity too much and many respectable Indians were insulted and called all sorts of names by the clerks at the counter. We petitioned the authorities to do away with the invidious distinction and they have now provided three separate entrances for natives, Asiatics, and Europeans." Note: All quotes are from the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (CWMG). "When one reflects that the conception of Brahmanism, with its poetic and mysterious mythology, took its rise in the land of the 'Coolie trader,' that in that land 24 centuries ago, the almost divine Buddha taught and practised the glorious doctrine of self-sacrifice, and that it was from the plains and mountains of that weird old country that we have derived the fundamental truths of the very language we speak, one cannot but help regretting that the children of such a race should be treated as equals of the children of black heathendom and outer darkness." >>Reference: Vol. I, p. 225 "The Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir." >>Reference: Vol. I, p. 193 "Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness." >>Reference: Vol. I, pp. 409-410 "The £3 tax is merely a penalty for wearing the brown skin and it would appear that, whereas Kaffirs are taxed because they do not work at all or sufficiently, we are to be taxed evidently because we work too much, the only thing in common between the two being the absence of the white skin." >>Reference: Vol. III, p. 74 "First, why should we bear such hardships, submit ourselves, for instance, to...live among the Kaffirs...? Better die than suffer this." >>Reference: Vol. IX, p. 292 "Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians, I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen." >>Reference: Vol. III, p. 429 "We humbly submit that the decision to open the school for all Coloured children is unjust to the Indian community, and is a departure from the assurance given by the then Minister of Education, as also Sir Albert Hime and Mr. Robert Russell, that the school will be reserved for Indian children only." >>Reference: Vol. IV, p. 402 "Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals." >>Reference: Vol. VIII, p. 199 "Are we supposed to be thieves or free-booters that even a Kaffir policeman can accost and detain us wherever we happen to be going?" >>Reference: Vol. VI, p. 363 "The British rulers take us to be so lowly and ignorant that they assume that, like the Kaffirs who can be pleased with toys and pins, we can also be fobbed off with trinkets." >>Reference: Vol. VIII, p. 167 Mahatma Gandhi trained as a lawyer in London. Lived in South Africa. Known as an Apostle of Non-Violence. A messiah, a Hindu deity, a visionary. Hailed as a catalyst of the American Civil Rights Movement. Praised by black leaders from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Nelson Mandela. Admired by world leaders of every political persuasion.

After taking their oath of office, Indian politicians then submit at Raj Ghat, Gandhi’s tomb. Dignitaries and heads of state throw roses upon Raj Ghat when visiting India. Statues of him, most funded by the Indian government, dot the world. A Gandhi statue stands at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

What did he REALLY believe?

http://gandhism.net

Gandhi was hired to serve as legal adviser to wealthy Indian traders in Colonial South Africa in 1893. He arrived there prior to Apartheid, but during a time when the nation still suffered severe political unrest and racial segregation. Gandhi soon initiated a movement for the creation of a third entrance to the Durban, South Africa post office entrance. The Durban post office had two doors - one for blacks and Indians and another for whites. Being Indian, Gandhi was of course required to share a door with black South Africans, which deeply offended him.

In his Collected Works (CWMG), Vol. I, pp. 367-368, Gandhi wrote: “In the Durban Post and telegraph offices there were separate entrances for natives and Asiatics and Europeans. We felt the indignity too much and many respectable Indians were insulted and called all sorts of names by the clerks at the counter. We petitioned the authorities to do away with the invidious distinction and they have now provided three separate entrances for natives, Asiatics, and Europeans.”

Note: All quotes are from the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (CWMG).

“When one reflects that the conception of Brahmanism, with its poetic and mysterious mythology, took its rise in the land of the ‘Coolie trader,’ that in that land 24 centuries ago, the almost divine Buddha taught and practised the glorious doctrine of self-sacrifice, and that it was from the plains and mountains of that weird old country that we have derived the fundamental truths of the very language we speak, one cannot but help regretting that the children of such a race should be treated as equals of the children of black heathendom and outer darkness.”
>>Reference: Vol. I, p. 225

“The Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.”
>>Reference: Vol. I, p. 193

“Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.”
>>Reference: Vol. I, pp. 409-410

“The £3 tax is merely a penalty for wearing the brown skin and it would appear that, whereas Kaffirs are taxed because they do not work at all or sufficiently, we are to be taxed evidently because we work too much, the only thing in common between the two being the absence of the white skin.”
>>Reference: Vol. III, p. 74

“First, why should we bear such hardships, submit ourselves, for instance, to…live among the Kaffirs…? Better die than suffer this.”
>>Reference: Vol. IX, p. 292

“Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians, I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen.”
>>Reference: Vol. III, p. 429

“We humbly submit that the decision to open the school for all Coloured children is unjust to the Indian community, and is a departure from the assurance given by the then Minister of Education, as also Sir Albert Hime and Mr. Robert Russell, that the school will be reserved for Indian children only.”
>>Reference: Vol. IV, p. 402

“Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.”
>>Reference: Vol. VIII, p. 199

“Are we supposed to be thieves or free-booters that even a Kaffir policeman can accost and detain us wherever we happen to be going?”
>>Reference: Vol. VI, p. 363

“The British rulers take us to be so lowly and ignorant that they assume that, like the Kaffirs who can be pleased with toys and pins, we can also be fobbed off with trinkets.”
>>Reference: Vol. VIII, p. 167

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