Mahatma Gandhi the Racist: While living in South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi described black Africans as “savage,” “raw” and living a life of indolence and nakedness.
•He routinely expressed "disdain for Africans," and he also campaigned relentlessly to prove to the British rulers that the Indian community in South Africa was superior to native black Africans.
•One of the first battles Gandhi fought after coming to South Africa was over the separate entrances for whites and blacks at the Durban post office.
•Gandhi obiected that Indians were "classed with the natives of South Africa," who he called the kaffirs, and demanded a separate entrance for Indians.
•In a petition letter in 1895, Gandhi also expressed concern that a lower legal standing for Indians would result in degenerating "so much so that from their civilised habits, they would be degraded to the habits of the aboriginal Natives, and a generation hence, between the progeny of the Indians and the Natives, there will be very little difference in habits, and customs and thought."
"Your ancestors died for your right to vote!"
2 things wrong with that statement;
One, my ancestor Buck was hung and shot when he tried to kill his enslavers after they sold off his family in 1836, it wasn't for the vote
Two, they didn't "die" they were "murdered" cause they believed that voting is what all free people did.
Don't shame me into that "lesser of two evils" bullshit, after all I know my history.
Aly White
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