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Re: Fuck Gandhi.
By Ravi
Aug 29th 2007
at 2:44 am EDT
MLK and the other leaders of the SCLC would NEVER have gone to India to learn Gandhian philosophy and tactics if they hadn't been tricked into believing that he believed in equality of all races. He actually fought to have Indians in South Africa be treated better than the Black people who were at the bottom of South African society, quite rightly in his opinion. He never renounced the writings that he wrote in his newspaper, "Indian Opinion" in Durban which were unquestionably extremely racist. The Cult of Gandhi pulled a snow job on MLK and his colleagues. Too bad they didn't read Gandhi's own writings on racial separatism and Black inferiority.
60 years ago, on August 15th, 1947, India declared independence from Great Britain. We've come a long way, and there are marvelous things and horrible things that have happened in our post-indpendence years. Check out the Hindustan Times feature on "India at 60" for more.
I believe that in the history of the world, there has not been a more genuinely democratic struggle for freedom than ours. I read Carlyle’s French Resolution while I was in prison, and Pandit Jawaharlal has told me something about the Russian revolution. But it is my conviction that inasmuch as these struggles were fought with the weapon of violence they failed to realize the democratic ideal. In the democracy which I have envisaged, a democracy established by non-violence, there will be equal freedom for all. Everybody will be his own master. It is to join a struggle for such democracy that I invite you today. Once you realize this you will forget the differences between the Hindus and Muslims, and think of yourselves as Indians only, engaged in the common struggle for independence.
-Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi
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