Was Gandhi Racist ?

[sun wu]

After coming across the words which were once pronounced by Gandhi and come across the narratives of Gandhi time in South Africa, It shows Gandhi dislikes of the Blacks, but one has to wonder if he disliked them because of their color or because of their culture and so called laziness, or maybe he was racist in his young life which he later changed.., Did he really believe that Indians are better than Blacks so they should be treated better than the natives ?

Some of the words which can be found on his writings are as follows:-

"Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, 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."

"It is one thing to register natives who would not work, and whom it is very difficult to find out if they absent themselves, but it is another thing -and most insulting - to expect decent, hard-working, and respectable Indians, whose only fault is that they work too much, to have themselves registered and carry with them registration badges."

It shows really he had no love for blacks when in South Africa the question is did this change later on, when he became matured ?, was he in the wrong time when nearly everyone was racist ?, did he hate the natives because of their laziness or he was just plain racist

 

[Father of All]

Uzoefu wangu na maponjoro ni kwamba hujiona bora kuliko waaafrika. Kama Gandhi na wenzake waliletwa Afrika Kusini ili watumike kama makuadi wa kuzuia maendeleo ya waafrika unadhani hakuwa mbaguzi? Ukisoma historia ya ujio wa wahindi barani Afrika utagundua kuwa ni wabaguzi kwani waliletwa wakijua fika wanakuja kuhujumu waswahili. Mifano midogo ya kila siku hasa kwa bongo jiulize ni wahindi wangapi wameoleana na waswahili?

After coming across the words which were once pronounced by Gandhi and come across the narratives of Gandhi time in South Africa, It shows Gandhi dislikes of the Blacks, but one has to wonder if he disliked them because of their color or because of their culture and so called laziness, or maybe he was racist in his young life which he later changed.., Did he really believe that Indians are better than Blacks so they should be treated better than the natives ?

Some of the words which can be found on his writings are as follows:-






It shows really he had no love for blacks when in South Africa the question is did this change later on, when he became matured ?, was he in the wrong time when nearly everyone was racist ?, did he hate the natives because of their laziness or he was just plain racist

 

[IGWE]

Uzoefu wangu na maponjoro ni kwamba hujiona bora kuliko waaafrika. Kama Gandhi na wenzake waliletwa Afrika Kusini ili watumike kama makuadi wa kuzuia maendeleo ya waafrika unadhani hakuwa mbaguzi? Ukisoma historia ya ujio wa wahindi barani Afrika utagundua kuwa ni wabaguzi kwani waliletwa wakijua fika wanakuja kuhujumu waswahili. Mifano midogo ya kila siku hasa kwa bongo jiulize ni wahindi wangapi wameoleana na waswahili?

i concur with you...