I like your Christ................................

[Nonno]

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." (M.Gandhi)

 

[Sonsie]

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." (M.Gandhi)

You mean the same Ghandi that was a firm believer in the racist and discriminatory caste system in India? The same guy who called black's kaffirs and had no use for them according to his collected writings?

In 1904, Gandhi founded The Indian Opinion, a newspaper which he used as a political tool to promote his personal views. It is in this paper, which Gandhi edited until 1914, that we find a record of his extensive anti-black activism and opinions. A list of anti-black quotes from his writings, in which he invariably refers to the South African natives as “Kaffirs,” can be found here. Gandhi's opinion of the native is best summarized when he calls them people “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.”

Finally, in 1906, Gandhi cheered on the British as they waged a war on the black Zulus. He then volunteered for military service himself, attaining the rank of Sgt. Major in the British Army and assisting the war on blacks in every way he could.

Gandhi was no saint by any stretch. He was however a savvy activist and politico.

Penn and Teller took a jab at him some time back but they didn't cover a lot of his odd activities and beliefs.

 

[bcp]

You mean the same Ghandi that was a firm believer in the racist and discriminatory caste system in India? The same guy who called black's kaffirs and had no use for them according to his collected writings?



Gandhi was no saint by any stretch. He was however a savvy activist and politico.

Penn and Teller took a jab at him some time back but they didn't cover a lot of his odd activities and beliefs.

that is not totally the whole story. Yes, Ghandi did support the British side during the war against the Zulu tribes.
however.
At that time, India was under British rule, the Indians where considered second class citizens and were not afforded the full rights of citizenship.
when the war started Ghandi offered Indians to fight alongside the British to prove that they were entitled to full citizenship through their support of Brittan.
The British however decided that the best role for the Indians would be in the medical corps tending to wounded Brittish soldiers.

I dont think he actually offered his enlistment due to a hate for the Zulus, but more as an offering to the British for what he hoped in return would grant them full rights.