Mahatma Gandhi by James Schneider - https://perpetualdiversity.com
The following quotes by Mahatma Gandhi reveal a seldom seen aspect of this great man. I am not trying to denigrate him; I actually gained more respect for him after reading it. Rather than covering up to make Gandhi fit into today’s warped, politically correct world, we should change our way of thinking.
Mahatma Gandhi was born in India, studied to become an attorney in England, spent many years "organizing passive resistance" in South Africa, and then returned to India to lead the passive resistance movement against British rule. He was finally assassinated by one of his own people. This collection of quotes is from his time in South Africa. The terms native and Kaffir refer to the indigenous people of South Africa.
The Indian Opinion published an editorial on September 9 1905 under the heading, "The relative Value of the Natives and the Indians in Natal". In it, Gandhi referred to a speech made by Rev. Dube, an early African nationalist, who said that an African had the capacity for improvement, if only the Whites would give them the opportunity. In his response, Gandhi suggested that:
"A little judicious extra taxation would do no harm; in the majority of cases it compels the native to work for at least a few days a year."
Then he added:
"Now let us turn our attention to another and entirely unrepresented community - the Indian. He is in striking contrast with the native. While the native has been of little benefit to the State, it owes its prosperity largely to the Indians. While native loafers abound on every side, that species of humanity is almost unknown among Indians here."
"The Natives in our hands proved to be most unreliable and obstinate. Without constant attention, they would as soon have dropped the wounded man as not, and they seemed to bestow no care on their suffering countryman." MK Gandhi, "Memoirs of the Indian Stretcher Bearer Corps," as published in Indian Opinion, 28-7-1906
GANDHI AND RACE
Gandhi was, despite modern propaganda, acutely aware of the differences between races, as this letter to W.T. Stead, an English friend of his in London, written in 1906, clearly shows:
"As you were good enough to show very great sympathy with the cause of British Indians in the Transvaal, may I suggest your using your influence with the Boer leaders in the Transvaal? I feel certain that they did not share the same prejudice against British Indians as against the Kaffir races but as the prejudice against Kaffir races in a strong form was in existence in the Transvaal at the time when the British Indians immigrated there, the latter were immediately lumped together with the Kaffir races and described under the generic term "Coloured people". Gradually the Boer mind was habituated to this qualification and it refused to recognize the evident and sharp distinctions that undoubtedly exist between British Indians and the Kaffir races in South Africa."
Writing about a law which was designed to restrict Indian movement in the British Cape Colony, Gandhi objected on the basis that it dragged Indians "down with the Kaffir(s)." He wrote: The bye-law has its origin in the alleged or real, impudent and, in some cases, indecent behaviour of the Kaffirs. But, whatever the charges are against the British Indians, no one has ever whispered that the Indians behave otherwise than as decent men. But, as it is the wont in this part of the world, they have been dragged down with the Kaffir without the slightest justification." MK Gandhi, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume III, page 285
In the Government Gazette of Natal for Feb. 28 1905, a Bill was published regulating the use of fire-arms by Blacks and Indians. Commenting on the Bill, Gandhi wrote in his newspaper, the Indian Opinion on March 25 1905:
"In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the natives. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?"
Gandhi, like many caste conscious Indians (he was born to a fairly high shop owner caste) was all in favor of segregation from the Blacks. His reaction to a 1906 petition launched by non-Whites in South Africa to the British King, demanding voting rights, reveals this attitude clearly (from MK Gandhi, Indian Opinion, 24 March 1906):"It seems that the petition is being widely circulated, and signatures are being taken of all colored people in the three colonies named. The petition is non-Indian in character, although British Indians, being colored people, are very largely affected by it. We consider that it was a wise policy on the part of the British Indians throughout South Africa, to have kept themselves apart and distinct from the other colored communities in this country."
THE FAMOUS TRAIN INCIDENT
In the Hollywood film made about Gandhi, much emphasis was placed on a scene where he was arrested for riding in a South African train coach reserved for Whites. This incident did indeed occur, but for very different reasons than
those the film portrayed!
For the liberal myth is that Gandhi was protesting at the exclusion of non-Whites from the train coach: in fact, he was trying to persuade the authorities to let ONLY upper caste Indians ride with the Whites. It was NEVER Gandhi's intention to let Blacks, or even lower Caste Indians, to share the White compartment!
Here, in Gandhi's own words, are his comments on this famous incident, complete with reference to upper caste Indians, who he differentiated from lower caste Indians by calling the former "clean":
"You say that the magistrate's decision is unsatisfactory because it would enable a person, however unclean, to travel by a tram, and that even the Kaffirs would be able to do so. But the magistrate's decision is quite different. The Court declared that the Kaffirs have no legal right to travel by tram. And according to tram regulations, those in an unclean dress or in a drunken state are prohibited from boarding a tram. Thanks to the Court's decision, only clean Indians or colored people other than Kaffirs, can now travel in the trams."
GANDHI SUPPORTED SEGREGATION
It is also a myth to presume that Gandhi was opposed to racial segregation. Witness this piece of his writing, published in his newspaper, Indian Opinion, of 15 February 1905. It was a letter to the White Johannesburg Medical Officer of Health, a Dr. Porter, concerning the fact that Blacks had been allowed to
settle in an Indian residential area:
"Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all Kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. 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."
GANDHI'S SUPPORT FOR 'PURITY OF RACE'
In response to the rise of White nationalist politics, which stressed racial separation, Gandhi wrote in his Indian Opinion of 24 September 1903:
"We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do, only we believe that they would best serve these interests, which are as dear to us as to them, by advocating the purity of all races, and not one alone. We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race."
Censorship
Click on the link below for an article by independent researcher Alexander Baron exposing the censorship practised by Croydon Library.
https://www.infotextmanuscripts.org/the-duran-croydon-libraries.pdf
I first heard of library censorship when 95-year-old disabled war veteran Frank Walsh was dragged out of Putney Library by the police and barred for life for distributing leaflets.
Now, Mark Taha has told me he could not log on to my blogs from Islington Library. When I emailed Caroline Dinenage MP who is the minister responsible for libraries to register my complaint I received an immediate reply from 'The Full Fact Team':
Dear John William Baillie
We read everything that is sent to us but unfortunately we cannot reply to them all individually. You may find the following information helpful:
There followed a list of suggestions including a request for donations.
Library censorship is just another feature of state control. Our publications are banned throughout the library system but we still have our magazines and websites. I published a duplicated newsletter in the 1970s called 'Nation'. This was a naïve attempt to unite National Front and Union Movement supporters. It had a limited circulation but it came to the attention of Jeffrey Hamm who invited me to write for the Union Movement paper 'Action'.
With the advent of the Internet I revived 'Nation' as an e-mail newsletter called 'Nation Revisited'. This subsequently became a monthly Internet blog, and was joined by' European Outlook'.
Many patriots have letters published in the local and national press. I have never managed to get a letter printed in a mainstream publication but I have had articles published in Comrade, Blackshirt, Identity, Candour, Heritage and Destiny, League Sentinel, and the National Front website.
The present UK government is determined to suppress free speech, but by supporting our publications and websites we can still get our message across.
Freemasonry
I have been accused of being a Freemason on the grounds that I never attack them. As a matter of editorial policy I never attack vegetarians but that doesn't make me one of them. I do not attack Freemasons because I know little or nothing about them.
Benito Mussolini took a dim view of Freemasonry and so did Arnold Leese. The Masons are a secret society that dates back to the building of the Jerusalem Temple. Freemasons are accused of helping each other at the expense of non-masons, and their arcane rituals are compared to black magic.
I have known a few Masons over the years. They are supposed to keep their membership secret but the ones I knew boasted about it. Ken, a builder from Hertfordshire, was an active member of the old BNP. Mike from Lancashire, raised lots of money for charity, and Charles, from Essex, lived for his lodge meetings. One night, driving home from a Masonic dinner he was stopped by the police. The cop asked him if he had been drinking. "Oh yes" replied Charles enthusiastically, "we had a few beers at the bar, lots of wine with the meal, and brandy afterwards." When the cop ordered him to take the breathalyser test Charles protested: "why, don't you believe me?" He was fined and lost his license. Being a Mason didn't protect him from the police and the courts that are supposed to be riddled with Freemasonry.
Nesta Webster (no relation to Martin as far as I know), accused the Masons of starting the French Revolution which she saw as the downfall of civilisation. She linked Freemasonry to the Jews and the Illuminati (a defunct German religious order) and accused them of all the brutal excesses of the French and Russian Revolutions.
Her conspiracy theories took no account of the grinding poverty that provoked both uprisings. France was bankrupt in 1789 as the result of the war with Austria and her support for the rebels in the American War of Independence. And a similar situation prevailed in Russia during WW1. It was economic factors that led to revolution, not the activities of German economists, thirsty freemasons or deluded Satanists.
Conspiracy theories are comforting because they attempt to explain the inner workings of the world, but those of us familiar with Occam's Razor know that the obvious answer is usually the right one.
Union Movement
Mosley's wanted to unite Europe with South Africa and Rhodesia. Instead, the British government hounded South Africa out of the Commonwealth and condemned Rhodesia to the brutal dictatorship of Robert Mugabe. It could all have been so different.
British People's League
The link we gave for the BPL is broken. To access John Beattie's website go to Candour.org.uk and use their link to the BPL.
Nation Revisited https://nationrevisited.blogspot.com
European Outlook
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