{"id":957,"date":"2014-01-25T20:46:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T20:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/?p=957"},"modified":"2014-01-25T20:46:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T20:46:09","slug":"gandhis-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/01\/25\/gandhis-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Gandhi&#8217;s Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vNzvXBzdAw0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some of the information in this short video is inaccurate, notably the reference to &#8216;Dravidians&#8217; but the assertions about Gandhi&#8217;s racism are correct. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Throughout his life, Gandhi preached racism and prejudice against every minority group he encountered \u00e2\u20ac\u201c African blacks, Indian blacks (commonly called Dalits), Sikhs, and Muslims. He severely damaged Indian minority campaigns for equality, and arguably even contributed to the rise of apartheid in South Africa. He never admitted to his racism or apologized for it. In fact, India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s black community condemns Gandhi. Mayawati, a Dalit leader, blames Gandhi for India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s caste problems, saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He divided Indian society into two categories \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the weaker sections and upper castes.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, a contemporary of Gandhi, was even more blunt, saying: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If a man with God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s name on his tongue and sword under his armpit deserved the appellation of a Mahatma, then Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a Mahatma.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"http:\/\/ofmi.org\/reassessing-gandhi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OFMI<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the information in this short video is inaccurate, notably the reference to &#8216;Dravidians&#8217; but the assertions about Gandhi&#8217;s racism are correct. Throughout his life, Gandhi preached racism and prejudice against every minority group he encountered \u00e2\u20ac\u201c African blacks, Indian blacks (commonly called Dalits), Sikhs, and Muslims. He severely damaged Indian minority campaigns&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/01\/25\/gandhis-racism\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}