Even a dravidian insect like mahatma favored segregation, which he learned from the Aryan Vedas. Ghandi is portrayed as the ultimate peacemaker, the
living example of multi-culturalism. Sadly, liberalism and the truth have seldom met.

Those of you who have been subjected to some "conventional" Ghandi
propaganda will know that he 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 in that country. He was finally
assassinated by one of his own kind.

[color="DarkRed"]GANDHI THE ANTI-BLACK RACIST

So much for the known face of Ghandi: but herein lies the rub. Lying in
the publicly accessible archives of the South African state records in
Pretoria and in the Johannesburg public library are full sets of the
newspaper which Ghandi started in that country: the "Indian Opinion."

From these, and the official compilation of Ghandi's writings, the
"Collected Works", the true face of Ghandi emerges: an anti-Black Indian
racist!

When Ghandi addressed a public meeting in Bombay on 26 September 1896,
he had the following to say about the Indian struggle in South Africa:
"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." (Collected Works II p. 74).

In 1904, opposing the then White South African government's plan to draw
up a register of all non-Whites in the urban areas, Ghandi wrote:
"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."
(Collected Works IV p. 193).

Commenting on a piece of legislation planned by the White Natal
Municipal authority, called the Natal Municipal Corporation Bill, Ghandi
wrote in his newspaper, the Indian Opinion on March 18 1905:
"Clause 200 makes provision for registration of persons belonging to
uncivilized races, resident and employed within the Borough. One can
understand the necessity of registration of Kaffirs who will not work,
but why should registration be required for indentured Indians who have
become free, and for their descendants about whom the general complaint
is that they work too much?"

[color="DarkRed"]"COMPELLING THE NATIVES TO WORK"

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."

[color="DarkRed"]"THE PROMINENT RACE"

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, Ghandi 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?"

Ghandi, like many caste conscious Indians (he was born to a fairly high
shop owner caste) was all in favour of segregation from the "natives" as
he liked to call 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:
"It seems that the petition is being widely circulated, and signatures
are being taken of all coloured people in the three colonies named. The
petition is non-Indian in character, although British Indians, being
coloured 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
coloured communities in this country." (Indian Opinion, March 24 1906).

[color="DarkRed"]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 his 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 coloured people
other than Kaffirs, can now travel in the trams." (Indian Opinion, 2
June 1906).

[color="DarkRed"]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." (Indian Opinion, 15 February
1905).

[color="DarkRed"]"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." (Indian Opinion, 24 September 1903).

On 24 December 1903, Ghandi added this in his Indian Opinion newspaper:
"The petition dwells upon `the comingling of the coloured and white
races'. May we inform the members of the Conference that so far as
British Indians are concerned, such a thing is particularly unknown. If
there is one thing which the Indian cherishes more than any other, it is
the purity of type."

And yet the liberal delusion over Gandhi lives on..

The Collected Works of Gandhi are on-line at a site dedicated to him: http://www.mkgandhi.org/index.html