Quote: Chris Dalton "It's unlikely Churchill was worse than Gandhi although I acknowledge he is far from perfect he has nothing to do with this and I don't know why you've brought him up. Gandhi's own writings and behaviour mark him out as a bit of an extremist towards africans.He saw them as animals. Referred to them as "Raw kaffir", objected to sharing a cell with them, leading to his time in south africa to protest about africans being allowed into indian areas of Johannesburg. He fought for the rights of the indians - but he saw them as superior to the africans, which makes him a racist in my book, don't know about yours.
Undeniably he did his fair share of good for his people but he's no saint.
Anyway, I encourage you to do some research, we're way off topic so I'll leave it there.'"
Kaffir, from the Arabic for impious... not necessarily signposting racism...
You I suspect took your reference from this quote?
" 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." (Addressing a public meeting in Bombay on Sept. 26 1896 (CW II p. 74)). Perceptions and attitudes were different 115 years ago. Just a thought
