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Robert E. Lee Is In Good Company, Ghandi Is Too Racist To Have A Statue As Well
Abigail Abrams Oct 06, 2016 Ghana has said it will remove a statue of Mahatma Gandhi from a university campus in the nation’s capital where it had sparked protests over the leader’s allegedly racist attitudes.
The statue, which was unveiled by Indian President Pranab Mukherjee during his visit to Ghana in June, was meant to symbolize friendship between the two countries, according to Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But professors and students at the University of Ghana called the statue “a slap in the face" because of Gandhi's "racist identity." They started an online petition calling for the statue’s removal.
The petition, which had more than 1,700 supporters on Thursday, cited letters Gandhi wrote during his time in South Africa as evidence that he advocated for the superiority of Indians over black Africans. It also took issue with his use of the derogatory term kaffir to refer to native Africans and criticized the lack of statues of African heroes and heroines on campus.
In light of the petition and protests on social media, Ghana’s government wants to relocate the statue “to ensure its safety and to avoid the controversy,” the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Wednesday.
originally posted by: tadaman
a reply to: IAMTAT
I dont think they are real antifa. All I need is 1 minute in front of them.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: IAMTAT
I've never met a racist statue in my life.
Now I bet you can take any person in history and find out something about them that makes them "undesirable" in todays sissified society.
I wish these candy-assed sissies would find a cause that didn't screw with historical monuments.
originally posted by: PlasticWizard
Wasn't ghandi a pedophile too?