The racist Gandhi you didn't know Addressing a public meeting in
Bombay on Sept. 26 1896, Gandhi said: "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 |On 7 March 1908, Gandhi wrote
in the Indian Opinion of his time in a South African prison:
"Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised - the convicts even more so.
They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost Writing on the
subject of immigration in 1903, "We believe as much in the
purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the
white race in South Africa should be the predominating race."
During his time in South Africa, Gandhi protested repeatedly
about the social classification of blacks with Indians, who he
described as "undoubtedly infinitely superior to the Kaffirs".