http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:30:11 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/17/192108.php#comment-730988 You are discussing two different issues. Civil disobedience can be violent or it can be non-violent. Gandhi demonstrated that it could be peaceful yet effective. Racism is a different issue. Most assuredly since India had a caste system before and after British Imperialism, there was racial prejudice in India. From the British perspective, both Asian Indians and native South Africans are black, just as Arabs are black. I am not familiar and you do not provide links to the letters you reference and yet, still, civil disobedience and racism are two separate issues. In any case, this article is not about MLK Jr or Gandhi. It is about the misrepresentation of history in order the heighten the concept of triumph against established black and white racism. This article does not explore the possibility that Martin Luther King Jr. was racist or sexist either. It does not explore Gandhi in depth either. 730988@blogcritics.org Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:30:11 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/17/192108.php#comment-730985 What upsets me personally is the concocted debate around gandhi and civil disobedience. Too few African Americans actually know that Gandhi was racist and prejudiced against black people. I am willing to bet king and farmer never read gandhi's letters and petitions in South Africa where described black people as subhuman and of an inferior race. 730985@blogcritics.org Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:11:58 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/17/192108.php#comment-726401 Would the movie have been any less touching if the opponent had been USC? The problem of racism was more complex than portrayed in the movie and aren't we as a nation ready to deal with that? 726401@blogcritics.org Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:30:14 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/04/17/192108.php#comment-726398 I loved the movie...It was sorrowful...and rejoiceful. It's a movie for all people to see. The moral of this story is strong...leading...and unforgetable. It touches the soul the mind..and the spirit. 726398@blogcritics.org Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:43:00 EDT