Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl00266)

M K Ramadoss wrote:

> >and, of course, ambicion for ourselves, that is , selfishness.
> >It is clear that Crowley, a racist person (because he was considering the
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>         He was very specific in that he had called Krishnamurti as "nigger".
> I saw this on one of the web pages some months ago. That is when I got an
> inkling of his attitude to Indians. He should have known Indians are not
> "niggers".

	My uncle used to live in an Indian section of London, and people called
it "the nigger area". In Victorian England, it was a commonly used term,
certainly racist, but not always derisive (for example, those who had a
"white man's burden" form of racism used it, as well). And note that
"white man's burden" racism also existed in a number of prominent
Theosophists, including Alice Bailey and Clara Codd.

	Bart Lidofsky