Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl00271)

At 09:26 AM 4/11/97 -0400, you wrote:
>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
>>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>>         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
>

       When a specific person is called a nigger, especially someone well
known like Krishnamurti, I cannot but conclude that it exibits racism, pure
and simple.

       MKR