Did You Know Gandhi Was a Racist Sexual Predator?

According to people who knew the leader well, HE WAS!

Mohandas Gandhi may be viewed as a great man, but many don’t know about the famed leader of the Indian revolts’ dark side. In a shocking no holds barred account of a side Gandhi probably didn’t want you to know about, author Joseph Lelyveld reveals the lawyer turned leader led a secret sex life fueled by racism and civil disobedience.

The former New York Times executive editor brings us the latest biography of Mohandas Gandhi, titled Great Soul, where he lays it all out.

Here’s what Wall Street Journal’s Andrew Roberts had to say about Gandhi in his review of the new read:

“Gandhi was therefore the archetypal 20th-century progressive intellectual, professing his love for mankind as a concept while actually despising people as individuals.”

Among the key points in Great Soul:

• India’s independence could have been achieved much earlier if Gandhi had not kept abandoning his civil disobedience campaigns at critical points.

• Gandhi expressed much racism throughout his life, against blacks in South Africa, Muslims, and low-caste “untouchables” in India. Comparing white Afrikaaners and Indians, he said, “We believe as much in the purity of races as we think they do.”

• In his later years, Gandhi liked to sleep naked with a 17-year-old great-niece and other girls.

• But early in his life, Gandhi loved men, specifically German-Jewish architect and bodybuilder Hermann Kallenbach, for whom he left his wife in 1908.

If Joesph Lelyveld is right, Gandhi wasn’t just a child molester who left his wife for a man — he was also a hypocrite for not understanding the suffering and oppression that blacks in South Africa experienced at that time. If Gandhi failed to understand the black man’s struggles why should I care about him?

Don’t you agree?