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 and nakedness."

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 like animals."

Writing on the subject of immigration in 1903, Gandhi commented:
"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".