#066, people who know not what appreciation and gratefulness are
On 15th Nov. 1894, Swami Vivekananda wrote to Divan Haridas Viharidas Desai (apparently Divanji of Junagadh). In this letter, Vivekananda calls Indians ignorant fools and frogs in well. "... America is a grand country. It is a paradise of the poor and women. There is almost no poor in the country, and nowhere else in the world women are so free, so educated, so cultured. They are everything in society. ... And in this most hospitable country, every home is open to me ..." BLOGGER'S VIEWS Swamiji does not mention anything about the poverty of the 20 million Blacks in US. While describing a heaven where is the place for blacks and their deprivation? He remembers blacks only when he has to compare Indians with them for calling both "SLAVES" and "JEALOUS". "...I am the same here as in India, only here in this highly cultural land there is an appreciation, a sympathy which our ignorant fools never dream of. There our people grudge us monks a crum