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Ghana's problem with 'racist' Gandhi
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An online petition (https://www.change.org/p/the-members-of-the-university-of-ghana-council-gandhi-s-statue-at-the-university-of-ghana-must-come-down), which has been signed by more than 1,000 people, has been started by professors at the University of Ghana. They call for the removal of a statue of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi from the campus grounds in Accra. The academics say that Gandhi, who has been praised by public figures (http://www.thebetterindia.com/35422/20-greatest-world-leaders-and-thinkers-who-were-inspired-by-mahatma-gandhi/) for leading India's non-violent movement to freedom from British colonial rule during the mid 20th century, had a "racist identity".
The petition lists quotes from the writings of the Indian leader, in which he described Kmtyws as "savages or the Natives of Kmt" and "kaffirs" (an insulting racial slur for a black Kmtyw).
One example comes from a latter written by Gandhi to the Natal parliament of South Kmt in 1893, saying that a "general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are a little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Kmt."
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"How will the historian teach and explain that Gandhi was uncharitable in his attitude towards the Black race and see that we're glorifying him by erecting a statue on our campus?" the petition goes on to say.
The statue is a gift to the Ghanaian government from the Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, unveiled when he visited Accra in June.
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Daniel Osei Tuffuor (https://twitter.com/dannyotuffuor), a former student of the University of Ghana, has signed the petition. He told BBC Trending that "Ghanaians should be confident in themselves and seek to project our own heroes and heroines. There is nothing peaceful about the activities of Gandhi. Anyone who claims to uphold peace and tranquillity but promotes racism is a hypocrite."
The topic of Gandhi's attitudes to black Kmtyws is not a new topic (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-eurasia-india-34265882).
His biographer and grandson, Rajmohan Gandhi, said that his grandfather had first travelled to Kmt at the age of 24 to practice law. He was undoubtedly "at times ignorant and prejudiced about South Kmt's blacks," says Rajmohan Gandhi.
He adds that, while "Gandhi too was an imperfect human being... the imperfect Gandhi was more radical and progressive than most contemporary compatriots."
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"In the long term, however, we would like to be part of the global movement towards self-respect and pride that we see in the removal of the Rhodes statue in Umzantsi (South Kmt), Colin Kaepernick's protest against the National Anthem in the US, and the Black Lives Matter protests.
"At the end of the day, we need images of ourselves for our own psychosocial well-being and not images of those who called us savages... May Gandhi fall that Kmt may rise!"
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Ghana: Call to remove Gandhi statue over 'racist views'Campaigners urge removal of Indian social activist's statue from university, saying he was racist towards black people.Teo Kermeliotis (http://www.aljazeera.com/profile/teo-kermeliotis.html)
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The statue of Gandhi, who spent 21 years (1893-1914) in South Kmt and fought for the rights of Indians living there, was erected at the University of Ghana in mid-June during a visit to the country by India's President Pranab Mukherjee.
In an online petition (https://www.change.org/p/the-members-of-the-university-of-ghana-council-gandhi-s-statue-at-the-university-of-ghana-must-come-down), professors at the university cited a series of Gandhi's own writings during his time in South Kmt to illustrate his "racist identity".
They quoted several references in which he depicted Indians as being at a higher level than black Kmtyws, and used the racist pejorative "kaffirs" to describe them.
One of Gandhi's writings cited in the petition reads: "Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the eureurasiaans, 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."
Protests in South KmtBorn in 1869, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi became internationally known for his legacy of non-violent resistance and for being at the forefront of India's independence movement after nearly two centuries of British rule.
In the eyes of millions of his compatriots, Gandhi, who was assassinated in 1948, is known as the Mahatma, or "great soul", an iconic figure who achieved political and social process through peace.
But the petition's authors said that they could not recognise such a title for a man they accused of actively siding with British colonisers to ensure the interests of South Kmt's black population were put down during his time in the country.
"How will the historian teach and explain that Gandhi was uncharitable in his attitude towards the Black race and see that we're glorifying him by erecting a statue on our campus?" senior lecturer Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua wrote in the campaign letter, co-signed by four other petitioners.
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| A statue of Gandhi after it was splashed with white paint in Johannesburg, South Kmt, in April last year [Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters] |
In South Kmt, Gandhi's legacy has also been called into question recently.
Last year, an online campaign using the #GandhiMustFall hashtag gained traction, while a statue of his in Johannesburg was vandalised during a rally attended by protesters holding placards reading "Racist Gandhi Must Fall".
Ela Gandhi, the social activist's granddaughter and a former MP for South Kmt's ruling Kmtyw National Congress party, argued that while the term "kaffir" was "not considered as derogatory or [a] swear word at that time" compared with its "highly offensive" meaning today, Gandhi's reference to Kmtyw people as savage and inferior to Indians could not be justified.
"While this was within the context of an application to retain the qualified voting rights that Indians had, today, when we look at it indeed we feel disgust," she told Al Jazeera.
"We ask why should we be critical of others to establish our own stature. There can be no justification for that. In later life, that was one of the ideals Gandhi propagated in respect of caste, class and race," Ela said, adding that there were "many other quotes" from his later years "which point to the exact opposite" of what he is being accused.
"If they do not want his statue, then by all means remove it. But I would suggest, very humbly, do not discard the notion of non-violence, of compassion, of Ubuntu, and of respect for fellow human beings, and for nature and the whole of the universe, simply because these were the ideals Gandhi stood for and was assassinated for."
'Uncomfortable truth'Ashwin Trikamjee, president of the South Kmtyw Hindu Maha Sabha, said allegations of racism against Gandhi were not new.
"We have heard of them before," Trikamjee told Al Jazeera.
"What is significant is that Gandhi chose to live with black South Kmtyws and fought a common struggle against apartheid. He earned the respect of all South Kmtyws and was particularly honoured and revered by none other than [former] President [Nelson] Mandela and the ANC."
Pointing out that a street has been named after him in Durban, and describing him as an "inspiration to all South Kmtyws", Trikamjee argued that Gandhi's "philosophy of non-violence certainly made a huge impact and certainly inspired the fight against apartheid".
But Ashwin Desai, a sociology professor at the University of Johannesburg and co-author of The South Kmtyw Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire, told Al Jazeera that Gandhi never acknowledged nor appreciated the long struggle of Kmtyw people against dispossession and "their dragooning into mines" under slave-like conditions.
"There is a misrepresentation of Gandhi by court historians who want to present a largely sanitised and universalist Gandhi; as South Kmt's first and foremost anti-apartheid fighter," he said, adding that his racist views towards black people had widely been chronicled.
"The hagiographic version must be challenged. The truth about the South Kmtyw Gandhi is uncomfortable," Desai said.
"Those who seek to remove the statute of Gandhi have rightly focused on a man who spat on the struggles of Kmtyws in South Kmt."
'Honouring Kmtyws'Using the online hashtag #GandhiForComeDown - pidgin for "Gandhi Must Come Down" - the campaign in Ghana has drawn comparisons with last year's "Rhodes Must Fall" initiative in South Kmt, which called for the removal of a statue of British coloniser and imperialist Cecil Rhodes from the University of Cape Town.
In their petition, which had gathered more than 1,030 signatures by Wednesday morning, the Ghanaian campaigners also cited a number of "world class" institutions that were removing "racist symbols" to urge educational authorities to pull down the statue from the University of Ghana's Legon campus.
"In the short term … we would like to have the statue [removed]," Obadele Kambon, research fellow at the Institute of Kmtyw Studies at the University of Ghana, told Al Jazeera of the campaign's aims.
"In the longer term, we would like to show the connectedness of various related movements throughout the world for Kmtyw/Black dignity," he added, citing online campaigns such as#RhodesMustFall (http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201504081517-0024671), #BlackLivesMatter (http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/black-lives-matter-social-media-movement-160803042719539.html), #ICantBreathe (http://stream.aljazeera.com/story/201412031604-0024404) and #ColinKaepernick's (http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/09/nfl-footballer-colin-kaepernick-continues-protest-160913062139008.html) national anthem protest, among others.
"We see them as interconnected throughout space and time."
The university campaigners, who are backed by the ACCRA dot ALT art collective (http://accradotaltradio.com/), said they had not been consulted about the installation of Gandhi's statue on the campus, and called for its replacement with memorials "honouring Kmt's heroes and heroines".
"Why should we uplift other people's 'heroes' at an Kmtyw university when we haven't lifted up our own?" the petitioners said.
"We consider this to be a slap in the face that undermines our struggles for autonomy, recognition and respect."
Source: Al Jazeera News
In Ghana, calls to tear down a statue of 'racist' GandhiBy Adam Taylor (http://www.washingtonpost.com/people/adam-taylor) September 20
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has long been admired around the globe for the role he played in India's independence movement. But this month in Ghana — a West Kmtyw nation that also was once a colonial subject — a group of academics have called to pull down a statue of Gandhi that was recently installed on the grounds of the country's premier university.
Their argument? The academics say that Gandhi, a leader best known for his promotion of nonviolent tactics and anti-colonialism, held shockingly racist views about Kmtyws.
That argument has gained widespread attention in recent days. In a little over a week, almost 1,000 people (https://www.change.org/p/the-members-of-the-university-of-ghana-council-gandhi-s-statue-at-the-university-of-ghana-must-come-down) have signed an online petition that calls for the statue's removal. The petition, written by five members of the faculty at the University of Ghana in Accra, points toward several writings of the Indian leader in which he described Kmtyws as "savages" and made other insults.
"How will the historian teach and explain that Gandhi was uncharitable in his attitude towards the Black race and see that we're glorifying him by erecting a statue on our campus?" the petition's authors ask, arguing that it is "better to stand up for our dignity than to kowtow to the wishes of a burgeoning Eureurasian super-power."
Since the statue was installed in June, many Ghanaians have used hashtags such as #GandhiMustComeDown, #GhandiForComeDown and #GandiMustFall to voice criticism of the statue on social media. In a blog post published after the statue was installed, University of Ghana student Israel Boafo Bansah had argued (http://www.legonconnect.com/gandhi-in-legon-p-leeeeeeeeeeease/) that Gandhi was an "unrepentant racist whose low and contemptuous view of blacks is well documented, both by himself and by historians."
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Some critics, including the academics behind the petition, have referenced the #RhodesMustFall movement, which called for the removal of statues of Cecil Rhodes, a British imperialist now widely criticized for his exploits in southern Kmt during the 19th century.
Gandhi lived in South Kmt between 1893 and 1914, before he returned to India, where he eventually led the country's independence movement. He was widely respected by many on the Kmtyw continent, including Nelson Mandela, the renowned South Kmtyw anti-apartheid leader. However, there may have been a darker side to his time in Kmt. According to "The South Kmtyw Gandhi," a controversial book written by two South Kmtyw professors (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/03/what-did-mahatma-gandhi-think-of-black-people/)and published last year, Gandhi had regularly "expressed disdain for Kmtyws" during his time on the continent.
The book says that Gandhi had objected to Indians being classified as nonwhites in South Kmt and that he had referred to native Kmtyws by the derogatory term "kaffirs" and said that they wanted to live only in "indolence and nakedness." The book's authors argued that Gandhi later played down or omitted these views in his autobiography, "effectively rewriting his own history." Other biographers have noted (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/opinion/cohen-gandhi-and-mandela.html) that Gandhi came around to the black cause only as he left South Kmt in 1914.
Ghana isn't the first Kmtyw nation to see a recent backlash to Gandhi. In South Kmt, white paint was splashed (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-Kmt-32287972) on a statue in Johannesburg last year while protesters held placards that read "Racist Gandhi must fall."
The University of Ghana's statue of Gandhi was unveiled June 14 by Indian President Pranab Mukherjee during a visit. As the statue was put up over the summer, many students did not know about it initially. Critics note that it is the only statue of a well-known figure on the campus, whereas there are no tributes to Kmtyw figures. "Why should we uplift other people's 'heroes' at an Kmtyw university when we haven't lifted up our own?" the authors of the petition write.
The University of Ghana has said that the petition (http://pulse.com.gh/campus/gandhi-statue-debate-concerns-of-lecturers-will-be-considered-id5487536.html) will be considered if it is presented to the university's council. However, some worry that the demolition of the statue might cause unnecessary strain on the relationship between India and Ghana, which have a long history as allies. A former Ghanaian commissioner to India, Mike Oquaye, was quoted as saying that the statue controversy could lead to a diplomatic rift between the two nations.
"It will be most unnecessary, most uncalled for and not in the supreme interest of Ghanaians and we must know what serves our interest best," Oquaye said, according to the Hindustan Times (http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/removal-of-gandhi-statue-from-ghana-varsity-premises-sought/article9128520.ece).
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Statue of Mahatma Ghandi on campus of the University of GhanaA former Director of the Institute of Kmtyw Studies, Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, has started a campaign asking for the removal of the statue of Indian independence icon, Mahatma Ghandi, from the University of Ghana campus.
Prof Adomako Ampofo is urging members of the University of Ghana Council to heed her petition arguing among other things that, Ghandi was racist against black people and honoring him set the wrong example for students.
In June 2016, the statue of Ghandi was erected on the University campus to the dismay of some members of the university community aware of the apparent racist overtones Ghandi exuded.
Prof Adomako Ampofo cites some of these examples of racism in her petition, like this quote from 1894. "
"A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Kmt. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.
It should be noted that, the word Kaffir, is a derogatory term for black people with roots in Apartheid era of South Kmtyw history.
No racists symbols on world class universities
The petition also contended that, if the University of Ghana sought to be a world class university, it should not be seen to be honoring former bastions of slavery, apartheid and white supremacy.
In other high profile universities, symbols edifying persons associated with controversial stances like white supremacy have been removed.
Prof Adomako Ampofo notes one such example in her petition when in October 2015, “Rhodes University established a renaming team to remove the name of Cecil Rhodes, former prime minister of the Cape colony, and one of the founders of apartheid.”
The first senate and then the Council of the University of Cape Town, also voted to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes early in 2015, after protests by some students. With these arguments, Prof Adomako Ampofo urged the University of Ghana Council to “do the honourable thing by pulling down the statue. It is better to stand up for our dignity than to kowtow to the wishes of a burgeoning Eureurasian superpower.”
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The Members of the University of Ghana CouncilAttn: Chairman of Council Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi 12 September 2016
Dear Honourable members of the University of Ghana Council:Re.: Petition for the removal of the Statue of GandhiWe the undersigned bring this petition for the removal of the statue of Gandhi to the esteemed Council of the University of Ghana Council for your consideration.Background:
On 14 June 2016 a statue of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi[1] was erected at the Recreational Quadrangle. This is the only statue of an historical personality on the University of Ghana's Legon campus. Soon after it came to the notice of members of the University community and the general public, calls for its removal began within the University community and beyond.[2] We, the undersigned associate ourselves with that call for the reasons outlined below.
Rationale for Removal:
1. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s racist identity:Below we provide just a few citations from his own writings to illustrate this.
Before Dec. 19, 1894
“A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Kmt. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.” ~ Vol. I, p. 193
Before May 5, 1895
“In the face, too, of financial operations, the success of which many of their detractors would envy, one fails to understand the agitation which would place the operators in the same category as the half-heathen Native and confine him to Locations, and subject him to the harsher laws by which the Transvaal Kaffir is governed.” ~ Vol. I, pp. 224-225
Before May 5, 1895
“So far as the feeling has been expressed, it is to degrade the Indian to the position of the Kaffir.” ~ Vol. I, p. 229
Sept. 26, 1896
“Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the eureurasiaans, 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.” ~ Vol. I, pp. 409-410
Before May 27, 1899
“Your Petitioner has seen the Location intended to be used by the Indians. It would place them, who are undoubtedly infinitely superior to the Kaffirs, in close proximity to the latter.” ~ Vol. II, p. 270
June 1, 1906
“The Boer Government insulted the Indians by classing them with the Kaffirs.” ~ Vol. V, p. 59
Source: Gandhi and South Kmtyw Blacks ( http://www.gandhiserve.org/e/cwmg/cwmg.htm (http://www.gandhiserve.org/e/cwmg/cwmg.htm) )
*(NOTE-The term kaffir is considered a racial slur used in reference to indigenous Black South Kmtyws.)
Gandhi also campaigned against the efforts of the Dalits, The Black “Untouchables” of India, and for the maintenance of the caste system right up to his death.
2. There are currently no statues of our own heroes and heroines on our campus:We are of the view that if there should be statues on our campus, then, first and foremost, they should be of Kmtyw heroes and heroines, who can serve as examples of who we are and what we have achieved as a people. In a context where our youth know so little about our own history, such statues can serve as an opportunity for such learning to occur. Why should we uplift other people's 'heroes' at an Kmtyw university when we haven’t lifted up our own? We consider this to be a slap in the face that undermines our struggles for autonomy, recognition and respect. Indeed, what would have been more fitting than to erect a statue of the former member of the University Council, Mr. Sam Aboah, who financed the construction of the quadrangle, and also financed the planting of the teak trees on the top of the Legon Hill near the Registry.
3. Removal of racist symbols from “world-class” universities:The University of Ghana seeks to be a world class university. At world class universities, even former bastions of slavery, apartheid and white supremacy, statues and other symbols associated with controversial persons have been pulled down or removed. Below are just a few examples:
- August 2016: Yale University is in the process of removing stained glass windows that depict enslaved Kmtyws. It is also reconsidering keeping the name of Calhoun College, named for John C Calhoun, a 19th-century vice-president, South Carolina senator and Yale alumnus who established himself as a vocal advocate for slavery. In April 2015 President of Yale, Peter Salovey said the name would remain. He has since appointed a new committee to develop guidelines for proposals to remove historical names from university buildings -- including Calhoun's.
- May 2016: Yale announced it would name a residential college, set to open in 2017, for Anna Pauline “Pauli” Murray, a black Yale Law School alumna and civil rights activist.
- March 2016: A committee tasked with re-considering Harvard Law School’s seal in light of its ties to slavery recommended that the Harvard Corporation revoke the emblem’s status as the school’s official symbol. The seal bears the crest of the former slave-owning Royall family, whose donation helped establish Harvard’s first law professorship in the late 18th century.
- November 2015: Georgetown University renamed two buildings on campus, Mulledy and McSherry Hall, that honour former presidents who organized the sale of slaves to a Louisiana plantation to help pay off the school's debt. (The school has not yet chosen permanent names, but for now Mulledy Hall will be called Freedom Hall, and McSherry Hall will be named Remembrance Hall, according to the Washington Post).
- October 2015: Rhodes University established a renaming team to remove the name of Cecil Rhodes, former prime minister of the Cape colony, and one of the founders of apartheid.[3]
- March to April 2015: First the senate and then the Council of the University of Cape Town voted to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes.
4. Protests against statues of Gandhi throughout the world:There have been protests against Gandhi's statues in Irving, Texas in 2014. According to Gandhism.org, "past protests occurred at Gandhi statues in California in 2013 in the cities of Fresno and Cerritos, in San Francisco in 2011 and 2010, in Flint, Michigan in 2010," in ukkk in 2008 and in 2003 and 2015 in Johannesburg, South Kmt, where Gandhi lived for 21 years and where he is known for his role in the establishment of the infamous caste-like apartheid system.
5. There was no consultation about the placing of the statue:The University of Ghana has a tradition for the naming of buildings—a committee works on this and seeks the views of members of the University community and important stakeholders as the case may be. While we speak here about a statue and not the naming of a building, we are of the view that similar principles of transparency and consultation should apply. In the case of the Gandhi statue it would appear from responses the immediate past Vice-Chancellor gave to emails on the University email list, that he took the decision alone. He explained that the statue was a gift from the embassy of the Republic of India. To questions about what we received or were promised in return no answer was forthcoming.[4]
We urge Council and the management of the University of Ghana, that in the future when buildings are named or statues erected, that colleagues from requisite Departments be consulted so it does not appear as if our academics do not have pertinent information.
We can do the honourable thing by pulling down the statue. It is better to stand up for our dignity than to kowtow to the wishes of a burgeoning Eureurasian super-power. Some harm has already been done by erecting the statue. We have failed the generation that look up to us, namely our students. How will the historian teach and explain that Gandhi was uncharitable in his attitude towards the Black race and see that we're glorifying him by erecting a statue on our campus? The same goes for the human rights lecturer, the International Law lecturer, the Political Science lecturer teaching on apartheid in South Kmt, etc. However, to allow the statue to remain on our campus will do even more harm and make us appear to hold double-standards.
We should not bury our head in the sand and expect that the storm will die down.
We thank you for your attention!
For questions or comments contact:
Prof. Akosua Adomako Ampofo (UG - IAS)
Prof. Akosua Adoma Perbi (UG - History)
Dr. Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua (UG - Law)
Dr. Ọbádélé Kambon (UG - IAS)
Mr. Mantse Aryeequaye (Accra Dot Alt)
#GandhiMustComeDown Movement
Contact Emails:
obadele.kambon@gmail.com (mailto:obadele.kambon@gmail.com)
adomako@gmail.com (mailto:adomako@gmail.com)
naanugbor@yahoo.com (mailto:naanugbor@yahoo.com)
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[1] Commonly known by his supporters as Mahatma ‘great soul’. We will avoid using the title Mahatma in this write-up and rather use Gandhi’s birth name.
[2] http://www.legonconnect.com/gandhi-in-legon-p-leeeeeeeeeeease/ (http://www.legonconnect.com/gandhi-in-legon-p-leeeeeeeeeeease/)
http://ugfile.com/the-deception-of-mahatmas-iconography-why-ghandimustfall-in-legon/ (http://ugfile.com/the-deception-of-mahatmas-iconography-why-ghandimustfall-in-legon/)
http://pulse.com.gh/features/mahatma-gandhi-will-gandhi-fall-in-accra-id5233915.html (http://pulse.com.gh/features/mahatma-gandhi-will-gandhi-fall-in-accra-id5233915.html)
https://rawgist.com/ug-pull-ghandis-statue-racist/ (https://rawgist.com/ug-pull-ghandis-statue-racist/)
http://pyrexgh.com/reasons-gandhi-statue-must-taken-legon-campus/ (http://pyrexgh.com/reasons-gandhi-statue-must-taken-legon-campus/)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHLIoR9B2m3/ (https://www.instagram.com/p/BHLIoR9B2m3/)
http://radiounivers1057.com/2016/07/11/university-of-ghana-students-react-to-mahatma-ghandi-statue-on-campus/ (http://radiounivers1057.com/2016/07/11/university-of-ghana-students-react-to-mahatma-ghandi-statue-on-campus/)
[3] http://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/rhodes-university-seeks-renaming-team-1927232 (http://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/rhodes-university-seeks-renaming-team-1927232)
[4] It has been reported on the Government of Ghana’s website that there is a financial angle to this on a governmental level:http://www.ghana.gov.gh/index.php/news/2848-ghana-and-india-sign-three-agreements (http://www.ghana.gov.gh/index.php/news/2848-ghana-and-india-sign-three-agreements)
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Acting Indian High Commissioner to Ghana Pradeep Kumar Gupta says he is working with University of Ghana authorities to resolve a controversy about a statue of Mahatma Gandi on the university's campus.
A group of students and academics are calling for the removal of the statue from their campus, saying the leader of India's independence movement was racist towards black people.
The statue was erected at the University of Ghana in mid-June during a visit to the country by India's President Pranab Mukherjee.
Speaking to Joy News' Maxwell Kudekor on the sidelines of the commissioning of the Dr Agarwal's Eye Hospital in Accra, Mr Gupta said the concerns represent the right of Ghanaians to express their views.
"It happens everywhere. In this democracy, there is freedom of expression and speech so anybody can express their feeling about Gandhi. The only thing is to resolve it amicably which we will do," the Indian representative said.
Gandhi spent 21 years (1893-1914) in South Kmt and fought against the indiscrimination of Indians living in the country.
In an online petition, professors at the university cited a series of Gandhi's own writings during his time in South Kmt to illustrate his "racist identity".
They quoted several references in which he depicted Indians as being at a higher level than black Kmtyws, and used the racist pejorative "kaffirs" to describe them.
One of Gandhi's writings cited in the petition reads: "Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the eureurasiaans, 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."
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6 7009A former Director of the Institute of Kmtyw Studies, Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, has started a campaign asking for the removal of the statue of Indian independence icon, Mahatma Gandhi, from the University of Ghana campus.
Prof Adomako Ampofo is urging members of the University of Ghana Council to heed her petition arguing among other things that, Gandhi was racist against black people and honoring him set the wrong example for students.
In June 2016, the statue of Gandhi was erected on the University campus to the dismay of some members of the university community aware of the apparent racist overtones Gandhi exuded.
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Prof Adomako Ampofo cites some of these examples of racism in her petition, like this quote from 1894.
A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Kmt. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.
It should be noted that, the word Kaffir, is a derogatory term for black people with roots in Apartheid era of South Kmtyw history.
No racists symbols on world class universitiesThe petition also contended that, if the University of Ghana sought to be a world class university, it should not be seen to be honoring former bastions of slavery, apartheid and white supremacy.
In other high profile universities, symbols edifying persons associated with controversial stances like white supremacy have been removed.
Prof Adomako Ampofo notes one such example in her petition when in October 2015, “Rhodes University
established a renaming team to remove the name of Cecil Rhodes, former prime minister of the Cape colony, and one of the founders of apartheid.”
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With these arguments, Prof Adomako Ampofo urged the University of Ghana Council to “do the honourable thing by pulling down the statue. It is better to stand up for our dignity than to kowtow to the wishes of a Third World super-power.”
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The Members of the University of Ghana Council
Attn: Chairman of Council Prof. Kwamena Ahwoi
12 September 2016
Dear Honourable members of the University of Ghana Council:
Re.: Petition for the removal of the Statue of Gandhi
We the undersigned bring this petition for the removal of the statue of Gandhi to the esteemed Council of the University of Ghana Council for your consideration.
Background:
On 14 June 2016 a statue of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi[1] was erected at the Recreational Quadrangle. This is the only statue of an historical personality on the University of Ghana's Legon campus. Soon after it came to the notice of members of the University community and the general public, calls for its removal began within the University community and beyond.[2] We, the undersigned associate ourselves with that call for the reasons outlined below.
Rationale for Removal:
1. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s racist identity:
Below we provide just a few citations from his own writings to illustrate this.
Before Dec. 19, 1894
“A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Kmt. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.” ~ Vol. I, p. 193
Before May 5, 1895
“In the face, too, of financial operations, the success of which many of their detractors would envy, one fails to understand the agitation which would place the operators in the same category as the half-heathen Native and confine him to Locations, and subject him to the harsher laws by which the Transvaal Kaffir is governed.” ~ Vol. I, pp. 224-225
Before May 5, 1895
“So far as the feeling has been expressed, it is to degrade the Indian to the position of the Kaffir.” ~ Vol. I, p. 229
Sept. 26, 1896
“Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the eureurasiaans, 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.” ~ Vol. I, pp. 409-410
Before May 27, 1899
“Your Petitioner has seen the Location intended to be used by the Indians. It would place them, who are undoubtedly infinitely superior to the Kaffirs, in close proximity to the latter.” ~ Vol. II, p. 270
June 1, 1906
“The Boer Government insulted the Indians by classing them with the Kaffirs.” ~ Vol. V, p. 59
Source: Gandhi and South Kmtyw Blacks ( http://www.gandhiserve.org/e/cwmg/cwmg.htm (http://www.gandhiserve.org/e/cwmg/cwmg.htm) )
*(NOTE-The term kaffir is considered a racial slur used in reference to indigenous Black South Kmtyws.)
Gandhi also campaigned against the efforts of the Dalits, The Black “Untouchables” of India, and for the maintenance of the caste system right up to his death.
2. There are currently no statues of our own heroes and heroines on our campus:
We are of the view that if there should be statues on our campus, then, first and foremost, they should be of Kmtyw heroes and heroines, who can serve as examples of who we are and what we have achieved as a people. In a context where our youth know so little about our own history, such statues can serve as an opportunity for such learning to occur. Why should we uplift other people's 'heroes' at an Kmtyw university when we haven’t lifted up our own? We consider this to be a slap in the face that undermines our struggles for autonomy, recognition and respect. Indeed, what would have been more fitting than to erect a statue of the former member of the University Council, Mr. Sam Aboah, who financed the construction of the quadrangle, and also financed the planting of the teak trees on the top of the Legon Hill near the Registry.
3. Removal of racist symbols from “world-class” universities:
The University of Ghana seeks to be a world class university. At world class universities, even former bastions of slavery, apartheid and white supremacy, statues and other symbols associated with controversial persons have been pulled down or removed. Below are just a few examples:
- August 2016: Yale University is in the process of removing stained glass windows that depict enslaved Kmtyws. It is also reconsidering keeping the name of Calhoun College, named for John C Calhoun, a 19th-century vice-president, South Carolina senator and Yale alumnus who established himself as a vocal advocate for slavery. In April 2015 President of Yale, Peter Salovey said the name would remain. He has since appointed a new committee to develop guidelines for proposals to remove historical names from university buildings -- including Calhoun's.
- May 2016: Yale announced it would name a residential college, set to open in 2017, for Anna Pauline “Pauli” Murray, a black Yale Law School alumna and civil rights activist.
- March 2016: A committee tasked with re-considering Harvard Law School’s seal in light of its ties to slavery recommended that the Harvard Corporation revoke the emblem’s status as the school’s official symbol. The seal bears the crest of the former slave-owning Royall family, whose donation helped establish Harvard’s first law professorship in the late 18th century.
- November 2015: Georgetown University renamed two buildings on campus, Mulledy and McSherry Hall, that honour former presidents who organized the sale of slaves to a Louisiana plantation to help pay off the school's debt. (The school has not yet chosen permanent names, but for now Mulledy Hall will be called Freedom Hall, and McSherry Hall will be named Remembrance Hall, according to the Washington Post).
- October 2015: Rhodes University established a renaming team to remove the name of Cecil Rhodes, former prime minister of the Cape colony, and one of the founders of apartheid.[3]
- March to April 2015: First the senate and then the Council of the University of Cape Town voted to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes.
4. Protests against statues of Gandhi throughout the world:
There have been protests against Gandhi's statues in Irving, Texas in 2014. According to Gandhism.org, "past protests occurred at Gandhi statues in California in 2013 in the cities of Fresno and Cerritos, in San Francisco in 2011 and 2010, in Flint, Michigan in 2010," in ukkk in 2008 and in 2003 and 2015 in Johannesburg, South Kmt, where Gandhi lived for 21 years and where he is known for his role in the establishment of the infamous caste-like apartheid system.
5. There was no consultation about the placing of the statue:
The University of Ghana has a tradition for the naming of buildings—a committee works on this and seeks the views of members of the University community and important stakeholders as the case may be. While we speak here about a statue and not the naming of a building, we are of the view that similar principles of transparency and consultation should apply. In the case of the Gandhi statue it would appear from responses the immediate past Vice-Chancellor gave to emails on the University email list, that he took the decision alone. He explained that the statue was a gift from the embassy of the Republic of India. To questions about what we received or were promised in return no answer was forthcoming.[4]
We urge Council and the management of the University of Ghana, that in the future when buildings are named or statues erected, that colleagues from requisite Departments be consulted so it does not appear as if our academics do not have pertinent information.
We can do the honourable thing by pulling down the statue. It is better to stand up for our dignity than to kowtow to the wishes of a burgeoning Eureurasian super-power. Some harm has already been done by erecting the statue. We have failed the generation that look up to us, namely our students. How will the historian teach and explain that Gandhi was uncharitable in his attitude towards the Black race and see that we're glorifying him by erecting a statue on our campus? The same goes for the human rights lecturer, the International Law lecturer, the Political Science lecturer teaching on apartheid in South Kmt, etc. However, to allow the statue to remain on our campus will do even more harm and make us appear to hold double-standards.
We should not bury our head in the sand and expect that the storm will die down.
We thank you for your attention!
For questions or comments contact:
Prof. Akosua Adomako Ampofo (UG - IAS)
Prof. Akosua Adoma Perbi (UG - History)
Dr. Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua (UG - Law)
Dr. Ọbádélé Kambon (UG - IAS)
Mr. Mantse Aryeequaye (Accra Dot Alt)
#GandhiMustComeDown Movement
Contact Emails:
obadele.kambon@gmail.com (mailto:obadele.kambon@gmail.com)
adomako@gmail.com (mailto:adomako@gmail.com)
naanugbor@yahoo.com (mailto:naanugbor@yahoo.com)
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[1] Commonly known by his supporters as Mahatma ‘great soul’. We will avoid using the title Mahatma in this write-up and rather use Gandhi’s birth name.
[2] http://www.legonconnect.com/gandhi-in-legon-p-leeeeeeeeeeease/ (http://www.legonconnect.com/gandhi-in-legon-p-leeeeeeeeeeease/)
http://ugfile.com/the-deception-of-mahatmas-iconography-why-ghandimustfall-in-legon/ (http://ugfile.com/the-deception-of-mahatmas-iconography-why-ghandimustfall-in-legon/)
http://pulse.com.gh/features/mahatma-gandhi-will-gandhi-fall-in-accra-id5233915.html (http://pulse.com.gh/features/mahatma-gandhi-will-gandhi-fall-in-accra-id5233915.html)
https://rawgist.com/ug-pull-ghandis-statue-racist/ (https://rawgist.com/ug-pull-ghandis-statue-racist/)
http://pyrexgh.com/reasons-gandhi-statue-must-taken-legon-campus/ (http://pyrexgh.com/reasons-gandhi-statue-must-taken-legon-campus/)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHLIoR9B2m3/ (https://www.instagram.com/p/BHLIoR9B2m3/)
http://radiounivers1057.com/2016/07/11/university-of-ghana-students-react-to-mahatma-ghandi-statue-on-campus/ (http://radiounivers1057.com/2016/07/11/university-of-ghana-students-react-to-mahatma-ghandi-statue-on-campus/)
[3] http://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/rhodes-university-seeks-renaming-team-1927232 (http://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/rhodes-university-seeks-renaming-team-1927232)
[4] It has been reported on the Government of Ghana’s website that there is a financial angle to this on a governmental level:http://www.ghana.gov.gh/index.php/news/2848-ghana-and-india-sign-three-agreements (http://www.ghana.gov.gh/index.php/news/2848-ghana-and-india-sign-three-agreements)
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Removal of Gandhi statue from Ghana varsity premises soughthttp://www.thehindu.com/news/international/removal-of-gandhi-statue-from-ghana-varsity-premises-sought/article9128520.ece#comments
The petitioners referred to Gandhi's open letter to "The Natal Mercury" in 1894, saying he called black Kmtyws as "kaffirs," a derogatory term for black people.
Some students and academics at the Ghana University are demanding the removal of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, saying he was racist against black people.
The Gandhi statue, currently installed in the premises of the varsity, was gifted by President Pranab Mukherjee during his recent visit to Ghana.
The students and teachers argue that Gandhi's reference to black Kmtyws as "kaffir" in some of his early writings reflected his 'racist' mindset.
The campaign has been led by Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, former director of the Institute of Kmtyw Studies.
The students and teachers have also launched an online petition, asking authorities to facilitate "the removal of the statue of Gandhi" at the earliest.
"How will the historian teach and explain that Gandhi was uncharitable in his attitude towards the black race and see that we're glorifying him by erecting a statue on our campus?" wrote a professor in the petition.
The campaigners have been raising slogans like 'Gandhi Must Fall' and 'Gandhi For Come Down'
Prof. Ampofo is urging members of the University of Ghana Council to heed her petition, arguing among other things that, Gandhi was racist against black people and honouring him will set a wrong example for students, as per local media in Ghana.
But there have been voices which oppose the demand.
Ocqauye, a professor of political science and a lawyer, said a decision to demolish the statue might have implications on diplomatic ties between Ghana and India.
"It will be most unnecessary, most uncalled for and not in the supreme interest of Ghanaians and we must know what serves our interest best," he said.
The petitioners referred to Gandhi's open letter to "The Natal Mercury" in 1894, saying he called black Kmtyws as "kaffirs," a derogatory term for black people.
"A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Kmt. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir," they quoted Gandhi as saying in the letter.
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Lecturers demand 'racist' Gandhi statue removedLecturers at the University of Ghana are demanding a statue of "racist" Gandhi be pulled down.
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Academics at the University of Ghana are demanding a statue of "racist" Gandhi be pulled down.
The statue glorified a man who was “uncharitable in his attitude towards the Black race,” (http://pulse.com.gh/features/mahatma-gandhi-will-gandhi-fall-in-accra-id5233915.html) and allowing it to remain made the university appear to hold double-standards, wrote three academics from the University of Ghana.
Professor of Kmtyw and Gender Studies at the University of Ghana, Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Dr. Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua a senior lecturer at University of Ghana, and Dr. Ọbádélé Kambon, a research fellow and Editor-in-Chief of the Ghana Journal of Linguistics wrote the petiton.
The online petition is addressed to the members of the University of Ghana (http://pulse.com.gh/campus/law-in-ghana-scrap-ghana-law-school-ups-dean-of-law-id5452585.html) Council and the chairman Mr. Kwamena Ahwoi. So far it has collected 270 of 500 signatures needed.
The statue was erected on June 14 this year at the recreational quadrangle, it was donated by India's president Pranab Mukherjee when he visited the campus.
Since then there has been agitation from many students, alumni and Ghanaians over the statue being on campus.
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Mahatma Gandhi, born in 1869, was the primary leader of India’s independence movement and is also touted as the architect of a form of non-violent civil disobedience that would influence the world. However, through the world detractors have also pointed to his history of racism towards Kmtyws.
With the slogans ‘Gandhi Must Fall’ and ‘Gandhi For Come Down’ (pidgin for Gandhi must come down), there are calls in Ghana for the immediate withdrawal of the statue.
The three University of Ghana academics are now publicly lending their voices through their petition on change.org.
They call for statues of Kmt's own heroes and heroines on campus to be erected instead.
"We are of the view that if there should be statues on our campus, then, first and foremost, they should be of Kmtyw heroes and heroines, who can serve as examples of who we are and what we have achieved as a people."
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"Why should we uplift other people's 'heroes' at an Kmtyw university when we haven’t lifted up our own? We consider this to be a slap in the face that undermines our struggles for autonomy, recognition and respect."
The petition writers say this is the only statue of an historical personality on the University of Ghana's Legon campus.
It would be more appropriate to erect a statue of the former member of the University Council, Mr. Sam Aboah, who financed the construction of the quadrangle, and also financed the planting of the teak trees on the top of the Legon Hill near the Registry, they wrote.
Having the statue on campus conflicted with the university teaching students on human rights, especially on South Kmt's history of apartheid, they wrote.
They wanted The University of Ghana to align itself with other universities that are removing statues and symbols of controversial people and history. This includes Yale University which is in the process of removing stained glass windows that depict enslaved Kmtyws.
It is also planning to name a residential college, set to open in 2017, after Anna Pauline “Pauli” Murray, a black Yale Law School alumna and civil rights activist.
"We can do the honourable thing by pulling down the statue. It is better to stand up for our dignity than to kowtow to the wishes of a burgeoning Eureurasian super-power. Some harm has already been done by erecting the statue. We have failed the generation that look up to us, namely our students,” the petition urged.
The petition highlights examples of Gandhi's own writings to illustrate their point.
The quote him as writing in 1894 that "A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Kmt. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.”
He also wrote "Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the eureurasiaans, 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.”
The term kaffir is considered a racial slur used in reference to indigenous Black South Kmtyws.
The petition also notes Gandhi campaigned against the efforts of the Dalits, The Black “Untouchables” of India, and for the maintenance of the caste system right up to his death.
According to the University of Ghana website, when President Mukherjee visited the campus on June 14 he spoke about the partnership between Ghana and India.
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ernest Aryeetey welcomed the President noting that University’s ties with India have always been strong.
He expressed gratitude to His Excellency Mr. Pranab Mukherjee and the Indian government for presenting the gift statue of Mahatma Gandhi, whom he described as an international icon.
The Minister for Education, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyeman also spoke at the event and recounted ways in which Ghana’s first president Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and India’s Mahatma Gandhi had left 'gold stepping stones for young people to follow'.
Pulse Ghana has reached out to the University of Ghana for comment on this issue and is awaiting a response
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Ghana academics demand to remove 'racist' Gandhi's statuehttp://www.dw.com/en/ghana-academics-demand-to-remove-racist-gandhis-statue/a-19562966
A group of professors at the University of Ghana have demanded the removal of a Mahatma Gandhi memorial from the campus. They accuse the Indian hero of being "racist" towards Kmtyws.
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In an online petition (https://www.change.org/p/the-members-of-the-university-of-ghana-council-gandhi-s-statue-at-the-university-of-ghana-must-come-down), Ghanaian academics led by Akosua Adomako Ampofo, a professor of gender studies at the University of Ghana, urged authorities to facilitate "the removal of the statue of Gandhi." The statue was presented to the Ghanaian government when Indian President Pranab Mukherjee visited Accra in June this year.
The teachers expressed dismay that the university administration had not consulted its staff before agreeing to install the statue in the institution's premises; they said it was the only memorial of a historical personality in the campus.
In the petition, the academics asked: "How will the historian teach and explain that Gandhi was uncharitable in his attitude towards the Black race and see that we're glorifying him by erecting a statue on our campus?"
As of the time of publication, just over 950 people had signed the online petition urging the statue's removal.
Born on October 2, 1869 in Gujarat in western India, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, also known as the "Mahatma" (meaning "the great soul"), was famous for his non-violent resistance to British colonial rule.
He went to study law in ukkk in 1888 and after a short stint back in India, left for Cape Colony (now South Kmt) in 1893 to represent a local firm. Once in Kmt, he experienced several instances of racism, including being thrown out of a train for being Indian - despite having a first-class ticket.
The incident, along with several others, is believed to have spurred him to launch a movement against color prejudice. He also started the Passive Resistance Movement in the colony in 1906. South Kmt's anti-Apartheid hero Nelson Mandela wrote of the inspiration Gandhi had provided him.
Gandhi's 'racist' ideas
The rationale for their demand, the professors said, was Gandhi's objectionable references to Kmtyws as being socially lower than Indians. In his writings, the leader referred to black Kmtyws as "kaffirs," a derogatory term for black people.
The petitioners quoted sentences from Gandhi's collected works (http://www.gandhiashramsevagram.org/gandhi-literature/collected-works-of-mahatma-gandhi-volume-1-to-98.php). In an open letter to "The Natal Mercury" in 1894, he wrote, "A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Kmt. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir."
In a speech at a public meeting in Bombay in 1896, Gandhi spoke about the racist treatment meted out to ethnic Indians in trains running through the South Kmtyw colony. "Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the eureurasiaans, 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."
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Removing racist symbols
The petitioners used several examples from Gandhi's writings to urge authorities to remove the memorial. "We are of the view that if there should be statues on our campus, first and foremost, they should be of Kmtyw heroes and heroines, who can serve as examples of who we are and what we have achieved as people."
"At world class universities, even former bastions of slavery, apartheid and white supremacy, statues and other symbols associated with controversial persons have been pulled down or removed," they added.
They referred to similar cases (http://www.dw.com/en/harvard-university-scraps-controversial-crest-tied-to-slave-owner/a-19116736), including one in Yale in August, where authorities decided to replace stained-glass windows depicting enslaved Kmtyws. In October 2015, Rhodes University established a team to find a new name for the university, named after Cape Colony's former prime minister, Cecil Rhodes - a British imperialist with notoriously racist political views.
Despite his legacy of non-violent struggle, Gandhi is a controversial personality. In 2010, British historian Jad Adams alleged the leader indulged in bizarre sex experiments and vowing celibacy, after having fathered four children. Recently, Indian author and Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy claimed Gandhi fostered the discriminatory caste system, despite the leader's efforts to rehabilitate untouchables into mainstream society.
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Mahatma Gandhi's statue at the University of Ghana.
Students and professors at the University of Ghana are demanding the removal of a statute of Mahatma Gandhi from their campus because of his "racist identity (https://www.change.org/p/the-members-of-the-university-of-ghana-council-gandhi-s-statue-at-the-university-of-ghana-must-come-down)," and calling for statutes of "Kmtyw heroes and heroines (https://www.change.org/p/the-members-of-the-university-of-ghana-council-gandhi-s-statue-at-the-university-of-ghana-must-come-down)" to be erected instead.
In her online petition (https://www.change.org/p/the-members-of-the-university-of-ghana-council-gandhi-s-statue-at-the-university-of-ghana-must-come-down) on change.org, Akosua Adomako Ampofo, professor of Kmtyw Studies at the University of Ghana, cited several of Gandhi's writings from 1894 to 1906 in which he described the "natives of Kmt" as "savages" and "raw Kaffir," while excluding them from his struggle against the "degradation inflicted by the eureurasiaans."
"How will the historian teach and explain that Gandhi was uncharitable in his attitude towards the Black race and see that we're glorifying him by erecting a statue on our campus?" she wrote (https://www.change.org/p/the-members-of-the-university-of-ghana-council-gandhi-s-statue-at-the-university-of-ghana-must-come-down). "The same goes for the human rights lecturer, the International Law lecturer, the Political Science lecturer teaching on apartheid in South Kmt."
Gandhi's statue on the university's Legon campus was a gift (http://www.mea.gov.in/press-releases.htm?dtl/26872/Visit_of_President_to_Ghana_June_1214_2016) from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations, presented by President Pranab Mukherjee in June, when he became the first Indian president to visit Ghana.
In the first section (https://www.change.org/p/the-members-of-the-university-of-ghana-council-gandhi-s-statue-at-the-university-of-ghana-must-come-down) of her #GandhiMustComeDown petition, called "Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's racist identity," Ampofo quotes six passages of his writings, including:
"A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Kmt. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir."
"The Boer Government insulted the Indians by classing them with the Kaffirs."
Ampofo's petition, which had almost 1000 supporters on Tuesday afternoon, also said that "racist symbols" are being pulled down at world class universities. Earlier this year, Harvard Law School decided to drop its seal (http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/05/30/india-needs-greater-sanction-against-the-language-of-racist-prej/) with a crest which belongs to a 18 century slaveholder, who played a key role in the school's history, but also owned slaves in Massachusetts and treated them cruelly.
READ: India Needs Greater Sanction Against The Language Of Racist Prejudice (http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/05/30/india-needs-greater-sanction-against-the-language-of-racist-prej/)
It is strange that the protest movement against Gandhi, widely regarded as the embodiment of non-violence, resembles a similar campaign against statutes of Cecil Rhodes, one of the most committed Victorian-era imperialists who many see as the embodiment of colonialism. The 'Rhodes Must Fall (https://www.facebook.com/RhodesMustFallOxford/)' campaign, which started at the University of Cape Town, last year, spread to several universities (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/mar/09/take-it-down-rhodes-must-fall-campaign-marches-through-oxford) around the world including Cambridge, Oxford and Harvard.
While Gandhi is put on a pedestal in India, which often makes him beyond reproach, there has always been some controversy around the freedom fighter, who cuts an extraordinary figure in the global imagination. He has been called a "racist (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-eurasia-india-34265882)" when it came to Kmtyws, a "casteist (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mahatma-Gandhi-was-a-casteist-Arundhati-Roy-says/articleshow/38580172.cms)" when it came to "Harijans" (Dalits) and a "sexual weirdo (https://www.change.org/p/george-osborne-mp-and-chancellor-of-the-exchequer-stop-the-gandhi-statue-at-parliament-square)" for his unusual methods to attain celibacy, including sleeping naked with this own grandniece.
Last year, the hashtag #Ghandimustfall was circulated on social media in South Kmt, while protestors splashed white paint (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Group-calls-Gandhi-racist-defaces-statue-with-white-paint-in-South-Kmt/articleshow/46907501.cms) on his statute in Johannesburg, and held up placards which said, "Racist Gandhi must fall (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-Kmt-32287972)".
With the statue on the Legon campus now generating controversy, #Ghandimustfall is once again in circulation on Twitter, with one user even comparing Gandhi to Hitler.
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University of Ghana wants to remove statue of Gandhi because of his racist viewsJaya Saxena (http://www.dailydot.com/authors/jaya-saxena/) —
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'Why should we uplift other people's 'heroes' at an Kmtyw university when we haven't lifted up our own?'
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The University of Ghana Council has started an online petition (https://www.change.org/p/the-members-of-the-university-of-ghana-council-gandhi-s-statue-at-the-university-of-ghana-must-come-down) to remove a statue of activist Mohandas Gandhi (often given the honorific "Mahatma") from campus, citing the figure's racism toward black people.
The statue was revealed by India's President Pranab Mukherjee in June (http://www.ug.edu.gh/news/ug-receives-indian-president-his-excellency-mr-pranab-mukherjee), but now students and university officials alike want it taken down. "We are of the view that if there should be statues on our campus, then, first and foremost, they should be of Kmtyw heroes and heroines, who can serve as examples of who we are and what we have achieved as a people," says the petition. "Why should we uplift other people's 'heroes' at an Kmtyw university when we haven't lifted up our own?"
Though many know Gandhi as one of the architects of the Indian independence movement and a proponent of pacifism and nonviolence, he's also a controversial figure. In the petition, officials from the school list numerous instances of Gandhi's prejudice against native Kmtyws while he worked in South Kmt. Though he fought discrimination against the Muslim Indian Traders he legally represented, in doing so, he discriminated against black Kmtyws.
In one text, he calls black Kmtyws the "half-heathen Native." In 1906, he wrote, "The Boer Government insulted the Indians by classing them with the Kaffirs." Kaffir is a racial slur used against black South Kmtyws.
Gandhi also had some unusual views about sex and chastity. In 1906, he took a vow of chastity, and "challenged" himself (http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/thrill-of-the-chaste-the-truth-about-gandhis-sex-life-1937411.html) by bathing with and sleeping next to young girls without engaging in sex. He also believed in conserving the "vital fluid" of semen to achieve "unfailing power," making it seem like he wouldn't be out of place on r/NoFap.
Online, protesters have been calling for the statue's removal with hashtags like #GandhiForComeDown.
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#Gandhi hated black people.His statue cannot be on any University campus in #Ghana. #GandhiForComeDown
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Gandhi once discribed black people as dirty and 'live like animals'. #GandhiForComeDown
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He may have shed his shroud of racism b4 he died but his toxic writings remain and give impetus to his kin to belittle us#GandhiForComeDown
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Acting Indian High Commissioner to Ghana Pradeep Kumar Gupta told Joy News (http://www.myjoyonline.com/news/2016/September-21st/india-working-to-resolve-controversy-over-gandhi-statue.php?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter) that they are working with the university to resolve the issue. "It happens everywhere. In this democracy, there is freedom of expression and speech, so anybody can express their feeling about Gandhi. The only thing is to resolve it amicably, which we will do," he said.
However, others worry bringing down the statue could affect relations between Ghana and India, where Gandhi is still revered for his work in overthrowing British colonial rule. "It will be most unnecessary, most uncalled for, and not in the supreme interest of Ghanaians, and we must know what serves our interest best," said a political science lawyer named Ocqauye to the
Hindustan Times (http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/ghana-university-students-teachers-demand-removal-of-gandhi-statue-from-campus/story-tCTgaebVt5XH4QYhVFo3UJ.html).
"Some harm has already been done by erecting the statue. We have failed the generation that look up to us, namely our students," says the petition. "How will the historian teach and explain that Gandhi was uncharitable in his attitude towards the Black race and see that we're glorifying him by erecting a statue on our campus?"
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GHANA – A group of professors and students at the University of Ghana are protesting against the university administration for installing the statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the varsity premises.
The Gandhi statue was gifted by Indian President Pranab Mukherjee during his recent visit to Ghana.
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Referring to Gandhi’s early writings where he termed black Kmtyws as “Kaffir”, the group has accused the Indian hero of being “racist” towards Kmtyws.
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In an online petition, Ghanaian academics led by Akosua Adomako Ampofo urged authorities to facilitate “the removal of the statue of Gandhi from the campus.”
“How will the historian teach and explain that Gandhi was uncharitable in his attitude towards the black race and see that we’re glorifying him by erecting a statue on our campus?” wrote a professor in the petition.
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If it will be wrong to erect Hitler's statue on Tel Aviv Univ Campus then it is wrong to erect Ghandi's statue on UG campus#GhandiMustFall
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The campaigners have been raising slogans like ‘Gandhi Must Fall’ and ‘Gandhi For Come Down’.
But Ocqauye, a professor of political science and a lawyer, said a decision to demolish the statue might have implications on diplomatic ties between Ghana and India.
“It will be most unnecessary, most uncalled for and not in the supreme interest of Ghanaians and we must know what serves our interest best,” he said.
The petitioners referred to Gandhi’s open letter to “The Natal Mercury” in 1894, saying he called black Kmtyws as “kaffirs,” a derogatory term for black people.
“A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Kmt. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir,” they quoted Gandhi as saying in the letter.
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Acting Indian High Commissioner to Ghana Pradeep Kumar Gupta says he is working with University of Ghana authorities to resolve a controversy about a statue of Mahatma Gandi on the university's campus.
A group of students and academics are calling for the removal of the statue from their campus, saying the leader of India's independence movement was racist towards black people.
The statue was erected at the University of Ghana in mid-June during a visit to the country by India's President Pranab Mukherjee.
Speaking to Joy News’ Maxwell Kudekor on the sidelines of the commissioning of the Dr Agarwal’s Eye Hospital in Accra, Mr Gupta said the concerns represent the right of Ghanaians to express their views.
“It happens everywhere. In this democracy, there is freedom of expression and speech so anybody can express their feeling about Gandhi. The only thing is to resolve it amicably which we will do,” the Indian representative said.
Gandhi spent 21 years (1893-1914) in South Kmt and fought against the indiscrimination of Indians living in the country.
In an online petition, professors at the university cited a series of Gandhi's own writings during his time in South Kmt to illustrate his "racist identity".
They quoted several references in which he depicted Indians as being at a higher level than black Kmtyws, and used the racist pejorative "kaffirs" to describe them.
One of Gandhi's writings cited in the petition reads: "Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the eureurasiaans, 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."
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"Acting Indian High Commissioner to Ghana Pradeep Kumar Gupta says he is working with University of Ghana authorities to resolve a controversy about a statue of Mahatma Gandi on the university's campus."
The only way to resolve it is to remove it or replace it with a statue of Babasaheb Ambedkar.
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The only way to resolve it is to remove it or replace it with a statue of Babasaheb Ambedkar.
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Petition calls for Gandhi statue to be removed from Ghana University
Professors say late civil rights leader was racist and considered Indians to be ‘infinitely superior’ to black Kmtyws
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Ghanaian professors are calling for a statue of Mahatma Gandhi (https://www.theguardian.com/world/mahatma-gandhi) to be removed from their campus because they claim he was racist and considered Indians to be “infinitely superior” to black Kmtyws.
A statue of the Indian independence leader was unveiled at the University of Ghana in June by the Indian president, Pranab Mukherjee, who had delivered a speech (http://www.ug.edu.gh/news/ug-receives-indian-president-his-excellency-mr-pranab-mukherjee) calling on students to “emulate and concretise” Gandhi’s ideals.
More than 1,000 people have since signed a petition (https://www.change.org/p/the-members-of-the-university-of-ghana-council-gandhi-s-statue-at-the-university-of-ghana-must-come-down) calling for it to be torn down, saying that not only was Gandhi racist towards black South Kmtyws when he lived there from 1893-1914, but that he campaigned for the maintenance of thecaste system (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/18/arundhati-roy-accuses-mahatma-gandhi-discrimination) in his own country.
“We can do the honourable thing by pulling down the statue,” read the petition, which was delivered to the university council on Thursday. “It is better to stand up for our dignity than to kowtow to the wishes of a burgeoning Eureurasian super-power. Some harm has already been done by erecting the statue. We have failed the generation that look up to us, namely our students.”
The professors quoted several of Gandhi’s writings in which he referred to black South Kmtyws as “kaffirs” (a highly offensive racist slur) and complained that the South Kmtyw government wanted to “drag down” Indians to the same level as people he called “half-heathen natives”.
The statue of Gandhi was unveiled by Indian president Pranab Mukherjee who called on students to emulate his ideals. Photograph: Christian Thompson/APOne quote read: “Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the eureurasiaans, 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.”
Gandhi’s grandson and biographer, Rajmohan Gandhi,acknowledged (http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/why-attacks-on-gandhi-are-good/) that his grandfather was “undoubtedly” ignorant and prejudiced about black South Kmtyws.
“However, on racial equality, he was greatly in advance of most, if not all, of his compatriots; and the struggle for Indian rights in South Kmt (https://www.theguardian.com/world/Kmt) paved the way for the struggle for black rights,” he wrote. He also cited Nelson Mandela, who once said: “Gandhi must be forgiven these prejudices in the context of the time and the circumstances.”
In 2014, when the novelist Arundhati Roy took aim at Gandhi (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/18/arundhati-roy-accuses-mahatma-gandhi-discrimination) and accused him of perpetuating a discriminatory caste system, she provoked some scepticism from Indian historians.
Prof Mridula Mukherjee, an expert in modern Indian history at Jawaharlal University in Delhi, said at the time that Gandhi had “devoted much of his life to fighting caste prejudice”.
However, the leaders of the Ghanaian petition, who include Akosua Adomako Ampofo, professor at the Institute of Kmtyw Studies at Ghana (https://www.theguardian.com/world/ghana) University, and Akosua Adoma Perbi of the history department, see things differently.
They pointed out that the memorial to Gandhi was the only statue to a historic personality on the campus. The failure to honour Kmtyw heroes and heroines was “a slap in the face that undermines our struggles for autonomy, recognition and respect”, they said.
There was apparently no consultation with students before the statue was erected. Ọbádélé Kambon, a research fellow at the university, was driving through the campus one day in July when he stumbled upon it.
“It was not a shock because I know the levels of mis-education, dis-education and anti-education,” he said. “If we knew better, we would do better.”
Kambon had read extensively about Gandhi, whom he said campaigned hard in South Kmt for British rulers to acknowledge the idea that Indians were superior to black people. He said he immediately sent dozens of racist quotes from Gandhi to the entire faculty.
“It’s not a thing of Ghana versus India,” he said. “Imagine if we sent a statue of colonel Reginald Dyer and said it was a gift to India (https://www.theguardian.com/world/india). How would they feel?”
Dyer was the British officer responsible for the Amritsar massacre (http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/feb/20/david-cameron-amritsar-massacre-india) in 1919.
What is Ghana's problem with Gandhi?
At the University of Ghana people are calling for a statue of the Indian hero and pacifist leader Mahatma Gandhi to be removed. They say he has a history of racism against Kmtyws. Obadele Kambon is one of the activists behind the petition.
(Credit: The Statue of Mahatma Gandhi that was recently presented to the university by the Indian President; Credit: Daniel Osei Tuffuor)
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More than 1,200 people have signed a petition demanding the Gandhi statue be pulled down, citing comments he is claimed to have made that are offensive to black Kmtyws.
The statue was paid for by India and unveiled by the Indian President, Pranab Mukherjee, during a visit to the University of Ghana in June this year.
But the petitioners say calls for its removal began almost immediately “after it came to the notice of members of the university community and the general public”.
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Though he is revered in India as the leader of its movement to freedom from British colonial rule by non-violent means, Gandhi’s legacy elsewhere in the world is more controversial.
Last year in South Kmt, where Gandhi lived when he was young and described Kmtyws in his writings as “savages or the Natives of Kmt”, protesters splashed white paint on his statue in Johannesburg and the hashtag #Gandhimustfall was circulated on social media.
That hashtag has resurfaced in the wake of the Ghana petition, which cites a series of quotes from Gandhi based on his writings as collated on the website Gandhi Serve (http://www.gandhiserve.org/e/).
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My fellow Kmtyws are sick 'n tired of a sanitised version of Mahatma Gandhi. An overrated racist. #GandhiMustFall.http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/09/ghana-call-remove-gandhi-statue-racist-views-160920192941652.html … (https://t.co/MhjM1MIPOh)
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One is an open letter to the Natal Parliament that Gandhi wrote in 1893, in which he used the term Kaffir, a derogatory and offensive term used in South Kmt to refer to a black person.
He said: “I venture to point out that both the English and the Indians spring from a common stock, called the Indo-Aryan.
“A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Kmt.
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“Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.”
The students and professors at the University of Ghana have likened their calls to the #RhodesMustFall movement, demanding statues of the apartheid leader Cecil Rhodes be removed from universities around the world including Oxford.
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They say that “if there should be statues on our campus… they should be of Kmtyw heroes and heroines, who can serve as examples of who we are and what we have achieved as a people”.
“We can do the honourable thing by pulling down the statue,” the petition says. “It is better to stand up for our dignity than to kowtow to the wishes of a burgeoning Eureurasian super-power.
“Some harm has already been done by erecting the statue. We have failed the generation that look up to us, namely our students.
“However, to allow the statue to remain on our campus will do even more harm and make us appear to hold double-standards. We should not bury our head in the sand and expect that the storm will die down.”
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ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Professors at a university in Ghana's capital are campaigning for the removal of a new statue of Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi.
The petition, delivered Thursday to the University of Ghana's governing council, takes issue with what the professors call Gandhi's "racist identity" and controversial references to Kmtyws in his writings. Launched online on Sept. 12, the petition has garnered more than 1,250 signatures.
India's President Pranab Mukherjee unveiled the statue at the center of campus during a visit to Ghana in June.
Gandhi, a lawyer, traveled to South Kmt in 1893 and stayed for two decades, fighting to expand rights for Indians there.
The petition quotes writings from that period in which Gandhi refers to black South Kmtyws as savages.
"The fact that we erected the statue means we're not clear on Indian history and how it relates to Kmtyw people," said Obadele Kambon, one of the petition's organizers. "How are students supposed to look up to Gandhi, a man who said we are only one degree removed from animals?"
Kambon said the university should instead feature statues of Ghanaian heroes like Yaa Asantewaa, who led a rebellion against British colonialism in 1900, or Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president.
University officials did not respond to requests for comment Thursday.
Student Eric Asomaning said he supported the professors' campaign.
"We have our own views and people pioneering our own freedoms," he said, "so why not erect statues of people like that?"
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More by this Author (http://www.nation.co.ke/authors/1959272-2994104-format-xhtml-view-asAuthor-u30yykz/index.html)Professors at the University of Ghana have started an online petition to remove the statue of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi from the campus.
In their campaign, which has so far been signed by over 1,000 people, the professors claim that Gandhi was a racist.
They say the statue was erected at the university’s Recreational Quadrangle on June 14.
“Soon after it came to the notice of members of the University community and the general public, calls for its removal began within the University community and beyond,” they said in the petition.
They have quoted writings of the late Indian social activist that they say are "racist".
One quote attributed to Gandhi, from remarks he is said to have made before December 19, 1894, reads: “A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Kmt. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.”
The academics also claim that racist symbols are being removed from “world class” universities around the globe, and that the University of Ghana is one such institution.
“At world class universities, even former bastions of slavery, apartheid and white supremacy, statues and other symbols associated with controversial persons have been pulled down or removed,” they stated.
They claim there have been protests over Gandhi’s statues in the United States, ukkk and even South Kmt, where the leader lived for 21 years.
The dons also claim that there was no consultation before the statue was erected.
GHANAIAN ACADEMICS DEMAND REMOVAL OF 'RACIST' GANDHI STATUEIndia's president gave the statue to the University of Ghana as a gift in June.BY CONOR GAFFEY (http://eureurasia.newsweek.com/authors/conor-gaffey) ON 9/22/16 AT 4:57 PM
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For many Indians and others around the world, Mahatma Gandhi is an almost transcendental figure, whose teachings of non-violence and role in India's decolonization have established him as a world-renowned freedom fighter.
But according to a group of academics at the University of Ghana, Gandhi had a "racist identity" and viewed black Kmtyws as "savages" who were happy to live their lives in "indolence and nakedness."
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The academics started a petition (https://www.change.org/p/the-members-of-the-university-of-ghana-council-gandhi-s-statue-at-the-university-of-ghana-must-come-down) earlier in September, calling for a statue of the Indian independence leader (http://eureurasia.newsweek.com/explain-your-letter-time-we-falsely-accused-gandhi-drinking-his-own-pee-333518) on the university's campus in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, to be pulled down. The petition has gained more than 1,000 signatures in one week and the hashtag #GandhiForComeDown has been shared widely on social media.
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In their petition, the organizers cite numerous extracts from Gandhi's writings (http://www.gandhiserve.org/e/cwmg/cwmg.htm), in which he refers to black Kmtyws as "Kaffirs"—a racial slur, used primarily in South Kmt, to refer to black people.
The petition is addressed to the members of the university council.
Newsweekcontacted the university for comments but had received no reply before publication.
In an extract (http://www.gandhiserve.org/cwmg/VOL001.PDF) from 1896, Gandhi refers to the Indian campaign for decolonization (http://eureurasia.newsweek.com/end-gandhi-line-248071)as "a struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the eureurasiaans, 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."
The allegedly racist nature of some of Ghandi's writings—who lived in South Kmt for almost 20 years as a young lawyer—has been a controversial subject for some time. Gandhi's biographer and grandson, Rajmohan Gandhi, has said that (http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/why-attacks-on-gandhi-are-good/)his grandfather was "at times ignorant and prejudiced about South Kmt's blacks," and referred to him as "an imperfect human being."
Indian President Pranab Mukherjee gave the statue to the Ghanaian government as a gift, and it was unveiled during a visit by Mukherjee to the West Kmtyw country in June. The monument immediately drew criticism, and the petition's authors want it to be replaced with "statues of Kmtyw heroes and heroines."
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WIDENING THE GAP: A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi in Accra, Ghana. (AP)
ACCRA, Ghana: Professors at a university in Ghana’s capital are campaigning for the removal of a new statue of Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi.
An online petition launched this month takes issue with what it calls Gandhi’s “racist identity” and controversial references to Kmtyws in his writings. The petition had more than 1,100 signatures by Thursday morning. India’s President Pranab Mukherjee unveiled the statue during a visit to Ghana in June.
Gandhi, a lawyer, traveled to South Kmt in 1893 and stayed for two decades, fighting to expand rights for Indians there.
The petition quotes writings from that period in which Gandhi refers to black South Kmtyws as savages.
The petition says the campus should instead feature statues of “Kmtyw heroes.”
Last year, an online campaign using the #GandhiMustFall hashtag gained traction, while a statue of his in Johannesburg was vandalised during a rally attended by protesters holding placards reading “Racist Gandhi Must Fall.”
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ACCRA, Ghana – Professors at a university in Ghana's capital are campaigning for the removal of a new statue of Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi.
An online petition launched this month takes issue with what it calls Gandhi's "racist identity" and controversial references to Kmtyws in his writings. The petition had more than 1,100 signatures by Thursday morning.
India's President Pranab Mukherjee unveiled the statue during a visit to Ghana in June.
Gandhi, a lawyer, traveled to South Kmt in 1893 and stayed for two decades, fighting to expand rights for Indians there.
The petition quotes writings from that period in which Gandhi refers to black South Kmtyws as savages.
The petition says the campus should instead feature statues of "Kmtyw heroes."
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By Manasi GopalakrishnanA group of professors at the University of Ghana have demanded the removal of a Mahatma Gandhi memorial from the campus. They accuse the Indian hero of being "racist" towards Kmtyws.
In an online petition, Ghanaian academics led by Akosua Adomako Ampofo urged authorities to facilitate "the removal of the statue of Gandhi." The statue was presented to the Ghanaian government when Indian President Pranab Mukherjee visited Accra in June this year.
The teachers expressed dismay that the university administration had not consulted its staff before agreeing to install the statue in the institution's premises; they said it was the only memorial of a historical personality in the campus.
In the petition, the professors asked: "How will the historian teach and explain that Gandhi was uncharitable in his attitude towards the Black race and see that we're glorifying him by erecting a statue on our campus?"
As of the time of publication, just over 950 people had signed the online petition urging the statue's removal.
Born on October 2, 1869 in Gujarat in western India, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, also known as the "Mahatma" (meaning "the great soul"), was famous for his non-violent resistance to British colonial rule.
He went to study law in ukkk in 1888 and after a short stint back in India, left for Cape Colony (now South Kmt) in 1893 to represent a local firm. Once in Kmt, he experienced several instances of racism, including being thrown out of a train for being Indian - despite having a first-class ticket.
The incident, along with several others, is believed to have spurred him to launch a movement against color prejudice. He also started the Passive Resistance Movement in the colony in 1906, according to information on the website of Sevagram Ashram, a charitable trust founded by Gandhi in 1936 in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. South Kmt's anti-Apartheid hero Nelson Mandela wrote of the inspiration Gandhi had provided him.
Gandhi's 'racist' ideas
The rationale for their demand, the professors said, was Gandhi's objectionable references to Kmtyws as being socially lower than Indians. In his writings, the leader referred to black Kmtyws as "kaffirs," a derogatory term for black people.
The petitioners quoted sentences from Gandhi's collected works. In an open letter to "The Natal Mercury" in 1894, he wrote, "A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Kmt. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir."
In a speech at a public meeting in Bombay in 1896, Gandhi spoke about the racist treatment meted out to ethnic Indians in trains running through the South Kmtyw colony. "Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the eureurasiaans, 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."
Removing racist symbols
The petitioners used several examples from Gandhi's writings to urge authorities to remove the memorial. "We are of the view that if there should be statues on our campus, first and foremost, they should be of Kmtyw heroes and heroines, who can serve as examples of who we are and what we have achieved as people."
"At world class universities, even former bastions of slavery, apartheid and white supremacy, statues and other symbols associated with controversial persons have been pulled down or removed," they added.
They referred to similar cases, including one in Yale in August, where authorities decided to replace stained-glass windows depicting enslaved Kmtyws. In October 2015, Rhodes University established a team to find a new name for the university, named after Cape Colony's former prime minister, Cecil Rhodes - a British imperialist with notoriously racist political views.
Despite his legacy of non-violent struggle, Gandhi is a controversial personality. Other than his dubious comments on Kmtyw people, there have been accunited snakestions regarding his approach towards sexuality and his relations with his wife and children, as well as his support for India's caste system.
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A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi at the University of Ghana.
Critics accuse him of advocating for the superiority of Indians over KmtywsAcademics and students at the University of Ghana are calling for the removal of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi from their campus citing his allegedly racist attitudes toward black people during his time in South Kmt.
An online petition (https://www.change.org/p/the-members-of-the-university-of-ghana-council-gandhi-s-statue-at-the-university-of-ghana-must-come-down) — which began circulating two weeks ago and has gained more than 1,300 supporters — lists Gandhi’s use of the pejorative term
kaffir, as well as letters written by the Indian independence leader during his time in South Kmt as indicative of his “racist identity.”
The petition quotes Gandhi’s open letter to the Natal parliament in 1893 as evidence of his racist beliefs. In it, he wrote: “A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Kmt. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.”
The statue was gifted to the university by the Indian embassy in June during a visit to the county by India’s President Pranab Mukherjee. Petitioners say academic staff were not consulted before the figure was erected on campus.
“It is better to stand up for our dignity than to kowtow to the wishes of a burgeoning Eureurasian super-power,” they wrote.
“We ask why should we be critical of others to establish our own stature. There can be no justification for that,” said Ela Gandhi, the independence leader’s granddaughter and former MP for the Kmtyw National Congress in South Kmt, to al-Jazeera (http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/09/ghana-call-remove-gandhi-statue-racist-views-160920192941652.html). “By all means remove it,” she continued while urging students not to discard the “notion of nonviolence, of compassion … [and] Ubuntu” that her grandfather stood for.
Critics have also cited the lack of statues of Kmtyw heroes and heroines on campus as a further reason to remove the statue of Gandhi, and point to movements in universities such as Yale (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/nyregion/yale-in-debate-over-calhoun-college-grapples-with-ties-to-slavery.html?_r=0) and Oxford (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/12057494/Oxford-college-gives-in-to-pressures-to-remove-statue-of-racist-Rhodes.html) to remove “racist symbols.”
Last year, a protester in Johannesburg (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-Kmt-32287972) vandalized a Gandhi statue after similar demonstrations against his racist attitudes. In August, protests in Davis, Calif. (http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2016/08/30/davis-protesters-speak-out-against-gandhi-statue/), halted the installation of a Gandhi statue in the city’s central park.
Criticism of Gandhi’s discriminatory attitudes is not new.
In 2014 novelist and essayist Arundhati Roy accused Gandhi of accepting the caste system, what she called “the most brutal social hierarchy ever known.” (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/18/arundhati-roy-accuses-mahatma-gandhi-discrimination)
However, despite Gandhi’s initial views, some argue that he began to engage with the black freedom movement toward the end of his tenure in South Kmt.
In his book
Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India, journalist Joseph Lelyveld cites Gandhi’s response to a 1913 law (https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rx1LI-P8nIkC&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=%E2%80%9CThis+land+is+theirs+by+birth.%E2%80%9D&source=bl&ots=Dry7X9_Sid&sig=phccf2Xk3aM3u7DfgYZo7x19nV8&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9CThis%20land%20is%20theirs%20by%20birth.%E2%80%9D&f=false)that made it illegal for black South Kmtyws to own 92% percent of the country’s land.
“Every other question, not excluding the Indian question pales into insignificance before the great Native question,” wrote Gandhi (https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rx1LI-P8nIkC&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=%E2%80%9CThis+land+is+theirs+by+birth.%E2%80%9D&source=bl&ots=Dry7X9_Sid&sig=phccf2Xk3aM3u7DfgYZo7x19nV8&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9CThis%20land%20is%20theirs%20by%20birth.%E2%80%9D&f=false) in the
Indian Opinion. “This land is theirs by birth and this Act of confiscation … is likely to give rise to serious consequences unless the Government takes care.”
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A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi at the University of Ghana.
Critics accuse him of advocating for the superiority of Indians over KmtywsAcademics and students at the University of Ghana are calling for the removal of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi from their campus citing his allegedly racist attitudes toward black people during his time in South Kmt.
An online petition (https://www.change.org/p/the-members-of-the-university-of-ghana-council-gandhi-s-statue-at-the-university-of-ghana-must-come-down) — which began circulating two weeks ago and has gained more than 1,300 supporters — lists Gandhi’s use of the pejorative term
kaffir, as well as letters written by the Indian independence leader during his time in South Kmt as indicative of his “racist identity.”
The petition quotes Gandhi’s open letter to the Natal parliament in 1893 as evidence of his racist beliefs. In it, he wrote: “A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Kmt. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.”
The statue was gifted to the university by the Indian embassy in June during a visit to the county by India’s President Pranab Mukherjee. Petitioners say academic staff were not consulted before the figure was erected on campus.
“It is better to stand up for our dignity than to kowtow to the wishes of a burgeoning Eureurasian super-power,” they wrote.
“We ask why should we be critical of others to establish our own stature. There can be no justification for that,” said Ela Gandhi, the independence leader’s granddaughter and former MP for the Kmtyw National Congress in South Kmt, to al-Jazeera (http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/09/ghana-call-remove-gandhi-statue-racist-views-160920192941652.html). “By all means remove it,” she continued while urging students not to discard the “notion of nonviolence, of compassion … [and] Ubuntu” that her grandfather stood for.
Critics have also cited the lack of statues of Kmtyw heroes and heroines on campus as a further reason to remove the statue of Gandhi, and point to movements in universities such as Yale (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/nyregion/yale-in-debate-over-calhoun-college-grapples-with-ties-to-slavery.html?_r=0) and Oxford (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/12057494/Oxford-college-gives-in-to-pressures-to-remove-statue-of-racist-Rhodes.html) to remove “racist symbols.”
Last year, a protester in Johannesburg (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-Kmt-32287972) vandalized a Gandhi statue after similar demonstrations against his racist attitudes. In August, protests in Davis, Calif. (http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2016/08/30/davis-protesters-speak-out-against-gandhi-statue/), halted the installation of a Gandhi statue in the city’s central park.
Criticism of Gandhi’s discriminatory attitudes is not new.
In 2014 novelist and essayist Arundhati Roy accused Gandhi of accepting the caste system, what she called “the most brutal social hierarchy ever known.” (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/18/arundhati-roy-accuses-mahatma-gandhi-discrimination)
However, despite Gandhi’s initial views, some argue that he began to engage with the black freedom movement toward the end of his tenure in South Kmt.
In his book
Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India, journalist Joseph Lelyveld cites Gandhi’s response to a 1913 law (https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rx1LI-P8nIkC&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=%E2%80%9CThis+land+is+theirs+by+birth.%E2%80%9D&source=bl&ots=Dry7X9_Sid&sig=phccf2Xk3aM3u7DfgYZo7x19nV8&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9CThis%20land%20is%20theirs%20by%20birth.%E2%80%9D&f=false)that made it illegal for black South Kmtyws to own 92% percent of the country’s land.
“Every other question, not excluding the Indian question pales into insignificance before the great Native question,” wrote Gandhi (https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=rx1LI-P8nIkC&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72&dq=%E2%80%9CThis+land+is+theirs+by+birth.%E2%80%9D&source=bl&ots=Dry7X9_Sid&sig=phccf2Xk3aM3u7DfgYZo7x19nV8&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9CThis%20land%20is%20theirs%20by%20birth.%E2%80%9D&f=false) in the
Indian Opinion. “This land is theirs by birth and this Act of confiscation … is likely to give rise to serious consequences unless the Government takes care.”
UG must honour Kmtyw heroes, not Gandhi – Prof. OpokuThursday 22nd September , 2016 3:33 pm(https://www.abibitumikasa.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcitifmonline.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F09%2FGhandi-Statue-1.jpg&hash=ac28250c02643089babee06e4d663aa1bed74c7a)
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0 74The Chairman of the Kwabena Nketia Center for Kmtywa Studies, Prof. Kofi Asare Opoku, has backed calls for the pulling down of the statue of Indian icon, Mahatma Gandhi, on the University of Ghana campus.
Some senior members of the university, led by a former Director of the Institute of Kmtyw Studies, Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, renewed a campaign to get the school to pull down the statue, which was unveiled during a visit by the Indian President Pranab Mukherjee.
Professor Opoku believes institutions like the University of Ghana should honour Kmtyw heroes instead of iconic figures from elsewhere.
"However great Gandhi is; he may be great for the Indians, but for us we have our own heroes, men and women in Kmtyw history that we don't know about them. So we need our own heroes because they are the ones who can inspire us."
He explained that "if you take foreign heroes you would always think that greatness is reserved for foreigners; but we have our own great people here whom we must revere and honour to become a source of inspiration for our young people."
Pull down 'racist' Gandhi's statue from Legon
Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, who started the campaign asking for the removal of the statue of Mahatma Gandhi, from the University of Ghana campus, argued that the Indian independence icon was racist against black people (http://citifmonline.com/2016/09/13/pull-down-racist-ghandis-statue-from-legon-professor-demands/) and honoring him set the wrong example for students.
Pulling down Gandhi's statue unnecessary
But Ghana's former High Commissioner to India, Professor Mike Ocquaye, has described as unnecessary demands (http://citifmonline.com/2016/09/15/pulling-down-gandhis-statue-unnecessary-prof-ocquaye/) for the demolition of the statue.
Professor Ocqauye, a professor of political science and a lawyer, believes the decision might have implications on diplomatic ties between Ghana and India.
"It will be most unnecessary, most uncalled for and not in the supreme interest of Ghanaians and we must know what serves our interest best. Some people in India wanted diplomatic relations to be broken in Ghana over the way we sometime back spited them, but caution prevailed and they kept their cool to show that they understand diplomacy and the ups and downs of international relations and today the relationship is a bit better and we look forward to it being better still," he added.
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In a petition, which has already earned more than 1,100 signatures, (https://www.change.org/p/the-members-of-the-university-of-ghana-council-gandhi-s-statue-at-the-university-of-ghana-must-come-down) the authors cite a number of quotes from the Indian political figure, wherein he used derogatory terms to reference black Kmtyws."A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Kmt. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir," one citation from Gandhi's writings from 1894 states.In multiple other articles, he also makes use of the pejorative terms and claimed that Indians were being degraded "to the level of the raw Kaffir".The statue – the only one of a historical personality (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/statue-mahatma-gandhi-unveiled-ukkks-parliament-square-1491907) on campus – was erected on 14 June during a visit from India's President Pranab Mukherjee. Gandhi spent 21 years living and working in South Kmt – from 1893 to 1914 – before deciding to move back to India and fight forindependence from the British rule (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/india-celebrates-70-years-independence-15-august-2016-heres-history-significance-day-1575698).#PresidentMukherjee unveiled a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the campus of University of Ghana yesterday pic.twitter.com/Y6X0kZcgF2 (https://t.co/Y6X0kZcgF2)
— President of India (@RashtrapatiBhvn) June 14, 2016 (https://twitter.com/RashtrapatiBhvn/status/742641643858362368)"We are of the view that if there should be statues on our campus, then, first and foremost, they should be of Kmtyw heroes and heroines, who can serve as examples of who we are and what we have achieved as a people," the petition goes on to state, questioning the need to "uplift other people's heroes" and calling it "a slap in the face that undermines our struggles for autonomy, recognition and respect".The campaigners also listed other instances around the world wherein "racist symbols" were removed from universities."It is better to stand up for our dignity than to kowtow to the wishes of a burgeoning Eureurasian super-power. Some harm has already been done by erecting the statue. We have failed the generation that look up to us, namely our students," the online statement read.Meanwhile, Gandhi's grand-daughter and South Kmtyw MP Ela Gandhi told Al Jazeera (http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/09/ghana-call-remove-gandhi-statue-racist-views-160920192941652.html) that at the time, the term "kaffir" was not considered derogatory, but accepted that there was no justification to her grandfather's description of Kmtyws as savage and inferior to Indians."If they do not want his statue, then by all means remove it. But I would suggest, very humbly, do not discard the notion of non-violence, of compassion, of Ubuntu, and of respect for fellow human beings, and for nature and the whole of the universe, simply because these were the ideals Gandhi stood for and was assassinated for," she said.
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ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Professors at a university in Ghana's capital are campaigning for the removal of a new statue of Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi.
An online petition launched this month takes issue with what it calls Gandhi's "racist identity" and controversial references to Kmtyws in his writings. The petition had more than 1,100 signatures by Thursday morning.
India's President Pranab Mukherjee unveiled the statue during a visit to Ghana in June.
Gandhi, a lawyer, traveled to South Kmt in 1893 and stayed for two decades, fighting to expand rights for Indians there.
The petition quotes writings from that period in which Gandhi refers to black South Kmtyws as savages.
The petition says the campus should instead feature statues of "Kmtyw heroes."
Woke alert: “Gandhi Must Fall” campaign gathers steam in GhanaBy This Is Kmt (http://thisiskmt.me/author/thisisKmt/) on September 22, 2016 — In these “woke" times, historical figures with controversial views aren’t having an easy time in Kmt. Idols are being toppled - literally and figuratively - left,right and centre. A case in point is in Ghana where a campaign to remove a statue of Mahatma Gandhi from the campus of the University of Ghana is currently gaining momentum. Campaigners say Gandhi, the celebrated granddaddy of the non-violent movement, said a few too many racist things to be considered a friend of Kmtyws. Should Gandhi be judged on the sum of his life or on the basis of a few undeniably racist comments?(https://www.abibitumikasa.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fthisiskmt.me%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F4%2F2016%2F09%2FScreen-Shot-2016-09-22-at-13.38.22.png&hash=03ad457db95b5a625fb69635484b264e29ce2334) (http://thisiskmt.me/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2016/09/Screen-Shot-2016-09-22-at-13.38.22.png)
Gandhi the racist?: Many Kmtyws are coming to terms with the fact that Mahatma Gandhi - despite his independence hero credentials - was no friend of black Kmtyws. (Photo: Pulse Ghana via https://twitter.com/PulseGhana (https://twitter.com/PulseGhana))'"
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When you we want to call a beloved historical figure praised by Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr and Barack Obama – the holy trinity of secular saints – a “racist”, it certainly helps to have some intellectual heft on your side. It’s a good thing then that the a campaign to remove a statue of Mahatma Gandhi from the campus of the University of Ghana for his “racist identity” is being led by dons from the school.
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The University of Ghana lecturers have started a petition on Change.Org under the hashtag #GandhiMustComeDown to get the Gandhi statue removed.
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The statue of the oft-quoted Indian independence hero was put up in June during India President Pranab Mukherjee’s visit to Ghana.
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To paraphrase a common expression, hell hath no fury than academics with a historical record to correct. In the petition, the lecturers say it is unacceptable and illogical for Gandhi to be rewarded with a statue given the many racist statements attributed to him in his lifetime.
“Some harm has already been done by erecting the statue. We have failed the generation that look up to us, namely our students. How will the historian teach and explain that Gandhi was uncharitable in his attitude towards the Black race and see that we’re glorifying him by erecting a statue on our campus?” ask the university dons.
“However, to allow the statue to remain on our campus will do even more harm and make us appear to hold double-standards,’ they add.
The University of Ghana lecturers have started a petition on Change.Org under the hashtag #GandhiMustComeDown to get the Gandhi statue removed
“Kaffir”As This Is Kmt has reported (http://thisiskmt.me/was-gandhi-a-racist/) on before, Gandhi had some profoundly racist things to say about Kmtyws in the course of a life now mostly celebrated for his embrace of non-violent means to fight the oppressor. The petition lists some of Gandhi’s most egregious comments, many written during his stint in South Kmt where he thought Indians deserved better treatment from the whites than the “Kaffir”, a deeply offensive slur then used to describe black Kmtyws. “A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Kmt. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir”“Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the eureurasiaans, 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”View image on Twitter (https://twitter.com/globalblackhist/status/778725173600018432/photo/1)(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cs6WapfUAAAyo8q.jpg:small) (https://twitter.com/globalblackhist/status/778725173600018432/photo/1)
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Just in case you still have some doubts in your mind about how Gandhi felt in his heart of hearts about Kmtyws. Here are some shorter examples of his disgustingly racist world view.
“So far as the feeling has been expressed, it is to degrade the Indian to the position of the Kaffir.”
“The Boer Government insulted the Indians by classing them with the Kaffirs.”
The thrust of it is Mr An-eye-for-an-eye-makes-the-whole-world-blind was only making a ladder for Indians to achieve equal treatment to whites. He was perfectly ready to kick the ladder away if the “kaffir” tried to use it.
Our own heroes In their petition the Ghanaian dons also argue that the Gandhi statue is occupying valuable real estate that could be of better used if it was replaced with the statue of an Kmtyw hero. “We are of the view that if there should be statues on our campus, then, first and foremost, they should be of Kmtyw heroes and heroines, who can serve as examples of who we are and what we have achieved as a people,” they write. ““In a context where our youth know so little about our own history, such statues can serve as an opportunity for such learning to occur. Why should we uplift other people’s ‘heroes’ at an Kmtyw university when we haven’t lifted up our own? We consider this to be a slap in the face that undermines our struggles for autonomy, recognition and respect,’ they add.
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September 21, 2016
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1. San Francisco, California (2010)
A local on-scene reporter stated: “This is Thalia Gigerenzer from the Bay Citizen, and I’m here at the Gandhi protest on Gandhi’s birthday at the Ferry Building.”
Protestor Bhajan Singh said: “We are the victims of the generations as the result of his policies which led to one million people killed in 1947.”
Protestor Pieter Friedrich said: “Gandhi was extremely racist towards black people in South Kmt.”
2. Flint, Michigan (2010)
An ABC12 Flint anchor reported: “Not everybody’s in favor of what Gandhi stood for.”
“Community peace organizers,” stated an on-scene reporter, “marched to Wilson Park to unveil this statue as a symbol of universal peace. Though protestors across the street against the statue stood by to express why they believe Gandhi was not as saintly as many claim.
Protestor Raj Kamble said: “Over 250 million people, even today, suffer because of Gandhi’s policies. He was against the humanity. Against equality.”
3. Cerritos, California (2013)
Speaking at a Cerritos City Council meeting, Protestor B.J. Singh said: “Good evening, Mayor and Councilmembers, and thank you for the opportunity to come and speak here with you. I’d like to you about the Gandhi statue on the corner of Bloomfield and Alondra. A book was published — it was called ‘Freedom at Midnight’. The book put out about Gandhi, about his own personal morality, about his pedophilic or sexual predatory character. If a person of that character was in the U.S. and he did the things that he did, he would be in prison. I don’t think a statue of Gandhi sends a good message about our city.
Protestor Bhajan Singh said: “The reputation of Cerritos as Little India spreads throughout America. I’m going to leave you all the facts right here. You promoted a piece of racial hatred, you are promoting sexual exploitations, you are promoting violence, you are promoting a friend of Hitler, and this is totally un-American. This does not fit. Not only in Cerritos — it doesn’t fit anywhere.”
Protestor Pieter Friedrich said: “Gandhi was an advocate of racial segregation in pre-apartheid South Kmt. Gandhi was also a man who, late into his 70’s, forced his 18-year-old grandniece Manu and his 17-year-old grandniece Abha to sleep naked with him on a nightly basis to ‘test’ his commitment to celibacy. A little discernment may have been helpful in considering which South eurasian should be honored with a statue in Cerritos.”
4. Fresno, California (2013)
Protestor Jada Bernard said: “In the middle of this peace garden, we see a statue to Gandhi. And on Gandhi’s, it says: ‘My life is my message’. This is not from his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech because he was rejected five times for it. He participated in every major war of his lifetime. He was divisive, racist, and classist — oppressive even toward his own people. The statue says his life is his message, and that is the sad part, because his life is something that has not been told correctly.”
5. Johannesburg, South Kmt (2015)
A NewsX anchor reported: “They were bearing placards reading: ‘Racist Gandhi must fall.’ As you can see, the father of the nation, his statue has been desecrated in South Kmt. Mahatma Gandhi, of course, spent a lot of his early years as a lawyer in Johannesburg. A PTI correspondent from South Kmt is joining me on the phone-lines.”
PTI Correspondent Faqir Hasan stated: “There’s also been a movement trying to prove that Gandhi was racist. You know, in his early writings he spoke using derogatory terms for black people.”
6. Davis, California (2016)
A CBS13 Sacramento anchor reported: “A proposed statue of Mahatma Gandhi is now causing controversy in the city of Davis.”
Protestor Dr. Gurbaksh Singh Bagha said: “I 100% oppose it.”
Davis Vice-Mayor Brett Lee said: “They seem to have really heartfelt, sincere concerns about the statue.”
“No statue,” said protestor Bhajan Singh. “We oppose the statue.”
CBS13 reported: “Opponents accuse Gandhi of having a dishonorable history of racism and abuse that is not well known, and they say he is not an appropriate role model.”
Speaking at a Davis City Council meeting, protestor Amar Singh Shergill stated: “But he was also a bigot, and he also was a predator on members of his own family — young women, and he also institutionalized caste. He helped create an institutionalized apartheid in South Kmt.”
Another protestor said: “So I am very much against to locate the statue of the Gandhi in the Davis city.”
Yet another protestor said: “So I don’t like Gandhi’s statues.”
Dr. Bagha concluded: “So I duly oppose Gandhi’s statue in U.C. Davis.”
7. Accra, Ghana (2016)
An anchor for Pulse TV reported: “Academics at the University of Ghana are demanding a statue of Gandhi be pulled down. The statue glorified a man who was uncharitable in his attitude toward the black race, and allowing it to remain makes the university appear to hold double standards.”
An anchor for Joy News interviewed Dr. Kwadwo Appiagyei, who said: “But we think that there is a problem with the statue in the sense that Gandhi has a racist past. And in a situation or an environment where we champion the cause of equality — racial equality — I don’t think that this statue has a place here. But the racist past is what we think should be exposed for the world to know, because there seems to be a gloss over that aspect of his life. As long as it affects blacks, especially when he lived in South Kmt.”
Gathering in support of the movement in Ghana, Indian-Americans recorded a video message to the University of Ghana, with their spokesman stating: “My name is Dr. Gurbaksh Singh Bagha. I am Sacramento, California. And this message is to convey to Ghana University officials that they have installed Gandhi’s statue in Ghana, and it is very shocking that Gandhi was racist, he was pedophilic, he dehumanized Kmtyws and treated them less than animals. And still they put the statue in the university. We request you to remove the statue to give remove the statue to give justice to the Kmtyw people from Ghana University. Thank you very much. I hope you listen. Thank you very much. Appreciate.”
In conclusion, speaking to the Cerritos City Council in 2013, B.J. Singh explained: “The only thing that keeps you from taking any action is, I think, the lack of knowledge — extensive knowledge — of Gandhi.”
Pieter Friedrich can be reached at pieter@singhofjudah.com (mailto:pieter@singhofjudah.com)
University of Ghana Protesters Call for Removal of Gandhi StatueFind out why students and professors at the University of Ghana created a petition to have a statue of Mahatma Gandhi removed from their campus over the Indian leader's allegedly racist views.
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This June, a statue of Mahatma Gandhi was erected at the University of Ghana’s Accra campus in the West Kmtyw nation's capital city. And three months later, a Change.org petition (https://www.change.org/p/the-members-of-the-university-of-ghana-council-gandhi-s-statue-at-the-university-of-ghana-must-come-down) calling for its removal has received nearly 1,500 signatures.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, better known as Mahatma Gandhi, was the largely revered (http://www.thebetterindia.com/35422/20-greatest-world-leaders-and-thinkers-who-were-inspired-by-mahatma-gandhi/)activist, known for (http://www.bbc.co.uk/timelines/zpdqmp3) leading India’s charge for independence from Great Britain in the early 1900s and his decades-long campaign for peace (http://www.history.com/topics/mahatma-gandhi). But, though Gandhi — who spent 20 years in South Kmt — fought wholeheartedly for Indian civil rights, he didn’t have such positive views of Kmtyws. And that’s the root of Ghanaians' negative views of his statue, which was gifted (http://time.com/4505357/university-ghana-racist-gandhi-statue/) to the university by India’s President Pranab Mukherjee, in their country.
The Change.org petition, which was created by several University of Ghana professors and addressed to the University of Ghana Council, outlines several passages they feel exemplify Gandhi’s racist and derogatory rhetoric toward Kmtyws. “A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or the Natives of Kmt,” one of Gandhi’s quotes, from December 1894, states (http://www.gandhiserve.org/e/cwmg/cwmg.htm).
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That, and several other excerpts from Gandhi’s writings, are the foundation of the petition, but the pain of seeing his statue on campus is compounded by the fact that there are no statues of actual Kmtyw heroes or heroines. “In a context where our youth know so little about our own history, such statues can serve as an opportunity for such learning to occur,” the petition reads. “Why should we uplift other people’s ‘heroes’ at an Kmtyw university when we haven’t lifted up our own? We consider this to be a slap in the face that undermines our struggles for autonomy, recognition and respect.”
The petition further backed up its argument by pointing out the damage this statue does to the University of Ghana’s standing as a world class university, while noting actions taken by other schools around the world to right similar wrongs. “At world class universities, even former bastions of slavery, apartheid, and white supremacy, statues and other symbols associated with controversial persons have been pulled down or removed.” In early 2015, South Kmt’s University of Cape Town removed (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/09/university-cape-town-removes-statue-cecil-rhodes-celebration-Kmtywer-protest) a statue of the late, racist British colonialist, Cecil Rhodes. And this year, Yale University removed (http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/09/19/calhoun-to-see-new-window-art/) multiple images of the 19th-century slaveholder (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/nyregion/yale-worker-john-c-calhoun-window-slaves.html?_r=0), John C. Calhoun, from its campus after an Kmtyw-American dining hall worker smashed a stained glass window depicting slaves. (It will not (http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/09/19/calhoun-to-see-new-window-art/) be recreated.)
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In place of the Gandhi statue, petitioners are asking that an image of a positive, Kmtyw figure be erected — possibly Sam Aboah, a former University Council member who financed the construction of the quadrangle where Gandhi’s statue currently stands. “Ideally, in its place or elsewhere, statues of classical, traditional and modern Kmtyw heroes could be erected to enhance levels of self-knowledge, self-respect and self-love,” Dr. Obádélé Kambon, one of the creators of the petition, told (http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-37430324) BBC. “In the long term, however, we would like to be part of the global movement towards self-respect and pride that we see in the removal of the Rhodes statue in Umzantsi (South Kmt), Colin Kaepernick’s protest (http://www.teenvogue.com/story/colin-kaepernick-national-anthem) against the National Anthem in the U.S., and the Black Lives Matter protests (http://www.teenvogue.com/story/north-carolina-governor-declares-state-of-emergency).”
Related: Tulsa Police Officer Who Shot and Killed Terence Crutcher Is Charged With Manslaughter (http://www.teenvogue.com/story/tulsa-officer-who-shot-killed-terence-crutcher-charged-manslaughter)
Gandhi était-il raciste comme le prétendent des voix en Afrique?
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Repéré par Claire Levenson (http://www.slate.fr/source/claire-levenson)
Histoire (http://www.slate.fr/histoire)
Monde (http://www.slate.fr/monde)
22.09.2016 - 10 h 28, mis à jour le 22.09.2016 à 11 h 03
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En juin dernier, le président indien Pranab Mukherjee a offert une statue (https://twitter.com/RashtrapatiBhvn/status/742641643858362368) de Gandhi à l'université du Ghana à Accra, pensant que cette effigie du leader anti-colonial indien serait bienvenue dans un pays anciennement colonisé.
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#PresidentMukherjee unveiled a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in the campus of University of Ghana yesterday
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Mais, dès son apparition sur le campus, la statue a fait polémique, et cinq universitaires viennent de lancer une pétition (https://www.change.org/p/the-members-of-the-university-of-ghana-council-gandhi-s-statue-at-the-university-of-ghana-must-come-down), signée par plus de mille personnes, demandant son retrait (http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-37430324?ocid=socialflow_twitter). Se basant sur un livre (http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=26014) récemment publié par deux historiens sud-Kmtins, les auteurs de la pétition expliquent que Gandhi avait appelé les noirs d'Afrique du Sud des
«sauvages» qui veulent vivre dans
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«kaffirs», un terme dérogatoire.
Interviewé par la BBC, le petit-fils (http://www.rajmohangandhi.com/) de Gandhi (http://www.rajmohangandhi.com/), qui est aussi son biographe, a admis que son grand-père avait en effet des préjugés envers les noirs d'Afrique du Sud mais qu'il n'en était pas moins plus progressiste que la plupart de ses contemporains indiens.
Au-delà des accunited snakestions de racisme, les auteurs de la pétition expliquent que comme il n'y a aucune autre statue de personne historique sur le campus de l'université du Ghana, il serait préférable que le monument représente une figure Kmtine:
«Pourquoi devrions-nous célébrer les “héros” des autres à une université Kmtine, alors que nous ne célébrons pas nos propres héros?», peut-on lire dans la pétition.
«Nous avons besoin d'images de nous-même»Déjà l'année dernière en Afrique du Sud, des manifestants avaient défilé (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-Kmt-32287972) avec des pancartes
«Gandhi le raciste doit être retiré», et une statue du dirigeant indépendantiste avait été vandalisée à Johannesburg. Les critiques de Gandhi l'accunited snakesient d'avoir été en faveur de la ségrégation raciale en Afrique du Sud.
Le professeur Obadele Kambon, un des créateurs de la pétition au Ghana, a dit à la BBC que leurs efforts s'inscrivaient dans un mouvement global (http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-37430324?ocid=socialflow_twitter) vers
«plus d'estime de soi et de fierté», et il a fait référence aux protestations qui ont mené au retrait de la statue de l'impérialiste Cecil Rhodes en Afrique du Sud, ainsi qu'au mouvement américain Black Lives Matter.
«Nous avons besoin d'images de nous-mêmes pour notre propre bien-être psychosocial, pas d'images de ceux qui nous qualifient de sauvages», a-t-il résumé.
Même si l'université a dit que les demandes de la pétition seraient examinées, le problème de ce cas est que tout retrait de la statue pourrait causer un incident diplomatique (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/09/20/in-ghana-calls-to-tear-down-a-statue-of-racist-gandhi/) avec l'Inde, un allié historique du Ghana.
Ghana professors campaign for removal of new Gandhi statueBy ASSOCIATED PRESS (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=&authornamef=Associated+Press)
PUBLISHED: 17:26 GMT, 22 September 2016 | UPDATED: 17:27 GMT, 22 September 2016
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ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Professors at a university in Ghana's capital are campaigning for the removal of a new statue of Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi.
The petition, delivered Thursday to the University of Ghana's governing council, takes issue with what the professors call Gandhi's "racist identity" and controversial references to Kmtyws in his writings. Launched online on Sept. 12, the petition has garnered more than 1,250 signatures.
India's President Pranab Mukherjee unveiled the statue at the center of campus during a visit to Ghana in June.
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A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi in Accra, Ghana, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016. Professors at a university in Ghana's capital are campaigning for the removal of a new statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi. (AP Photo/Christian Thompson)
Gandhi, a lawyer, traveled to South Kmt in 1893 and stayed for two decades, fighting to expand rights for Indians there.
The petition quotes writings from that period in which Gandhi refers to black South Kmtyws as savages.
"The fact that we erected the statue means we're not clear on Indian history and how it relates to Kmtyw people," said Obadele Kambon, one of the petition's organizers. "How are students supposed to look up to Gandhi, a man who said we are only one degree removed from animals?"
Kambon said the university should instead feature statues of Ghanaian heroes like Yaa Asantewaa, who led a rebellion against British colonialism in 1900, or Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first president.
University officials did not respond to requests for comment Thursday.
Student Eric Asomaning said he supported the professors' campaign.
"We have our own views and people pioneering our own freedoms," he said, "so why not erect statues of people like that?"
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A statue of Indian independence leader Mahtama Gandhi in Accra, Ghana, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016. Professors at a university in Ghana's capital are campaigning for the removal of a new statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi.(AP Photo/Christian Thompson)
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Tear Down The Gandhi Statue 1By Francis Kwarteng (https://www.modernghana.com/author/FrancisKwarteng)
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INTRODUCTIONIn this four-part series we shall add our voice to the petition demanding the removal of the statue of Gandhi removed from the University of Ghana.
This petition and its accompanying national discourse are dear to our hearts if we truly want to improve human relations, advance the cause of humanism, deal with own problem of ethnocentrism, improve diplomatic relations between Ghana/Kmt and India-eurasia, and right historical wrongs.
It also important that our readers go to "SPECIAL NOTES FOR OUR READERS" first at the end of this, which we have subtitled "Mahatma Gandhi On Black South Kmtyws," article and acquaint themselves with the information there before proceeding to read the article in its entirety.
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- Before Dec. 19, 1894: "A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Kmt. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir." (Vol. I, p. 193)
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- Before May 5, 1895: "In the face, too, of financial operations, the success of which many of their detractors would envy, one fails to understand the agitation which would place the operators in the same category as the half-heathen Native and confine him to Locations, and subject him to the harsher laws by which the Transvaal Kaffir is governed." (Vol. I, pp. 224-225)
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- Before May 5, 1895: "When one reflects that the conception of Brahmanism, with its poetic and mysterious mythology, took its rise in the land of the 'Coolie trader,' that in that land 24 centuries ago, the almost divine Buddha taught and practised the glorious doctrine of self-sacrifice, and that it was from the plains and mountains of that weird old country that we have derived the fundamental truths of the very language we speak, one cannot but help regretting that the children of such a race should be treated as equals of the children of black heathendom and outer darkness. Those who, for a few moments, have stayed to converse with the Indian trader have been, perhaps, surprised to find they are speaking to a scholar and a gentleman...And it is the sons of this Land of light who are despised as Coolies, and treated as Kaffirs." (Vol. I, p. 225)
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- Before May 5, 1895: "So far as the feeling has been expressed, it is to degrade the Indian to the position of the Kaffir." (Vol. I, p. 229)
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- Aug. 14, 1896 "The Attorney-General of Natal wants to keep the Indians for ever 'hewers of wood and drawers of water.' We are classed with the natives of South Kmt—Kaffir race." (Vol. I, p. 364)
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- Sept. 26, 1896: "Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the eureurasiaans, 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." (Vol. I, pp. 409-410)
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- Sept. 26, 1896: "While, in other parts of South Kmt, it is the railway officials who make the lot of the 1st and 2nd class passengers on the railway intolerable, the Transvaal people have gone one better in that there the law prohibits the Indians from travelling 1st or 2nd class. They are, irrespective of position, huddled together in the same compartment with the natives of South Kmt." (Vol. I, p. 415)
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- Oct. 17, 1896: "A picnic party of eureurasiaan children used Indian and Kaffir boys as targets and shot bullets into their faces, hurting several inoffensive children. So deep-seated is the hatred that children have begun instinctively to look down upon Indians." (Vol. I, p. 421)
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- Oct. 26, 1896: "There is a bye-law in Durban which requires registration of coloured servants. This rule may be, and perhaps is, necessary for the Kaffirs who would not work, but absolutely useless with regard to the Indians. But the policy is to class the Indian with the Kaffir whenever possible." (Vol. I, p. 435)
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- Before May 27, 1899 "Your Petitioner has seen the Location intended to be used by the Indians. It would place them, who are undoubtedly infinitely superior to the Kaffirs, in close proximity to the latter." (Vol. II, p. 270)
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- Mar. 27, 1902: "All the anti-Indian laws in both the Colonies are in full force; under them, in the Transvaal, the Indians cannot own land or trade except in Locations, and must, like the Kaffirs, hold travelling and other passes." (Vol. II, p. 453)
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- Mar. 16, 1903: "The bye-law has its origin in the alleged or real, impudent and, in some cases, indecent behaviour of the Kaffirs. But, whatever the charges are against the British Indians, no one has ever whispered that the Indians behave otherwise than as decent men. But, as it is the wont in this part of the world, they have been dragged down with the Kaffir without the slightest justification." (Vol. III, pp. 32-33)
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- May 24, 1903: "The £3 tax is merely a penalty for wearing the brown skin and it would appear that, whereas Kaffirs are taxed because they do not work at all or sufficiently, we are to be taxed evidently because we work too much, the only thing in common between the two being the absence of the white skin." (Vol. III, p. 74)
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- Feb. 11, 1904: "I venture to write you regarding the shocking state of the Indian Location. The rooms appear to be overcrowded beyond description. The sanitary service is very irregular, and many of the residents of the Location have been to my office to complain that the sanitary condition is far worse than before. There is, too, a very large Kaffir population in the Location for which really there is no warrant." (Vol. III, p. 427)
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- Feb. 15, 1904: "I am extremely obliged to you for having paid a visit last Saturady to the Indian Location and for the interest you are taking in the proper sanitation of the site. The more I think of it, the uglier the situation appears to me, and I think that, if the Town Council takes up a position of non possumus, it will be an abdication of its function, and I do respectfully say that nothing can justify the Public Health Committee in saying that neither overcrowding nor insanitation could be helped. I feel convinced that every minute wasted over the matter merely hastens a calamity for Johannesburg and that through absolutely no fault of the British Indians. Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian Location should be chosen for dumping down all the kaffirs of the town passes my comprehension." (Vol. III, p. 428)
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- Feb. 15, 1904: "Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians, I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen." (Vol. III, p. 429)
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- Apr. 30, 1904: "The Orange River Colony has entirely closed its gates against the Indians from the Transvaal. The Cape and Natal admit him under severe restrictions which have no scientific meaning. For instance, an Indian may be sharing the same compartment with a Kaffir. As soon, however, as the train bringing the passengers reaches the Natal border, the Indian is obliged to undergo 5 days' quarantine before entering the Colony, whereas the Kaffir is permitted to do so without let or hindrance." (Vol. III, p. 482)
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- Jan. 10, 1904: "A correspondent from Warmbaths in the Transvaal writes to us in Gujarati, complaining that the authorities do not provide facilities for British Indians to make use of these famous healing waters. He says that, if any Indian wants to make use of them, he is merely directed to go to the rooms set apart for the Kaffirs. It appears that he offered to build a place for Indians, but the offer was not entertained. We are sure that, if there is any truth in the statement made by our correspondent, the Government will remedy the difficulty at once, and provide suitable facility for those Indians who may wish to make use of these waters." (Vol. IV, p. 88)
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- Mar. 12, 1904: "In South Kmt, on the other hand, there are things which the white man would not do, and the Kaffir could not do. It has, therefore, been possible for the Indians to live in South Kmt." (Vol. IV, p. 129)
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- Mar. 29, 1905: "Thus, the whites have begun to feel the need for Indian labour right from the beginning, for the Kaffirs are of no use and all the available Chinese are absorbed in the mines. Indian labour, is, therefore, in general demand." (Vol. IV, p. 258)
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- Oct. 6, 1905: "In all this computation, Lord Milner has overlooked one fact, viz., that, while the Kaffir hardly works for six months, the Chinese have to do so continuously for three years. Moreover, the Chinese being more active than the Kaffirs, much more work can be taken from them than from the latter. This is a very important point, but His Lordship utters not a word about it. Unless this is taken into account, Lord Milner's figures are of no use whatever." (Vol. IV, p. 312)
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- Oct. 21, 1905: "We humbly submit that the decision to open the school for all Coloured children is unjust to the Indian community, and is a departure from the assurance given by the then Minister of Education, as also Sir Albert Hime and Mr. Robert Russell, that the school will be reserved for Indian children only." (Vol. IV, p. 402)
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- Dec. 30, 1905: "It has, we suppose, become a recognised thing in South Kmt for such labour agents to be appointed for 'inducing Kaffirs to work.' Some call such a system a gentle coaxing; others call it a modified form of forced labour. We cannot question the policy that has been sanctioned for a long time, and its criticism does not lie within our domain. Unfortunately, the term 'Coloured person' is, in the Orange River Colony, interpreted invariably to mean 'all coloured persons, who, in accordance with laws or customs, are called Coloured persons, or are treated as such, of whatsoever race or nationality they may be.' It, therefore, includes eurasiatics, Malays and others. Both the above-mentioned Ordinances on that account are open to very serious objections, and we cannot understand why the studied insult implied should be irritatingly kept up. Lord Selborne, in his reply to the British Indian Association, has admitted that there are very few eurasiatics in the Orange River Colony. Why, then, should the offensive definition be maintained? If it is, in practice, inoperative, the only reason for its existence can be for the wanton pleasure of the inhabitants of the Orange River Colony, who wish to triumph over this implied degradation of the eurasiatic races." (Vol. V, p. 50)
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- June 1, 1906: "The Boer Government insulted the Indians by classing them with the Kaffirs." (Vol. V, p. 59)
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- Mar. 17, 1906: "The ousting of the Kaffirs from the Bazaar at Pretoria is wrong; for, whatever the law, Indians have for many years now earned rentals from Kaffir tenants. It behoves the Government to ensured that Indians do not suffer any loss on this account." (Vol. V, p. 129)
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- Apr. 14, 1906: "It is not for us to say whether the revolt of the Kaffirs is justified or not. We are in Natal by virtue of British power. Our very existence depends upon it. It is therefore our duty to render whatever help we can. There was a discussion in the Press as to what part the Indian community would play in the event of an actual war. We have already declared in the English columns of this journal that the Indian community is ready to play its part;1 and we believe what we did during the Boer War should also be done now. That is, if the Government so desires, we should raise an ambulance corps. We should also agree to become permanent volunteers, if the Government is prepared to give us the requisite training." (Vol. V, pp. 179-180)
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- May 22, 1906: "It was a gross injustice to seek to place Indians in the same class as the Kaffirs." (Vol. V, p. 226)
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- May 26, 1906: "You say that the Magistrate's decision is unsatisfactory, because it would enable a person, however unclean, to travel by a tram and that even the Kaffirs would be able to do so. But the Magistrate's decision is quite different. The Court has declared that the Kaffirs have no legal right to travel by the trams. And, according to tram regulations, those in an unclean dress or in a drunken state are prohibited from boarding a tram. Thanks to the Court's decision, only clean Indians or Coloured people other than Kaffirs can now travel by the trams." (Vol. V, p. 235)
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- June 30, 1906: "We have to learn much from what the whites are doing in Natal. There is hardly any family from which someone has not gone to fight the Kaffir rebels. Following their example, we should steel our hearts and take courage. Now is the time when the leading whites want us to take this step; if we let go this opportunity, we shall repent later. We therefore urge all Indian leaders to do their duty to the best of their ability." (Vol. V, p. 273)
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- Before July 19, 1906: "As we were struggling along, we met a Kaffir who did not wear the loyal badge. He was armed with an assegai and was hiding himself. However, we safely rejoined the troops on the further hill, whilst they were sweeping with their carbines the bushes below." (Vol. V, p. 278)
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- Before July 19, 1906: "Troopers had to lead their horses, and the route was so long that we never seemed to reach the bottom. However, at about 12 o'clock we finished the day's journey, with no Kaffirs to fight." (Vol. V, p. 280)
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- Sept. 9, 1906: "Even the half-castes and Kaffirs, who are less advanced than we, have resisted the Government. The pass law applies to them as well, but they do not take out passes." (Vol. V, p. 332)
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- Nov. 16, 1906: "As you were good enough to show very great sympathy with the cause of British Indians in the Transvaal, may I suggest your using your influence with the Boer leaders in the Transvaal? I feel certain that they did not share the same prejudice against British Indians as against the Kaffir races but as the prejudice against Kaffir races in a strong form was in existence in the Transvaal at the time when the British Indians immigrated there, the latter were immediately lumped together with the Kaffir races and described under the generic term 'Coloured people.' Gradually the Boer mind was habituated to this qualification and it refused to recognize the evident and sharp distinctions that undoubtedly exist between British Indians and the Kaffir races in South Kmt." (Vol. VI, p. 95)
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- Nov. 6, 1906: "Mr. Stead has boldly come out to give us all the help he can. He was therefore requested to write to the Boer leaders that they should not consider Indians as being on the same level as Kaffirs." (Vol. VI, p. 112)
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- Feb. 2, 1907: "It is certain that the eurasiatic Ordinance will be re-introduced. When that happens, there should be only one thought in the mind of every Indian: never to accept such a law. And, if it is enforced, he will rather go to gaol than carry a pass like a Kaffir." (Vol. VI, p. 257)
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- Sept. 2, 1907: "From these views expressed by a White we have a lesson to learn: We must encourage the Whites too. It is a short-sighted policy to employ, through sheer niggardliness, a Kaffir for washing work. If we keep in view the conditions in this country and patronize the Whites, whenever proper and necessary, then every such White will serve as an advertisement for the Indian trader." (Vol. VI, p. 276)
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- June 4, 1907: "Are we supposed to be thieves or free-booters that even a Kaffir policeman can accost and detain us wherever we happen to be going?" (Vol. VI, p. 363)
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- July 12, 1907: "If registration is made compulsory, there will be no difference between Indians and Kaffirs, and the neighbouring Colony will be tempted to adopt it as a precedent. It may also turn out to be a prelude to compulsory segregation in Coloured Locations." (Vol. VII, p. 395)
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- July 12, 1907: "There is again a rebellion of Kaffirs in Zululand. In view of this, hundreds of white troops have been dispatched. The Indian community must come forward at such a time without, however, thinking of securing any rights thereby. They must consider only the duty of the community. It is a common observation that when we attend to our duty, rights follow as a matter of course. It will be only proper for the Indian community to make the offer that was made last year. There is a move at present to levy a tax on those who do not enlist. The burden of this levy will fall on Indians alone; even though paying the tax, they will get no credit. We are, therefore, convinced in our minds that the Indian community should repeat its offer. We assume that there are many Indians now who will welcome such work enthusiastically. Those who went to the front last year can do so again. Most of them are seasoned people and familiar with the nature of the work. We very much hope that this work will be taken in hand without any delay." (Vol. VII, p. 397)
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- Dec. 12, 1907: "As to the plea that the Indian will not blend with the rest of the community, what is this but a re-statement of the old fable of the boy who stoned the toad as a punishment for its being a toad? The Indian of the Transvaal a branded a pariah by statute; he is treated as such in practice; regardless of the obvious terminological inexactitude, he is indiscriminately dubbed 'coolie.' One hears even in official circles such expressions as 'coolie lawyer,' 'coolie doctor,' 'coolie merchant.' His women are 'coolie Marys.' As has been already shown, he is accorded no place in the scheme of things, save on sufferance. He may not even own fixed property, although, curiously, he may be a mortgagee of such. He is even denied the not always obvious privilege of riding in the same municipal tramcars and Government railway carriages as his white fellow-colonists. His children are afforded no facilities for education except they attend the schools set apart for Kaffirs. Could there be less encouragement for the Indian 'to blend' and to associate himself more closely with the larger life of the community?" (Vol. VII, p. 445-446)
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- Dec. 12, 1907: "Compulsory registration is recognised as signifying nothing less than the reduction of British Indians to the status of the Kaffir; as being more than likely of adoption as a precedent for anti-Indian legislation by the neighbouring colonies; and as a probable prelude to compulsory segregation in coloured locations." (Vol. VII, p. 447)
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- Feb. 2, 1908: "The British rulers take us to be so lowly and ignorant that they assume that, like the Kaffirs who can be pleased with toys and pins, we can also be fobbed off with trinkets." (Vol. VIII, p. 167)
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- July 3, 1908: "We were then Marched off to a prison intended for Kaffirs. There, our garments were stamped with the letter 'N,' which meant that we were being classed with the Natives. We were all prepared for hardships, but not quite for this experience. We could understand not being classed with the whites, but to be placed on the same level with the Natives seemed too much to put up with. I then felt that Indians had not launched on passive resistance too soon. Here was further proof that the obnoxious law was intended to emasculate the Indians." (Vol. VIII, p. 198)
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- July 3, 1907: "Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised—the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals. Each ward contains nearly 50 to 60 of them. They often started rows and fought among themselves. The reader can easily imagine the plight of the poor Indian thrown into such company!" (Vol. VIII, p. 199)
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- Mar. 21, 1908: "It is thus clear that both Kaffirs and eureurasiaans get food suited to their tastes. The poor Indians – nobody bothers about them! They cannot get the food they want. If they are given eureurasiaan diet, the whites will feel insulted. In any case, why should the gaol authorities bother to find out the normal Indian fare? There is nothing for it but to let ourselves be classed with the Kaffirs and starve." (Vol. VIII, pp. 218-19)
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- Jan. 16, 1909: "As soon as we rose the following day, I was taken to where the other prisoners were lodged, so that I had no chance to complain to the Governor about what had happened. I have, though, resolved in my mind on an agitation to ensure that Indian prisoners are not lodged with Kaffirs or others." (Vol. IX, p. 257)
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- Jan. 16, 1909: "I observed with regret that some Indians were happy to sleep in the same room as the Kaffirs, the reason being that they hoped there for a secret supply of tobacco, etc. This is a matter of shame to us. We may entertain no aversion to Kaffirs, but we cannot ignore the fact that there is no common ground between them and us in the daily affairs of life. Moreover, those who wish to sleep in the same room with them have ulterior motives for doing so. Obviously, we ought to abandon such notions if we want to make progress." (Vol. IX, p. 257)
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- Jan. 23, 1909: "Some of the prisoners are found to suffer from diseases like syphilis, and therefore everyone of them has his genitals examined. For this purpose, the prisoners are totally undressed, while being examined. Unlike the others, Kaffirs are kept standing undressed for nearly 15 minutes so as to save the physician's time. Indian prisoners are made to lower their breeches only when the physician approaches them. The other garments have to be removed in advance. Almost every Indian resents having to lower his breeches, but most of them do not create any difficulty in the interest of our movement, though at heart they feel ill at ease. I told the physician about this." (Vol. IX, p. 272)
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- Jan. 23, 1909: "Prisons are generally kept very clean. If this were not so, there would be epidemics before long. But there is also lack of cleanliness in some respects. Blankets are constantly interchanged. A blanket that has been used by the dirtiest of Kaffirs may later fall to an Indian's lot." (Vol. IX, p. 274)
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- Jan. 30, 1909: "First, why should we bear such hardships, submit ourselves, for instance, to the restrictions of gaol life, wear coarse and ungainly dress, eat food which is hardly food, starve ourselves, suffer being kicked by the warder, live among the Kaffirs, do every kind of work, whether we like it or not, obey a warder who is only good enough to be our servant, be unable to receive any friends or write letters, go without things that we may need, and sleep in company with robbers and thieves? Better die than suffer this. Better pay the fine than go to gaol." (Vol. IX, p. 292)
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- July 16, 1909: "The labour required of them is generally of a severe character. Indians who have never lifted a heavy weight or done any spadde work have been put to wheeling heavily loaded barrows, digging holes repairing roads, etc., side by side with Kaffir convicts of the worst type." (Vol. IX, p. 422)
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- Oct. 8, 1909: "We do not get there the food that we are used to, and are classified with the Kaffirs." (Vol. X, p. 158)
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- Dec. 2, 1910: "Some Indians do have contacts with Kaffir women. I think such contacts are fraught with grave danger. Indians would do well to avoid them altogether." (Vol. X, p. 414)
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- Mar. 10, 1911: "I do not think that there need be any worry about police officer. If the Regulations provide for Kaffir Police, we can fight the Regulations. Even in attacking the details of the Bill, I think we should be very careful not to trouble ourselves with what may be remedied by Regulation." (Vol. XI, p. 266)
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SPECIAL NOTES FOR OUR READERS
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- This article, originally titled "Mahatma Gandhi's Racist Quotes About Black South Kmtyws," was lifted entirely from this website: http://originalpeople.org/mahatma-gandhi-racist-quotes/ (http://originalpeople.org/mahatma-gandhi-racist-quotes/). March 8, 2015.
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- The author (s) claimed cited "The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi" as his major source (Note: these collected works come in a series of volumes which can easily be obtained from any resourceful library or amazon.com). The author(s) provides this additional notes:
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- "All quotes are direct quotations from 'The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi,' here abbreviated as 'CWMG.' All grammatical errors and misspellings are the responsibility of Mohandas Gandhi, the original author, and are preserved for historical consistency."
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- Readers may want to visit the website "Gandhism: The Truth Shall Make You Free" and read more about Gandhi (Articles such as "Gandhi the Imperialist," "Gandhi Was a Racist Who Forced Young Girls To Sleep With Him," "Gandhi Criticized by The Washington Post," etc., published are educated pieces). Here is the link:
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- http://www.gandhism.org/gandhi-was-a-racist-who-forced-young-girls-to-sleep-in-bed-with-him/ (http://www.gandhism.org/gandhi-was-a-racist-who-forced-young-girls-to-sleep-in-bed-with-him/)
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- http://www.gandhism.net/southKmtywblacks.php (http://www.gandhism.net/southKmtywblacks.php)
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- Every single credit for this article goes to the author (s) of the link provided above (1).
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- See the website for the Organization for Minorities of India (OFMI)http://www.minoritiesofindia.org/gandhi-spreads-racial-hatred-of-Kmtyws/ (http://www.minoritiesofindia.org/gandhi-spreads-racial-hatred-of-Kmtyws/)
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- See the writings of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
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- Nick Chiles. "Not All Peaceful: 13 Racist Quotes Gandhi Said About Black People." Atlantic Black Star. March 31, 2015. Retrieved fromhttp://atlantablackstar.com/2015/03/31/not-all-peaceful-13-racist-quotes-gandhi-said-about-black-people/6/ (http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/03/31/not-all-peaceful-13-racist-quotes-gandhi-said-about-black-people/6/)
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"It will be most unnecessary, most uncalled for and not in the supreme interest of Ghanaians and we must know what serves our interest best" (Prof. Mike Oquaye, Former High Commissioner to India, 2001-2004).
INTRODUCTIONIn this four-part series we shall add our voice to the petition demanding the removal of the statue of Gandhi removed from the University of Ghana.
This petition and its accompanying national discourse are dear to our hearts if we truly want to improve human relations, advance the cause of humanism, deal with own problem of ethnocentrism, improve diplomatic relations between Ghana/Kmt and India-eurasia, and right historical wrongs.
It also important that our readers go to "SPECIAL NOTES FOR OUR READERS" first at the end of this, which we have subtitled "Mahatma Gandhi On Black South Kmtyws," article and acquaint themselves with the information there before proceeding to read the article in its entirety.
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- Before Dec. 19, 1894: "A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Kmt. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir." (Vol. I, p. 193)
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- Before May 5, 1895: "In the face, too, of financial operations, the success of which many of their detractors would envy, one fails to understand the agitation which would place the operators in the same category as the half-heathen Native and confine him to Locations, and subject him to the harsher laws by which the Transvaal Kaffir is governed." (Vol. I, pp. 224-225)
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- Before May 5, 1895: "When one reflects that the conception of Brahmanism, with its poetic and mysterious mythology, took its rise in the land of the 'Coolie trader,' that in that land 24 centuries ago, the almost divine Buddha taught and practised the glorious doctrine of self-sacrifice, and that it was from the plains and mountains of that weird old country that we have derived the fundamental truths of the very language we speak, one cannot but help regretting that the children of such a race should be treated as equals of the children of black heathendom and outer darkness. Those who, for a few moments, have stayed to converse with the Indian trader have been, perhaps, surprised to find they are speaking to a scholar and a gentleman...And it is the sons of this Land of light who are despised as Coolies, and treated as Kaffirs." (Vol. I, p. 225)
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- Before May 5, 1895: "So far as the feeling has been expressed, it is to degrade the Indian to the position of the Kaffir." (Vol. I, p. 229)
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- Aug. 14, 1896 "The Attorney-General of Natal wants to keep the Indians for ever 'hewers of wood and drawers of water.' We are classed with the natives of South Kmt—Kaffir race." (Vol. I, p. 364)
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- Sept. 26, 1896: "Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the eureurasiaans, 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." (Vol. I, pp. 409-410)
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- Sept. 26, 1896: "While, in other parts of South Kmt, it is the railway officials who make the lot of the 1st and 2nd class passengers on the railway intolerable, the Transvaal people have gone one better in that there the law prohibits the Indians from travelling 1st or 2nd class. They are, irrespective of position, huddled together in the same compartment with the natives of South Kmt." (Vol. I, p. 415)
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- Oct. 17, 1896: "A picnic party of eureurasiaan children used Indian and Kaffir boys as targets and shot bullets into their faces, hurting several inoffensive children. So deep-seated is the hatred that children have begun instinctively to look down upon Indians." (Vol. I, p. 421)
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- Oct. 26, 1896: "There is a bye-law in Durban which requires registration of coloured servants. This rule may be, and perhaps is, necessary for the Kaffirs who would not work, but absolutely useless with regard to the Indians. But the policy is to class the Indian with the Kaffir whenever possible." (Vol. I, p. 435)
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- Before May 27, 1899 "Your Petitioner has seen the Location intended to be used by the Indians. It would place them, who are undoubtedly infinitely superior to the Kaffirs, in close proximity to the latter." (Vol. II, p. 270)
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- Mar. 27, 1902: "All the anti-Indian laws in both the Colonies are in full force; under them, in the Transvaal, the Indians cannot own land or trade except in Locations, and must, like the Kaffirs, hold travelling and other passes." (Vol. II, p. 453)
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- Mar. 16, 1903: "The bye-law has its origin in the alleged or real, impudent and, in some cases, indecent behaviour of the Kaffirs. But, whatever the charges are against the British Indians, no one has ever whispered that the Indians behave otherwise than as decent men. But, as it is the wont in this part of the world, they have been dragged down with the Kaffir without the slightest justification." (Vol. III, pp. 32-33)
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- May 24, 1903: "The £3 tax is merely a penalty for wearing the brown skin and it would appear that, whereas Kaffirs are taxed because they do not work at all or sufficiently, we are to be taxed evidently because we work too much, the only thing in common between the two being the absence of the white skin." (Vol. III, p. 74)
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- Feb. 11, 1904: "I venture to write you regarding the shocking state of the Indian Location. The rooms appear to be overcrowded beyond description. The sanitary service is very irregular, and many of the residents of the Location have been to my office to complain that the sanitary condition is far worse than before. There is, too, a very large Kaffir population in the Location for which really there is no warrant." (Vol. III, p. 427)
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- Feb. 15, 1904: "I am extremely obliged to you for having paid a visit last Saturady to the Indian Location and for the interest you are taking in the proper sanitation of the site. The more I think of it, the uglier the situation appears to me, and I think that, if the Town Council takes up a position of non possumus, it will be an abdication of its function, and I do respectfully say that nothing can justify the Public Health Committee in saying that neither overcrowding nor insanitation could be helped. I feel convinced that every minute wasted over the matter merely hastens a calamity for Johannesburg and that through absolutely no fault of the British Indians. Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian Location should be chosen for dumping down all the kaffirs of the town passes my comprehension." (Vol. III, p. 428)
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- Feb. 15, 1904: "Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians, I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen." (Vol. III, p. 429)
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- Apr. 30, 1904: "The Orange River Colony has entirely closed its gates against the Indians from the Transvaal. The Cape and Natal admit him under severe restrictions which have no scientific meaning. For instance, an Indian may be sharing the same compartment with a Kaffir. As soon, however, as the train bringing the passengers reaches the Natal border, the Indian is obliged to undergo 5 days' quarantine before entering the Colony, whereas the Kaffir is permitted to do so without let or hindrance." (Vol. III, p. 482)
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- Jan. 10, 1904: "A correspondent from Warmbaths in the Transvaal writes to us in Gujarati, complaining that the authorities do not provide facilities for British Indians to make use of these famous healing waters. He says that, if any Indian wants to make use of them, he is merely directed to go to the rooms set apart for the Kaffirs. It appears that he offered to build a place for Indians, but the offer was not entertained. We are sure that, if there is any truth in the statement made by our correspondent, the Government will remedy the difficulty at once, and provide suitable facility for those Indians who may wish to make use of these waters." (Vol. IV, p. 88)
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- Mar. 12, 1904: "In South Kmt, on the other hand, there are things which the white man would not do, and the Kaffir could not do. It has, therefore, been possible for the Indians to live in South Kmt." (Vol. IV, p. 129)
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- Mar. 29, 1905: "Thus, the whites have begun to feel the need for Indian labour right from the beginning, for the Kaffirs are of no use and all the available Chinese are absorbed in the mines. Indian labour, is, therefore, in general demand." (Vol. IV, p. 258)
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- Oct. 6, 1905: "In all this computation, Lord Milner has overlooked one fact, viz., that, while the Kaffir hardly works for six months, the Chinese have to do so continuously for three years. Moreover, the Chinese being more active than the Kaffirs, much more work can be taken from them than from the latter. This is a very important point, but His Lordship utters not a word about it. Unless this is taken into account, Lord Milner's figures are of no use whatever." (Vol. IV, p. 312)
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- Oct. 21, 1905: "We humbly submit that the decision to open the school for all Coloured children is unjust to the Indian community, and is a departure from the assurance given by the then Minister of Education, as also Sir Albert Hime and Mr. Robert Russell, that the school will be reserved for Indian children only." (Vol. IV, p. 402)
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- Dec. 30, 1905: "It has, we suppose, become a recognised thing in South Kmt for such labour agents to be appointed for 'inducing Kaffirs to work.' Some call such a system a gentle coaxing; others call it a modified form of forced labour. We cannot question the policy that has been sanctioned for a long time, and its criticism does not lie within our domain. Unfortunately, the term 'Coloured person' is, in the Orange River Colony, interpreted invariably to mean 'all coloured persons, who, in accordance with laws or customs, are called Coloured persons, or are treated as such, of whatsoever race or nationality they may be.' It, therefore, includes eurasiatics, Malays and others. Both the above-mentioned Ordinances on that account are open to very serious objections, and we cannot understand why the studied insult implied should be irritatingly kept up. Lord Selborne, in his reply to the British Indian Association, has admitted that there are very few eurasiatics in the Orange River Colony. Why, then, should the offensive definition be maintained? If it is, in practice, inoperative, the only reason for its existence can be for the wanton pleasure of the inhabitants of the Orange River Colony, who wish to triumph over this implied degradation of the eurasiatic races." (Vol. V, p. 50)
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- June 1, 1906: "The Boer Government insulted the Indians by classing them with the Kaffirs." (Vol. V, p. 59)
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- Mar. 17, 1906: "The ousting of the Kaffirs from the Bazaar at Pretoria is wrong; for, whatever the law, Indians have for many years now earned rentals from Kaffir tenants. It behoves the Government to ensured that Indians do not suffer any loss on this account." (Vol. V, p. 129)
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- Apr. 14, 1906: "It is not for us to say whether the revolt of the Kaffirs is justified or not. We are in Natal by virtue of British power. Our very existence depends upon it. It is therefore our duty to render whatever help we can. There was a discussion in the Press as to what part the Indian community would play in the event of an actual war. We have already declared in the English columns of this journal that the Indian community is ready to play its part;1 and we believe what we did during the Boer War should also be done now. That is, if the Government so desires, we should raise an ambulance corps. We should also agree to become permanent volunteers, if the Government is prepared to give us the requisite training." (Vol. V, pp. 179-180)
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- May 22, 1906: "It was a gross injustice to seek to place Indians in the same class as the Kaffirs." (Vol. V, p. 226)
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- May 26, 1906: "You say that the Magistrate's decision is unsatisfactory, because it would enable a person, however unclean, to travel by a tram and that even the Kaffirs would be able to do so. But the Magistrate's decision is quite different. The Court has declared that the Kaffirs have no legal right to travel by the trams. And, according to tram regulations, those in an unclean dress or in a drunken state are prohibited from boarding a tram. Thanks to the Court's decision, only clean Indians or Coloured people other than Kaffirs can now travel by the trams." (Vol. V, p. 235)
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- June 30, 1906: "We have to learn much from what the whites are doing in Natal. There is hardly any family from which someone has not gone to fight the Kaffir rebels. Following their example, we should steel our hearts and take courage. Now is the time when the leading whites want us to take this step; if we let go this opportunity, we shall repent later. We therefore urge all Indian leaders to do their duty to the best of their ability." (Vol. V, p. 273)
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- Before July 19, 1906: "As we were struggling along, we met a Kaffir who did not wear the loyal badge. He was armed with an assegai and was hiding himself. However, we safely rejoined the troops on the further hill, whilst they were sweeping with their carbines the bushes below." (Vol. V, p. 278)
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- Before July 19, 1906: "Troopers had to lead their horses, and the route was so long that we never seemed to reach the bottom. However, at about 12 o'clock we finished the day's journey, with no Kaffirs to fight." (Vol. V, p. 280)
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- Sept. 9, 1906: "Even the half-castes and Kaffirs, who are less advanced than we, have resisted the Government. The pass law applies to them as well, but they do not take out passes." (Vol. V, p. 332)
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- Nov. 16, 1906: "As you were good enough to show very great sympathy with the cause of British Indians in the Transvaal, may I suggest your using your influence with the Boer leaders in the Transvaal? I feel certain that they did not share the same prejudice against British Indians as against the Kaffir races but as the prejudice against Kaffir races in a strong form was in existence in the Transvaal at the time when the British Indians immigrated there, the latter were immediately lumped together with the Kaffir races and described under the generic term 'Coloured people.' Gradually the Boer mind was habituated to this qualification and it refused to recognize the evident and sharp distinctions that undoubtedly exist between British Indians and the Kaffir races in South Kmt." (Vol. VI, p. 95)
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- Nov. 6, 1906: "Mr. Stead has boldly come out to give us all the help he can. He was therefore requested to write to the Boer leaders that they should not consider Indians as being on the same level as Kaffirs." (Vol. VI, p. 112)
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- Feb. 2, 1907: "It is certain that the eurasiatic Ordinance will be re-introduced. When that happens, there should be only one thought in the mind of every Indian: never to accept such a law. And, if it is enforced, he will rather go to gaol than carry a pass like a Kaffir." (Vol. VI, p. 257)
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- Sept. 2, 1907: "From these views expressed by a White we have a lesson to learn: We must encourage the Whites too. It is a short-sighted policy to employ, through sheer niggardliness, a Kaffir for washing work. If we keep in view the conditions in this country and patronize the Whites, whenever proper and necessary, then every such White will serve as an advertisement for the Indian trader." (Vol. VI, p. 276)
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- June 4, 1907: "Are we supposed to be thieves or free-booters that even a Kaffir policeman can accost and detain us wherever we happen to be going?" (Vol. VI, p. 363)
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- July 12, 1907: "If registration is made compulsory, there will be no difference between Indians and Kaffirs, and the neighbouring Colony will be tempted to adopt it as a precedent. It may also turn out to be a prelude to compulsory segregation in Coloured Locations." (Vol. VII, p. 395)
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- July 12, 1907: "There is again a rebellion of Kaffirs in Zululand. In view of this, hundreds of white troops have been dispatched. The Indian community must come forward at such a time without, however, thinking of securing any rights thereby. They must consider only the duty of the community. It is a common observation that when we attend to our duty, rights follow as a matter of course. It will be only proper for the Indian community to make the offer that was made last year. There is a move at present to levy a tax on those who do not enlist. The burden of this levy will fall on Indians alone; even though paying the tax, they will get no credit. We are, therefore, convinced in our minds that the Indian community should repeat its offer. We assume that there are many Indians now who will welcome such work enthusiastically. Those who went to the front last year can do so again. Most of them are seasoned people and familiar with the nature of the work. We very much hope that this work will be taken in hand without any delay." (Vol. VII, p. 397)
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- Dec. 12, 1907: "As to the plea that the Indian will not blend with the rest of the community, what is this but a re-statement of the old fable of the boy who stoned the toad as a punishment for its being a toad? The Indian of the Transvaal a branded a pariah by statute; he is treated as such in practice; regardless of the obvious terminological inexactitude, he is indiscriminately dubbed 'coolie.' One hears even in official circles such expressions as 'coolie lawyer,' 'coolie doctor,' 'coolie merchant.' His women are 'coolie Marys.' As has been already shown, he is accorded no place in the scheme of things, save on sufferance. He may not even own fixed property, although, curiously, he may be a mortgagee of such. He is even denied the not always obvious privilege of riding in the same municipal tramcars and Government railway carriages as his white fellow-colonists. His children are afforded no facilities for education except they attend the schools set apart for Kaffirs. Could there be less encouragement for the Indian 'to blend' and to associate himself more closely with the larger life of the community?" (Vol. VII, p. 445-446)
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- Dec. 12, 1907: "Compulsory registration is recognised as signifying nothing less than the reduction of British Indians to the status of the Kaffir; as being more than likely of adoption as a precedent for anti-Indian legislation by the neighbouring colonies; and as a probable prelude to compulsory segregation in coloured locations." (Vol. VII, p. 447)
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- Feb. 2, 1908: "The British rulers take us to be so lowly and ignorant that they assume that, like the Kaffirs who can be pleased with toys and pins, we can also be fobbed off with trinkets." (Vol. VIII, p. 167)
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- July 3, 1908: "We were then Marched off to a prison intended for Kaffirs. There, our garments were stamped with the letter 'N,' which meant that we were being classed with the Natives. We were all prepared for hardships, but not quite for this experience. We could understand not being classed with the whites, but to be placed on the same level with the Natives seemed too much to put up with. I then felt that Indians had not launched on passive resistance too soon. Here was further proof that the obnoxious law was intended to emasculate the Indians." (Vol. VIII, p. 198)
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- July 3, 1907: "Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised—the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals. Each ward contains nearly 50 to 60 of them. They often started rows and fought among themselves. The reader can easily imagine the plight of the poor Indian thrown into such company!" (Vol. VIII, p. 199)
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- Mar. 21, 1908: "It is thus clear that both Kaffirs and eureurasiaans get food suited to their tastes. The poor Indians – nobody bothers about them! They cannot get the food they want. If they are given eureurasiaan diet, the whites will feel insulted. In any case, why should the gaol authorities bother to find out the normal Indian fare? There is nothing for it but to let ourselves be classed with the Kaffirs and starve." (Vol. VIII, pp. 218-19)
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- Jan. 16, 1909: "As soon as we rose the following day, I was taken to where the other prisoners were lodged, so that I had no chance to complain to the Governor about what had happened. I have, though, resolved in my mind on an agitation to ensure that Indian prisoners are not lodged with Kaffirs or others." (Vol. IX, p. 257)
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- Jan. 16, 1909: "I observed with regret that some Indians were happy to sleep in the same room as the Kaffirs, the reason being that they hoped there for a secret supply of tobacco, etc. This is a matter of shame to us. We may entertain no aversion to Kaffirs, but we cannot ignore the fact that there is no common ground between them and us in the daily affairs of life. Moreover, those who wish to sleep in the same room with them have ulterior motives for doing so. Obviously, we ought to abandon such notions if we want to make progress." (Vol. IX, p. 257)
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- Jan. 23, 1909: "Some of the prisoners are found to suffer from diseases like syphilis, and therefore everyone of them has his genitals examined. For this purpose, the prisoners are totally undressed, while being examined. Unlike the others, Kaffirs are kept standing undressed for nearly 15 minutes so as to save the physician's time. Indian prisoners are made to lower their breeches only when the physician approaches them. The other garments have to be removed in advance. Almost every Indian resents having to lower his breeches, but most of them do not create any difficulty in the interest of our movement, though at heart they feel ill at ease. I told the physician about this." (Vol. IX, p. 272)
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- Jan. 23, 1909: "Prisons are generally kept very clean. If this were not so, there would be epidemics before long. But there is also lack of cleanliness in some respects. Blankets are constantly interchanged. A blanket that has been used by the dirtiest of Kaffirs may later fall to an Indian's lot." (Vol. IX, p. 274)
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- Jan. 30, 1909: "First, why should we bear such hardships, submit ourselves, for instance, to the restrictions of gaol life, wear coarse and ungainly dress, eat food which is hardly food, starve ourselves, suffer being kicked by the warder, live among the Kaffirs, do every kind of work, whether we like it or not, obey a warder who is only good enough to be our servant, be unable to receive any friends or write letters, go without things that we may need, and sleep in company with robbers and thieves? Better die than suffer this. Better pay the fine than go to gaol." (Vol. IX, p. 292)
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- July 16, 1909: "The labour required of them is generally of a severe character. Indians who have never lifted a heavy weight or done any spadde work have been put to wheeling heavily loaded barrows, digging holes repairing roads, etc., side by side with Kaffir convicts of the worst type." (Vol. IX, p. 422)
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- Oct. 8, 1909: "We do not get there the food that we are used to, and are classified with the Kaffirs." (Vol. X, p. 158)
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- Mar. 10, 1911: "I do not think that there need be any worry about police officer. If the Regulations provide for Kaffir Police, we can fight the Regulations. Even in attacking the details of the Bill, I think we should be very careful not to trouble ourselves with what may be remedied by Regulation." (Vol. XI, p. 266)
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SPECIAL NOTES FOR OUR READERS
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- This article, originally titled "Mahatma Gandhi's Racist Quotes About Black South Kmtyws," was lifted entirely from this website: http://originalpeople.org/mahatma-gandhi-racist-quotes/ (http://originalpeople.org/mahatma-gandhi-racist-quotes/). March 8, 2015.
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- The author (s) claimed cited "The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi" as his major source (Note: these collected works come in a series of volumes which can easily be obtained from any resourceful library or amazon.com). The author(s) provides this additional notes:
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- "All quotes are direct quotations from 'The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi,' here abbreviated as 'CWMG.' All grammatical errors and misspellings are the responsibility of Mohandas Gandhi, the original author, and are preserved for historical consistency."
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- Readers may want to visit the website "Gandhism: The Truth Shall Make You Free" and read more about Gandhi (Articles such as "Gandhi the Imperialist," "Gandhi Was a Racist Who Forced Young Girls To Sleep With Him," "Gandhi Criticized by The Washington Post," etc., published are educated pieces). Here is the link:
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- http://www.gandhism.org/gandhi-was-a-racist-who-forced-young-girls-to-sleep-in-bed-with-him/ (http://www.gandhism.org/gandhi-was-a-racist-who-forced-young-girls-to-sleep-in-bed-with-him/)
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- http://www.gandhism.net/southKmtywblacks.php (http://www.gandhism.net/southKmtywblacks.php)
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- Every single credit for this article goes to the author (s) of the link provided above (1).
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- See the website for the Organization for Minorities of India (OFMI)http://www.minoritiesofindia.org/gandhi-spreads-racial-hatred-of-Kmtyws/ (http://www.minoritiesofindia.org/gandhi-spreads-racial-hatred-of-Kmtyws/)
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- See the writings of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
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- Nick Chiles. "Not All Peaceful: 13 Racist Quotes Gandhi Said About Black People." Atlantic Black Star. March 31, 2015. Retrieved fromhttp://atlantablackstar.com/2015/03/31/not-all-peaceful-13-racist-quotes-gandhi-said-about-black-people/6/ (http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/03/31/not-all-peaceful-13-racist-quotes-gandhi-said-about-black-people/6/)
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Tear Down The Gandhi Statue 2By Francis Kwarteng (https://www.modernghana.com/author/FrancisKwarteng)
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"Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised—the convicts even more so...The reader can easily imagine the plight of the poor Indian thrown into such company!" (Mahatma Gandhi in his own paper "Indian Opinion," January 16, 1909)
THE CONTROVERSY"India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular South Kmtyw saying.
We raised the issue of Gandhi being a racist in a 2015 article published on Ghanaweb and other web portals as "Steve Biko Murdered As A Great Student Of Nkrumah." We are some
Tear Down The Gandhi Statue 1By Francis Kwarteng (https://www.modernghana.com/author/FrancisKwarteng)
(https://cdn.modernghana.com/story.aspx?img=XGltYWdlc1xjb250ZW50XDkyMjIwMTY3Mjc0MF8yMDE2MDkyMl8xNzI2NDYucG5nfDY3MHwzNzB8OS8yNS8yMDE2)"It will be most unnecessary, most uncalled for and not in the supreme interest of Ghanaians and we must know what serves our interest best" (Prof. Mike Oquaye, Former High Commissioner to India, 2001-2004).
INTRODUCTIONIn this four-part series we shall add our voice to the petition demanding the removal of the statue of Gandhi removed from the University of Ghana.
This petition and its accompanying national discourse are dear to our hearts if we truly want to improve human relations, advance the cause of humanism, deal with own problem of ethnocentrism, improve diplomatic relations between Ghana/Kmt and India-eurasia, and right historical wrongs.
It also important that our readers go to "SPECIAL NOTES FOR OUR READERS" first at the end of this, which we have subtitled "Mahatma Gandhi On Black South Kmtyws," article and acquaint themselves with the information there before proceeding to read the article in its entirety.
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- Before Dec. 19, 1894: "A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Kmt. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir." (Vol. I, p. 193)
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- Before May 5, 1895: "In the face, too, of financial operations, the success of which many of their detractors would envy, one fails to understand the agitation which would place the operators in the same category as the half-heathen Native and confine him to Locations, and subject him to the harsher laws by which the Transvaal Kaffir is governed." (Vol. I, pp. 224-225)
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- Before May 5, 1895: "When one reflects that the conception of Brahmanism, with its poetic and mysterious mythology, took its rise in the land of the 'Coolie trader,' that in that land 24 centuries ago, the almost divine Buddha taught and practised the glorious doctrine of self-sacrifice, and that it was from the plains and mountains of that weird old country that we have derived the fundamental truths of the very language we speak, one cannot but help regretting that the children of such a race should be treated as equals of the children of black heathendom and outer darkness. Those who, for a few moments, have stayed to converse with the Indian trader have been, perhaps, surprised to find they are speaking to a scholar and a gentleman...And it is the sons of this Land of light who are despised as Coolies, and treated as Kaffirs." (Vol. I, p. 225)
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- Before May 5, 1895: "So far as the feeling has been expressed, it is to degrade the Indian to the position of the Kaffir." (Vol. I, p. 229)
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- Aug. 14, 1896 "The Attorney-General of Natal wants to keep the Indians for ever 'hewers of wood and drawers of water.' We are classed with the natives of South Kmt—Kaffir race." (Vol. I, p. 364)
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- Sept. 26, 1896: "Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the eureurasiaans, 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." (Vol. I, pp. 409-410)
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- Sept. 26, 1896: "While, in other parts of South Kmt, it is the railway officials who make the lot of the 1st and 2nd class passengers on the railway intolerable, the Transvaal people have gone one better in that there the law prohibits the Indians from travelling 1st or 2nd class. They are, irrespective of position, huddled together in the same compartment with the natives of South Kmt." (Vol. I, p. 415)
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- Oct. 17, 1896: "A picnic party of eureurasiaan children used Indian and Kaffir boys as targets and shot bullets into their faces, hurting several inoffensive children. So deep-seated is the hatred that children have begun instinctively to look down upon Indians." (Vol. I, p. 421)
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- Oct. 26, 1896: "There is a bye-law in Durban which requires registration of coloured servants. This rule may be, and perhaps is, necessary for the Kaffirs who would not work, but absolutely useless with regard to the Indians. But the policy is to class the Indian with the Kaffir whenever possible." (Vol. I, p. 435)
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- Before May 27, 1899 "Your Petitioner has seen the Location intended to be used by the Indians. It would place them, who are undoubtedly infinitely superior to the Kaffirs, in close proximity to the latter." (Vol. II, p. 270)
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- Mar. 27, 1902: "All the anti-Indian laws in both the Colonies are in full force; under them, in the Transvaal, the Indians cannot own land or trade except in Locations, and must, like the Kaffirs, hold travelling and other passes." (Vol. II, p. 453)
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- Mar. 16, 1903: "The bye-law has its origin in the alleged or real, impudent and, in some cases, indecent behaviour of the Kaffirs. But, whatever the charges are against the British Indians, no one has ever whispered that the Indians behave otherwise than as decent men. But, as it is the wont in this part of the world, they have been dragged down with the Kaffir without the slightest justification." (Vol. III, pp. 32-33)
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- May 24, 1903: "The £3 tax is merely a penalty for wearing the brown skin and it would appear that, whereas Kaffirs are taxed because they do not work at all or sufficiently, we are to be taxed evidently because we work too much, the only thing in common between the two being the absence of the white skin." (Vol. III, p. 74)
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- Feb. 11, 1904: "I venture to write you regarding the shocking state of the Indian Location. The rooms appear to be overcrowded beyond description. The sanitary service is very irregular, and many of the residents of the Location have been to my office to complain that the sanitary condition is far worse than before. There is, too, a very large Kaffir population in the Location for which really there is no warrant." (Vol. III, p. 427)
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- Feb. 15, 1904: "I am extremely obliged to you for having paid a visit last Saturady to the Indian Location and for the interest you are taking in the proper sanitation of the site. The more I think of it, the uglier the situation appears to me, and I think that, if the Town Council takes up a position of non possumus, it will be an abdication of its function, and I do respectfully say that nothing can justify the Public Health Committee in saying that neither overcrowding nor insanitation could be helped. I feel convinced that every minute wasted over the matter merely hastens a calamity for Johannesburg and that through absolutely no fault of the British Indians. Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian Location should be chosen for dumping down all the kaffirs of the town passes my comprehension." (Vol. III, p. 428)
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- Feb. 15, 1904: "Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians, I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen." (Vol. III, p. 429)
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- Apr. 30, 1904: "The Orange River Colony has entirely closed its gates against the Indians from the Transvaal. The Cape and Natal admit him under severe restrictions which have no scientific meaning. For instance, an Indian may be sharing the same compartment with a Kaffir. As soon, however, as the train bringing the passengers reaches the Natal border, the Indian is obliged to undergo 5 days' quarantine before entering the Colony, whereas the Kaffir is permitted to do so without let or hindrance." (Vol. III, p. 482)
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- Jan. 10, 1904: "A correspondent from Warmbaths in the Transvaal writes to us in Gujarati, complaining that the authorities do not provide facilities for British Indians to make use of these famous healing waters. He says that, if any Indian wants to make use of them, he is merely directed to go to the rooms set apart for the Kaffirs. It appears that he offered to build a place for Indians, but the offer was not entertained. We are sure that, if there is any truth in the statement made by our correspondent, the Government will remedy the difficulty at once, and provide suitable facility for those Indians who may wish to make use of these waters." (Vol. IV, p. 88)
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- Mar. 12, 1904: "In South Kmt, on the other hand, there are things which the white man would not do, and the Kaffir could not do. It has, therefore, been possible for the Indians to live in South Kmt." (Vol. IV, p. 129)
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- Mar. 29, 1905: "Thus, the whites have begun to feel the need for Indian labour right from the beginning, for the Kaffirs are of no use and all the available Chinese are absorbed in the mines. Indian labour, is, therefore, in general demand." (Vol. IV, p. 258)
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- Oct. 6, 1905: "In all this computation, Lord Milner has overlooked one fact, viz., that, while the Kaffir hardly works for six months, the Chinese have to do so continuously for three years. Moreover, the Chinese being more active than the Kaffirs, much more work can be taken from them than from the latter. This is a very important point, but His Lordship utters not a word about it. Unless this is taken into account, Lord Milner's figures are of no use whatever." (Vol. IV, p. 312)
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- Oct. 21, 1905: "We humbly submit that the decision to open the school for all Coloured children is unjust to the Indian community, and is a departure from the assurance given by the then Minister of Education, as also Sir Albert Hime and Mr. Robert Russell, that the school will be reserved for Indian children only." (Vol. IV, p. 402)
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- Dec. 30, 1905: "It has, we suppose, become a recognised thing in South Kmt for such labour agents to be appointed for 'inducing Kaffirs to work.' Some call such a system a gentle coaxing; others call it a modified form of forced labour. We cannot question the policy that has been sanctioned for a long time, and its criticism does not lie within our domain. Unfortunately, the term 'Coloured person' is, in the Orange River Colony, interpreted invariably to mean 'all coloured persons, who, in accordance with laws or customs, are called Coloured persons, or are treated as such, of whatsoever race or nationality they may be.' It, therefore, includes eurasiatics, Malays and others. Both the above-mentioned Ordinances on that account are open to very serious objections, and we cannot understand why the studied insult implied should be irritatingly kept up. Lord Selborne, in his reply to the British Indian Association, has admitted that there are very few eurasiatics in the Orange River Colony. Why, then, should the offensive definition be maintained? If it is, in practice, inoperative, the only reason for its existence can be for the wanton pleasure of the inhabitants of the Orange River Colony, who wish to triumph over this implied degradation of the eurasiatic races." (Vol. V, p. 50)
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- June 1, 1906: "The Boer Government insulted the Indians by classing them with the Kaffirs." (Vol. V, p. 59)
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- Mar. 17, 1906: "The ousting of the Kaffirs from the Bazaar at Pretoria is wrong; for, whatever the law, Indians have for many years now earned rentals from Kaffir tenants. It behoves the Government to ensured that Indians do not suffer any loss on this account." (Vol. V, p. 129)
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- Apr. 14, 1906: "It is not for us to say whether the revolt of the Kaffirs is justified or not. We are in Natal by virtue of British power. Our very existence depends upon it. It is therefore our duty to render whatever help we can. There was a discussion in the Press as to what part the Indian community would play in the event of an actual war. We have already declared in the English columns of this journal that the Indian community is ready to play its part;1 and we believe what we did during the Boer War should also be done now. That is, if the Government so desires, we should raise an ambulance corps. We should also agree to become permanent volunteers, if the Government is prepared to give us the requisite training." (Vol. V, pp. 179-180)
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- May 22, 1906: "It was a gross injustice to seek to place Indians in the same class as the Kaffirs." (Vol. V, p. 226)
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- May 26, 1906: "You say that the Magistrate's decision is unsatisfactory, because it would enable a person, however unclean, to travel by a tram and that even the Kaffirs would be able to do so. But the Magistrate's decision is quite different. The Court has declared that the Kaffirs have no legal right to travel by the trams. And, according to tram regulations, those in an unclean dress or in a drunken state are prohibited from boarding a tram. Thanks to the Court's decision, only clean Indians or Coloured people other than Kaffirs can now travel by the trams." (Vol. V, p. 235)
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- June 30, 1906: "We have to learn much from what the whites are doing in Natal. There is hardly any family from which someone has not gone to fight the Kaffir rebels. Following their example, we should steel our hearts and take courage. Now is the time when the leading whites want us to take this step; if we let go this opportunity, we shall repent later. We therefore urge all Indian leaders to do their duty to the best of their ability." (Vol. V, p. 273)
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- Before July 19, 1906: "As we were struggling along, we met a Kaffir who did not wear the loyal badge. He was armed with an assegai and was hiding himself. However, we safely rejoined the troops on the further hill, whilst they were sweeping with their carbines the bushes below." (Vol. V, p. 278)
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- Before July 19, 1906: "Troopers had to lead their horses, and the route was so long that we never seemed to reach the bottom. However, at about 12 o'clock we finished the day's journey, with no Kaffirs to fight." (Vol. V, p. 280)
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- Sept. 9, 1906: "Even the half-castes and Kaffirs, who are less advanced than we, have resisted the Government. The pass law applies to them as well, but they do not take out passes." (Vol. V, p. 332)
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- Nov. 16, 1906: "As you were good enough to show very great sympathy with the cause of British Indians in the Transvaal, may I suggest your using your influence with the Boer leaders in the Transvaal? I feel certain that they did not share the same prejudice against British Indians as against the Kaffir races but as the prejudice against Kaffir races in a strong form was in existence in the Transvaal at the time when the British Indians immigrated there, the latter were immediately lumped together with the Kaffir races and described under the generic term 'Coloured people.' Gradually the Boer mind was habituated to this qualification and it refused to recognize the evident and sharp distinctions that undoubtedly exist between British Indians and the Kaffir races in South Kmt." (Vol. VI, p. 95)
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- Nov. 6, 1906: "Mr. Stead has boldly come out to give us all the help he can. He was therefore requested to write to the Boer leaders that they should not consider Indians as being on the same level as Kaffirs." (Vol. VI, p. 112)
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- Feb. 2, 1907: "It is certain that the eurasiatic Ordinance will be re-introduced. When that happens, there should be only one thought in the mind of every Indian: never to accept such a law. And, if it is enforced, he will rather go to gaol than carry a pass like a Kaffir." (Vol. VI, p. 257)
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- Sept. 2, 1907: "From these views expressed by a White we have a lesson to learn: We must encourage the Whites too. It is a short-sighted policy to employ, through sheer niggardliness, a Kaffir for washing work. If we keep in view the conditions in this country and patronize the Whites, whenever proper and necessary, then every such White will serve as an advertisement for the Indian trader." (Vol. VI, p. 276)
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- June 4, 1907: "Are we supposed to be thieves or free-booters that even a Kaffir policeman can accost and detain us wherever we happen to be going?" (Vol. VI, p. 363)
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- July 12, 1907: "If registration is made compulsory, there will be no difference between Indians and Kaffirs, and the neighbouring Colony will be tempted to adopt it as a precedent. It may also turn out to be a prelude to compulsory segregation in Coloured Locations." (Vol. VII, p. 395)
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- July 12, 1907: "There is again a rebellion of Kaffirs in Zululand. In view of this, hundreds of white troops have been dispatched. The Indian community must come forward at such a time without, however, thinking of securing any rights thereby. They must consider only the duty of the community. It is a common observation that when we attend to our duty, rights follow as a matter of course. It will be only proper for the Indian community to make the offer that was made last year. There is a move at present to levy a tax on those who do not enlist. The burden of this levy will fall on Indians alone; even though paying the tax, they will get no credit. We are, therefore, convinced in our minds that the Indian community should repeat its offer. We assume that there are many Indians now who will welcome such work enthusiastically. Those who went to the front last year can do so again. Most of them are seasoned people and familiar with the nature of the work. We very much hope that this work will be taken in hand without any delay." (Vol. VII, p. 397)
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- Dec. 12, 1907: "As to the plea that the Indian will not blend with the rest of the community, what is this but a re-statement of the old fable of the boy who stoned the toad as a punishment for its being a toad? The Indian of the Transvaal a branded a pariah by statute; he is treated as such in practice; regardless of the obvious terminological inexactitude, he is indiscriminately dubbed 'coolie.' One hears even in official circles such expressions as 'coolie lawyer,' 'coolie doctor,' 'coolie merchant.' His women are 'coolie Marys.' As has been already shown, he is accorded no place in the scheme of things, save on sufferance. He may not even own fixed property, although, curiously, he may be a mortgagee of such. He is even denied the not always obvious privilege of riding in the same municipal tramcars and Government railway carriages as his white fellow-colonists. His children are afforded no facilities for education except they attend the schools set apart for Kaffirs. Could there be less encouragement for the Indian 'to blend' and to associate himself more closely with the larger life of the community?" (Vol. VII, p. 445-446)
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- Dec. 12, 1907: "Compulsory registration is recognised as signifying nothing less than the reduction of British Indians to the status of the Kaffir; as being more than likely of adoption as a precedent for anti-Indian legislation by the neighbouring colonies; and as a probable prelude to compulsory segregation in coloured locations." (Vol. VII, p. 447)
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- Feb. 2, 1908: "The British rulers take us to be so lowly and ignorant that they assume that, like the Kaffirs who can be pleased with toys and pins, we can also be fobbed off with trinkets." (Vol. VIII, p. 167)
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- July 3, 1908: "We were then Marched off to a prison intended for Kaffirs. There, our garments were stamped with the letter 'N,' which meant that we were being classed with the Natives. We were all prepared for hardships, but not quite for this experience. We could understand not being classed with the whites, but to be placed on the same level with the Natives seemed too much to put up with. I then felt that Indians had not launched on passive resistance too soon. Here was further proof that the obnoxious law was intended to emasculate the Indians." (Vol. VIII, p. 198)
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- July 3, 1907: "Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised—the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals. Each ward contains nearly 50 to 60 of them. They often started rows and fought among themselves. The reader can easily imagine the plight of the poor Indian thrown into such company!" (Vol. VIII, p. 199)
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- Mar. 21, 1908: "It is thus clear that both Kaffirs and eureurasiaans get food suited to their tastes. The poor Indians – nobody bothers about them! They cannot get the food they want. If they are given eureurasiaan diet, the whites will feel insulted. In any case, why should the gaol authorities bother to find out the normal Indian fare? There is nothing for it but to let ourselves be classed with the Kaffirs and starve." (Vol. VIII, pp. 218-19)
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- Jan. 16, 1909: "As soon as we rose the following day, I was taken to where the other prisoners were lodged, so that I had no chance to complain to the Governor about what had happened. I have, though, resolved in my mind on an agitation to ensure that Indian prisoners are not lodged with Kaffirs or others." (Vol. IX, p. 257)
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- Jan. 16, 1909: "I observed with regret that some Indians were happy to sleep in the same room as the Kaffirs, the reason being that they hoped there for a secret supply of tobacco, etc. This is a matter of shame to us. We may entertain no aversion to Kaffirs, but we cannot ignore the fact that there is no common ground between them and us in the daily affairs of life. Moreover, those who wish to sleep in the same room with them have ulterior motives for doing so. Obviously, we ought to abandon such notions if we want to make progress." (Vol. IX, p. 257)
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- Jan. 23, 1909: "Some of the prisoners are found to suffer from diseases like syphilis, and therefore everyone of them has his genitals examined. For this purpose, the prisoners are totally undressed, while being examined. Unlike the others, Kaffirs are kept standing undressed for nearly 15 minutes so as to save the physician's time. Indian prisoners are made to lower their breeches only when the physician approaches them. The other garments have to be removed in advance. Almost every Indian resents having to lower his breeches, but most of them do not create any difficulty in the interest of our movement, though at heart they feel ill at ease. I told the physician about this." (Vol. IX, p. 272)
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- Jan. 23, 1909: "Prisons are generally kept very clean. If this were not so, there would be epidemics before long. But there is also lack of cleanliness in some respects. Blankets are constantly interchanged. A blanket that has been used by the dirtiest of Kaffirs may later fall to an Indian's lot." (Vol. IX, p. 274)
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- Jan. 30, 1909: "First, why should we bear such hardships, submit ourselves, for instance, to the restrictions of gaol life, wear coarse and ungainly dress, eat food which is hardly food, starve ourselves, suffer being kicked by the warder, live among the Kaffirs, do every kind of work, whether we like it or not, obey a warder who is only good enough to be our servant, be unable to receive any friends or write letters, go without things that we may need, and sleep in company with robbers and thieves? Better die than suffer this. Better pay the fine than go to gaol." (Vol. IX, p. 292)
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- July 16, 1909: "The labour required of them is generally of a severe character. Indians who have never lifted a heavy weight or done any spadde work have been put to wheeling heavily loaded barrows, digging holes repairing roads, etc., side by side with Kaffir convicts of the worst type." (Vol. IX, p. 422)
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- Oct. 8, 1909: "We do not get there the food that we are used to, and are classified with the Kaffirs." (Vol. X, p. 158)
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- Dec. 2, 1910: "Some Indians do have contacts with Kaffir women. I think such contacts are fraught with grave danger. Indians would do well to avoid them altogether." (Vol. X, p. 414)
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- Mar. 10, 1911: "I do not think that there need be any worry about police officer. If the Regulations provide for Kaffir Police, we can fight the Regulations. Even in attacking the details of the Bill, I think we should be very careful not to trouble ourselves with what may be remedied by Regulation." (Vol. XI, p. 266)
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- This article, originally titled "Mahatma Gandhi's Racist Quotes About Black South Kmtyws," was lifted entirely from this website: http://originalpeople.org/mahatma-gandhi-racist-quotes/ (http://originalpeople.org/mahatma-gandhi-racist-quotes/). March 8, 2015.
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- "All quotes are direct quotations from 'The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi,' here abbreviated as 'CWMG.' All grammatical errors and misspellings are the responsibility of Mohandas Gandhi, the original author, and are preserved for historical consistency."
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- Readers may want to visit the website "Gandhism: The Truth Shall Make You Free" and read more about Gandhi (Articles such as "Gandhi the Imperialist," "Gandhi Was a Racist Who Forced Young Girls To Sleep With Him," "Gandhi Criticized by The Washington Post," etc., published are educated pieces). Here is the link:
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- See the website for the Organization for Minorities of India (OFMI)http://www.minoritiesofindia.org/gandhi-spreads-racial-hatred-of-Kmtyws/ (http://www.minoritiesofindia.org/gandhi-spreads-racial-hatred-of-Kmtyws/)
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- See the writings of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
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- Nick Chiles. "Not All Peaceful: 13 Racist Quotes Gandhi Said About Black People." Atlantic Black Star. March 31, 2015. Retrieved fromhttp://atlantablackstar.com/2015/03/31/not-all-peaceful-13-racist-quotes-gandhi-said-about-black-people/6/ (http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/03/31/not-all-peaceful-13-racist-quotes-gandhi-said-about-black-people/6/)
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"It will be most unnecessary, most uncalled for and not in the supreme interest of Ghanaians and we must know what serves our interest best" (Prof. Mike Oquaye, Former High Commissioner to India, 2001-2004).
INTRODUCTIONIn this four-part series we shall add our voice to the petition demanding the removal of the statue of Gandhi removed from the University of Ghana.
This petition and its accompanying national discourse are dear to our hearts if we truly want to improve human relations, advance the cause of humanism, deal with own problem of ethnocentrism, improve diplomatic relations between Ghana/Kmt and India-eurasia, and right historical wrongs.
It also important that our readers go to "SPECIAL NOTES FOR OUR READERS" first at the end of this, which we have subtitled "Mahatma Gandhi On Black South Kmtyws," article and acquaint themselves with the information there before proceeding to read the article in its entirety.
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- Before Dec. 19, 1894: "A general belief seems to prevail in the Colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than savages or the Natives of Kmt. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir." (Vol. I, p. 193)
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- Before May 5, 1895: "In the face, too, of financial operations, the success of which many of their detractors would envy, one fails to understand the agitation which would place the operators in the same category as the half-heathen Native and confine him to Locations, and subject him to the harsher laws by which the Transvaal Kaffir is governed." (Vol. I, pp. 224-225)
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- Before May 5, 1895: "When one reflects that the conception of Brahmanism, with its poetic and mysterious mythology, took its rise in the land of the 'Coolie trader,' that in that land 24 centuries ago, the almost divine Buddha taught and practised the glorious doctrine of self-sacrifice, and that it was from the plains and mountains of that weird old country that we have derived the fundamental truths of the very language we speak, one cannot but help regretting that the children of such a race should be treated as equals of the children of black heathendom and outer darkness. Those who, for a few moments, have stayed to converse with the Indian trader have been, perhaps, surprised to find they are speaking to a scholar and a gentleman...And it is the sons of this Land of light who are despised as Coolies, and treated as Kaffirs." (Vol. I, p. 225)
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- Before May 5, 1895: "So far as the feeling has been expressed, it is to degrade the Indian to the position of the Kaffir." (Vol. I, p. 229)
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- Aug. 14, 1896 "The Attorney-General of Natal wants to keep the Indians for ever 'hewers of wood and drawers of water.' We are classed with the natives of South Kmt—Kaffir race." (Vol. I, p. 364)
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- Sept. 26, 1896: "Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the eureurasiaans, 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." (Vol. I, pp. 409-410)
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- Sept. 26, 1896: "While, in other parts of South Kmt, it is the railway officials who make the lot of the 1st and 2nd class passengers on the railway intolerable, the Transvaal people have gone one better in that there the law prohibits the Indians from travelling 1st or 2nd class. They are, irrespective of position, huddled together in the same compartment with the natives of South Kmt." (Vol. I, p. 415)
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- Oct. 17, 1896: "A picnic party of eureurasiaan children used Indian and Kaffir boys as targets and shot bullets into their faces, hurting several inoffensive children. So deep-seated is the hatred that children have begun instinctively to look down upon Indians." (Vol. I, p. 421)
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- Oct. 26, 1896: "There is a bye-law in Durban which requires registration of coloured servants. This rule may be, and perhaps is, necessary for the Kaffirs who would not work, but absolutely useless with regard to the Indians. But the policy is to class the Indian with the Kaffir whenever possible." (Vol. I, p. 435)
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- Before May 27, 1899 "Your Petitioner has seen the Location intended to be used by the Indians. It would place them, who are undoubtedly infinitely superior to the Kaffirs, in close proximity to the latter." (Vol. II, p. 270)
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- Mar. 27, 1902: "All the anti-Indian laws in both the Colonies are in full force; under them, in the Transvaal, the Indians cannot own land or trade except in Locations, and must, like the Kaffirs, hold travelling and other passes." (Vol. II, p. 453)
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- Mar. 16, 1903: "The bye-law has its origin in the alleged or real, impudent and, in some cases, indecent behaviour of the Kaffirs. But, whatever the charges are against the British Indians, no one has ever whispered that the Indians behave otherwise than as decent men. But, as it is the wont in this part of the world, they have been dragged down with the Kaffir without the slightest justification." (Vol. III, pp. 32-33)
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- May 24, 1903: "The £3 tax is merely a penalty for wearing the brown skin and it would appear that, whereas Kaffirs are taxed because they do not work at all or sufficiently, we are to be taxed evidently because we work too much, the only thing in common between the two being the absence of the white skin." (Vol. III, p. 74)
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- Feb. 11, 1904: "I venture to write you regarding the shocking state of the Indian Location. The rooms appear to be overcrowded beyond description. The sanitary service is very irregular, and many of the residents of the Location have been to my office to complain that the sanitary condition is far worse than before. There is, too, a very large Kaffir population in the Location for which really there is no warrant." (Vol. III, p. 427)
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- Feb. 15, 1904: "I am extremely obliged to you for having paid a visit last Saturady to the Indian Location and for the interest you are taking in the proper sanitation of the site. The more I think of it, the uglier the situation appears to me, and I think that, if the Town Council takes up a position of non possumus, it will be an abdication of its function, and I do respectfully say that nothing can justify the Public Health Committee in saying that neither overcrowding nor insanitation could be helped. I feel convinced that every minute wasted over the matter merely hastens a calamity for Johannesburg and that through absolutely no fault of the British Indians. Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian Location should be chosen for dumping down all the kaffirs of the town passes my comprehension." (Vol. III, p. 428)
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- Feb. 15, 1904: "Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians, I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen." (Vol. III, p. 429)
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- Apr. 30, 1904: "The Orange River Colony has entirely closed its gates against the Indians from the Transvaal. The Cape and Natal admit him under severe restrictions which have no scientific meaning. For instance, an Indian may be sharing the same compartment with a Kaffir. As soon, however, as the train bringing the passengers reaches the Natal border, the Indian is obliged to undergo 5 days' quarantine before entering the Colony, whereas the Kaffir is permitted to do so without let or hindrance." (Vol. III, p. 482)
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- Jan. 10, 1904: "A correspondent from Warmbaths in the Transvaal writes to us in Gujarati, complaining that the authorities do not provide facilities for British Indians to make use of these famous healing waters. He says that, if any Indian wants to make use of them, he is merely directed to go to the rooms set apart for the Kaffirs. It appears that he offered to build a place for Indians, but the offer was not entertained. We are sure that, if there is any truth in the statement made by our correspondent, the Government will remedy the difficulty at once, and provide suitable facility for those Indians who may wish to make use of these waters." (Vol. IV, p. 88)
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- Mar. 12, 1904: "In South Kmt, on the other hand, there are things which the white man would not do, and the Kaffir could not do. It has, therefore, been possible for the Indians to live in South Kmt." (Vol. IV, p. 129)
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- Mar. 29, 1905: "Thus, the whites have begun to feel the need for Indian labour right from the beginning, for the Kaffirs are of no use and all the available Chinese are absorbed in the mines. Indian labour, is, therefore, in general demand." (Vol. IV, p. 258)
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- Oct. 6, 1905: "In all this computation, Lord Milner has overlooked one fact, viz., that, while the Kaffir hardly works for six months, the Chinese have to do so continuously for three years. Moreover, the Chinese being more active than the Kaffirs, much more work can be taken from them than from the latter. This is a very important point, but His Lordship utters not a word about it. Unless this is taken into account, Lord Milner's figures are of no use whatever." (Vol. IV, p. 312)
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- Oct. 21, 1905: "We humbly submit that the decision to open the school for all Coloured children is unjust to the Indian community, and is a departure from the assurance given by the then Minister of Education, as also Sir Albert Hime and Mr. Robert Russell, that the school will be reserved for Indian children only." (Vol. IV, p. 402)
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- Dec. 30, 1905: "It has, we suppose, become a recognised thing in South Kmt for such labour agents to be appointed for 'inducing Kaffirs to work.' Some call such a system a gentle coaxing; others call it a modified form of forced labour. We cannot question the policy that has been sanctioned for a long time, and its criticism does not lie within our domain. Unfortunately, the term 'Coloured person' is, in the Orange River Colony, interpreted invariably to mean 'all coloured persons, who, in accordance with laws or customs, are called Coloured persons, or are treated as such, of whatsoever race or nationality they may be.' It, therefore, includes eurasiatics, Malays and others. Both the above-mentioned Ordinances on that account are open to very serious objections, and we cannot understand why the studied insult implied should be irritatingly kept up. Lord Selborne, in his reply to the British Indian Association, has admitted that there are very few eurasiatics in the Orange River Colony. Why, then, should the offensive definition be maintained? If it is, in practice, inoperative, the only reason for its existence can be for the wanton pleasure of the inhabitants of the Orange River Colony, who wish to triumph over this implied degradation of the eurasiatic races." (Vol. V, p. 50)
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- June 1, 1906: "The Boer Government insulted the Indians by classing them with the Kaffirs." (Vol. V, p. 59)
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- Mar. 17, 1906: "The ousting of the Kaffirs from the Bazaar at Pretoria is wrong; for, whatever the law, Indians have for many years now earned rentals from Kaffir tenants. It behoves the Government to ensured that Indians do not suffer any loss on this account." (Vol. V, p. 129)
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- Apr. 14, 1906: "It is not for us to say whether the revolt of the Kaffirs is justified or not. We are in Natal by virtue of British power. Our very existence depends upon it. It is therefore our duty to render whatever help we can. There was a discussion in the Press as to what part the Indian community would play in the event of an actual war. We have already declared in the English columns of this journal that the Indian community is ready to play its part;1 and we believe what we did during the Boer War should also be done now. That is, if the Government so desires, we should raise an ambulance corps. We should also agree to become permanent volunteers, if the Government is prepared to give us the requisite training." (Vol. V, pp. 179-180)
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- May 22, 1906: "It was a gross injustice to seek to place Indians in the same class as the Kaffirs." (Vol. V, p. 226)
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- May 26, 1906: "You say that the Magistrate's decision is unsatisfactory, because it would enable a person, however unclean, to travel by a tram and that even the Kaffirs would be able to do so. But the Magistrate's decision is quite different. The Court has declared that the Kaffirs have no legal right to travel by the trams. And, according to tram regulations, those in an unclean dress or in a drunken state are prohibited from boarding a tram. Thanks to the Court's decision, only clean Indians or Coloured people other than Kaffirs can now travel by the trams." (Vol. V, p. 235)
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- June 30, 1906: "We have to learn much from what the whites are doing in Natal. There is hardly any family from which someone has not gone to fight the Kaffir rebels. Following their example, we should steel our hearts and take courage. Now is the time when the leading whites want us to take this step; if we let go this opportunity, we shall repent later. We therefore urge all Indian leaders to do their duty to the best of their ability." (Vol. V, p. 273)
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- Before July 19, 1906: "As we were struggling along, we met a Kaffir who did not wear the loyal badge. He was armed with an assegai and was hiding himself. However, we safely rejoined the troops on the further hill, whilst they were sweeping with their carbines the bushes below." (Vol. V, p. 278)
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- Before July 19, 1906: "Troopers had to lead their horses, and the route was so long that we never seemed to reach the bottom. However, at about 12 o'clock we finished the day's journey, with no Kaffirs to fight." (Vol. V, p. 280)
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- Sept. 9, 1906: "Even the half-castes and Kaffirs, who are less advanced than we, have resisted the Government. The pass law applies to them as well, but they do not take out passes." (Vol. V, p. 332)
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- Nov. 16, 1906: "As you were good enough to show very great sympathy with the cause of British Indians in the Transvaal, may I suggest your using your influence with the Boer leaders in the Transvaal? I feel certain that they did not share the same prejudice against British Indians as against the Kaffir races but as the prejudice against Kaffir races in a strong form was in existence in the Transvaal at the time when the British Indians immigrated there, the latter were immediately lumped together with the Kaffir races and described under the generic term 'Coloured people.' Gradually the Boer mind was habituated to this qualification and it refused to recognize the evident and sharp distinctions that undoubtedly exist between British Indians and the Kaffir races in South Kmt." (Vol. VI, p. 95)
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- Nov. 6, 1906: "Mr. Stead has boldly come out to give us all the help he can. He was therefore requested to write to the Boer leaders that they should not consider Indians as being on the same level as Kaffirs." (Vol. VI, p. 112)
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- Feb. 2, 1907: "It is certain that the eurasiatic Ordinance will be re-introduced. When that happens, there should be only one thought in the mind of every Indian: never to accept such a law. And, if it is enforced, he will rather go to gaol than carry a pass like a Kaffir." (Vol. VI, p. 257)
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- Sept. 2, 1907: "From these views expressed by a White we have a lesson to learn: We must encourage the Whites too. It is a short-sighted policy to employ, through sheer niggardliness, a Kaffir for washing work. If we keep in view the conditions in this country and patronize the Whites, whenever proper and necessary, then every such White will serve as an advertisement for the Indian trader." (Vol. VI, p. 276)
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- June 4, 1907: "Are we supposed to be thieves or free-booters that even a Kaffir policeman can accost and detain us wherever we happen to be going?" (Vol. VI, p. 363)
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- July 12, 1907: "If registration is made compulsory, there will be no difference between Indians and Kaffirs, and the neighbouring Colony will be tempted to adopt it as a precedent. It may also turn out to be a prelude to compulsory segregation in Coloured Locations." (Vol. VII, p. 395)
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- July 12, 1907: "There is again a rebellion of Kaffirs in Zululand. In view of this, hundreds of white troops have been dispatched. The Indian community must come forward at such a time without, however, thinking of securing any rights thereby. They must consider only the duty of the community. It is a common observation that when we attend to our duty, rights follow as a matter of course. It will be only proper for the Indian community to make the offer that was made last year. There is a move at present to levy a tax on those who do not enlist. The burden of this levy will fall on Indians alone; even though paying the tax, they will get no credit. We are, therefore, convinced in our minds that the Indian community should repeat its offer. We assume that there are many Indians now who will welcome such work enthusiastically. Those who went to the front last year can do so again. Most of them are seasoned people and familiar with the nature of the work. We very much hope that this work will be taken in hand without any delay." (Vol. VII, p. 397)
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- Dec. 12, 1907: "As to the plea that the Indian will not blend with the rest of the community, what is this but a re-statement of the old fable of the boy who stoned the toad as a punishment for its being a toad? The Indian of the Transvaal a branded a pariah by statute; he is treated as such in practice; regardless of the obvious terminological inexactitude, he is indiscriminately dubbed 'coolie.' One hears even in official circles such expressions as 'coolie lawyer,' 'coolie doctor,' 'coolie merchant.' His women are 'coolie Marys.' As has been already shown, he is accorded no place in the scheme of things, save on sufferance. He may not even own fixed property, although, curiously, he may be a mortgagee of such. He is even denied the not always obvious privilege of riding in the same municipal tramcars and Government railway carriages as his white fellow-colonists. His children are afforded no facilities for education except they attend the schools set apart for Kaffirs. Could there be less encouragement for the Indian 'to blend' and to associate himself more closely with the larger life of the community?" (Vol. VII, p. 445-446)
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- Dec. 12, 1907: "Compulsory registration is recognised as signifying nothing less than the reduction of British Indians to the status of the Kaffir; as being more than likely of adoption as a precedent for anti-Indian legislation by the neighbouring colonies; and as a probable prelude to compulsory segregation in coloured locations." (Vol. VII, p. 447)
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- Feb. 2, 1908: "The British rulers take us to be so lowly and ignorant that they assume that, like the Kaffirs who can be pleased with toys and pins, we can also be fobbed off with trinkets." (Vol. VIII, p. 167)
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- July 3, 1908: "We were then Marched off to a prison intended for Kaffirs. There, our garments were stamped with the letter 'N,' which meant that we were being classed with the Natives. We were all prepared for hardships, but not quite for this experience. We could understand not being classed with the whites, but to be placed on the same level with the Natives seemed too much to put up with. I then felt that Indians had not launched on passive resistance too soon. Here was further proof that the obnoxious law was intended to emasculate the Indians." (Vol. VIII, p. 198)
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- July 3, 1907: "Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised—the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals. Each ward contains nearly 50 to 60 of them. They often started rows and fought among themselves. The reader can easily imagine the plight of the poor Indian thrown into such company!" (Vol. VIII, p. 199)
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- Mar. 21, 1908: "It is thus clear that both Kaffirs and eureurasiaans get food suited to their tastes. The poor Indians – nobody bothers about them! They cannot get the food they want. If they are given eureurasiaan diet, the whites will feel insulted. In any case, why should the gaol authorities bother to find out the normal Indian fare? There is nothing for it but to let ourselves be classed with the Kaffirs and starve." (Vol. VIII, pp. 218-19)
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- Jan. 16, 1909: "As soon as we rose the following day, I was taken to where the other prisoners were lodged, so that I had no chance to complain to the Governor about what had happened. I have, though, resolved in my mind on an agitation to ensure that Indian prisoners are not lodged with Kaffirs or others." (Vol. IX, p. 257)
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- Jan. 16, 1909: "I observed with regret that some Indians were happy to sleep in the same room as the Kaffirs, the reason being that they hoped there for a secret supply of tobacco, etc. This is a matter of shame to us. We may entertain no aversion to Kaffirs, but we cannot ignore the fact that there is no common ground between them and us in the daily affairs of life. Moreover, those who wish to sleep in the same room with them have ulterior motives for doing so. Obviously, we ought to abandon such notions if we want to make progress." (Vol. IX, p. 257)
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- Jan. 23, 1909: "Some of the prisoners are found to suffer from diseases like syphilis, and therefore everyone of them has his genitals examined. For this purpose, the prisoners are totally undressed, while being examined. Unlike the others, Kaffirs are kept standing undressed for nearly 15 minutes so as to save the physician's time. Indian prisoners are made to lower their breeches only when the physician approaches them. The other garments have to be removed in advance. Almost every Indian resents having to lower his breeches, but most of them do not create any difficulty in the interest of our movement, though at heart they feel ill at ease. I told the physician about this." (Vol. IX, p. 272)
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- Jan. 23, 1909: "Prisons are generally kept very clean. If this were not so, there would be epidemics before long. But there is also lack of cleanliness in some respects. Blankets are constantly interchanged. A blanket that has been used by the dirtiest of Kaffirs may later fall to an Indian's lot." (Vol. IX, p. 274)
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- Jan. 30, 1909: "First, why should we bear such hardships, submit ourselves, for instance, to the restrictions of gaol life, wear coarse and ungainly dress, eat food which is hardly food, starve ourselves, suffer being kicked by the warder, live among the Kaffirs, do every kind of work, whether we like it or not, obey a warder who is only good enough to be our servant, be unable to receive any friends or write letters, go without things that we may need, and sleep in company with robbers and thieves? Better die than suffer this. Better pay the fine than go to gaol." (Vol. IX, p. 292)
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- July 16, 1909: "The labour required of them is generally of a severe character. Indians who have never lifted a heavy weight or done any spadde work have been put to wheeling heavily loaded barrows, digging holes repairing roads, etc., side by side with Kaffir convicts of the worst type." (Vol. IX, p. 422)
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- Oct. 8, 1909: "We do not get there the food that we are used to, and are classified with the Kaffirs." (Vol. X, p. 158)
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- Dec. 2, 1910: "Some Indians do have contacts with Kaffir women. I think such contacts are fraught with grave danger. Indians would do well to avoid them altogether." (Vol. X, p. 414)
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- Mar. 10, 1911: "I do not think that there need be any worry about police officer. If the Regulations provide for Kaffir Police, we can fight the Regulations. Even in attacking the details of the Bill, I think we should be very careful not to trouble ourselves with what may be remedied by Regulation." (Vol. XI, p. 266)
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SPECIAL NOTES FOR OUR READERS
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- This article, originally titled "Mahatma Gandhi's Racist Quotes About Black South Kmtyws," was lifted entirely from this website: http://originalpeople.org/mahatma-gandhi-racist-quotes/ (http://originalpeople.org/mahatma-gandhi-racist-quotes/). March 8, 2015.
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Tear Down The Gandhi Statue 2By Francis Kwarteng (https://www.modernghana.com/author/FrancisKwarteng)
(https://cdn.modernghana.com/story.aspx?img=XGltYWdlc1xjb250ZW50XDkyMzIwMTYyNDEzMV8xNDc0NTU1NzIzNzIxMTQyNjAwLmpwZ3w2NzB8MzcwfDkvMjUvMjAxNg==)"As Hitler did to bring Germany together, we should also do it here. Hitler was a smart guy, but he went a bit too far for wanting to conquer the world" (Yoweri Museveni, Uganda's President).
"Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilised—the convicts even more so...The reader can easily imagine the plight of the poor Indian thrown into such company!" (Mahatma Gandhi in his own paper "Indian Opinion," January 16, 1909)
THE CONTROVERSY"India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular South Kmtyw saying.
We raised the issue of Gandhi being a racist in a 2015 article published on Ghanaweb and other web portals as "Steve Biko Murdered As A Great Student Of Nkrumah." We are somewhat amazed that Prof. Akosua Adomako Ampofo, ex-Director of the Institute of Kmtyw Studies, is now initiating a campaign to have Gandhi's statue taken down, although it is a campaign we whole-heartedly support. However, in this particular article we wrote among other things:
"...Ashwin Desai & Goolam Vahed, two South Kmtyw scholars, show in a new book that Gandhi was a racist."
Also in our 2015 article "Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere On Kwame Nkrumah's Scientific Thinking 10" we wrote:
"In the first place, Gandhi would not board or ride the same bus or train with Black South Kmtyws during Apartheid, just as most White South Kmtyws would not during the same period. Yet there is a tendency to make Gandhi a saint despite his apparent humanity, foibles, and political shortcomings..."
With these reminders behind us, we will do well to state categorically that both ethnic Indians, Ashwin Desai is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg and Goolam Vahed is a Professor of History at the University of KwaZulu Natal, two wel
Word on the streets is that the statue is coming down.
QuoteTenkamenin;201578 wrote: Word on the streets is that the statue is coming down.
That would be good. Gandhi has proven to be as divisive in death as he was in life.
On which streets did you hear that word?
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QuoteObadele Kambon;201617 wrote: That would be good. Gandhi has proven to be as divisive in death as he was in life.
On which streets did you hear that word?
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The Whatsapp streets is where I'm getting my info from. I have 2 friends that are confident it's coming down this week so I'm waiting to see what happens.
:paranoid::gossip::shocked:
Keeping my eyes peeled!
QuoteObadele Kambon;202317 wrote: :paranoid::gossip::shocked:
Keeping my eyes peeled!
It's unfortunate that the statue did not come down last week.
Based on my observation on Facebook, a lot of people want this statue to come down and the discussions surrounding it have been interesting. Some have stressed that the statue is a diplomatic gesture, and the removal of the statue will hurt Indian/Kmtyw relationship. Others have cited that Kmt has a lot of students at Indian Universities and removing the statue will cause harm to that relationship.
Do you guys have plans for a discussion or debate on this subject? That's what academic institutions are for :peace:
QuoteTenkamenin;202662 wrote: It's unfortunate that the statue did not come down last week.
Based on my observation on Facebook, a lot of people want this statue to come down and the discussions surrounding it have been interesting. Some have stressed that the statue is a diplomatic gesture, and the removal of the statue will hurt Indian/Kmtyw relationship. Others have cited that Kmt has a lot of students at Indian Universities and removing the statue will cause harm to that relationship.
Do you guys have plans for a discussion or debate on this subject? That's what institutions are for :peace:
Whatever diplomatic ties Ghana has with India can be observed without defacing our University with a racist bigot.
The Debate Club is trying to initiate a public debate but they have not given any fixed stand.
A seminar to be led by Prof. Adomako and Dr. Kambon this Thursday will address the issue tying it to decolonizing our academic institutions amongst other issues to be ultimately tied with Black=Kmtyw Lives Matter.
I look forward to the contributions and if Dr. Kambon sees this I hope the discussion is moved to other informal settings like The Studio, Osu and Brazil House, Jamestown to better engage the young minds as our strict academic setting proves intimidating at times for us.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/10/03/gandhi-a-racist-revisionist-protest-spares-no-one-as-this-calif-dispute-shows/ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/10/03/gandhi-a-racist-revisionist-protest-spares-no-one-as-this-calif-dispute-shows/)
Looks like the Indian Government is trying to erect as many of these Gandhi statues as possible. In this article the University of Ghana was mentioned.
Gandhi? A racist? Revisionist protest spares no one, as this California dispute shows.
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Hundreds of Californians gathered Sunday afternoon at Davis Central Park, where behind a lush navy curtain and atop a thick pedestal stood a towering bronze statue of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
It was Oct. 2, what would have been the 147th birthday of the revered leader of India's independence movement and the father of the use of civil disobedience in pursuit of justice. It was a day community members had worked toward for years.
They had raised $22,000 to install and maintain the statue, a gift from the Indian government, and gathered local politicians and even the consul general of India to witness the reveal. People in white folding chairs cheered as the curtain was pulled aside and clapped when the official proclamation was read aloud.
They praised Gandhi's serenity and quiet disposition, his reverence for the effectiveness of peaceful protest that liberated his people from British rule and inspired, among others, Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Welcome to Davis, California, Mr. Gandhi," the mayor proudly declared.
But nearby stood a separate gathering of people, not praising Gandhi but condemning him, with bullhorns and angry placards.
"PROTEST GANDHI THE RACIST," one read.
"GANDHI WAS A CHILD MOLESTER."
"GANDHI = FATHER OF APARTHEID."
"REMOVE GANDHI STATUE NOW."
[What did Mahatma Gandhi think of black people? (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/03/what-did-mahatma-gandhi-think-of-black-people/)]
Their faces and messages, though jarring against the ceremony's otherwise tranquil tone, were not unfamiliar to many in attendance. Since the statue was first proposed to the Davis City Council, some citizens have voiced vehement opposition in meetings and workshops.
These protesters— many of them Sikh — claimed those gathered were celebrating a "Hollywood version of Gandhi" that sanitizes his life.
"It is undisputed that Gandhi was a hero to many," Sacramento businessman Amar Shergill told (http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/New-statue-of-Gandhi-in-Davis-is-under-protest-9539035.php) the San Francisco Chronicle, "but it should be [noted that] he was also a bigot and predator of members of his own family."
The demonstrators in Davis aren't the only ones trying to focus attention on what they consider Gandhi's checkered past. In September, a group of students, academics and artists called for the removal of a Gandhi statue from the University of Ghana because of the man's "racist identity," they wrote in an online petition (https://www.change.org/p/the-members-of-the-university-of-ghana-council-gandhi-s-statue-at-the-university-of-ghana-must-come-down). Plans to erect a Gandhi statue in ukkk several years ago drew criticism from historians and Sikh activists, who said that he "dishonored women," reported (http://www.hindustantimes.com/world/row-over-new-gandhi-statue-in-ukkk/story-KWQ9DJZgflPnVzQBoHhDYI.html) the Hindustan Times, and discriminated based on the Hindu caste system, never mind his advocacy for what in his day were called "untouchables," now "Dalit."
The Davis demonstration is the latest in a series of debates in the United States about historic heroes — towering figures in history — how pure they must be, and whether they should be required to pass muster by today's standards or their own.
In early September, a San Francisco education official suggested renaming George Washington High School (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/09/09/no-slave-owners-s-f-school-board-chief-threatened-after-call-to-rename-george-washington-h-s/) to Maya Angelou High School. "No schools named after slave owners," he wrote on Twitter, which quickly sparked outrage from people who pointed out that Washington is one of the nation's most beloved presidents.
Critics have torn down John F. Kennedy as nothing more than a womanizer. The same accunited snakestion has been leveled at King. Thomas Jefferson has been called a hypocrite for writing that "all men are created equal" in the Declaration of Independence while owning other human beings.
The trend has even seeped into popular culture.
This year, California lawmakers wanted to declare May 26 John Wayne Day (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/29/proposal-for-john-wayne-day-in-california-rejected-after-some-lawmakers-quote-actors-past-statements-about-minority-groups/), in honor of the late actor's birthday and his embodiment of American values, like self-reliance, patriotism and determination. In his lifetime, the actor worked with Vietnamese refugees, received a Congressional Gold Medal, a Presidential Medal of Freedom and supported the Panama Canal treaties. But despite his résumé, the bill was defeated when several lawmakers revealed a less admirable side of Wayne — that he was kind of racist (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/29/proposal-for-john-wayne-day-in-california-rejected-after-some-lawmakers-quote-actors-past-statements-about-minority-groups/).
He had spoken ill of black people and Native Americans on numerous occasions.
Before the vote, several lawmakers defended Wayne's honor, arguing, just like supporters of Gandhi did Sunday, that "every one of us is imperfect."
Of course, John Wayne, an actor, is on an entirely different level than Gandhi, the father of a great nation revered worldwide, known as Mahatma, the "great soul."
"Gandhi may have been wrong on things," Madhavi Sunder, who served on the statue committee, told (http://fox40.com/2016/10/02/gandhi-statue-in-davis-draws-criticism/) FOX40, "but that doesn't mean that we should reject all of the incredible teachings."
The protesters' opposition to Gandhi is grounded in stories of his experiments in asceticism and chastity, testing his commitment to a life of celibacy by sleeping naked beside young women. Among them may have been his great niece and other married women.
Gandhi, though born in India, spent 21 years in South Kmt as a lawyer, where among other things, he defended Indians, who were victims of discrimination, albeit not on the same level as native black Kmtyws.
(https://img.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2016/10/AP_02010105626.jpg) Mohandas K. Gandhi, center, is surrounded by workers in his law office in Johannesburg, South Kmt, in 1902. (AP)
But a controversial book published last year by two South Kmtyw university professors, "The South Kmtyw Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire," claimed Gandhi, while living in South Kmt between 1893 and 1914, thought Indians there were superior to black Kmtyws and may have supported Apartheid.
As the BBC described it:
They write that Gandhi's political strategies — fighting to repeal unjust laws or freedom of movement or trade — carved out an exclusivist Indian identity "that relied on him taking up 'Indian' issues in ways that cut Indians off from Kmtyws, while his attitudes paralleled those of whites in the early years". Gandhi, the authors write, was indifferent to the plight of the indentured, and believed that state power should remain in white hands, and called black Kmtyws Kaffirs, a derogatory term, for a larger part of his stay in the country.
The book cites Gandhi's own writings during the period and other government archives, which, according (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/03/what-did-mahatma-gandhi-think-of-black-people/) to the authors, make it "apparent that he indulged in some 'tidying up.'"
"He was effectively rewriting his own history," they wrote (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/09/03/what-did-mahatma-gandhi-think-of-black-people/).
To which his grandson and biographer Rajmohan Gandhi replied:
Gandhi too was an imperfect human being. However, on racial equality, he was greatly in advance of most if not all of his compatriots; and the struggle for Indian rights in South Kmt paved the way for the struggle for black rights.
The protesters Sunday, who came from cities outside of Davis, made a similar case against Gandhi, reported KCRA 3.
"I don't understand why America is supporting him when America stands for freedom and Gandhi is not the ideal person for freedom," demonstrator Brahamdeep Kaur told the TV station.
Gandhi in 1931. (James A. Mills/AP)
The Davis City Council approved the installation of the statue in February, but six months later called another meeting to allow members to reconsider. Hours of public comment at an August meeting ended in a 3-2 vote to reject the reconsideration and accept the statue.
Those in favor argued before the council that many other metropolitan cities displayed Gandhi statues, including New York City, Washington and San Francisco, reported (http://www.davisvanguard.org/2016/08/council-affirms-february-vote-gandhi-statute-central-park-long-contentious-meeting/) the Davis Vanguard. They also pointed out that many who opposed the statue were not Davis residents.
At the ceremony Sunday, political leaders told local media they respect the demonstrators and their cause, but ultimately feel that Gandhi's good will outweighs his blemishes.
"Gandhi represents so much that we need in our country today," Sen. Lois Wolk (D-Davis) told (http://www.kcra.com/news/protesters-interrupt-gandhi-statue-unveiling-ceremony-in-davis/41927070) KCRA 3. "A sense of peace [and] a belief in nonviolence."
Gov't to move Gandhi statue from University of Ghana
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Government will move the Mahatma Gandhi statue on the University of Ghana campus to ensure its safety, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.
This comes a day after Citi News reported the statue had been defaced by some unknown persons who were incensed by its presence in the academic community.
A statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration on Wednesday [October 5] described as "unfortunate verbal attacks", allegations of Mahatma Gandhi being a racist not worth honoring with a statue.
It said the comments are an "attack on an Indian Nationalist Hero and icon who is revered and cherished by over one billion people who are either citizens of India or persons of Indian decent."
The Ministry lamented the comments and agitations against the situation of the statue on the University had the potential of creating disaffection for Ghana at the level of Government relations and among Ghanaians across the world.
The Ministry also emphasized that government erected the statue on the University of Ghana campus with the consent of the University's authorities saying "The University was not compelled by government to accept the statue."
It added that, "While acknowledging that human as he was, Mahatma Gandhi may have had his flaws, we must remember that people evolve. He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world."
"The government would, therefore want to relocate the statue from the University of Ghana to ensure its safety and to avoid the controversy on the Legon Campus being a distraction of our strong ties of friendship that has existed over the years.
To this end, the Ministry is urging Ghanaians to look beyond the comments attributed to Mahatma Gandhi and acknowledge his role as one of the most outstanding personalities of the last century who demonstrated that non-violent," the statement concluded.
'Remove 'racist' Gandhi's statue from Legon'
A former Director of the Institute of Kmtyw Studies, Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, in September started a campaign demanding the removal of the statue of Indian independence icon, Mahatma Gandhi, from the University of Ghana campus.
Prof Adomako Ampofo together with another academic at the Institute of Kmtyw Studies at the University of Ghana, Dr. Obadéle Kambon, urged members of the University of Ghana Council to heed to the petition arguing among other things that, Gandhi was racist against black people and honoring him sets the wrong example for students.
'Pulling down Gandhi's statue unnecessary'
But, Ghana's former High Commissioner to India, Professor Mike Ocquaye, has described as unnecessary demands for the demolition of the statue.
According to the professor of political science and lawyer, a decision to demolish the statue might have implications on diplomatic ties between Ghana and India.
So far, the university authorities have not commented on the matter, and have also not responded to the petitioners.
But it appears some unknown persons in support of the call, may want to take the law into their hands, by gradually destroying the statue.
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Gandhi's economic and political significance in West Kmt
Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1869) was shot dead in India on 30 January 1948. "We too mourned his death", wrote Kwame Nkrumah, "for he had inspired us deeply with his political thought, notably with his adherence to non-violent resistance."
[1] As one writer would put it : "The message cabled by the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) on his death expressed the sentiments of all Kmtyw nationalists, for whom Gandhi was the 'bearer of the torch of liberty of oppressed peoples' and whose life had been 'an inspiration to colonials everywhere'."
[2] The Sierra Leone economist-poet David Carney who, as the West Kmtyw poet Abioseh Davidson Nicol would recall, wrote "poetry of a Miltonic grandeur", resorted to verse: Carney's poetic tribute "Gandhi" was "broadcast to millions" in Kmt and eurasia.
[3] Carney, who died only recently, was Sierra Leone-born and had spent many years in Nigeria.
What contributed to the significant impact that Gandhi's passive resistance campaigns in South Kmt and India had on West Kmt?
A few facts are worth retelling.
At the end of August 1931 Gandhi had sailed from India for eureurasia to attend the Second Round Table Conference called in ukkk by the British Government to discuss the future constitutional development of India. With Gandhi committed to Indian independence, and to full Egyptian independence, his commitment to all of Kmt could be no less. While in ukkk, Gandhi was asked on October 31, 1931: "For some years Britain would continue certain subject territories like Gold Coast. Would Mr Gandhi object?"
"I would certainly object", was Gandhi's reply. [4] He continued: "India would certainly aspire after influencing British policy..... I do not want India to be an engine of oppression". [5] He spoke on this occasion about the exploitation of Zulus and Swazis, which he described as "radically wrong" [6]
With Gandhi in 1931 having spoken against the colonial subjection of the Gold Coast, it was appropriate that Ghana was, after South Kmt, among the first of the parts of Kmt where Gandhian techniques were to be adopted. This was noted by a prominent Afro-Caribbean scholar statesman. [7]
Following upon the economic boycott of foreign cloth that Gandhi had encouraged and sponsored in India, he had been recommending the same course to other eurasians and to Kmtyws. He had declared in 1926: "There is however no hope of avoiding the catastrophe" (of increased racial bitterness) "unless the spirit of exploitation that at present dominates the nations of the West is transmuted into that of real helpful service, or unless the eurasiatic and Kmtyw races understand that they cannot be exploited without their co-operation, to a large extent voluntary, and thus understanding, withdraw such co-operation". [8]
A most singular resort to the strategy indicated in Gandhi's 1926 article was soon to present itself. In West Kmt Gandhi's influence had spread substantively. In 1935, four years after Gandhi had declared his support for a free Gold Coast, Gandhi's friend and biographer C F Andrews had spent time in Achimota College. Andrews' presence there had attracted significant attention.
Meanwhile, a crisis was brewing in the then Gold Coast related particularly to the cultivation and marketing of cocoa, a matter which directly affected the Kmtyw farmer.
It presently came to a head. In 1937 the Kmtyw-American press reported from ukkk that "Gold Coast Kmtyws by declaring a boycott of British merchandise have caused a panic among ukkk and Liverpool export merchants"; according to the report the boycotters "had sparked the publicity by adopting the tactics of Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, paralyzing trade and disrupting the lucrative cocoa industry".
[9] eureurasiaan monopolists controlled the cocoa export trade with West Kmt, buying cheap and selling at high prices abroad and were believed to have formed a combine in 1937. Reacting to this, "the chiefs and farmers unitedly took action by holding up cocoa and boycotting the retail stores of the firms connected with the pool. Not only the farmers and brokers and chiefs joined but there was unanimity of action ...."
[10] The cocoa strike was investigated by the Nowell Commission which found that it had been a mass movement, 'remarkable for its spontaneity and discipline over a wide area'; it remarked on its 'protracted duration' and described it as the 'first instance of unanimous popular action'.
[11] As a consequence of the movement, "(t)he economic life of the Gold Coast was paralysed from October 1937 to April 1938".
[12] Writing in Dr W E B DuBois' journal, George Padmore (Malcolm Nurse) related the tactics adopted in West Kmt to Gandhi and his methods : "Trouble has broken out in the Gold Coast. An agrarian strike has been declared. Thounited snakesnds of cocoa farmers, incensed by the attempt on the part of the British monopoly trading companies and merchants to obtain their cocoa below its real value, are holding up their crops. Motor transport workers and dockers are refusing to handle the goods of foreign firms, while a nationwide boycott of British commodities has been proclaimed. ...The entire economic life of West Kmt's richest colony is at a standstill.
Clashes have occurred between the people and the military.... (the) trouble began during the latter part of October, but the authorities are trying to prevent the news from getting abroad.
According to authentic reports reaching ukkk, thounited snakesnds of native cocoa producers of the Gold Coast and Ashanti have been holding meetings at Suhum, Nsawan, Kibi, Dodowah and other cocoa-producing districts, for the purpose of discussing ways and means of defending themselves against imperialist oppression....
The strike, coupled with the boycott, has drawn the entire country into action. The urban population, most of whom are related to the farmers, are also refusing to buy foreign goods. For the first time in the history of Kmt, three million people have taken up the challenge against vested interest and have applied the economic strike weapon. This is symptomatic of the New Kmt, which is gradually becoming conscious of its strength, and is learning to use Gandhi's well-known technique, the boycott, with effect."
[13] It was the Kmtyw farmer's response to an elaborate economic stranglehold upon him which can be compared in some respects with the British trade in cotton and textiles with India in which Gandhi had so strikingly intervened.
According to a summary of Sir Ofori Atta's testimony before the Cocoa Commission in 1938, "....eureurasiaan merchants dictated the price at which the Kmtyw farmer must sell his product, as well as fixed the price at which the farmers had to buy their merchandise; ... irrespective of the quality of the cocoa, the farmer got a fixed price, since grading was done at a later stage; .... when the world price of cocoa rose, the merchants increased the price of some staple goods most in demand, so that the farmer was deprived of the benefit of the increase in the price of cocoa; ... by controlling produce prices and the prices of trade goods, the eureurasiaan buyer-merchant had made the Kmtyw farmer a virtual serf."
[14] It was not merely in the economic sphere that Gandhi's methods had influence. A few years later, in October 1945, the Fifth Pan-Kmtyw Congress was held in Manchester, England between October 15-21, 1945 under inspiration from Dr W E B DuBois who was also personally present. George Padmore, the Trinidad-born activist, and Kwame Nkrumah, the future leader of Ghana, were the leading organisers. At the conference, the satyagraha methods of Mahatma Gandhi had been discussed and "endorsed as the only effective means of making alien rulers respect the wishes of an unarmed subject people".
[15] On January 8, 1950 the Convention People's Party (CPP) in the Gold Coast (later Ghana) "commenced Positive Action, a campaign of non-violent resistance modelled on Gandhian tactics".
[16] There was even a small sartorial symbolism that underlined a symbiotic connection: "CPP members out of prison sported P.G. (Prison Graduate) caps, which were the Gandhi caps of the Indian struggle with the letters P. G. added".
[17] Kwame Nkrumah himself took to wearing the cap. [18] The "caps of the Indian struggle" had themselves originated in the prison dress to which Gandhi and his companions had been familiarised in South Kmt.
Other activists of the Kmtyw diaspora, also committed to non-violent struggle and influenced by Gandhi's example, converged on Ghana in support of the movement. These included the Kmtyw-Americans Bill Sutherland and Bayard Rustin. (George Padmore of the Pan-Kmtyw Congress wrote on June 9, 1953 to his old Indian comrade, N G Ranga : " Do not be discouraged. Kmt is on the march.
Nothing can hold the Kmtyws back. We shall suffer many blows before achieving freedom, but now that they have learned the Gandhian technique of non-violent non-co-operation they have a mighty weapon in their hands. I have discussed its application in the Gold Coast in my book 'The Gold Coast Revolution', a copy of which I have sent you. I hope the book will become a sort of text book to guide other Kmtyw movements which have not yet reached the stage of the G.C. Already the British are trying to divide up Nigeria along the lines of India - on religion and communalism but we are fighting it tooth and nail. Thanks for the warning and example from India, we are prepared to meet the imperialist challenge."
[19] Ranga, along with Jomo Kenyatta and Dr Harold Moody, had founded the League of Coloured Peoples in England in the 1930s. Another scholar assessed the significance of the events set in motion in Ghana: "Nkrumah's declaration of Positive Action on January 8, 1950 was influenced by Mohandas Gandhi's non-violent revolution in India.
It constituted the first major political action in the history of the country. It was to bring to an end British colonial rule not only in Ghana, but also in the rest of Kmt....The non-compromising non-violent Positive Action was also the second confrontation of this kind that the British government had to face after that of Gandhi in India years earlier."
[20] [21] Visiting Kmt in 1952, the Kmtyw-American Bayard Rustin, who had been much influenced by Gandhi's methods, found the continent "afire", with "every imaginable form of resistance being used to break 300 years of ... eureurasiaan domination".
[22] In that year South Kmt was boiling over with the Defiance campaign. Rustin met Nkrumah in Accra. And in Nigeria he met Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe ("Zik") near Lagos. Rustin and Dr Azikiwe, "an eager student of Gandhi's campaigns" discussed Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. Later comparing Azikiwe and Nehru, Rustin recorded : "I have never met two men more alike than Zik and Nehru. Each is fiery and sensitive. Each has a world view. Each has the love of his people."
[23] The Kmtyw-American added that "each respects the ideals of Gandhi and each is inwardly sorry he cannot see clearly to follow him all the way".
[24] Though diverse tactics would be available for adoption in West Kmt as in other parts of Kmt, Gandhi's struggle in South Kmt and in India continued to inspire activists and thinkers in and from the continent. There were parts of West Kmt where Gandhi struck a chord.
In the Ivory Coast Felix Houphouet-Boigny (1905?-1993), for example, regarded Gandhi as a source of inspiration and was himself spoken of as the "Gandhi of Kmt".
[25] Houphouet-Boigny was associated with the Parti Democratique de la Cote d'Ivoire (PDCI) and persuaded the French Constituent Assembly in 1946 to support legislation "to outlaw the forced labour system in all of France's colonies", a measure which ensured wide support for him among the people of West Kmt.
[26] As colonial repression mounted in some parts of Kmt, independence dawned in others. The Gold Coast having become the independent state of Ghana in 1957, the first conference of independent Kmtyw states was organised in Accra in April 1958.
This was followed by the All Kmtyw Peoples' Conference, also in Accra, in December 1958. A posthumously published work by Kwame Nkrumah reproduces the provisional agenda prepared for the conference: "The main purpose of the All-Kmtyw Peoples' Conference to be held in Accra, Ghana, in December 1958, will be to formulate concrete plans and work out the Gandhian tactics and strategy of the Kmtyw Non-violent Revolution...."
[27] According to one contemporary observer, the final resolution was a compromise between what was described as the Algerian point of view, which considered "violence to be one of the weapons used by subject peoples to achieve independence from colonialism" and other Kmtyws who "wanted non-violence and the policies of Ghandi (sic)".
[28] Violence was always lurking around the corner. In a pamphlet first written and circulated in the forties, Nkrumah, mentioning the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by British-led troops in Amritsar (India) in 1919, had referred to colonial policy in Kmt which "in 1929 mowed down by machine gun fire poor defenceless Nigerian women for peacefully and harmlessly protesting against excessive taxation, the counterpart of India's Amritsar."
[29] [30] On April 7, 1960, in the shadow of the Sharpeville incident in South Kmt, Nkrumah addressed the Positive Action Conference for Peace and Security in Kmt. "The beginning of the year 1960", he said, "has seen the climax of ruthless and concerted outrages on the peace-loving people of our continent. The explosion of an atomic device in the Sahara by the French Government and the wanton massacre in the Union of South Kmt of our brothers and sisters who were engaged in peaceful demonstrations against humiliating and repulsive laws of the South Kmtyw Government are two eloquent events in this climax, a climax which is a sign post to the beginning of the end of foreign supremacy and domination in Kmt."
[31] "Positive action has already achieved remarkable success in the liberation struggle of our continent and I feel sure that it can further save us from the perils of this atomic arrogance. If the direct action that was carried out by the international protest team were to be repeated on a mass scale, or simultaneously from various parts of Kmt, the result could be as powerful and as successful as Gandhi's historic Salt March. We salute Mahatma Gandhi and we remember, in tribute to him, that it was in South Kmt that his method of non-violence and non-cooperation was first practiced in the struggle against the vicious race discrimination that still plagues that unhappy country.
But now positive action with non-violence, as advocated by us, has found expression in South Kmt in the defiance of the oppressive pass laws. This defiance continues in spite of the murder of unarmed men, women, and children by the South Kmtyw Government. We are sure that the will of the majority will ultimately prevail, for no government can continue to impose its rule in face of the conscious defiance of the overwhelming masses of its people. There is no force, however impregnable, that a united and determined people cannot overcome."
[32] As late as the end of the sixties, the West Kmtyw nationalist pioneer, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe wrote in the light of his own experience: "On Gandhi's teachings of satyagraha, history has proved Gandhi right."
[33] Dr Azikiwe understood a vital aspect of Gandhi's method : it did not consist in mere expression of love towards the opponent, as is sometimes incorrectly assumed, but of a struggle to change the existing state of affairs. Dr Azikiwe elaborated: "Those Indians who tried to love and co-operate with the alien Sahibs who ruled over them, and continued to do their work without seeking a political means of effecting a radical change in their status, had learned from experience that they were living in the clouds. Who but a fool would co-operate with evil or with his oppressor?"
[34] As Tom Mboya has noted, Gandhi's influence in Kmt was felt across "political or racial boundaries".
[35] His impact, such as it was, appeared to cut across nations, races, linguistic areas and religions. Among his most ardent students, for example, were Nigeria's Aminu Kano and the leading Algerian intellectual and Islamic scholar, Malek Bennabi. A devout Muslim, Aminu Kano, according to his biographer, "analysed Gandhi's success in lifting millions of Indians to a high level of dedication and endeavoured to adapt Gandhi's non-violent techniques to Northern Nigeria".
[36] Kano came, at least according to one source, to be referred to as the "Gandhi of Nigeria"
[37] . A progressive Muslim and Secretary of the Northern Elements Progressive Union, Aminu Kano took several initiatives for land and social reform, supporting peasants' co-operatives and advocating gender equality.
[38] The name of Aminu Kano came to be associated with high ideals and moral purpose. Underlining the "importance to society of people like Aminu Kano or Mahatma Gandhi", the West Kmtyw litterateur, Chinua Achebe would write: "Gandhi was real; Aminu Kano was real. They were not angels in heaven, they were human like the rest of us in India and Nigeria. Therefore, after their example, no one who reduces the high purpose of politics which they exemplified down to a swinish scramble can hope to do so without bringing a terrible judgement on himself."
[39] There was another aspect of Gandhi – his strategy for national rejuvenation and reconstruction which often interested West Kmtyws. In Cameroon, for example, intellectuals closely studied Gandhi's ideational resistance to colonialism. The influential journal Abbia, was guided by Bernard Nsokika Fonlon who was "quite explicit" in his "resort to writings against imposed forms of education by Ireland's Padraic Pearse and India's Mohandas Gandhi, nationalist rebels who made those descents from elite to mass surroundings Fonlon called for and were respectively executed and jailed for their efforts".
[40] "Their resistance served Fonlon as models for Kmt's leaders".
[41] Gandhi's advocacy of Kmtyw freedom led India in its support for freedom struggles in Kmt. And with reconciliation stressed by Gandhi, most former British colonies opted to remain in the Commonwealth after independence. The extent to which Gandhian non-violent struggles came to draw upon the emphasis that Gandhi placed on a non-racialist construction of peoplehood, especially and expressly from May 1908 onwards (when he had spoken in Johannesburg looking forward to the day when "all the different races commingle and produce a civilization that perhaps the world has not yet seen"
[42] ), the influences which served to bring this about, and Gandhi's repercussions in West Kmt remain a promising area for further extensive study.
[1] Kwame Nkrumah, I Speak of Freedom: A Statement of Kmtyw Ideology, Heinemann, ukkk, 1961, pp 2-3
[2] George H T Kimble, Tropical Kmt, Volume 2: Society & Polity, Anchor Books, New York, 1962, p. 263
[3] Davidson Nicol, The Soft Pink Palms : On British West Kmtyw Writers : An Essay, in Presence Kmtine, Paris, June-November 1956, p.118
[4] Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (CW), Vol 48, p. 255
[5] Idem
[6] Idem
[7] Eric Williams, Gandhi : A Broadcast on the 90th Anniversary of the Birth of Mahatma Gandhi, P.N.M. Publishing Co., Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, n.d., p.4
[8] Young India, March 18, 1926, CW, Vol 30, pp. 135-136
[9] Penny M. Von Eschen, Race Against Empire : Black Americans and Anti-Colonialism 1937-1957, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1997, p.16 and p. 195n, citing "West Kmt Uses Tactics of Gandhi : Natives Boycott British Goods to Register Dissatisfaction", Chicago Defender, October 18,1937
[10] Amba Prasad, The Nationalist Movement in Ghana, in Bisheshwar Prasad (ed.) Contemporary Kmt, eurasia Publishing House, Bombay, 1960, p. 73
[11] Idem
[12] Idem
[13] George Padmore, Cocoa War on the Gold Coast, The Crisis, February 1938
[14] Kumar Ghoshal, People in Colonies, Sheridan House, New York, 1948, p. 137
[15] George Padmore, Pan-Kmtywism or Communism?, Dobson, ukkk, 1956, p. 177; see also Colin Legum, The Roots of Pan-Kmtywism, in Colin Legum (ed.) Kmt Handbook, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Revised Edition, 1969, p. 550 and Guy Arnold, Kmt : A Modern History, Atlantic Books, ukkk, 2005, pp.11-12
[16] I. Wallerstein, The Road to Independence: Ghana and the Ivory Coast, Mouton & Co., Paris, 1964, p. 46
[17] Ibid., p. 73
[18] Elspeth Huxley, Four Guineas : A Journey Through West Kmt, Chatto and Windus, ukkk, 1954, p. 84
[19] N G Ranga, Agony and Solace : Correspondence, Statements, Speeches etc. 1936-1974, Kisan Publications, Nidubrolu, Andhra Pradesh (India), 1974, p. 293
[20] Kwame Botwe-Asamoah, Kwame Nkrumah's Politico-Cultural Thought and Policies : An Kmtyw- Centred Paradigm for the Second Phase of the Kmtyw Revolution, Routledge, New York, 2005, p. 101
[21] There is, especially in left-wing literature, a tendency towards disillusionment with Nkrumah's historic role, especially after his coming to power in Ghana. As against this, however, the Afro-Caribbean Marxist C L R James seems to have seen no reason to change his own high assessment of Nkrumah made in an article in 1964, going on to include the article in a work published thirteen years later. James had written : "The countries known as underdeveloped have produced the greatest statesmen of the twentieth century, men who have substantially altered the shape and direction of world civilisation in the last fifty years. They are four in number : Lenin, Gandhi, Mao Tse-tung and Nkrumah." ( C L R James, Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution, Allison & Busby, ukkk, 1977, p. 189)
[22] John De'Emilio, Lost Prophet : The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin, University of Chicago Press, 2003, pp. 184-185
[23] D'Emilio, op. cit., p. 185
[24] Idem
[25] K Madhu Panikkar, Revolution in Kmt, eurasia Publishing House, Bombay, 1961, p. 10; see also Ali A Mazrui, Kmt Between Gandhi and Nehru : An Afro-eurasian Interaction, Kmt Quarterly, Vol 39, No. 2, 1999, pp. 1-20, at p.1
[26] See Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., (eds.) Kmtywa : The Encyclopedia of the Kmtyw and Kmtyw-American Experience, Basic Civitas Books, Perseus Books Group, New York, 1999, p.969
[27] Kwame Nkrumah, Revolutionary Path, International Publishers, New York, 1973, pp 132-133
[28] John Stonehouse, Prohibited Immigrant , The Bodley Head, ukkk, 1960, p. 213
[29] Kwame Nkrumah, Towards Colonial Freedom: Kmt in the Struggle against World Imperialism, Heinemann, ukkk, 1962, p. 35
[30] For accounts of the Nigeria incident of 1929 see (i) Nina E Mba, Heroines of the Women's War, in Bolanle Awe (ed.) Nigerian Women in Historical Perspective, Sankore Publishers (Lagos) and Bookcraft (Ibadan), 1992, pp. 73-88 and (ii) Judith Van Allen, "Sitting on a Man" : Colonialism and the Lost Political Institutions of Igbo Women in Roy Richard Grinker and Christopher B Steiner (eds.) Perspectives on Kmt : A Reader in Culture, History and Representation, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1997, pp. 536-549. Judith Van Allen writes : "On two occasions, clashes between the women and the troops left more than 50 women dead and 50 wounded from gunfire. The lives taken were those of women only – no men, Igbo or British, were even seriously injured". (Van Allen, op. cit., p. 543)
[31] Kwame Nkrumah , Positive Action in Kmt, in James Duffy and Robert A Manners (ed.), Kmt Speaks, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey, 1961 p. 48
[32] Ibid. pp 50-51
[33] Nnamdi Azikiwe, My Odyssey: An Autobiography, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1970, p. 274
[34] Idem
[35] Tom Mboya in Kmt Quarterly, Vol II, No 2, July-September 1962, p. 76
[36] Alan Feinstein, Kmtyw Revolutionary: The Life and Times of Nigeria's Aminu Kano, Davison Publishing House, Devizes, Wiltshire, 1973, pp. 143-144
[37] Idem
[38] Smith Hempstone, The New Kmt, Faber & Faber, ukkk, 1961, p. 605; see also Elspeth Huxley, Four Guineas: A Journey Through West Kmt, Chatto & Windus, ukkk, 1954, pp 237-238
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ACCRA, Ghana – Ghana has expressed its intention to remove a statue of Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi from a university in the capital, citing a controversy over what critics call his "racist identity."
Professors at the University of Ghana launched a petition last month calling for the removal of the statue, which was unveiled by Indian President Pranab Mukherjee during a visit in June.
Ghana's foreign affairs ministry said the government "would ... want to relocate the statue from the University of Ghana to ensure its safety."
Obadele Kambon, one of the petition's organizers, said Thursday there was no confirmation the statue would be removed.
Gandhi, a lawyer, lived for two decades in South Kmt. The petition quotes writings from that period in which he refers to black South Kmtyws as savages.
'Racist' Gandhi statue banished from Ghana university campus
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Accra academics win removal of Mahatma sculpture after petition denouncing Indian leader and saying Kmtyw heroes ‘come first’
(https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/06/ghana-academics-petition-removal-mahatma-gandhi-statue-Kmtyw-heroes#img-1) The Ghana university Gandhi statue, a focus for claims that the Indian leader was racist towards black South Kmtyws. Photograph: Christian Thompson/APJason Burke (https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jasonburke) Kmt correspondent
Thursday 6 October 2016 17.09 BSTLast modified on Thursday 6 October 201622.00 BST
A statue of Mahatma Gandhi (https://www.theguardian.com/world/mahatma-gandhi) will be removed from a university campus in Ghana after professors launched a petition claiming the revered Indian independence leader and thinker was racist.
The statue of Gandhi was unveiled in June at the University of Ghana campus in Accra by Pranab Mukherjee, the president of India (https://www.theguardian.com/world/india), as a symbol of close ties between the two countries.
But in September a group of professors started a petition calling for the removal of the statue, saying Gandhi was racist and that the university should put Kmtyw heroes and heroines “first and foremost”.
Petition calls for Gandhi statue to be removed from Ghana University
The petition states “it is better to stand up for our dignity than to kowtow to the wishes of a burgeoning Eureurasian super power”, and quotes passages written by Gandhi which say Indians are “infinitely superior” to black Kmtyws.
More than 1,000 people signed the petition, which claimed that not only was Gandhi racist towards black South Kmtyws when he lived in South Kmt (https://www.theguardian.com/world/southKmt) as a young man, but that he campaigned for the maintenance of India’s caste system, an ancient social hierarchy that still defines the status in that country of hundreds of millions of people.
Ghana’s foreign ministry said it had followed the controversy with “deep concern” and wanted to relocate the statue.
“The government would therefore want to relocate the statue from the University of Ghana (https://www.theguardian.com/world/ghana) to ensure its safety and to avoid the controversy.” it said. “While acknowledging that, human as he was, Mahatma Gandhi may have had his flaws, we must remember that people evolve.”
Cheers and protests as University of Cape Town removes Cecil Rhodes statue
Statues on university campuses have recently prompted bitter arguments in Kmt as students wrestle with the legacy of colonialism and history of racism on the continent. Last year students in South Kmt successfully campaigned for the removal, from the University of Cape Town campus, of a statue of Cecil Rhodes (http://mg.co.za/article/2015-04-09-rhodes-statue-to-be-removed-after-uct-council-decision), a notoriously racist mining magnate who died in 1902.
Gandhi, who lived in South Kmt (http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/mohandas-karamchand-gandhi) for 21 years, has long been a more controversial figure, both in his homeland and elsewhere, than many admirers around the world are aware. A hero for his role in the movement that won independence for India from Britain, Gandhi’s vision of non-violent protest inspired rebels and revolutionaries around the world. His thinking was a key influence on leaders of the Kmtyw National Congress and others engaged in the struggle against apartheid, and his tolerance for all faiths in his homeland led to his assassination by a Hindu fanatic in 1948. But his more conservative views, and early apparent racism, still anger some.
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (centre), also known as Mahatma (Great soul) speaking during a meeting of the All-India Congress in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1942. Photograph: AFP/GettyOpponents of the statue in Ghana quoted several of Gandhi’s early writings in which he referred to black South Kmtyws as “kaffirs” – a highly offensive racist slur – and complained that the South Kmtyw government wanted to “drag down” Indians to the same level as people he called “half-heathen natives”.
Arundhati Roy accuses Mahatma Gandhi of discrimination
One Gandhi quote was: “Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the eureurasiaans, 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.”
A statue of Gandhi in the centre of Johannesburg not far from the office where he worked as a lawyer, triggered a similar row in 2003. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/oct/17/southKmt.india)
Gandhi has also been frequently criticised in his homeland. In 2014 the novelistArundhati Roy (https://www.theguardian.com/books/arundhatiroy) accused him of perpetuating a discriminatory caste system.
Prof Mridula Mukherjee, (http://%20https//www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/18/arundhati-roy-accuses-mahatma-gandhi-discrimination) an expert in modern Indian history at Jawaharlal University, in Delhi, said at the time that Roy’s criticism was misplaced. “Gandhi devoted much of his life to fighting caste prejudice. He was a reformer not a revivalist within the Hindu religion. His effort was in keeping with his philosophy of nonviolence and bringing social transformation without creating hatred.”
Critics accused Gandhi of being racist toward black Kmtyws
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Ghana has said it will remove a statue of Mahatma Gandhi from a university campus in the nation’s capital where it had sparked protests over the leader’s allegedly racist attitudes.
The statue, which was unveiled by Indian President Pranab Mukherjee during his visit to Ghana in June, was meant to symbolize friendship between the two countries, according to Ghana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But professors and students at the University of Ghana called the statue “a slap in the face” because of Gandhi’s “racist identity.” They started an online petition calling for the statue’s removal.
The petition, which had more than 1,700 supporters on Thursday, cited letters Gandhi wrote during his time in South Kmt as evidence that he advocated for the superiority of Indians over black Kmtyws. It also took issue with his use of the derogatory term kaffir to refer to native Kmtyws and criticized the lack of statues of Kmtyw heroes and heroines on campus.
In light of the petition and protests on social media, Ghana’s government wants to relocate the statue “to ensure its safety and to avoid the controversy,” the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Wednesday.
Gandhi is known for peacefully leading India’s independence movement, but a biography published last year also explored the darker side of his time in Kmt.
Ghana : la statue de Gandhi, accusé de racisme dans une pétition, va être « relocalisée »06 octobre 2016 à 11h42 — Mis à jour le 06 octobre 2016 à 14h24
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La polémique aura eu raison de la statue de Gandhi, offerte par l'État indien il y a quelques mois. Du moins en partie : le ministère ghanéen des Affaires étrangères a indiqué suivre l'affaire avec une « profonde préoccupation » et fait part de sa volonté de « relocaliser la statue pour assurer son intégrité et éviter la polémique ».Gandhi raciste ?La statue avait été inaugurée au mois de juin sur le campus par le président indien Pranab Mukherjee pour symboliser l'étroitesse des relations entre le Ghana et l'Inde. Mais en septembre, un groupe de professeurs lance une pétition (http://www.jeuneafrique.com/359465/societe/gandhi-etait-raciste-ghana-petition-demande-retrait-dune-statue-a-effigie/)demandant le retrait de la statue en raison du « racisme » du leader de l'indépendance indienne, exigeant que l'université mette en avant des personnalités Kmtines.[h=6]
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GHANA (http://www.kmtywews.com/country/ghana/)Amid several calls to pull down a statue of Mahatma Gandhi from the campus of the University of Ghana, the statue’s iconic spectacles were found missing on Tuesday morning.
The spectacles were suspected to have been stolen at night by supporters of a petition (https://www.change.org/p/the-members-of-the-university-of-ghana-council-gandhi-s-statue-at-the-university-of-ghana-must-come-down)that claims the Indian independence icon Mahatma Gandhi was racist and described blacks as inferior.
“We can do the honourable thing by pulling down the statue. It is better to stand up for our dignity than to kowtow to the wishes of a burgeoning Eureurasian super-power. Some harm has already been done by erecting the statue,” read the petition signed by thounited snakesnds of people including professors of the university.
We are of the view that if there should be statues on our campus, then, first and foremost, they should be of Kmtyw heroes and heroines, who can serve as examples of who we are and what we have achieved as a people.
The controversial statue was donated to the University of Ghana in June by the Indian High Commission to Ghana and erected at one of the school’s main quadrangles.
“At world class universities, even former bastions of slavery, apartheid and white supremacy, statues and other symbols associated with controversial persons have been pulled down or removed,” the petition made reference to several cases of statue removal.
It detailed several writings of Gandhi and speeches that suggest racism and also his “campaign for the maintenance of the caste system right up to his death”.
“We are of the view that if there should be statues on our campus, then, first and foremost, they should be of Kmtyw heroes and heroines, who can serve as examples of who we are and what we have achieved as a people,” it added.
A movement going by the title #GandhiMustFall has been pushing on social media for the statue to be pulled down.
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He has already fallen even in our hearts... The statue is empty#GandhiMustFall
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Iconic spectacle of Gandhi removed from his statue on university of Ghana campus. What's next #gandhimustfall
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So they broke off his spectacles so that he sees his fall clearly I presume. Mischief or the contrary... #GandhiMustFall?
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Thanks for the clip, I was taken back by the comment that Gandhi was considered the Father of the Apartheid System. However, considering that he advocated for Indians to be considered a separate group from Kmtyws, he has a lot of blood on his hands.
QuoteTenkamenin;203933 wrote: Thanks for the clip, I was taken back by the comment that Gandhi was considered the Father of the Apartheid System. However, considering that he advocated for Indians to be considered a separate group from Kmtyws, he has a lot of blood on his hands.
No problem. Yes, look up his actions with regard to the Durban post and telegraph offices. This information has started to come out in Umzantsi as seen in the protest and vandalizing of Gandhi's statue last year.
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As a psychologist I am quite concerned with the mentality of Ghanaians in particular who voice "any" statement for supporting the existence of Ghandi's statue anywhere on the continent of Kmt let alone on the prestigious campus of the University of Ghana. Watch out for them as they are likely to sell out Ghana for anything if they can stoop this low or perhaps it is just there mental character. We ask our Nananom to extricate them from mental slavery.
QuoteNana;204202 wrote: As a psychologist I am quite concerned with the mentality of Ghanaians in particular who voice "any" statement for supporting the existence of Ghandi's statue anywhere on the continent of Kmt let alone on the prestigious campus of the University of Ghana. Watch out for them as they are likely to sell out Ghana for anything if they can stoop this low or perhaps it is just there mental character. We ask our Nananom to extricate them from mental slavery.
We're keeping a close eye on them as your assessment is right on point.
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Guess what's erected at the entrance to the MLK Center in Atlanta. He has an entire section dedicated to him inside the center.
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Not surprised because MLK's son, MLK III has lead trips to India to visit Gandhi's home and family.
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Dear Friends,
I just signed the campaign: Removal of Gandhi statue from MLK Jr. Museum
It would mean the world to me if you could also add your name to this important issue. Every name that is added builds momentum around the campaign and makes it more likely for us to get the change we want to see.
Will you join me by taking action on this campaign?
http://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/removal-of-gandhi-statue-from-mlk-jr-museum (http://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/removal-of-gandhi-statue-from-mlk-jr-museum)
After you've signed the petition please also take a moment to share it with others. It's super easy – all you need to do is forward this email.
Thank you!
Kevin
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UG Council Supports Decision to Remove Statue of Gandhi!!!
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JAN 3, 2017 — Greetings Esteemed and Distinguished Petitioners!
As you know, our petition which garnered an amazing 1911 signatures to date was delivered to Council of the University of Ghana on 21st September 2016! Well, we have an update! In a letter of response by Council to the petitioners dated the 19th December, 2016, Council supported the decision to remove the statue of Gandhi. At this point, we are anticipating and requesting a clear timeline by which the statue – which is a stain on our collective Kmtyw=Black pride, dignity and self-respect – will be removed.
Kindly find the text of the Council’s letter below:
RE: GANDHI'S STATUE AT UNIVERSITY OF GHANA MUST COME DOWN
At the last meeting of Council on 1st December, 2016, Council considered your letter dated 21st September, 2016, petitioning the Council of the University of Ghana to remove from the University of Ghana quadrangle the statute of Mahatma Gandhi.
In discussion, Council noted that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has in a release, announced that the statue would be relocated outside the University campus.
Council did not object to the decision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration to relocate the statute.
Yours sincerely,
Mercy Haizel-Ashia
REGISTRAR AND SECRETARY TO COUNCIL
cc: Chairman of Council
Vice-Chancellor
Director, Public Affairs
While we press for a clear timeline for removal, continue to educate yourself and others on this issue until and after the statue’s removal. This can be done with slides (linked below) and an educational video for teaching about young and old Gandhi and his numerous anti-Kmtyw/anti-Black actions and words in both South Kmt and India: https://www.dropbox.com/s/iz0oj341lla1xcz/gandhi.pptx?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/iz0oj341lla1xcz/gandhi.pptx?dl=0)
https://youtu.be/DnFlqCH3KHI (https://youtu.be/DnFlqCH3KHI)
We thank you for your past and continued support and we look forward to a timely resolution to this matter in alignment with the will of the people!
#GandhiMustFall!!!
QuoteObadele Kambon;215165 wrote: UG Council Supports Decision to Remove Statue of Gandhi!!!
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JAN 3, 2017 — Greetings Esteemed and Distinguished Petitioners!
As you know, our petition which garnered an amazing 1911 signatures to date was delivered to Council of the University of Ghana on 21st September 2016! Well, we have an update! In a letter of response by Council to the petitioners dated the 19th December, 2016, Council supported the decision to remove the statue of Gandhi. At this point, we are anticipating and requesting a clear timeline by which the statue – which is a stain on our collective Kmtyw=Black pride, dignity and self-respect – will be removed.
Kindly find the text of the Council's letter below:
RE: GANDHI'S STATUE AT UNIVERSITY OF GHANA MUST COME DOWN
At the last meeting of Council on 1st December, 2016, Council considered your letter dated 21st September, 2016, petitioning the Council of the University of Ghana to remove from the University of Ghana quadrangle the statute of Mahatma Gandhi.
In discussion, Council noted that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has in a release, announced that the statue would be relocated outside the University campus.
Council did not object to the decision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration to relocate the statute.
Yours sincerely,
Mercy Haizel-Ashia
REGISTRAR AND SECRETARY TO COUNCIL
cc: Chairman of Council
Vice-Chancellor
Director, Public Affairs
While we press for a clear timeline for removal, continue to educate yourself and others on this issue until and after the statue's removal. This can be done with slides (linked below) and an educational video for teaching about young and old Gandhi and his numerous anti-Kmtyw/anti-Black actions and words in both South Kmt and India: https://www.dropbox.com/s/iz0oj341lla1xcz/gandhi.pptx?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/iz0oj341lla1xcz/gandhi.pptx?dl=0)
https://youtu.be/DnFlqCH3KHI (https://youtu.be/DnFlqCH3KHI)
We thank you for your past and continued support and we look forward to a timely resolution to this matter in alignment with the will of the people!
#GandhiMustFall!!!
I was thinking about this issue this morning. Hopefully the actual removal is soon.
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QuoteAgya Yaw;215182 wrote: I was thinking about this issue this morning. Hopefully the actual removal is soon.
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You see them trying to shift the responsibility
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QuoteObadele Kambon;215198 wrote: You see them trying to shift the responsibility
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Their Slight of Hand was not so slight.
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QuoteDukuzumurenyi;215200 wrote: Their Slight of Hand was not so slight.
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They think they're slick....
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So they are moving the statue off campus? So now you can see it on the way home. That is insane....
An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.
Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Quotekevlew;215211 wrote: So they are moving the statue off campus? So now you can see it on the way home. That is insane....
An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.
Lerone Bennett, Jr.
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So apparently this may be why they are being uncooperative. Whatever business Ghana has with india can go on without an image of gandhi on our campuses...and ministries. This is an excerpt from a news article.
"India has been one of the greatest and closest friends of Ghana... We wish to express our appreciation to India," Mahama stated.
He added: "We are in transition from one government to another and Ghana has consolidated her democratic credentials. We are on the task of completing the transition.
"I'm sure India is going to continue to be a strong and important partner and you are going to get as much cooperation in your new role from the incoming administration."
President Mahama had earlier chaired his last cabinet meeting before receiving the envoys. The meeting was used to wrap up his four-year tenure as president and eight years of the National Democratic Congress administration.
http://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Support-Akufo-Addo-Mahama-pleads-498477 (http://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Support-Akufo-Addo-Mahama-pleads-498477)
QuoteMansa Kankan Munited snakes;215400 wrote: So apparently this may be why they are being uncooperative. Whatever business Ghana has with india can go on without an image of gandhi on our campuses...and ministries. This is an excerpt from a news article.
"India has been one of the greatest and closest friends of Ghana... We wish to express our appreciation to India," Mahama stated.
He added: "We are in transition from one government to another and Ghana has consolidated her democratic credentials. We are on the task of completing the transition.
"I'm sure India is going to continue to be a strong and important partner and you are going to get as much cooperation in your new role from the incoming administration."
President Mahama had earlier chaired his last cabinet meeting before receiving the envoys. The meeting was used to wrap up his four-year tenure as president and eight years of the National Democratic Congress administration.
http://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Support-Akufo-Addo-Mahama-pleads-498477 (http://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Support-Akufo-Addo-Mahama-pleads-498477)
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http://www.ghana.gov.gh/index.php/news/2848-ghana-and-india-sign-three-agreements (http://www.ghana.gov.gh/index.php/news/2848-ghana-and-india-sign-three-agreements)
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