Gandhi-ji statue removed from racist S. African University

It's kind of a case of the pot calling the kettle black, but in this case, it's kind of racists calling a racist, 'racist.' [Which brings to mind Antifa, but that's a different story.]

Fox News reports that a statue of Indian independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi was removed from Ghana University [Go Cheetahs!] as a result of opposition and a petition drive that cited him as racist.

Gandhi was one of the most revered figures of the Twentieth Century due to his peaceful protests in his striving for Indian sovereignty.

However, in Africa, others remember him as someone who viewed Africans as savages who were beneath the British and Indians, the Washington Post reported.

A petition to remove the statue from the University of Ghana in Accra used his early writings during his two decades as a lawyer on the continent to give weight to critics' arguments, Fox News says.

"Having his statue means that we stand for everything he stands for and if he stands for these things [his alleged racism], I don't think we should have his statue on campus," law student Nana Adoma Asare told the BBC.

In one argument for Indian empowerment, Gandhi appeared to believe the British treated Indians “little better, if at all, than the savages or the Natives of Africa.” It also said Gandhi spoke of the "half-heathen Native."

Not for nothing, but the South Africans are now killing white folks en masse.

As a young man living in South Africa, Gandhi referred to the country's black population as "Kaffirs," a Muslim racial slur, (although Gandhi wasn't a Muslim) and said Indians were superior.

The word "Kaffir" is deemed so offensive that it is rarely uttered aloud or published, the Post said. Except that it's often used by Muslims to describe all non Muslims so the Post is blowing hot air.

The statue was unveiled at the university campus in 2016 by Indian's President Pranab Mukherjee. University professors and students told the BBC it was taken down Wednesday.

Protests by leftist virtue-signalers against Gandhi have occurred in Davis, California, where a similar statue met opposition, and in London, where plans to honor Gandhi also faced criticism, especially by virtue-signalers and others looking for something to do when they're bored or need something to do with their hands.

And when it comes to racism in general, Africa does not get a clean bill of health anymore than other countries.

Gandhi-ji was wrong to say the things he'd said, and he was a product of the time in which he said them.

But as Jesus once said when questioned about a woman adulteress, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." [John 8:7]

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