It makes me laugh when blacks mention Ghandi. Ghandi hated blacks -- he's quoted as saying it's ridiculous for the British to treat Indians the same way they would treat black people. He lived in South Africa for a good few years and black people definitely made an impression on him. This is something our comrade Feric Jaggar posted on another thread I was looking at here in the OP. About Ghandi's views on Blacks....or kaffirs as he called them:)    Yes, we know Gandhi (or Ghandi as you call him), he was a racist, too.    Witness this piece of his writing, published in his newspaper,  Indian Opinion , of February 15, 1905. It was a letter to the white Johannesburg Medical Officer of Health, a Dr. Porter, concerning the fact that Blacks had been allowed to settle in an Indian residential area:   Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all  Kaffirs  of the town, passes my comprehension. 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. In response to the rise of white nationalist politics, which stressed racial separation, Gandhi wrote in the  Indian Opinion  of September 24, 1903:    We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do, only we believe that they would best serve these interests, which are as dear to us as to them, by advocating the purity of all races, and not one alone. We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race. On December 24, 1903, Gandhi added this in the  Indian Opinion  newspaper:[20]   The petition dwells upon `the co-mingling of the colored and white races.' May we inform the members of the Conference that so far as British Indians are concerned, such a thing is particularly unknown.  If there is one thing which the Indian cherishes more than any other, it is the purity of type.