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After a petition called Gandhi ‘racist,’ his statue was removed from the University of Ghana
在一份請願書將甘地稱為“種族主義者”之後，他在迦納大學的雕像被拆除

Another marker has been felled in the intense argument over whether historic figures with racist histories should be honored. The University of Ghana in Accra no longer has a statue of India independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi.
在關於是否應該尊重具有種族主義色彩的歷史人物的激烈爭論中，又一個標誌被打倒。印度獨立領袖莫漢達斯 K·甘地的雕像在位於阿克拉的迦納大學不復存在了。

Gandhi’s Indian empowerment argument, critics said in a petition to remove the statue, appeared to be that the British colonial government treated Indians a “little better, if at all, than the savages or the Natives of Africa.” He spoke of the “half-heathen Native” and said that treating Indians like Africans would “degrade us.” The sole occupation of “raw” natives is hunting, he said and their “sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness.”
批評者們在將雕塑移除的請願書中稱，甘地關於增強印度信心的言論裡，似乎提到了英國殖民政府對待印度人“比非洲的野蠻人或者土著好一點，但也許沒有”。他談到了“半異教徒的土著人”，還說把印度人當非洲人對待會“貶低我們”。他說，非洲“源自傳統部落的”土著唯一的工作就是捕獵，他們“唯一的野心就是累積一定數量的牛來買一個老婆，然後，懶惰地、赤裸地度過餘生。”

Critics argue that Gandhi’s thoughts about Africans shouldn’t be whitewashed by history—that no one’s flaws should be immune from historical scrutiny. Christopher Columbus “discovered” the Americas,—then killed and enslaved the people who already lived there. Many of America’s Founding Fathers owned slaves. Martin Luther King Jr. cheated on his wife. And for members of the University of Ghana council who started the petition in 2016 and the more than 2,200 people had signed it since, a statue to Gandhi had no place on campus.
批評者認為，甘地關於非洲人的想法不應該被歷史粉飾——沒有一個人的瑕疵應該免於歷史的審查。 克里斯托弗·哥倫布“發現”了美洲——之後屠殺、奴役了已經在那裡生活的人們。 許多美國的開國元勳都擁有奴隸。 馬丁·路德·金有過外遇。而對於 2016 年開始起草這份請願書的迦納大學委員會成員們，還有從那之後的 2200 多個在請願書上簽字的人們來說，甘地的雕像在校園裡沒有容身之地。

“We consider this to be a slap in the face that undermines our struggles for autonomy, recognition and respect,” the petition says.
請願書上說：“我們認為，甘地的雕像是一記耳光，破壞了我們對自治、認可和尊重的爭取。”

—————文章來源 / 華盛頓郵報

重點詞彙
petition/pəˈtɪʃn/
n. 請願書

• petition sb. to do sth. (v.)

fell/fel/
v. 打倒，擊倒

empowerment/ɪmˈpaʊərmənt/
n. 使更強大（empower v.）

• movements to empower individuals (v.)
• These movements are individual empowerment.

savage/ˈsævɪdʒ/
n. 野蠻人，未開化的人

• He acts like a savage.

heathen/ˈhiːðn/
n. 異教徒

sole/soʊl/
adj. 唯一的

• = only

• The sole survivor of the car accident

indolence/ˈɪndələns/
n. 懶散,懶惰 (indolent adj.)

• = laziness
• He was noted for his indolence.
• indolent teenagers（adj.）

whitewash/ˈwaɪtwɑːʃ/
v. 粉飾，掩蓋

• His wife wanted to whitewash his reputation after he died.
• This report is a whitewash. (n.)

scrutiny/ˈskruːtəni/
n. 仔細觀察，詳細審查

• under scrutiny
• Her argument doesn’t really stand up to scrutiny.
• Their private life came under media scrutiny.

cheat on
對配偶不忠

a slap in the face
一記耳光