4/27 readings

In James’ “Beyond a Boundary,” James explained his upbringings as well as educational life.  He recalled that when he was growing up, he was taught that “Britain was the source of all light and leading, and our business was to admire, wonder, imitate, learn” (James, 205).  However, following English principles such as fair play became rather hard for James in his education, and principles such as this ended up showing him that there were race issues in play that were anything but fair for them.  James’ used the example of a sports player named Piggott which he highly respected as being greatly skilled at cricket.  However, since the team was composed completely out of Black people, Piggott was pulled from the team so that a White man could take his place.  Due to this, many people sympathized with Piggott and told him that he definitely would have been on the field playing if only had a different skin color.
In Gandhi’s “Hind Swaraj,” Gandhi explained the need for India to be ruled by the Indian people, however he advocated for them to attain that nonviolently.  He argued that to break ties with England, they would need to be free economically as well, and that they needed to stop trade with England.  However, more importantly than being free politically, they needed to believe that they are free in order to truly be free.  He explained this by saying that if they believed they were enslaved, all of India would be enslaved, but if they became free, then all of India would be free as well.  Although it may sound redundant like this, I think Gandhi was referring to the actual mindset of the people need to change in order for them to be free.

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