I said fake , not actual plot <| sep |> buena compadre siga as <| sep |> He was , but he was treated better than the blacks . He actually supported british rule and brutalization of blacks in south africa . c a l l r e m o v e g andhistatueracistviewstel 41652 . htmlHe recognized that he was treated poorly , but at least he was above the kaffirs in south africa . He bought into the british divide and conquer tactics . He certainly felt that indians like him should be treated better , but he had the same contempt for blacks that white british did at the time . So he was on the white british side in south africa when it came to treatment of blacks . Gandhi focused his attention on Indians while in South Africa and opposed the idea that Indians should be treated at the same level as native Africans while in South Africa . ' s funny how propaganda works . The british spread the propaganda about gandhi because they wanted a peaceful docile imagine of indians to brainwash indians and the rest of their colonial subjects with . The british propagandists almost wiped out indian fighters like Bose from history while offering docile meek and nonviolent gandhi as their ideal . If there is one the the brits excel at , it ' s their propaganda . Of course it ' s in their interest that india be docile and meek like gandhi rather than aggressive like the independence fighters like Bose .