Posted on 06/09/2020 1:40:23 AM PDT by blueplum
A group of councillors has backed the campaign to remove a statue of imperialist Cecil Rhodes and called on Oxford University to "decolonise". Twenty-six councillors - more than half of members at Oxford City Council - signed a letter saying the figure at Oriel College was "incompatible" with the city's "commitment to anti-racism". A protest has been organised by the "Rhodes Must Fall" campaign as part of the Black Lives Matter movement...
...Campaigners have said Rhodes, a 19th Century businessman and politician in southern Africa, represented white supremacy...
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
wiki:
Rhodes’ was a cultural rather than biological definition, and a starting point for actions supportive of native populations, as he clarified in a speech of 1894, stating “Now, I say the natives are children. They are just emerging from barbarism. They have human minds . . . We ought to do something for the minds and the brains that the Almighty has given them. I do not believe that they are different from ourselves” [5] Historian Richard A. McFarlane has described Rhodes “as integral a participant in southern African and British imperial history as George Washington or Abraham Lincoln are in their respective eras in United States history.”[6]
They’ll erect a statue of Mugabe in its place.
I wonder what he would say if he saw the looting, murder and carnage of today.
to quote Freeper wardaddy:
“And the white race has lost its balls and will and deserves the oblivion towards where it’s headed”
“And the white race has lost its balls and will and deserves the oblivion towards where it’s headed”
At this rate, it won’t be long before the whites will be the Neanderthals of tomorrow. It will have committed extinction through self-loathing.
In the 16th Century in what is know as the Beeldenstorm Church art was destroyed simply because it displayed Catholic themes. In the picture above one can see how the heads all got lopped off. Rewriting history so the current ruling party is always correct is itself historical. What a waste, this really was fine art unlike some of the so called stuff that passes for that title today.
Back in the 1990’s an African man in Mali asked me, “Do you know what this country (Mali) really needs?”
“No”, I replied.
Recolonization!” was his reply.
In 1980, an old woman in Uganda asked me, “Please, when are the British coming back?”
So are they going to abolish the Rhodes scholarships as well ?
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