The Fabian Window was designed by George Bernard Shaw. Notice the earth being forged under the words "Remould it nearer the heart's desire".
I believe Rhodes is depicted in the picture.
Posted on 03/29/2015 11:11:37 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
more than two weeks, public debate in South Africa has been dominated by a statue. Students at the University of Cape Town have been demonstrating to have the bronze figure of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes removed from its central position on campus.
Rhodes bequeathed the land on which the university was built, but he also slaughtered Africans by the thousands in colonial conquest and helped lay the foundations of apartheid in South Africa.
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I believe it will inevitably happen.
Rhodes was a lot like many of the elites we see today. After amassing a mining fortune via the free market, he sought to exclude his competition via government coercion and monopolistic practices. After climbing the ladder of success, they seek to pull away the ladder for anyone that follows them.
Bill Gates, Rockefellers, Buffet Soros, etc etc. I can’t stand these hypocrites.
Let’s ask Bill Gates to work on a mandatory anti-hypocrisy vaccine for billionaires.
“‘Rhodes scholars’ are expected to come away with the same philosophy.”
I had a friend in High School that received a Rhodes Scholarship in 68’. The thing that has stuck in my mind all these years is that he always said he wanted to be a banker. No soldier, no fireman, no policeman, banker.
“The Third World wants all indications of Western superiority removed from their sight.”
I think it’s the First World that’s pushing that.
Is there any country in sub-Saharan Africa which is not a basket case?
Liberals sometimes tell us the problems in Africa are due to the legacy of colonialism. But these countries have been independent and self ruled by blacks for decades. Are we still coping with colonialism as an excuse for black majority countries being basket cases????
And they're still plaguing us to this day.
The Taliban have some experience at that.
Yes I can well remember the promise South Africa ahead in the 80s. I also remember the responsibility that Ivy League schools had in promoting anti-apartheid. The country had far more promise then, then the deathspiral it is in now.
And one has to ask, why were they so easily colonized
Because of course the colonizers found an exquisite civilization and destroyed it?
Bill Clinton’s favorite Georgetown Professor, Carroll Quigley, got the goods on Rhodes’ attempt to form a one world government, roughly called The Roundtable, in The Anglo American Establisment. When the US wouldn’t come in, the British Commonwealth was formed as a Plan B.
Yes of course tear it down because black rule is great! South Africa following Zimbabwe to the s**thole.
A lot of the original settlers were Dutch; the Boer War was fought to determine who would rule, and apartheid was to entice the Dutch to support the new mixed country.
When the Dutch settled in South Africa there were no Africans there; they migrated southward later.
Let it return to desert
It wasn’t desert, and probably never will be; South Africa has a temperate climate more similar to Europe. It has penguins as well...
Penguins make it awesome
Not for the swimmers (when the great whites show up).
I remember when they hosted the World Cup in 2010; while it was warm along the coast (it was June), I remember watching a game at a higher altitude with the French team huddled under blankets on the bench.
When are the Rhodes Scholarships going to change their name?
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