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.
to quote Freeper wardaddy:
“And the white race has lost its balls and will and deserves the oblivion towards where it’s headed”
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 ?