Posted on 06/09/2020 10:25:55 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Huge crowds of Black Lives Matter protesters have gathered outside Oriel College at the University of Oxford this evening to campaign for a statue of the imperialist Cecil Rhodes to be torn down.
The demonstration has been organized by the Rhodes Must Fall Oxford campaign group and comes after activists identified 60 UK statues they want removed for “celebrating slavery and racism” as councils and museums rushed to bring down their controversial monuments after Edward Colston’s was toppled in Bristol.
At tonight’s Oxford protest, organizers placed chalk crosses on the floors in either side of the street outside the entrance to the college, to enforce social distancing.
The crowd took to their knees for eight minutes 46 seconds, to reflect the time Mr. Floyd, a father of two, spent with a police officer kneeling on his neck which killed him in America last month. […]
Some of Briton’s (sic) most famous people are on the hit list revealed today, including slave-trading West India Docks founder Robert Milligan at the Museum of London, the Edinburgh statue of former Home Secretary Henry Dundas who delayed the abolition of slavery, and a statue of Sir Francis Drake on Plymouth Hoe. […]
Sadiq Khan today called for the removal of all slave trader statues in the capital as he promised to personally “review and improve” the diversity of the capital’s landmarks. The Mayor of London has launched his own Commission for Diversity in the Public Realm after Black Lives Matter protesters pulled down the monument to Edward Colston in Bristol and hurled it in the city’s harbor. …
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I’m calling on Bill Clinton and Wesley Clark to pay back their Rhodes Scholarships and denounce any academic credentials accrued under same.
Precisely my first thought.
While people in Rhodesia long to return to the days of colonial administration when jobs and food were available.
Teaching the uneducated mob is the White Man’s burden.
No western civilization, Know barbarism.
Know Western Civilization, No barbarism.
To be fair, BJ skipped out on his early, and I don’t think he can actually be called a Rhodes scholar
-— unless it’s in a favoable context.
Only 3 writer’s?
Cheap azz bass turds.
American newspapers use 4-5 writer’s
Maybe American lies masquerading as news is more profitable than Island Nation lies
I think we need to tear down any pictures or paintings of Bill Clinton-...because he was a Rhodes Scholar, therefore supported Cecil Rhodes’ racist agenda.
Let Zimbabwe turn to their new Red Chinese overlords. Their “benevolent administration” will make the worst of the European colonizers look like Main Street USA
Along with Clinton and Wesley Clark, other leftists who happily took the dirty money of the Rhodes’ estate:
Bill Clinton
Bill Bradley
David Souter
E. J. Dionne
Robert Reich
Russ Feingold
Ashton Carter
Cory Booker
Susan Rice
Naomi Wolf
George Stephanopoulos
Nicholas D. Kristof
Rachel Maddow
Ronan Farrow
Chesa Boudin
Rhodes was a fabian socialist.
Black Lives Matter. A combination of self loathing whites, and pity seeking blacks.
What will they do with the monuments to Sir Francis Drake and John Hawkins? Both sold slaves in the Americas and saved England from a Spanish invasion.
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