Posted on 06/17/2020 5:21:37 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
Oriel College in Oxford has announced that it wants to take down the controversial statue of Cecil Rhodes.
The governors of the Oxford University college voted on Wednesday to remove the statue of the colonialist.
Campaigners have called for the statue to be taken down - saying it was a symbol of imperialism and racism.
The removal is not expected to be immediate - as the college says there will need to be consultations over planning regulations.
The Rhodes Must Fall campaigners said the announcement was "hopeful", but warned they would remain cautious until the college had actually carried out the removal.
In a statement, campaigners said that until the "Rhodes statue ceases to adorn the facade of Oriel College on Oxford's High Street" there would still be protests over "imperial and colonial iconography" in university buildings.
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Sun never set .. Empire .. Yada yada..
Da Times Dey is Changin'
When they tear Nelson down in Trafalgar Square, it’s over for them. Sad.
Were Clinton and Odongo Rhodes Scholars?
They gonna revoke all them roads scholar certs? And insanity ensued.
What about Fulbright?
Long Live Rhodesia
Washington and Jefferson - for that matter all the Founding Fathers - will be vanquished from all public statuary, spaces, names and money in your/our lifetimes if you are Boomers.
Next year: the Redskins become the Kneetakers.
Oxford can burn itself down and plow under the ashes for all I care
Too bad Rhodes can’t take his money back.
Yale University was named after a slave-trader:
Elihu Yale (5 April 1649 – 8 July 1721) was an American born British merchant, slave trader, President of the East India Company settlement in Fort St. George, at Madras, and a benefactor of the Collegiate School in the Colony of Connecticut, which in 1718 was renamed Yale College in his honor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elihu_Yale
Soon they will going after the Constitution. It was signed by a bunch of white slave owners.
I think this is why this has been started.
it’s not police that need defunding and cleared out.......it’s all Universities need defunding and fire every single professor.......clean slate the entire failed system they’ve made of higher education.
Elihu Yale appears to be another rotter. His history is not pure, for sure.
And our esteemed ex president, Clinton, is a Rhodes scholar, named for this same Rhodes.
Get rid of the college, keep the statue!
Incarcerate all Rhodes Scholars! (good idea)
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