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  • This Letter From Someone At Oxford University To The Rhodes Must Fall Movement Is Going Viral

    14 Apr 2016 by Sloane Hunter in Education, Opinion, South Africa, United Kingdom
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    Whether or not it’s true, a constituent college of Oxford University, Oriel College, has penned a letter that is doing the rounds.

    The letter is addressed to black students who are attending Oxford as Rhodes scholars, and are requesting to remove the statue of the Oxford benefactor Cecil Rhodes.

    While the rebuttal may hold some key points in its argument against the removal of the statue in the square behind Oriel College, its language, assumptions and demeaning rhetoric makes it obsolete in the Rhodes Must Fall conversation.

    The author manages to promote his distaste for Africa’s contribution to the world we live in today, as if it’s just another logical argument.

    I doubt this is from the college itself, and highly suspect that it has been penned by the website’s author, Jeffrey Bennett, whose mission when writing is “Less Politeness, More Forthrightness”.

    Dear Scrotty Students,

    Cecil Rhodes’s generous bequest has contributed greatly to the comfort and well being of many generations of Oxford students – a good many of them, dare we say it, better, brighter and more deserving than you.

    This does not necessarily mean we approve of everything Rhodes did in his lifetime – but then we don’t have to. Cecil Rhodes died over a century ago. Autres temps, autres moeurs. If you don’t understand what this means – and it would not remotely surprise us if that were the case – then we really think you should ask yourself the question: “Why am I at Oxford?”

    Oxford, let us remind you, is the world’s second oldest extant university. Scholars have been studying here since at least the 11th century. We’ve played a major part in the invention of Western civilisation, from the 12th century intellectual renaissance through the Enlightenment and beyond. Our alumni include William of Ockham, Roger Bacon, William Tyndale, John Donne, Sir Walter Raleigh, Erasmus, Sir Christopher Wren, William Penn, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), Samuel Johnson, Robert Hooke, William Morris, Oscar Wilde, Emily Davison, Cardinal Newman, Julie Cocks. We’re a big deal. And most of the people privileged to come and study here are conscious of what a big deal we are. Oxford is their alma mater – their dear mother – and they respect and revere her accordingly.

    And what were your ancestors doing in that period? Living in mud huts, mainly. Sure we’ll concede you the short lived Southern African civilisation of Great Zimbabwe. But let’s be brutally honest here. The contribution of the Bantu tribes to modern civilisation has been as near as damn it to zilch.

    And who are you, anyway, to be lecturing Oxford University on how it should order its affairs? Your #rhodesmustfall campaign, we understand, originates in South Africa and was initiated by a black activist who told one of his lecturers “whites have to be killed”. One of you – Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh – is the privileged son of a rich politician and a member of a party whose slogan is “Kill the Boer; Kill the Farmer”; another of you, Ntokozo Qwabe, who is only in Oxford as a beneficiary of a Rhodes scholarship, has boasted about the need for “socially conscious black students” to “dominate white universities, and do so ruthlessly and decisively!

    Great. That’s just what Oxford University needs. Some cultural enrichment from the land of Winnie Mandela, burning tyre necklaces, an AIDS epidemic almost entirely the result of government indifference and ignorance, one of the world’s highest per capita murder rates, institutionalised corruption, tribal politics, anti-white racism and a collapsing economy. Please name which of the above items you think will enhance the lives of the 22,000 students studying here at Oxford.

    Understand us and understand this clearly: you have everything to learn from us; we have nothing to learn from you.

    Yours,
    Oriel College, Oxford

    Vom.

    Read the full letter HERE.

    Thanks, Stuart.

    [source: federalobserver]

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