Oxford University...Last Bastion of Logic and Common Sense? BLM Causing Statuary Problems Again.
Chancellor Lord Patten of Oxford says: "If all the problems associated with Cecil Rhodes history…if it was alright for Mandela then I have to say it’s pretty well alright for me."
Black Lives Matter activists are now trying to topple the statue of Cecil Rhodes, stating that he was an imperialist. Cecil Rhodes was a British mining engineer who pushed the British Empire to seize control of vast areas of South Africa...for obvious reasons.
"Lord Patten said: "Four years ago I said the Rhodes Trust was doing fantastically good work and I did that on the basis of having stood alongside Nelson Mandela at a conference with Tony Blair and Bill Clinton in 2003 at which he said how strongly he supported the trust.
"He then set up the Mandela Rhodes Trust to help heal the divisions.
"He went through all the preamble of the South African Constitution to highlight his point and, finishing to sign the agreement between the Mandela Trust and Rhodes, he said looking at a photograph of Cecil Rhodes, ‘Cecil, you and I are going to have to work together now.’
"If all the problems associated with Cecil Rhodes history…if it was alright for Mandela then I have to say it’s pretty well alright for me.""
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1293797/Oxford-University-news-Cecil-Rhodes-statue-protest-BLM-Lord-Patten-latest
Black Lives Matter activists are now trying to topple the statue of Cecil Rhodes, stating that he was an imperialist. Cecil Rhodes was a British mining engineer who pushed the British Empire to seize control of vast areas of South Africa...for obvious reasons.
"Lord Patten said: "Four years ago I said the Rhodes Trust was doing fantastically good work and I did that on the basis of having stood alongside Nelson Mandela at a conference with Tony Blair and Bill Clinton in 2003 at which he said how strongly he supported the trust.
"He then set up the Mandela Rhodes Trust to help heal the divisions.
"He went through all the preamble of the South African Constitution to highlight his point and, finishing to sign the agreement between the Mandela Trust and Rhodes, he said looking at a photograph of Cecil Rhodes, ‘Cecil, you and I are going to have to work together now.’
"If all the problems associated with Cecil Rhodes history…if it was alright for Mandela then I have to say it’s pretty well alright for me.""
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1293797/Oxford-University-news-Cecil-Rhodes-statue-protest-BLM-Lord-Patten-latest
