decided not to remove the statue in High Street in 2016It denied claims previously that donors threatened to withdraw more than £100m of funding if the statue was removed.
"failed to address its institutional racism" and set out a series of demands to"make upholding anti-racist values a reality". Layla Moran, the Liberal Democrat Oxford West and Abingdon MP, said the Rhodes statue"must come down" but said she did not endorse"vigilante action". Born the son of a vicar in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, in 1853, he first went to Africa at the age of 17; grew cotton with his brother in Natal, but moved into diamond mining, founding De Beers, which until recently controlled the global trade
Removing his statue doesn't Change what he did. What's going to happen to his SCHOLARSHIP which educates a lot of people?
Don't remove any statutes or any moments this is the way I always learn about a city town or places history, it's much more interesting, those slavery days are not gone yet still there's human trafficking around the world. No point removing them
People kept saying getting rid of statue is deleting history, we don’t see Hitler statues anywhere but have we forgotten the history? no. So stop this illogical thinking!
This week I learnt that we still have statues up to slave traders and colonists in public spaces. Why so? We have museums for historical artefacts.
The only thing to have survived colonialism is the monarchy
. Seems the BBC have been taken in by this new wave of mass hysteria from America. Dear America. Would you please not visit your mess upon us. We are just recovering from one viral plague, & now you send us this new black plague of hatred upon us. Clean your own mess up.
Why do you describe him as 'the imperialist Cecil Rhodes'. You don't see you are leading the debate. You just said 'the Slaver Sir Francis Drake'. Drake was many other things.
It’s not up to an council is it these are the property of the people. Not of any council are they not Where the —-is Boris is he doing a rip van winkle
Zimbabwe, where Rhodes is buried & another of his statue stands tall outside a popular museum. Not that we forgot the grand theft, brutality, rapes, killings, etc.
Anti-racism critic councillors?
No ask your constituants anx call a vote this is not Russia
Ridiculous
It’s the beginning of the end. Give it 10-20 year and it will be all memorials related to predominantly white events, good or bad and including War Memorials.
howfarbackdoyouwanttogo roman slavery invasion genocide oppression religion
They should remove the protective net and let the pigeons deal with it in an environmentally friendly manner
History is painful and beautiful and the whole world has difficulties with history! As long as we learn and improve from the lessons of our past the future will be better.
After votes,its history and should stay
Bandwagon rolling through. Let's all get on it to prove we are not racist. Don't mention you have black friends either as this makes you a super racist trying not to be seen to be a racist.
God forbid no man affront his neighbours nor oppress the meek, it is His Land, His Creation, yet greed torn the hearts of His Creation. 'No Oxford/Cambridge, or any Monarchy can Dictate Freedom', for dictating freedom means dictating GOD's LAW, He has seen enough oppression.
It's part of history. It can't be erased. It's that simple. Yes, some parts were not good but we won't learn not to repeat it if we don't learn about it.
They didn’t want this removing the other week ?
Fully backed by the BBC no doubt it’s history 🙄history we learn from our mistakes and reform removing it will be a mistake like we don’t behead people anymore or hang people
Removing statues removing British history we are turning into isAs
Removing the statues completely might be counterproductive. Could education be the key in reconciling 🇬🇧 racist, colonial past? Liverpool, for instance are putting up plaques describing the city’s role in slavery, in streets named after slave owners.
I thought these Universities were supposed to be all tolerant and liberally minded .
I suppose the Rhodes scholarships will have to go too!
If this goes down, some heroic Englishmen should take down the statue of a certain South African terrorist, bus bomber, and necklacer.
pritipatel i hope you are ready for this one. We can’t have a repeat of Sunday.
Will they also reject the Rhodes Scholarships and repay previous bursaries? Just wondered
Hmm funny how these never bothered the masses prior to last week, lots of things bother me but I don't request they are pulled down, I'm mature enough to understand why they are there and accept it.
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Very worried where all this is leading. Starts with statues..then what? The majority of people would be against this, but as usual, the loud, shouty, entitled, purpled haired,middle class vegans have a paddy and we all have to bow down to them
Oxbridge is so important symbolically to the Orcs. They must turn it into an inner city 6th form college ASAP. Expect even more spiteful mutants running the show over there. They’ll take out Rhodes then move onto the other dead white men. Average IQs at Oxbridge fall every year
Removal of a statute is symbolic. We need real lasting systematic change that will improve people's lives.
Oh please! Shall we also ban the use of the term “British Empire”? Learn from the past; erasing it does nothing
The whole thing is getting beyond a joke now. Why not build a time machine de-colonise history and be done with it... We did wrong, now teach the correct way to do things. Erasing the past doesn't fix it...
From Oxford city councillors this doesn’t surprise me in the least.
If your not happy living in this country f**k off
Calls grow for the removal of a statue of terrorist Nelson Mandela from Parliament Square. Mandela sanctioned the 'necklacing' or 'burning alive' of many black South Africans
And will the BBC be removing theirs?
What about the Rhodes Scholarship, should you make everyone pay back the money that they benefited from
When Will it stop ? All road signs ? Do we now year down religious establishment they have oppressed/abused/corrupted millions. Do we change the names of all the areas who benefited from these peoples wealth ,Now seen as dirty money went into hospitals,schools do we ask 1\\2
Were they elected on manifestos advocating to erase British history?
The left in full swing this morning it seems, but come a general election the people will turn their backs on the left even more so. Racism is vile but the efforts by the left to try and use this to their political advantage will backfire. More harm than good will come ftom this
So we are back to the statue thing. It didn’t bother anyone last month... But today it’s sheds a different light.
Pathetic
This Is ridiculous
Whether people like it or not these are historical statues and part of your heritage..I'm Irish and here in Dublin there are lots of leftovers from British occupation but couldn't ever think of them torn down with the exception of Nelson's column Haha ( was blown up 1966 )😂
Why don’t you remove the pedo statue on the BBC building 🤔
When does this peado come down outside the BBC hypocrites
They going to pull down half of London next, I'm sure the 99.9% of rioters who didn't have a clue who this guy was are brushing up on their history this very minute.
Err we go! Can we not just make new statues of new age people that have achieved?!
Remove before it is torn down.Who will be next statue?
Hope they also stop taking any of his money
Make them a political party and see who main stream media sides with labour or BLM.
OxfordCity and then when the Rhodes Foundation remove their scholarship programme? Bet you won't demolish the building his money paid for though.... hypocrites.
Remove but do not lock away. Monuments are there to remember the past, both good and bad. Erasing history will lead to its repetition.
“Siri, what does weak leadership look like?”
It is just relentless...And we are only at the beginning of this nightmare. ReignOfTerror
Romans colonised Britain and took slaves, will their history be removed.
Let's get rid of all British history to keep PC brigade happy. While we're there we might as well get rid of all faiths as that has caused a lot of problems since the birth of Christ.
We cannot delete history, we can only learn from it. Removing his statue will not change anything. Slavery was monstrous, but in his epoch it was a trend. If we have to blame people for following trends then today's youth are triple guilty.
Christ alive, next it’ll be statues of Caesar.
Labour are screwed. They know they are screwed and now all they have left is violence and destruction. They are starting to show their true colours now.
Remove the scholarship as well then
police brutally has been around since the first police force was funded ....fact Between 2003-2010; 42% death in police custody were white, 32% were black and 20 % Hispanic In this period 40% of violent crimes were committed by blacks which only state for 12% of population.
DefundTheBBC
英国也和美国一样混乱打砸抢拆除历史雕塑，是不是下一步冲进大英博物馆开始焚毁文物，从市长到首相和媒体都沉默，这是一个什么现象？
Grow up.
Jeez..hope its kicked into long grass.
Why not knock down Oxford university?, rebuild it in some kind of less historical imperial, neo-classic style, its clearly a temple to the elite, slavery and white privilege.
If we’re meant to be learning from the past, why are we trying to erase it instead?
Another attempt to rewrite history! If you keep one eye on the past, you are blind in one eye, but if you forget the past, you are blind in both eyes!
Give him a dunking!
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