The Oxford students maintain a point. We carry out need to acknowledge the pain caused by empireRhodes Must Fall has failed. Rhodes Must Fall has succeeded. The statue tall up on the wall of a college building on the tall Street in Oxford will not be removed,instead receding into its former pigeon-spattered obscurity. But the student protest movement has sparked a valuable debate about how Britain deals with its colonial past. I reflect both these results are good ones.
It was a brilliant stroke of student activism to identify that obscure statue as the target. Every newspaper could print photographs of the honeystone facade in which it stands, looking Brideshead Revisited-cliché Oxford. Dave Spart biffs Evelyn Waugh. Related: Topple the Cecil Rhodes statue? Better to rebrand him a war criminal | David Olusoga Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com