Rhodes must fall - and please don't call the students who are protesting against his presence 'coddled' | Stop xenophobia | Scoop.it

“I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race,” said Cecil Rhodes, in 1877. The businessman and politician was a white supremacist, British imperialist and arguably the architect of apartheid with the Glen Grey act of 1894. Rhodes’ crimes were numerous and rarely disputed today, but his memory tells us that money talks: whether through the Rhodes scholarships at Oxford, or the statues that remain across the globe, his legacy is pervasive.