<p>I may be putting this thread in the wrong place but I just have to get it out somewhere. </p>
<p>I may be the millionth person to have found something wrong with this, but the Rhodes Scholarship is named after and paid for through the will of Cecil Rhodes, a slave trading imperialist. So it is basically a scholarship set up to send bright students to England to learn to be racists and follow through with the ultimate plans of Cecil Rhodes. Don't accept a Rhodes Scholarship!!!</p>
<p>While it is important to recognize and understand the origin of things, to carry on outdated boycotts of modern organizations based on the sins of their founders in centuries past is pointless.</p>
<p>To begin with, Rhodes is hardly alone in being originally funded by money from unsavory sources. Brown University was founded with money from the trans-Atlantic triangle slave trade. And most of the rest of the Ivy schools have ties to slavery to one degree or another as well. The Rutgers family amassed their fortune in large part by the exploitation of black slaves and white tenants on their land holdings. Leland Stanford was a rapacious businessman who was one of the infamous California “Robber Barons.” And Duke Univ. was founded with millions of nicotine-stained dollars from the tobacco business. Many of the Founding Fathers of the US owned and bought and sold slaves. The list goes on and on. Should Pres. Obama refuse to live in the White House because it was constructed using slave labor? Get real.</p>
<p>I’ll never accept a Nobel Prize either.</p>
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<p>Cecil Rhodes was indeed an imperialist (like Disraeli or Churchill for example), but I doubt he was a slave trader. Rhodes was actually ** born ** in 1853, i.e. long after slave trade and slavery itself had been outlawed in the British empire (respectively, 1807 and 1833).</p>
<p>^^Right, but to winterman’s point, Rhodes made extensive use of forced labor in Africa to further his diamond mining operations. Slavery may have been illegal in Europe, but that didn’t slow him up much in Africa.</p>
<p>There are a couple important things to add to my argument. The Cecil Rhodes Scholarship is still paid for by the money Rhodes made while he was alive, unlike a University which is now funded by tuition and endowments. He personally put money aside to fund scholarships and that money is still being used.
Also, the entire scholarship program was set up for white domination, he specifically wanted to recruit students in order to create a little army of white racist imperialists to control the world.
The point I’m trying to make it not to boycott it because of its origins, it should be boycotted because it is designed to make you into a mini-Cecil Rhodes, who, regardless of the time period, was an evil dude.</p>
<p>…except Rhodes Scholars don’t take classes in racism. And that lots of not white people have been Rhodes scholars.</p>
<p>Winterman is a ■■■■■.</p>
<p>cecil rhodes is the ■■■■■ my friend</p>
<p>And no. there aren’t any classes on racism, these people usually learn racism after college. These are the type of people working for the GMF or World Bank who create policies which lead to the starvation of millions of people in places like Bolivia in Brasil becaus they think Europeans are more important that South Americans. </p>
<p>Yes, its hard to accept, but there are really bad people working at the top of the global economy and there probably is a connection with these people and the higher education system. </p>
<p>But I guess that makes me a ■■■■■ huh? trying to start a conversation about how history may have had some affect on the world today?</p>
<p>me thinks winterman got rejected from the rhodes scholarship</p>
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<p>He set up a trust in his will and the scholarships are paid off the investment earnings from his estate. Just like the Nobel prizes and very similar to a university endowment.</p>
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<p>In that case he failed miserably. The Rhodes scholars I personally know are some least racist people you can imagine. </p>
<p>Naomi Wolf, Bill Bradley, Kris Kristoferson, David Souter, Bill Clinton, Pat Haden, George Stephanopolis - Rhodes scholars all. Not exactly a roll call at a meeting of the KKK. You are barking up the wrong tree with this conspiracy theory nonsense.</p>