UCT and Rhodes: removing statues, dismantling colonial legacies - commentsUCT and Rhodes: removing statues, dismantling colonial legacies2015-04-18T05:44:29Zhttps://www.equaltimes.org/uct-and-rhodes-removing-statues#comment965802015-04-18T05:44:29Z<p>The more important narrative is not only ‘white man's burden' narrative.</p>
<p>There are much more important narratives historically and currently such as the xenophobic riots and killings in South Africa, which is black against black and the narrative that seems to have escaped many journalists, that without tribal intermediaries selling their own people like commodities there would not have been slavery and the feudal descendants of those chiefs that sold their people are the current elite in the African countries.</p>UCT and Rhodes: removing statues, dismantling colonial legacies2015-04-18T05:38:46Zhttps://www.equaltimes.org/uct-and-rhodes-removing-statues#comment965792015-04-18T05:38:46Z<p>That's all fine but is there not just fashion in certain protests?<br class="autobr" />
What about the 'cast system' in India or the feudal system still complicating African's lives in Africa or many other causes that are as bad, if not worse, than just Rhodes?</p>