Rhodes Scholar and Duke University senior Jamal T. Burns
The wealthy industrialist Cecil Rhodes was an uber-racist whoâin an 1877 paperâasserted that it would be better for native Africans to be under the heel of British rule.
According to a recent story in
The South African newspaper, Rhodes wrote in 1877: âI contend that we [white Englishmen] are the first race in the world, and that more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. Just fancy these parts that are at present inhabited by the most despicable specimen of human being, what an alteration there would be in them if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence.â
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