"A mining magnate, Rhodes was a central figure in Britain’s colonial project in southern Africa, giving his name to Rhodesia, present-day Zimbabwe, and founding the De Beers diamond empire.
He made his fortune from the exploitation of African miners, secured power through bloody imperial wars and paved the way to apartheid with his beliefs and measures on racial segregation."
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-minneapolis-police-protests-britain-r/rhodes-must-fall-oxford-protesters-target-statue-of-colonialist-idUSKBN23G2CF
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"One of Rhodes's primary motivations in politics and business was his professed belief that the Anglo-Saxon race was, to quote his will, "the first race in the world". Under the reasoning that "the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race""
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Rhodes
Cecil Rhodes "colonialism" is an euphemism for his bigoted white supremacist ideology, which also applied to WOMEN of any and all race and/or color.
"The Rhodes Scholarship was originally, as per the language used in Rhodes's will, open only to "male students". That stipulation would not change until 1977"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodes_Scholarship
" Rhodes's scholarships intentionally excluded women and Africans, and those stipulations were followed carefully in the implementation[66] Nothing in the will or in any of Rhodes' other writings suggests his desire to educate non-Europeans. I
n fact, the four South African schools named by Rhodes only admitted whites, and would not open their doors to black Africans until the end of apartheid in the early 1990s.
Beginning in 1970, scholars began protesting against the fact that all Rhodes Scholars from southern Africa were white, with 120 Oxford dons and 80 of the 145 Rhodes Scholars in residence at the time signing a petition calling for non-white scholars to be elected in 1971"
"Public criticism of the scholarship has also focused on Cecil Rhodes's white supremacist views. For example, in 1966, regional committees in interviews asked a white American candidate to assure them he would not publicly belittle the scholarship after he referred to its founding on "blood money".[67]:238 "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rhodes_Scholars
Biden doesn't need GW Bush's endorsement any more than Biden needs Karl Rove Willie Horton or a million dead Iraqis and ten thousand DEAD US G.I.'s pointing toward GITMO and all the continuity of the 2000 Florida FRAUD that Democrats allowed again with Trump in 2016
Bush wiping his hand on Bill Clinton's back after shaking the hand of a Haitian is just what Touchy Feely Joe can do without
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