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Oxford wants to remove college, Rhodes statue

Jun 9,2020 8:10 pm

The protesters are calling for an Oxford College , The Statue of Cecil Rhodes

Oriel College , Oxford, has announced that she wants to be like the controversial articles of incorporation of Cecil Rhodes . be removed

The President of the Oxford University college voted on Wednesday to remove The Statue of Victorian colonial.

activists have called for The Statue to be removed - say, it was a symbol of imperialism and racism.

The college also says to start, you want an independent investigation into The Legacy of Cecil Rhodes .

The removal is not to be expected that it says immediately, as the college, it consultation on the planning regulations need to.

Earlier on Wednesday, the universities minister, had spoken against the calls to remove The Statue .

Michelle Donelan said it would be "short-sighted" to try "our history rewrite", to say that we should not censor try to "or edit" of The Past .

"I want to be really clear that racism is abhorrent and should not be tolerated anywhere in our society, and this also applies to the universities," she said, a Higher Education Policy Institute event.

But Ms Donelan said she was against the renaming of the building, named after the 19Th Century statesman, William Gladstone , or the removal of Rhodes statue.

the protesters in Oxford have The Statue removed, Saying that it represented imperialist values, which are no longer acceptable.

last week, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University, Louise Richardson , warned to hide "" history, rather than confrontation with the values of people in The Past .

The decision on the fate of The Statue is the University of the University rather than the.

But the Prof Richardson said that she regretted that a plaque put Rhodes statue in its historical context, you had been not added, as previously proposed.



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Source of news: bbc.com

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