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GeoWilliam750

(2,522 posts) Wed Nov 22, 2017, 12:15 AM Nov 2017

10 African Americans Win 2018 Rhodes Scholarships, Most Ever in Rhodes History

https://goodblacknews.org/2017/11/20/10-african-americans-win-2018-rhodes-scholarships-most-ever-in-rhodes-history/

"The latest group of U.S. Rhodes scholars includes 10 African Americans — the most ever in a single Rhodes class — as well as a transgender man and four students from colleges that had never had received the honor before.

The Rhodes Trust on Sunday announced the 32 men and women chosen for post-graduate studies at Oxford University in England. Among them: the first black woman to lead the Corps of Cadets at West Point; a wrestler at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who’s helping develop a prosthetic knee for use in the developing world; and a Portland, Oregon, man who has studied gaps in his hometown’s “sanctuary city” policy protecting immigrants in the country illegally from deportation."

More on Cadet Askew here:

https://goodblacknews.org/2017/08/03/simone-askew-selected-1st-captain-of-corps-of-cadets-at-west-point/
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I really, really look forward to watching Cadet Askew's career. First Captain at West Point, and now a Rhodes Scholar. Leadership, ability, brains, motivation, persistence.

Wow! Just, wow!!!

Congratulations to them all!!!!!

Brava! Bravo!

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10 African Americans Win 2018 Rhodes Scholarships, Most Ever in Rhodes History (Original Post) GeoWilliam750 Nov 2017 OP

I read that the other day. sheshe2 Nov 2017 #1

Thanx for some good news - NT The Polack MSgt Nov 2017 #2

Ah, the irony ... eppur_se_muova Nov 2017 #3

sheshe2

(83,791 posts)

1. I read that the other day.

Reply to GeoWilliam750 (Original post)

Wed Nov 22, 2017, 12:23 AM

Nov 2017

Awesome achievement, bravo and brava.

Thanks for posting the news, Geo.

The Polack MSgt

(13,190 posts)

2. Thanx for some good news - NT

Reply to GeoWilliam750 (Original post)

Wed Nov 22, 2017, 10:08 AM

Nov 2017

eppur_se_muova

(36,269 posts)

3. Ah, the irony ...

Reply to GeoWilliam750 (Original post)

Wed Nov 22, 2017, 11:05 AM

Nov 2017

Rhodes' detractors see him as a racist, and one of the people who helped prepare the way for apartheid by working to alter laws on voting and land ownership. In Zimbabwe, there are still calls to have Rhodes's remains moved to the UK, where he was born.
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It's clear that Rhodes thought of the English as a "master race".

"I contend that we are the first race in the world, and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race," he once said. His famous desire was to be able to draw a "red line" from Cairo to Cape Town, building a railway across the entire continent of Africa without ever leaving British territory.

Rhodes wanted to create an international movement to extend British influence.

"Why should we not form a secret society with but one object," he once said, "the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire?"
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more: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32131829

Rhodes left a bequest with the hope of doing good in the world. But the administrators of that bequest have faced the fact that the definition of 'good' has changed since Rhodes' day.

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