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them on Instagram at Black History Studies. All Right. I know we normally talk about stuff in the United States, but I feel like this is important and relevant because for those familiar with Rhodes scholars I want you to know the history behind this. So I'll read British colonizer Cecil Rhods came to Southern Africa. Rhodes was an ideological colonizer. He believed in British imperialism and promoted it. He said, quote to prevent civil war, you must become an imperialist quote.
He created the Rhodes Scholarship. His goal was to install British imperialism from Cape Town to Cairo and build the Cape Cairo Railway. His vision was part of the British Empire, on which they boasted the sun never set because it went all around the world. Cecil Roads was a perpetrator of genocide, responsible for the displacement of millions of African people for the benefit of white settlers and enslavement of
African people on their own land. White people came from Europe and became wealthy from the theft of the gold and diamonds in Southern Africa. Cecil Rhodes founded Dubier's Diamond Cartil You ever heard of Deber's, Ah, yes, okay, that's this guy all right. Rhodes went to South Africa from Britain when he was eighteen years old and he took over the diamond mines at Kimberly, South Africa and others in the area. By his early twenties he was a millionaire.
This is a millionaire back in the day, by the way, but he did not retire. He believed in subjugating Africa for the benefit of England. Rhodes went to Zimbabwe, the land of the Matabele and Shona, who launched fierce resistance led by their leader Labengulaads paid a mercenary army from England and stocked them with maximum machine guns. With just five machine guns, the English slaughtered five thousand African people in one afternoon alone, and then they celebrated with dinner
and Champagne. Every black child in grade school is taught Adolf Hitler killed six million Jews and this is the worst human being that ever lived. On the other hand, our children are taught the right honorable Cecil Roads, the founder of the De Beer diamond company in South Africa, who killed ten times that number of Africans, is a
hero in a statement. And if they study hard and do well in school, they may be eligible to win Rhodes Scholarship, the oldest and most celebrated international fellowship award in the world. They don't mention the scholarships are paid for with the blood of their ancestors. And there's another little blurb I want to read here too, which is actually, you know, we can skip over that because we don't have a lot of time anyway. What I want to
do is explain why that was important. I think, on the heels of that monopoly thought experiment that we had, it's important for us to consider the real world examples of that and the implications of that, because what happens is there's an individual who not only makes a lot of money for himself, but all the people around him are able to make money too, off of the backs of black people. Right in Africa is a very very
potent land. So you have this theft of really the globe's resources from Africa, enriching individuals like him and all of his cronies. Then they passed that along to their
children and so forth and so on. Right and even if there are white people who didn't inherit money, they did come into a world built in the likeness and image of people like this man to where they got a better shot at getting a story like that for themselves than people who historically have been subjugated and slaughtered by machine guns in an afternoon and then later people are drinking champagne. So some food for thought for you.