tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539143661013247342.post9198642366381683645..comments2023-05-05T03:31:22.968-07:00Comments on Emlyn Pearce: If We Value Education, Rhodes Must FallAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08752061871509056639noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539143661013247342.post-72706926802705256472016-12-21T20:44:32.930-08:002016-12-21T20:44:32.930-08:00Thanks i like your blog very much , i come back mo...Thanks i like your blog very much , i come back most days to find new posts like this!Good effort.I learnt it<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.martinvermaak.com/home/servicedetails?kid=bGI=&title=Commercial%20Litigation" rel="nofollow">Commercial attorneys in Pretoria</a><br /><br /><br />Anatswanashehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15911780577748669970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539143661013247342.post-77797680365788656512016-07-05T03:42:30.300-07:002016-07-05T03:42:30.300-07:00Thank you for this piece Elmyn.Thank you for this piece Elmyn.Toxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17504134218966584871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539143661013247342.post-50626945684640893542016-05-18T04:19:08.875-07:002016-05-18T04:19:08.875-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Offended Facebook commentator.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16975956164081805572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539143661013247342.post-6746587652372950982016-03-28T01:35:10.177-07:002016-03-28T01:35:10.177-07:00My family was mostly extremely racist when I was g...My family was mostly extremely racist when I was growing up. I am not a racist and never have been - he shouldn't be accepted as is simply because of his environment. We are all able to make our own choices and we all know deep down when something is just wrong!<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02513266941233031172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539143661013247342.post-30733893434458755542016-03-14T03:11:50.153-07:002016-03-14T03:11:50.153-07:00This idea that 'it was acceptable in his socie...This idea that 'it was acceptable in his society' is incorrect. From the age of 18 Cecil Rhodes lived in Southern Africa, and most people in his society were black Africans. It may be that his white supremacy was common among many of his peers (just as prejudice was common to Germans in the 1930s and Serbs in the 1990s) but racism certainly wasn't acceptable to the black Africans whose right to vote and own land was taken by Rhodes. When you refer to 'the accepted knowledge of the age', you are referring only to the accepted knowledge of white colonials, and have casually disregarded the accepted knowledge of black people. It is incredible how easily we still disregard the view of people of colour in our reading of history, and a powerful example of how Rhodes' views are still painfully current.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08752061871509056639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539143661013247342.post-82118503129388656422016-03-13T15:17:51.559-07:002016-03-13T15:17:51.559-07:00Arguably Cecil Rhodes was a man of his time a time...Arguably Cecil Rhodes was a man of his time a time when racism was entrenched and viewed by pretty much everyone of his race as the natural order of things. It was not his fault he was racist, from childhood the sense of superiority felt would have been indoctrinated. It was an indoctrinated sense of superiority that was shared by his whole society.<br /><br />He may have been foundational in the implementation of apartheid but he was in all likelihood no more or less racist than many of his contemporaries.<br /><br />There many statues of racists from that time in history, in fact most statues of white men from before the 20th century are statues of racists. Should they all come down for failing to go against the accepted knowledge of their age?<br /><br />I have only been following your blog for a few weeks and this is the first time I've not been entirely in agreement with your on of your posts.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12819874538110565825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8539143661013247342.post-25599903517962922882016-03-13T13:51:49.483-07:002016-03-13T13:51:49.483-07:00I thought you might like to read:- Jim Rigby Faceb...I thought you might like to read:- Jim Rigby Facebook post)<br />Yesterday at 07:36 ·<br /><br />RACISM ISN’T JUST A FEELING<br /><br />Racism isn't merely a feeling of dislike for other races. Racism is a system of oppression that is most entrenched when people don’t feel it as hatred, but more as a vague and unexamined sense of superiority.<br /><br />Conversations about who is or isn’t racist, can miss the point that racism in the United States has always been less about hatred and more about economic exploitation. Many slaveholders believed they loved their slaves, but it was the love one has for possessions or animals, not human beings.<br /><br />The Trump campaign may seem to have made white supremacy more pronounced, but they have only made it more obvious. Here are some of the facts many white people have been are ignoring:<br /><br />In 2010, the median wealth of white households was 8 times the median wealth of black households according to the Pew Research Center (I don’t have the figures for other racial minorities). In three years that gap had grown to where white households held 13 times the median wealth of black households. By 2015, according to Forbes Magazine, the gap had grown to where a white household held 16 times the median wealth of black households. Between 2010 and 2013 the median wealth of white households increased by 2.4% while the median wealth of black households fell by a third. In other words, many people of color in the United States have been experiencing an economic free fall, while economic elites have been raking in record profits.<br /><br />White supremacy also shows up in home ownership. 73% of whites own a home compared to 45% of blacks and 47% of Latina or Latinos. The median house of a white home owner is worth $85,000, whereas houses of black home owners average $50,000, and $48,000 for Latina and Latino homeowners. Mortgages to people of color tend to have higher interest rates. Wells Fargo admitted as recently as 2012 that they steered people of color toward subprime mortgages and white people (with similar credit ratings) to prime mortgages. Not even college lifts people of color above race based economics. A median white person experiences a return of $55,869 from a college degree whereas a black graduate experiences $4,846 and a Latina or Latino graduate experiences $4,191 return on investment.<br /><br />Most white people are highly offended by the race baiting of the Trump campaign, but Trump is just the tip of the iceberg. Racism isn’t just about a feeling. For most white people, racism shows up, not as a feeling of hatred, but as defensiveness to the whole topic of race, and, more importantly, as an unwillingness to dismantle the system that gives us unearned privilege.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10266972567204395715noreply@blogger.com