The war on statues: Cecil Rhodes edition | #PollyBites

Statues have become a thing. They’re having a moment. Statues of racists that is.

Polly went to the #RhodesMustFall protest in Oxford, to find out why some are so keen to see the pulling down of a Victorian imperialist who had a whole African country named after him, called being English like winning the lottery, and left blood diamond money to fund a scholarship for among others, Bill Clinton.

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