God Bless Cecil Rhodes

Over at No Pasaran, a victory in the culture wars for common sense:

Panicked Oxford Cancels “Completely Barking” Mad Decision to Remove Rhodes Statue After Alumni Threaten to Withdraw Millions

Cecil Rhodes founded a relatively benign colonial state that produced diamonds and was a net exporter of food.  Oh, by the way, he founded a scholarship program which specifically forbade racial qualifications.

I've said before that Africa is filled with crap-hole nations. One of my favorite units to teach is about post-colonial Africa and the HW assignment is finding two tin-pot, whack-job dictators and doing a write-up on them.

The list is broad and deep, Amin, Nkruma, Mengitsu, Mugabe, Mobuto, and on and on.

By 1980 not one African country had had a peaceful transition of power and the continent had bee torn apart by war. These include Congo, Angola, Rhodesia, Chad, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Mozambique and on and on.

So, you don't lie Cecil Rhodes? Name one African dictator who was a better ruler. One. You can't.

Colonialism's legacy? What a bunch of bull. Plenty of places were colonies that don't change governments via machete and Ak-47, take India for example, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, even South Africa.

The damn blighted continent was better off under the likes of Rhodes than Mugabe. And God bless Ian Smith too.