WEBVTT - 123023 Way Black History Fact  - Cecil Rhodes

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<v Speaker 1>All right, it's time for the Way Black History Fact.

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<v Speaker 1>sharing a bit from Black History Studies. You can find

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<v Speaker 1>them on Instagram at Black History Studies. All Right. I

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<v Speaker 1>know we normally talk about stuff in the United States,

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<v Speaker 1>but I feel like this is important and relevant because

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<v Speaker 1>for those familiar with Rhodes scholars I want you to

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<v Speaker 1>know the history behind this. So I'll read British colonizer

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<v Speaker 1>Cecil Rhods came to Southern Africa. Rhodes was an ideological colonizer.

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<v Speaker 1>He believed in British imperialism and promoted it. He said,

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<v Speaker 1>quote to prevent civil war, you must become an imperialist quote.

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<v Speaker 1>He created the Rhodes Scholarship. His goal was to install

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<v Speaker 1>British imperialism from Cape Town to Cairo and build the

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<v Speaker 1>Cape Cairo Railway. His vision was part of the British Empire,

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<v Speaker 1>on which they boasted the sun never set because it

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<v Speaker 1>went all around the world. Cecil Roads was a perpetrator

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<v Speaker 1>of genocide, responsible for the displacement of millions of African

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<v Speaker 1>people for the benefit of white settlers and enslavement of

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<v Speaker 1>African people on their own land. White people came from

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<v Speaker 1>Europe and became wealthy from the theft of the gold

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<v Speaker 1>and diamonds in Southern Africa. Cecil Rhodes founded Dubier's Diamond

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<v Speaker 1>Cartil You ever heard of Deber's, Ah, yes, okay, that's

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<v Speaker 1>this guy all right. Rhodes went to South Africa from

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<v Speaker 1>Britain when he was eighteen years old and he took

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<v Speaker 1>over the diamond mines at Kimberly, South Africa and others

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<v Speaker 1>in the area. By his early twenties he was a millionaire.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a millionaire back in the day, by the way,

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<v Speaker 1>but he did not retire. He believed in subjugating Africa

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<v Speaker 1>for the benefit of England. Rhodes went to Zimbabwe, the

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<v Speaker 1>land of the Matabele and Shona, who launched fierce resistance

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<v Speaker 1>led by their leader Labengulaads paid a mercenary army from

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<v Speaker 1>England and stocked them with maximum machine guns. With just

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<v Speaker 1>five machine guns, the English slaughtered five thousand African people

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<v Speaker 1>in one afternoon alone, and then they celebrated with dinner

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<v Speaker 1>and Champagne. Every black child in grade school is taught

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<v Speaker 1>Adolf Hitler killed six million Jews and this is the

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<v Speaker 1>worst human being that ever lived. On the other hand,

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<v Speaker 1>our children are taught the right honorable Cecil Roads, the

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<v Speaker 1>founder of the De Beer diamond company in South Africa,

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<v Speaker 1>who killed ten times that number of Africans, is a

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<v Speaker 1>hero in a statement. And if they study hard and

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<v Speaker 1>do well in school, they may be eligible to win

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<v Speaker 1>Rhodes Scholarship, the oldest and most celebrated international fellowship award

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<v Speaker 1>in the world. They don't mention the scholarships are paid

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<v Speaker 1>for with the blood of their ancestors. And there's another

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<v Speaker 1>little blurb I want to read here too, which is actually,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, we can skip over that because we don't

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<v Speaker 1>have a lot of time anyway. What I want to

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<v Speaker 1>do is explain why that was important. I think, on

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<v Speaker 1>the heels of that monopoly thought experiment that we had,

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<v Speaker 1>it's important for us to consider the real world examples

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<v Speaker 1>of that and the implications of that, because what happens

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<v Speaker 1>is there's an individual who not only makes a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of money for himself, but all the people around him

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<v Speaker 1>are able to make money too, off of the backs

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<v Speaker 1>of black people. Right in Africa is a very very

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<v Speaker 1>potent land. So you have this theft of really the

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<v Speaker 1>globe's resources from Africa, enriching individuals like him and all

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<v Speaker 1>of his cronies. Then they passed that along to their

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<v Speaker 1>children and so forth and so on. Right and even

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<v Speaker 1>if there are white people who didn't inherit money, they

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<v Speaker 1>did come into a world built in the likeness and

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<v Speaker 1>image of people like this man to where they got

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<v Speaker 1>a better shot at getting a story like that for

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<v Speaker 1>themselves than people who historically have been subjugated and slaughtered

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<v Speaker 1>by machine guns in an afternoon and then later people

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<v Speaker 1>are drinking champagne. So some food for thought for you.