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Speaker 1: know we normally talk about stuff in the United States,
Speaker 1: but I feel like this is important and relevant because
Speaker 1: for those familiar with Rhodes scholars I want you to
Speaker 1: know the history behind this. So I'll read British colonizer
Speaker 1: Cecil Rhods came to Southern Africa. Rhodes was an ideological colonizer.
Speaker 1: He believed in British imperialism and promoted it. He said,
Speaker 1: quote to prevent civil war, you must become an imperialist quote.
Speaker 1: He created the Rhodes Scholarship. His goal was to install
Speaker 1: British imperialism from Cape Town to Cairo and build the
Speaker 1: Cape Cairo Railway. His vision was part of the British Empire,
Speaker 1: on which they boasted the sun never set because it
Speaker 1: went all around the world. Cecil Roads was a perpetrator
Speaker 1: of genocide, responsible for the displacement of millions of African
Speaker 1: people for the benefit of white settlers and enslavement of
Speaker 1: African people on their own land. White people came from
Speaker 1: Europe and became wealthy from the theft of the gold
Speaker 1: and diamonds in Southern Africa. Cecil Rhodes founded Dubier's Diamond
Speaker 1: Cartil You ever heard of Deber's, Ah, yes, okay, that's
Speaker 1: this guy all right. Rhodes went to South Africa from
Speaker 1: Britain when he was eighteen years old and he took
Speaker 1: over the diamond mines at Kimberly, South Africa and others
Speaker 1: in the area. By his early twenties he was a millionaire.
Speaker 1: This is a millionaire back in the day, by the way,
Speaker 1: but he did not retire. He believed in subjugating Africa
Speaker 1: for the benefit of England. Rhodes went to Zimbabwe, the
Speaker 1: land of the Matabele and Shona, who launched fierce resistance
Speaker 1: led by their leader Labengulaads paid a mercenary army from
Speaker 1: England and stocked them with maximum machine guns. With just
Speaker 1: five machine guns, the English slaughtered five thousand African people
Speaker 1: in one afternoon alone, and then they celebrated with dinner
Speaker 1: and Champagne. Every black child in grade school is taught
Speaker 1: Adolf Hitler killed six million Jews and this is the
Speaker 1: worst human being that ever lived. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: our children are taught the right honorable Cecil Roads, the
Speaker 1: founder of the De Beer diamond company in South Africa,
Speaker 1: who killed ten times that number of Africans, is a
Speaker 1: hero in a statement. And if they study hard and
Speaker 1: do well in school, they may be eligible to win
Speaker 1: Rhodes Scholarship, the oldest and most celebrated international fellowship award
Speaker 1: in the world. They don't mention the scholarships are paid
Speaker 1: for with the blood of their ancestors. And there's another
Speaker 1: little blurb I want to read here too, which is actually,
Speaker 1: you know, we can skip over that because we don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of time anyway. What I want to
Speaker 1: do is explain why that was important. I think, on
Speaker 1: the heels of that monopoly thought experiment that we had,
Speaker 1: it's important for us to consider the real world examples
Speaker 1: of that and the implications of that, because what happens
Speaker 1: is there's an individual who not only makes a lot
Speaker 1: of money for himself, but all the people around him
Speaker 1: are able to make money too, off of the backs
Speaker 1: of black people. Right in Africa is a very very
Speaker 1: potent land. So you have this theft of really the
Speaker 1: globe's resources from Africa, enriching individuals like him and all
Speaker 1: of his cronies. Then they passed that along to their
Speaker 1: children and so forth and so on. Right and even
Speaker 1: if there are white people who didn't inherit money, they
Speaker 1: did come into a world built in the likeness and
Speaker 1: image of people like this man to where they got
Speaker 1: a better shot at getting a story like that for
Speaker 1: themselves than people who historically have been subjugated and slaughtered
Speaker 1: by machine guns in an afternoon and then later people
Speaker 1: are drinking champagne. So some food for thought for you.