Black Students Burn Paintings of Whites At South Africa Protest

by JOEL B. POLLAK
Breitbart
Feb. 22, 2016

Students at the University of Cape Town in South Africa ransacked university buildings Tuesday and set fire to paintings depicting white people, according to local news.

Offensive art depicting white people at the exclusion of blacks who have built UCT, going up in flames! #Shackville pic.twitter.com/E2H17W58fc
— VERNAC NEWS (@VernacNews) February 16, 2016

The students are part of a movement called Rhodes Must Fall, which has inspired a similar movement in the United Kingdom and also helped inspire the Black Lives Matter movement at campuses in the United States. They are protesting university fees, a lack of housing, and "whiteness."

Tonight we witness the Black psyche unleashing generations of repressed pain. 2016 is the year we no longer pander to whiteness #Shackville
-- Rhodes Must Fall (@RhodesMustFall) February 16, 2016

Last year, University of Cape Town students demanded the removal of a statue of Cecil John Rhodes, the British miner and imperialist who donated the land on which the university sits, on the dramatic slopes of Table Mountain. After weeks of protest that included throwing feces at the statue, the university caved to the students' demands, and removed the statue.

Now, students at Oxford University in the UK are demanding a similar statue of Rhodes be removed, and that the name "Rhodes" be dropped from the prestigious Rhodes scholarships, which he endowed.

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