Full text of Oxford professors' letter possibly appearing in today's @Telegraph, in case they present this as a manifesto for the destruction of Western civ or sth 🤷♂️: Our University’s Vice-Chancellor makes two unwarranted claims ...
("Nelson Mandela would have opposed Rhodes Must Fall Campaign", 11 June). First, Prof. Richardson draws on Nelson Mandela’s words, seven years after his death, to defend colonial-era statues.
This would be inappropriate ventriloquizing in any context. It is especially so now, when Universities need to listen to, not presume to speak for, black students and people of colour.