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News and Views; One African American Named Among This Year's 32 Rhodes Scholars From the United States
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Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The
01-31-2005
Like most Europeans of his time, British industrialist Cecil J. Rhodes, the
founder of the Rhodes scholarship program, believed in the inherent
superiority of the white race. Writing in 1877 he said, "I contend that we
are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit
the better it is for the human race. Just fancy those parts that are at
present inhabited by the most despicable specimen of human beings, what an
alteration there would be in them if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon
influence."
Rhodes accumulated a vast ...
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