News and Views; One African American Named Among This Year's 32 Rhodes Scholars From the United States

From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education | Date: January 1, 2005 | Copyright information

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 u...

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