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July 21st, 2018 | #1 |
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Poem by 'racist' Rudyard Kipling scrubbed off university wall by students
Poem by 'racist' Rudyard Kipling scrubbed off university wall by students
A poem by renowned 19th century writer Rudyard Kipling has been scrubbed off the walls of a university student union amid claims his literature “dehumanised people of colour” and that he was an apologist for British colonialism. Students, who claimed the poem went against what their union stood for, replaced Kipling’s ‘If’ with US civil rights activist Maya Angelou’s ‘Still I Rise’ at Manchester University’s student union. Kipling’s poem was put up as part of the union’s refurbishment, but Sara Khan, the liberation and access officer, said students should have been consulted beforehand. https://www.rt.com/uk/433681-rudyard...em-university/ |
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