"It was more about the hypocrisy of objecting to a statue and demanding that it be removed by those perfectly willing to accept financial support from the trust set up and named after the same man as the statue is supposed to commemorate."
Not hypocritical in any way - in today's world of having to buy an education you accept it from where you can.
If the scholarship was to promote Rhodes' imperialism, it might bee grounds for refusing it.
As it is, these people, at long last appear to be questioning Bitains' past - who knows, maybe its the year of hypocritical jingoism we've just left behind us.
AS I understand it, recipients of the scholarship were never asked to swear an oath of allegiance to Rhodes or Imperialism - nothing hypocritical about continuing to take the grant and question the origins of its source - needs must for most of us in today's world.
Tou're beginning to sound like the soupers I once told you about (and which you disputed) who went around during the faming offering to feed children whose families agreed to change their religion - dear, departed days.
Your "Imperialist leanings" with your glorification of Imperial bloodbaths, goes before you - don't think there's too much question of it, do you.
Jim Carroll