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Is it time to renew the process of de-colonization in this country?

30-06-2015 09:48AM

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realitykeeper

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This video is about the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes from a University in South Africa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxPQGm1Z1T0

Is it time to renew the process of de-colonization in this country?

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#2 30-06-2015 10:02AM

Hande hoche!

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That variety of mentality unnerves me. It seems less in the vein of pulling down Saddam's statues and closer to the Taliban/ISIS attitude to the past. That and I would rather not have anyone throwing human excrement at Burke/Lecky etc.

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#3 30-06-2015 08:25PM

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I don't really see what this has to do with Trinity specifically

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