That Cecil John Rhodes is not a very popular bloke right now is he? Whilst the debate rages on at UCT over the controversial statue of the former colonialist (get up to speed HERE and HERE) students at Grahamstown’s Rhodes University have taken to Twitter to voice their discontent over the white privilege they say is evident at the institution.

It seems an argument on the Student Representative Council (SRC) Facebook page was the catalyst for getting many students very riled up. This quote from a third year student taken from Mail and Guardian:

We had a solidarity march yesterday for the University of Cape Town students who are protesting for the removal of the [Cecil John] Rhodes statue from their campus. After that a student wrote on the Facebook page that if the statue was taken down, it must be b[r]ought to Rhodes University to chill here. It was a joke, but it sparked a lot of rage.

Posters then started appearing around campus on Wednesday with the hashtag #RhodesSoWhite, a few of which can be seen below.

And if you throw poo on a statue, who is going to clean that up? 

Other students channelled their anger in tweet form, with the Mail and Guardian reporting:

The tweets focus on the bad experiences of black students, who say they are a result of a lack of understanding about culture and race by some white students and lecturers.

This one is only set to get more heated because when you mix race debates with excessive drinking and social media things more than often get very, very messy.

Good luck Grahamstown, just leave the Rat and Parrot unscathed please so we can still pop by for a beer from time to time.

[source:mg]