{"id":1062,"date":"2020-07-02T14:02:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T14:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/2020\/07\/02\/uk-pm-johnson-says-statue-of-colonialist-rhodes-can-also-simply-nonetheless-not-be-pulled-down\/"},"modified":"2020-07-02T14:02:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T14:02:40","slug":"uk-pm-johnson-says-statue-of-colonialist-rhodes-can-also-simply-nonetheless-not-be-pulled-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/uk-pm-johnson-says-statue-of-colonialist-rhodes-can-also-simply-nonetheless-not-be-pulled-down\/","title":{"rendered":"UK PM Johnson says statue of colonialist Rhodes can also simply nonetheless not be pulled down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>LONDON, July 2 (Reuters) &#8211; British Top Minister Boris Johnson mentioned on Thursday that a statue of 19th century colonialist Cecil Rhodes can also simply nonetheless not be pulled down from an Oxford College college because ancient past can also simply nonetheless not be edited. <\/p>\n<p>Oriel College, Oxford, mentioned closing month it wanted to make a selection away a statue of Rhodes after a campaign by contributors who argue the statue glorifies racism and is an insult to black students. <\/p>\n<p>Johnson informed the Evening Celebrated newspaper he did not prefer to survey the statue pulled down. <\/p>\n<p>It would, he mentioned, be devour \u201clooking out for to bowdlerise or edit our ancient past &#8230; devour some baby-kisser sneakily looking out for to substitute his Wikipedia entry,\u201d the Celebrated reported. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pro-heritage, I\u2019m pro-ancient past, and I\u2019m in favour of contributors knowing our past with all its imperfections,\u201d he mentioned. (Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Alistair Smout)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/britain-statues-rhodes-idUSS8N2DF0AX\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Be taught More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON, July 2 (Reuters) &#8211; British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday that a statue of 19th century colonialist Cecil Rhodes should not be pulled down from an Oxford University college because history should not be edited. Oriel College, Oxford, said last month it wanted to remove a statue of Rhodes after a campaign&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[57,343],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worlduniversitydirectory.com\/edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}