Poem by 'racist' Rudyard Kipling scrubbed off university wall by students

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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/

[Alcuin52]

I like Kipling.

His dead are in the churchyard—thirty generations laid.
Their names were old in history when Domesday Book was made;
And the passion and the piety and prowess of his line
Have seeded, rooted, fruited in some land the Law calls mine

[Tong]

Lol that is how this country is gonna go down

[Neon Knight]

Say what you want about Kipling but he made exceedingly good cakes.

[Armenian Bishop]

It's bad! The university should require Sara Khan to appear before a panel of the Chancellor's staff members, where she'll be forced to explain herself, and face possible disciplinary action.