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Oxford law student Ntokozo Qwabe who famously said ‘We are tired of propping-up the existence of systemic racism’ ups the ante with ‘Remove the symbols of racism and I’ll tip the white waitress’?

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><header id&equals;"gigya-share-btns-1&lowbar;gig&lowbar;containerParent">&NewLine;<h5 class&equals;" ">Qwabe says he cant’t &OpenCurlyQuote;stop smiling’ because something &OpenCurlyQuote;so black’ and &OpenCurlyQuote;wonderful’ just happened&period;<&sol;h5>&NewLine;<&sol;header>&NewLine;<header id&equals;"gigya-share-btns-1&lowbar;gig&lowbar;containerParent">&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;" "><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;521111&semi;">Student who accused Oxford of propping-up &OpenCurlyQuote;existence of systemic racism’ now says &&num;8220&semi;We will tip &lbrack;waitress&rsqb; when you return the land&&num;8221&semi;’ <&sol;span><&sol;h1>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;" "><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;808080&semi;"><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;521111&semi;">Ruffled feathers Last year with &&num;8216&semi;the so called &&num;8216&semi;British institutions&&num;8217&semi; were built on the colonial plunders of my resources&comma; and on the labour of my people who were enslaved<&sol;span>&&num;8216&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<&sol;header>&NewLine;<h2><em><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;808080&semi;"><strong>&&num;8216&semi;&&num;8230&semi;Still trying to figure out if there is a tie-in between the message and the action here&comma; or he was merely being a cheap provocateur&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;em><&sol;h2>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"intro"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<header id&equals;"gigya-share-btns-1&lowbar;gig&lowbar;containerParent"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-20170" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;04&sol;rho&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Oxford University Won't Bow To Pressure To Remove Statue Of 19th Century Colonialist Sir Cecil Rhodes" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"413" &sol;><&sol;header>&NewLine;<header><&sol;header>&NewLine;<header><&sol;header>&NewLine;<header><&sol;header>&NewLine;<header>With the statue still in place&comma; it appears that Qwabe has traded taking issue with colonialist statues for upsetting &OpenCurlyQuote;white’ waitresses&period; In a recent Facebook post&comma; Qwabe says he cant’t &OpenCurlyQuote;stop smiling’ because something &OpenCurlyQuote;so black’ and &OpenCurlyQuote;wonderful’ just happened&period; Qwabe then goes on to recall a lunch he enjoyed with a &OpenCurlyQuote;radical non-binary trans black activist’ in South Africa&period; When the time came for the pair to pay the bill&comma; his friend came up with a novel tactic for tipping&period; Rather than offer gratuity&comma; his friend wrote on a slip of paper&colon; &OpenCurlyQuote;we will give tip when you return the land’&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Unsurprisingly the &OpenCurlyQuote;white waitress’ was taken aback when she received the note&period; However&comma; Qwabe had little sympathy — complaining that she burst into &OpenCurlyQuote;typical white tears’&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;blogs&period;spectator&period;co&period;uk&sol;files&sol;2016&sol;04&sol;RhodesMustFall&period;png" rel&equals;"prettyPhoto"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-9464252 aligncenter" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn2&period;spectator&period;co&period;uk&sol;files&sol;2016&sol;04&sol;RhodesMustFall&period;png" alt&equals;"RhodesMustFall" width&equals;"520" height&equals;"832" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Oxford law student who accused his own university of normalising and propping-up the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;existence of systemic racism” has said he is growing tired of the &OpenCurlyQuote;why go to Oxford&quest;’ question being asked by the public&period;<&sol;header>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"article-wrapper clearfix">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"main-content-column">&NewLine;<div id&equals;"gigya-share-btns-2&lowbar;gig&lowbar;containerParent" class&equals;"text-wrapper">&NewLine;<div> Ntokozo Qwabe&comma; who studies the coveted Bachelor of Civil Law &lpar;BCL&rpar; course at the university&comma; added in a post on his Facebook&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I am tired at the buffoonery of being told that I should have stayed at my OWN institutions in Afrika &lbrack;sic&rsqb; instead of going to THEIR institutions and asking them to change&period;”<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>The student&comma; originally from the KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa and a former teaching assistant at the University of Cape Town&comma; first created debate in Decenber 2015&comma; when it emerged he posted a message onto Facebook&comma; two days after the Paris attacks&comma; in which he said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote; I do NOT stand with France&period; Not while it continues to terrorise and bomb Afrika &lbrack;sic&rsqb; &amp&semi; the Middle East for its imperial interests&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;He also described the French flag was a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;violent symbol&comma;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I would agree with that in the same way that the presence of a Nazi flag would have to be fought against&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;The  co-founder of the Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford movement which is campaigning to remove a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;racist” statue of the 19th Century colonialist Cecil Rhodes from Oriel College &&num;8211&semi; also&comma; this week&comma; went on to hit out at the British media for feeding a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;racist myth&comma;” and insisted Oxford produces graduates with an &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;unjustly skewed view of the world&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;He also added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We can NEVER be &OpenCurlyQuote;hypocrites’ for taking back crumbs of the colonial loot of Rhodes &amp&semi; his colonial cronies&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h5><strong><em>Lets us know what you think of this article&period; Like&quest; Dislike&quest; Funny&quest; Interesting&quest; Cool&quest;  Drop us a line in the comment box or join us on facebook and twitter to help us give you a better reading experience<&sol;em><&sol;strong><&sol;h5>&NewLine;

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