Four African Americans Given Prestigious Rhodes Scholarship

By News One November 25, 2009 1:33 pm

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For the second year since 1994, four African-American undergraduates have won Rhodes Scholarships, which carry with them the privilege of studying at Oxford, England’s oldest and most venerated university.

Named for the South African mining magnate, Cecil John Rhodes, the scholarships, worth about $50,000 each for two years, have been prominent passports to gateways of power, privilege and prestige since they were created in 1903.

Two of the four blacks are men, and two are women. They are Andre McCall from Truman State University, Ugwechi Amadi, an MIT senior, and two Harvard College undergraduates, Darryl Finkton and Jean Junior.

Representing 12.5 percent of the total of 32 winners from colleges and universities in the United States, the four men and women will take their places at Oxford next fall with the 28 other scholarship winners from this country.  All 32 scholarship winners were elected by 16 committees operating under the umbrella of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, based in Vienna, Virginia.

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  • 11-27-2009 4:20 pm

    MaatRa said@

    “WAKE THE PHUK UP PPL if this peckerwood aint never TREAT us right he will never TEACH us right”
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    yo man these nyggas really think that just cuz PHYSICAL slavery is over that all them wealthy slave owners just had a change of heart?

    what they been saved or sumthin?

    fukk outta here….

    GOODBYE physical-chains
    HELLO mental and economic chains !!!

    and people think all that FLOURIDE in the water aint doing nothin…..smh

    I’s heard dat the ghost of Hitler lives in that there whitehouse! I’s show did !!!

  • 11-27-2009 4:15 pm

    the same Cecil Rhodes who would molest young boys and then toss them over a cliff and choose another one like it was nothing ???

    for SOME strange reason I dont expect these wealthy europeans to do anything but continue to ‘train’ (NOT educate) another generation of loyal negro-zombies aka Uncle Rukus in a nice suit, with a few letters after his name or a few ‘degrees’.

    I just hope they are doin sumthin positive n productive with this.

    but this is toooooo funny….

    like jewish students accepting the Adolf Hitler award

    or

    building a moment of George Bush Jr. in New Orleans

    or a picture of Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X, with J Edgar Hoover standing over them wearing his Fez with a dress on.

    but I digress lol……..

  • 11-27-2009 3:49 am

    Myron Rolle should be on the list of pics. He was a strong safety at FSU and he skipped going into the nfl draft this past year so he could study at oxford for a year.

  • 11-25-2009 7:46 pm

    Good info maatra…at least I can definitely count on you delve in2 untapped information and exhibit it like it SHOULD HAVE BEEN
    Much respect Bruh!

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  • 11-25-2009 3:10 pm

    GODDMAN do any body know that cecil rhodes killed millions of africans.

    The peckerwood wants us to honor and love their killers and want us to hate our own for killin their colonist. Robert Mugabe took control of rhodesia and brought it back to black ZIMBABWE

    What the phuk is wrong wit NEWSONE

    Cecil killed many of our ppl the beast never said a word. But many of us HATE Mugabe and dont even know who he is and what he has done

    WAKE THE PHUK UP PPL if this peckerwood aint never TREAT us right he will never TEACH us right

    Know thy self

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