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Oxford student who demanded removal of Rhodes statues insists he has no regrets about making waitress cry because he was 'disrupting whiteness'
- Ntokozo Qwabe bragged on social media about upsetting a white waitress
- Oxford student demanded return of land to black people for giving her tip
- It provoked a backlash against Mr Qwabe, who was branded a racist bully
- He said he has no regrets because he was helping to 'disrupt whiteness'
An Oxford student who bragged online about having upset a white waitress by demanding the return of land to black people has insisted he has no regrets because he was helping to 'disrupt whiteness'. Ntokozo Qwabe – a leader of the campaign to remove a Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford – reduced 24-year-old Ashleigh Schultz to tears when he and a friend wrote on their cafe bill ‘We will give tip when you return the land.' He then gloated on social media that they had made her cry ‘typical white tears’, leaving him ‘unable to stop smiling because something so black and wonderful had happened’.
Oxford student Ntokozo Qwabe, who bragged online about having upset a white waitress by demanding the return of land to black people, has insisted he has no regrets because he was helping to 'disrupt whiteness'
These innocent white girl tears re-entrenches patriarchy because white women's tears make white men want to jump in and save white women from all these aggressive black people.'Mr Qwabe also dismissed calls for him to be thrown out of Oxford University as 'another white myth' and said he would return to the University of Cape Town as a teaching and research assistant after completing his studies. Miss Schultz’s friends said earlier this month that she had already been feeling low as her mother has cancer. One said: ‘She has a very sick mother she cares for, and had to move flat recently and is worried about all of this. She did burst into tears because she is having a tough time at present.’
Mr Qwabe, 24, is one of the leaders of the Rhodes Must Fall movement, which campaigned to remove a statue of the 19th Century imperialist from Oriel College.
Although he is a Rhodes scholar himself and received money from the Rhodes’ estate to study at Oxford, Qwabe and other activists claimed forcing ethnic minority students to walk past the statue amounted to ‘violence’.
Last month, he wrote on Facebook about an altercation with a waitress during a visit to a restaurant called Obz Café in the Western Cape, South Africa.
He said the incident had left him ‘unable to stop smiling because something so black, wonderful & LIT just happened!’ He wrote that he had eaten there with a friend, described as a ‘radical non-binary trans black activist’, but that the pair had refused to pay the ‘white woman’ waitress a tip.
He said: ‘They take a pen & slip in a note where the gratuity/tip amount is supposed to be entered. ‘The note reads in bold: “WE WILL GIVE TIP WHEN YOU RETURN THE LAND”. ‘The waitress comes to us with a card machine for the bill to be sorted out.
Last month, he wrote on Facebook about an altercation with a waitress during a visit to a restaurant called Obz Café in the Western Cape, South Africa (pictured)
‘She sees the note & starts shaking. She leaves us & bursts into typical white tears (like why are you crying when all we’ve done is make a kind request? lol!).’ He added that she left the table crying and a ‘white male colleague’ then approached the table to ‘annoy us more with his own white tears telling us that he finds our act “racist”.’ He added: ‘Moral of the story: the time has come when no white person will be absolved. We are tired of “not all white people” and all other bulls***. We are here, and we want the stolen land back. ‘No white person will be out here living their best life while we are out here being a landless and dispossessed black mass. NO white person shall rest. ‘It is irrelevant whether you personally have land/wealth or you don’t. ‘Go to your fellow white people & mobilise for them to give us the land back.’ His post went viral on the internet, with critics from around the world hitting out at his apparent prejudice.
Muhammed Habib Banderker wrote: ‘What an absolute fool of a human being this guy is.’ Tim Flack said: ‘Oh big man, so chuffed to make a waitress cry. For someone who has gone through so much hardship in his life, I’m no longer inspired by you. ‘You are not a role model for anyone, you are a hateful human being. There’s my white tears.’ Riaz Muhammed branded him ‘racist’ and said: ‘You will amount to nothing. Hypocrite.’
Mr Qwabe responded to his critics online by accusing the ‘white media’ of ‘going hysterical’. He added: ‘One moment of white tears always makes news despite the everyday unarticulated black pain the dispossessed & landless masses of this cowntry have to live through! WOW. Whiteness is so weak. Cute actually.’ Mr Qwabe, a South African masters student, was funded by a Rhodes scholarship during his undergraduate law degree at Keble College. Last year, Oriel College said it would conduct a ‘listening exercise’ after he and other students campaigned for the Cecil Rhodes statue to come down. Eventually the college refused their demand after donors threatened to withdraw funding over the reputational damage the row had caused.
Oxford student Ntokozo Qwabe, who bragged online about having upset a white waitress by demanding the return of land to black people, has insisted he has no regrets because he was helping to 'disrupt whiteness'
These innocent white girl tears re-entrenches patriarchy because white women's tears make white men want to jump in and save white women from all these aggressive black people.'Mr Qwabe also dismissed calls for him to be thrown out of Oxford University as 'another white myth' and said he would return to the University of Cape Town as a teaching and research assistant after completing his studies. Miss Schultz’s friends said earlier this month that she had already been feeling low as her mother has cancer. One said: ‘She has a very sick mother she cares for, and had to move flat recently and is worried about all of this. She did burst into tears because she is having a tough time at present.’
Mr Qwabe, 24, is one of the leaders of the Rhodes Must Fall movement, which campaigned to remove a statue of the 19th Century imperialist from Oriel College.
Although he is a Rhodes scholar himself and received money from the Rhodes’ estate to study at Oxford, Qwabe and other activists claimed forcing ethnic minority students to walk past the statue amounted to ‘violence’.
Last month, he wrote on Facebook about an altercation with a waitress during a visit to a restaurant called Obz Café in the Western Cape, South Africa.
He said the incident had left him ‘unable to stop smiling because something so black, wonderful & LIT just happened!’ He wrote that he had eaten there with a friend, described as a ‘radical non-binary trans black activist’, but that the pair had refused to pay the ‘white woman’ waitress a tip.
He said: ‘They take a pen & slip in a note where the gratuity/tip amount is supposed to be entered. ‘The note reads in bold: “WE WILL GIVE TIP WHEN YOU RETURN THE LAND”. ‘The waitress comes to us with a card machine for the bill to be sorted out.
Last month, he wrote on Facebook about an altercation with a waitress during a visit to a restaurant called Obz Café in the Western Cape, South Africa (pictured)
‘She sees the note & starts shaking. She leaves us & bursts into typical white tears (like why are you crying when all we’ve done is make a kind request? lol!).’ He added that she left the table crying and a ‘white male colleague’ then approached the table to ‘annoy us more with his own white tears telling us that he finds our act “racist”.’ He added: ‘Moral of the story: the time has come when no white person will be absolved. We are tired of “not all white people” and all other bulls***. We are here, and we want the stolen land back. ‘No white person will be out here living their best life while we are out here being a landless and dispossessed black mass. NO white person shall rest. ‘It is irrelevant whether you personally have land/wealth or you don’t. ‘Go to your fellow white people & mobilise for them to give us the land back.’ His post went viral on the internet, with critics from around the world hitting out at his apparent prejudice.
Muhammed Habib Banderker wrote: ‘What an absolute fool of a human being this guy is.’ Tim Flack said: ‘Oh big man, so chuffed to make a waitress cry. For someone who has gone through so much hardship in his life, I’m no longer inspired by you. ‘You are not a role model for anyone, you are a hateful human being. There’s my white tears.’ Riaz Muhammed branded him ‘racist’ and said: ‘You will amount to nothing. Hypocrite.’
Mr Qwabe responded to his critics online by accusing the ‘white media’ of ‘going hysterical’. He added: ‘One moment of white tears always makes news despite the everyday unarticulated black pain the dispossessed & landless masses of this cowntry have to live through! WOW. Whiteness is so weak. Cute actually.’ Mr Qwabe, a South African masters student, was funded by a Rhodes scholarship during his undergraduate law degree at Keble College. Last year, Oriel College said it would conduct a ‘listening exercise’ after he and other students campaigned for the Cecil Rhodes statue to come down. Eventually the college refused their demand after donors threatened to withdraw funding over the reputational damage the row had caused.
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