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Oxford Union owns up to racism over colonial celebration
THE Oxford Union admitted it has been “institutionally racist” after it was confronted by a coalition of the university’s equalities societies and local campaigns on Monday night.
The prestigious debating society hit the front pages last week when a picture of posters advertising a “Colonial Comeback” cocktail party at the union went viral online.
But, under pressure from groups including anti-racist movement Rhodes Must Fall, the Campaign for Racial Awareness and Equality (Crae) and the Black Students’ Union, Oxford Union leaders passed a motion “to acknowledge that the union is institutionally racist.”
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