
Via The Independent:
The Oxford Union has passed a motion stating that it is institutionally racist.
The move comes in light of a race row sparked last week involving the Oxford University debating society after it served a controversial cocktail titled ‘Colonial Comeback’. The cocktail was served as refreshment for the debate ‘This House believes Britain owes reparations to her former colonies’ and advertised on a flyer featuring a picture of black hands bound in chains.
At a meeting held in the prestigious debating chamber this afternoon with the Union’s Standing Committee, Treasurer Zuleyka Shahin proposed the motion “the Oxford Union society is institutionally racist.”
The motion was passed unanimously by the students present.
