South African, Ntokozo Qwabe is a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University which means he receives money just to study! Ironically, he is also an activist and is one of the leaders of the Rhodes Must Fall movement, which calls for the statue of 19th-century imperialist, Cecil Rhodes, removed from Oriel College. Clearly this guy has no tolerance for taking land by military force and even racism, however Qwabe, along with his peers, are being branded as racists after refusing to tip a white waitress!
After Qwabe and his fellow Rhodes Must Fall members finished a meal at Obz Cafe in West Cape, South Africa, Wandile Dlamini wrote a note to their waitress which read,”We will give tip when you return the land.” 24 year old Ashley Schultz then broke into tears. As if that wasn’t enough, Qwabe took to his Facebook to describe what he felt was a glorious encounter:
“LOL wow unable to stop smiling because something so black, wonderful & LIT just happened! And of course, the catalyst was a radical non-binary trans black activist – Wandile Dlamini – from the Rhodes Must Fall movement. Because trans activists have been the ultimate blessers of this decolonial struggle!
To cut the long story short, we are out at Obz Cafe with the said activist, and the time for the bill comes. Our waitress is a white woman. I ask the said activist what the going rate for tips/gratuity is in these shores. They look at me very reluctantly and they say ‘give me the slip, I’ll sort that out’. I give them the slip.
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. 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!). Anyways, so this white woman goes to her colleagues who are furious. She exits to cry at the back & a white male colleague of hers reluctantly comes out to address us & to annoy us more with his own white tears telling us that he finds our act “racist”.”
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The students’ gesture was frowned upon and it encouraged many people in support of Schultz to make up for her lost wages an to date, they’ve raised over $2,000 euros!
Now, Roommates, let’s be real. This act wasn’t racist, it was just mean. What do you guys think about it? Was the note justified? Is the $2,000 for the humiliated waitress justified? Let’s chat!
TSR STAFF: Talia O. @theclosetratchet on Instagram & @tallyohhh on Twitter! Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3568590/Hundreds-wishers-help-donate-2-000-white-waitress-refused-tip-racist-Oxford-student-bragged-online.html
