Hundreds of well-wishers have donated money to a waitress to cover the tip a black Oxford student refused to pay because she was white. Ashleigh Schultz, 24, was reduced to tears when Ntokozo Qwabe – a leader of the campaign to remove a Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford – and a friend wrote on their cafe bill: ‘We will give tip when you return the land.’
He bragged online that they had made her cry ‘typical white tears’, leaving him ‘unable to stop smiling because something so black and wonderful had happened’.
The incident last week at Obz Cafe in the Western Cape, South Africa, has ignited a backlash against Mr Qwabe, who was branded a racist bully.
Miss Schultz’s friends said 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.’
Online campaigns sprang up to ‘tip the waitress’ and last night they had pledges topping £2,000.
So what does ATRL think? Was the man racist?
He's an awful man for doing that. As though it was her land to give anyway 
