It's a bit gross to reduce a pandemic that's claimed hundreds of thousands of lives to a method of shutting down a cause you don't like.

Love to see it

All of them in gloves and masks as well :love:

love my home city :love: best place in the uk FACT

pathetic but if it makes them feel important and crucially they have the content they want for the socials...

one person is wearing gloves in that clip, should have gone to specsavers Liam!

I am over social distancing now, if people want to cram together please feel free, just don't moan about the R rate, and local lock downs if they happen

Fine but they’re all wearing masks :oh:

All statues commemorating well known racists should be pulled down and knelt on, make a proper statement across the world

:clap2:

Oh i didn’t see it’d already been posted ignore me

*chefs kiss*

Nice to see you on Serious Debates
Scott.

Eddie was a Hard Worker


[He was apprenticed to the Mercers Company
for eight years and by 1672 was shipping goods from London.
He built up a lucrative business, trading cloth, oil,
wine, sherry and fruit with Spain,
Portugal, Italy and Africa.
In 1680, Colston became a member
of the Royal African Company,
which had held the monopoly in England
on trading along the West coast of Africa in gold,
silver, ivory and slaves from 1662.
Colston rose rapidly on to the board
of the company and was Deputy Governor,
its most senior executive position,
from 1689 to 1690;
his association with the company ended in 1692.
This company had been set up
by King Charles II and his brother James, Duke of York,
(later King James II, who was the Governor of the company),
together with City of London merchants,
and it had many notable investors,
including John Locke, English philosopher and physician,
widely regarded as one of the most influential
of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known
as the "Father of Liberalism"
(though he later changed his stance on the slave trade),
and the diarist Samuel Pepys.]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Colston

This is so embarrassing

Thrown into the same harbour in which he made his money through importing slaves, poetic :love:

ahhhh :skull:

But in 1670
everyone was doing the same
it was normal then.
Does not make it right
but many Europe Nations
were doing the same.

Yeah it is a bit short-sighted to reduce him to nothing more than a "slave trader" when he did quite bit more, like funding schools and hospitals.

With his fortune made from the slave trade

instead of spending it all on wine and women :shrug:

‘Slave owners weren’t all bad’ is peak TiBB in 2020

I wonder if you had the same attitude when the statue of Saddam was pulled down?


History isnt static, just because a statue exists, doesn't mean it should remain, there is a lot of historic significance in a statue being brought down.

Back on the main topic
Floyd had Criminal record, he was not a good person.
That Counterfeit 20 dollar bill
brought in the Police.
If only he did not use that fake note.

Of course the Evil
now Ex Cop, that murdered him is going to jail for life.
No one is backing that murder.

Counterfeiting is a pretty white collar crime, if it was a white man, he'd have probably served a short sentence in a minimum security prison.

That is, if he was guilty.

Isn’t it funny, hysterical right wingers don’t want British atrocities taught in schools, or mentioned on kids shows like horrible histories because we should respect Britain and never say we did anything bad, yet a statue of a notorious slave trader gets torn down and suddenly they’re all for historic things being in the public eye, aren’t we as a country exhausted yet of finding ways to celebrate or white wash our horrible connections with racism? Like come on, everyone knows it happened, why are white people so insecure that they feel like we can’t talk about it and can’t admit this country was a massive part of the world wide problem, it’s like it’s been brushed under the carpet and people expect it to just be forgotten, we need to educate people to make them understand why people feel so strongly about this.

Sure but his Arrests before
[In 2009, Floyd served a five-year prison sentence
as part of a plea deal on the 2007 charge
of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon,
reports the Houston Chronicle.]

Prove he was not a Good Person
that everyone is saying.