[Samm]

If you have more of an issue with the statue of a slave owner being destroyed then it being there in the first place, then you’re exactly the problem.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

I do feel there is a difference between knowing and teaching our history, and maintaining monuments to it.

No one puts up a statue of Hitler in Trafalgar square to remind us simultaneously of our darkest days, and our greatest triumph.

He is not British for a start, and slavery was legal back in the day when was the statue erected?

Maybe we should burn down all the Stately Homes as well as they treated people like slaves

[Samm]

bye bye bitch x

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Samm

If you have more of an issue with the statue of a slave owner being destroyed then it being there in the first place, then you’re exactly the problem.

Yes as an Irish person

No Blacks
No Dogs
No Irish

3rd on the list, yes I am definitely part of the problem..

[arista]

Once again
they are attacking Police in Whitehall.
Using Fireworks.


Live on SkyNewsHD


not on BBC news

[Cherie]

The statue was unveiled by the Lord Mayor of Bristol on 13 November 1895. Until the 1990s, Colston's involvement in the slave trade, the source of much of the money which he bestowed in Bristol, went largely unremarked.


oh a very recent gorification then

[Scarlett.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

More reason that statues like the one that was brought down today should stay up, we cant sanitise the past....in the future things that are quite acceptable today will no longer be...

Leave the plynth up and have plaque explaining what the statue used to be and why it was torn down, much more symbolic.

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Cherie

He is not British for a start, and slavery was legal back in the day when was the statue erected?

Maybe we should burn down all the Stately Homes as well as they treated people like slaves

Ploughing medicine full of cocaine used to be legal, so let's pop up a statue of Escobar

I'm not sure there's a definitively right or wrong way to look at it as it comes down to personal beliefs, but if I was black person having to walk past that statue everyday on my way to work, having already grown up in a country full of racism, then I'd feel some type of way about it.

[bots]

the right thing to do would have been to ask the people of Bristol democratically if they wanted the statue removed, not taking unilateral destructive action.

[Samm]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

the right thing to do would have been to ask the people of Bristol democratically if they wanted the statue removed, not taking unilateral destructive action.

I have lived there and we have done for years. It gets ignored.

Originally Posted by Cherie

The statue was unveiled by the Lord Mayor of Bristol on 13 November 1895. Until the 1990s, Colston's involvement in the slave trade, the source of much of the money which he bestowed in Bristol, went largely unremarked.


oh a very recent gorification then

Huh? Make sure to actually make sense when replying to me hun

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Scarlett.

Leave the plynth up and have plaque explaining what the statue used to be and why it was torn down, much more symbolic.

He supported and endowed schools, almshouses, hospitals and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere. Many of his charitable foundations continue

the group who sent him to a watery grave need to seek out these charitable foundations and shut them down yes? the hospitals, schools and churches too, lets not leave a stone unturned in this quest ….

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Samm

I have lived there and we have done for years. It gets ignored.



Huh? Make sure to actually make sense when replying to me hun

I wasn't replying to you at all which is why you weren't quoted....?

I did quote you elsewhere, ignored I see hun

[Samm]

Originally Posted by Cherie

He supported and endowed schools, almshouses, hospitals and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere. Many of his charitable foundations continue

the group who sent him to a watery grave need to seek out these charitable foundations and shut them down yes? the hospitals, schools and churches too, lets not leave a stone unturned in this quest ….

He funded those places from slavery income? I can’t believe you’re actually defending that. The argument you’re building is grotesque.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Scarlett.

Leave the plynth up and have plaque explaining what the statue used to be and why it was torn down, much more symbolic.

Nice idea plus have something beautiful in it’s place ..


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[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

the group who sent him to a watery grave

The statue aint him Chez.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Samm

He funded those places from slavery income? I can’t believe you’re actually defending that. The argument you’re building is grotesque.

Learn to read, I am encouraging you to get them shut down ...follow up if you will

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

The statue aint him Chez.

His stoney body

[Brother Leon]

Well done Bristol.

Proud of you Honey.

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Nice idea plus have something beautiful in it’s place ..


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How about a statue of Tinkerbelle

[Shaun]

"but he supported schools" does not absolve him of anything lmao

[Brother Leon]

I wonder if we all were upset when the Military tore down Saddam’s statue in Iraq?

Or was it celebrated instead?

[Liam-]

Correct me if I’m wrong Samm, but isn’t there a hall named after him that’s going to be changing their name soon?

[arista]

Was on BBCnewsHD Live
in brief.


The Police being attacked in Whitehall.

[Samm]

Originally Posted by Liam-

Correct me if I’m wrong Samm, but isn’t there a hall named after him that’s going to be changing their name soon?

Yes the colston concert hall It has been going through a re-vamp since 2017. Meant to be re-opening this year with a new name that’s being decided through the bristol music trust. Think they’re asking the people of bristol to decide.

[Zizu]

Slight tangent but just wondering who decides who gets to use the megaphones in all the different groups of protesters ??





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