On 7 June 2020, Black Lives Matter protesters in UK, pulled down a statue of enslaver Edward Colston and threw it into Bristol Harbour.
https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10723/colston-statue-toppled
#Bristol #BLM #Colston #directaction #Slavery #woringclasshistory
"We didn't change history, we rectified it".
June 7th 2020
https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10723/colston-statue-toppled
#Bristol #Colston #Slavery
#BLM Black Lives Matter #DirectAction
"Mama, why is he lying down?"
"Well he never really deserved to be standing, he was a rich, bad man who made his money moving people around the world where they were forced to be slaves."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Edward_Colston#Toppling_and_removal
It's like the video of Dickhead Spencer, you just can't stop watching.
#Channel4 2020
#Statue of #Bristol slaver Edward #Colston torn down by #BlackLivesMatter demonstrators
Protesters have once again taken to Britain's streets. The biggest crowds were in London where anti-racism demonstrators marched on the US embassy before ret...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgEzVHq1OFQ
Great interview by #KrishnanGuruMurty having to deal with a gutless Mayor Rees
Comment about the #Colston statue being ‘destroyed’:
“This is about destroying our country's history and our sense of who we are. This is about hatred and exterminating a nation.”
A lot of probably unintentional truth to those words.
Debates around #Churchill and his statue will point to where people’s loyalities lie when it comes to White Supremacism.
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