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Leo Fortune West
I suppose it makes black people living in the community feel like the country they're living in doesn't glorify slave traders. Which if you "read your history" rather than the bbc website Colston was.
I don't know why you've reduced it to this one specific statue and tried to get him off on a technicality anyway.
The question is what's the point of having the statue up?
And then copy and pasted a line from the bbc news story about him? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-42404825
http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/History/...ons/bha096.pdf seems to think he was a slave trader anyway.
But the discussion isn't just about thisone statue anyway.
Firstly, I'm not getting him off on anything. He wasn't a slave traders but was complicit in the slave trade. But this was the 17th century, the world was quite different then.
Most people wouldn't know who the statue was of, or if they knew who it was, may not know his part in this particular part of history. So I doubt people would object to the statue.
I've asked several times now, but still no answer. What does pulling his statue down achieve?
You are saying that because "Victorians" fought tooth and nail to end the slave trade "in the Atlantic" you can "guarantee" that the "Victorians" who erected the Colston statue weren't thinking about slavery when they did it. It's almost like these "Victorians" were some kind of tribe that followed a sacred path and that's why you can "guarantee" what you say is right. Is "bollocks" too strong a word for your line of argument?