As you say the issue has been around for years, along with other things. There are 2 busy roads here which I assume is where the slaves were bought/sold. They are next to each other and are called Whiteladies road and Blackboy Hill, there have been lots of calls to change the names. Along with a few other things named after Colston
Pretty random request in the middle of a protest. 'Excuse me Mr racist, would you be a dear and put that spray can down ?'
"I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes." - Churchill. "I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place." - Churchill.
He set up a fund to get African kids out of slums in Nairobi and into a proper education, as long as their dads come with them and did him a quick favour.
That's not being disputed. You asked for an explanation about why he was a racist. I gave you one. Here's another 'I do not admit for instance that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been to those people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race or at any rate a more worldly-wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place. I do not admit it. I do not think the Red Indians had any right to say, 'American continent belongs to us and we are not going to have any of these European settlers coming in here'.
Police are public servants. In the old days the British aristocrats beat their servants. So in a way the protestors are just proving how truely they are into British culture by beating public servants. So why all the fuss?
So what? All that proved is that just over half of those who voted to keep it were happy seeing a statue of a slave trader in their City, a bloke who’s company lobbed 19,000 slaves over the side to claim the insurance cash, **** ‘em.
Built a lot of the city. Just as an aside, slave trading was legal back in the dark days so he never broke any laws. Times change and people become more enlightened thankfully but i really can't face/take any blame for something that happened 200 years ago which (at that time) was within the law. I could site lots of other things like the deaths on Brunel constructions that would horrify people today yet he is still a national hero.
and here’s another 'I do not admit for instance that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been to those people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race or at any rate a more worldly-wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place. I do not admit it. I do not think the Red Indians had any right to say, 'American continent belongs to us and we are not going to have any of these European settlers coming in here'.
Our armed forces is packed with racists. To be fair, if people sign up to kill people then it sort of helps that they don’t like whoever they’re going to fill with bullets.
