always happens it’s like when they ban ‘the 3 little pigs’ incase it offends Muslims one of my favourite Books as a kid!
PS The Flaming Lips sang me happy birthday for my 21st in De Montfort Hall. Not relevant to the thread but I don't get to bring that up as often as I'd like.
You have to sit here and ask yourself how different your life is without a statue, or a name of something that you’ve never seen or heard of, disappearing. The media are desperate for me to get angry over inanimate objects, and many people are obliging. So the frenzy gets whipped on a daily basis by gimps with laptops. The protestors attack the police and the rebel groups attack the protestors and so on and so on, and the clicks keep rolling in.
I love the book To Kill a Mockingbird - I pretty much wanted to be Atticus Finch when i went off to Uni - but it's a continual debate in American schools as to whether they should filter the used of "the n word". I'm not sure I have a personal stance on that really.
maybe change the story as well so that the black guy doesn't get anything happening to him either as it's basically portraying black people as beneath. Heard St guys hospital statue is next in line to be torn down cause he profiteered by having shares in the slave trading company. I hope none of you guys have any shares in companys like BAE systems
I think the parallels between racial inequality as portrayed in films, books and theatre etc is very different from erecting a statue to celebrate the life of a slave trader. The depiction of racial inequality in films is often a reflection and comment on the issue. Somebody mentioned Blazing Saddles earlier, which Mel Brookes commented 'would never be made today', yet it is a parody on the ridiculous self defeating nature of racism. In a similar way In Sickness and in Health, with Alf Garnett, who is a send up of an over zealous bigot. These things are using humour to both highlight and mock racists. Putting up a Statue to champion people who deliberately profiteered off the backs of slavery is basically an affront to anybody with decent moral standards imo and as in that article that Lefty posted, it was a device to try and legitimise and elevate them to impunity. Colston was no great Philanthropist, and there were a number of Bristolians including Quakers who dedicated their lives to servitude who could have been chosen to go on that plinth.
I heard that about Guys, I'd never ever given a thought of where it name came from wrong, I only knew of the good work they do for really sick children. I find it sad we are having to look to history to find the bad, in something to me is no more than a name, with no significance other than what the hospital and its nurses do, to save lives!
You can even change it's name, but it will always be Guys to me, with no significance to it's inherited name.
Anyway, this made me laugh NRA Accidentally Forgets To Rise Up Against Tyrannical Government https://www.theshovel.com.au/2020/0...Q7_ts59vgb4M9838Z4_7ToXMzUky6BAS2iHXyq_G1waS4
My daughter was talking about this book this evening. They studied it as part of A level English. In the whole class there was only one black person and it was clear to her classmates that she was uncomfortable about the use of the word so the whole class refused to say it. Despite the teacher insisting that they must.
“I ain’t draft dodging. I ain’t burning no flag. I ain’t running to Canada. I’m staying right here. You want to send me to jail? Fine, you go right ahead. I’ve been in jail for 400 years. I could be there for 4 or 5 more, but I ain’t going no 10,000 miles to help murder and kill other poor people. If I want to die, I’ll die right here, right now, fightin’ you, if I want to die. You my enemy, not no Chinese, no Vietcong, no Japanese. You my opposer when I want freedom. You my opposer when I want justice. You my opposer when I want equality. Want me to go somewhere and fight for you? You won’t even stand up for me right here in America, for my rights and my religious beliefs. You won’t even stand up for my right here at home. “ - Muhammad Ali please log in to view this image
It's very strange when you think of the era Ali come from, I loved him as a kid, the colour of his skin was never even a thought, he floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee, and gave it all the gip that was part of him.
Fcking hate Spurly sometimes. Made me spend half an hour reading through the last 10 pages with his posts. I'm not gonna like them all, fck him
