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The one person who is camping to get it removed had a scholarship from the Rhodes Foundation. I wonder if she will pay them back. In face the Foundation funds lots of black people on scholarships to Oxford. I wonder if they pull the plug on it if they take his statue down.
 
I’d heard of Colston School - but knew nothing of Colston himself <cheers>
They were campaigning to get his statue removed a few years ago, but the locals voted to keep it. His name is all round Bristol, I’m sure he invested lots of money into the area, yes he had done wrong in the past, but who hasn’t.
 
Agreed, we should never forget the past. Maybe these monuments should stay but have big signage attached saying what that person really was. I feel it's wrong to just let slave traders have statues around the place when people may not know much about them. I don't think people should have to actually look up someone to find out that they were extremely unsavoury. It should be very obvious - with an acknowledgement that these people where at one time looked up to by wealthy white people.
We are all a product of our time ..... <cheers>
So true <applause>
 
If its statues, films , TV programmes then logically it will be books next. Although there were many different types of books/ topics selected for destruction the premise for it was to deny a free thinking individual to form his or her own opinions .

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