Up Till Now....

I'm sure that the protestors and the Mayor already have their sights firmly on demanding that Whiteladies Road and Blackboy Hill are renamed.

 

Slaves were sold at the Bristol Museum? Shut it down

 

he wants to name Whiteladies rd marvin rees ave and blackboy hill wipeitout hill

 

I said a few pages back that the idle minority will want to sink the replica Mathew next.
Sick of all of this and the ongoing pointless BBC coverage of events in America every hour of every day
We've got enough problems of our own that we should be concentrating on in my humble opinion.
Maybe a civil war would sort things out ?

 

And that actually wouldn't surprise me ! The bloke is even more deluded than Ferguson was and that's saying something !

 

Let's simply call everything Kevin - that's a pretty innocuous name and surely can't offend anyone living, dead or about to be!!

 

That's why the RAF have been doing training exercises around Bristol Airport recently!!

 

Ooooh I'm not sure I like that name. It's too sexist for a start

 

Bugger!! I'm obviously a misogynist without realising it!! I'll have to self educate I think.

 

Yes, go and stand in a darkened room and give yourself a good talking to !

 

Never seen or read 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' then?

 

That's it then Wiz, a statue of Kevin the Carrot in the centre - after all, Weston has got the onion!!

Oh.... I'm not vegan, can I say that?

 

that should make everyone happy all men have a carrot and all women want a carrot [ well most anyway?! ]

 

This is going to spiral out of control if it’s allowed to.
Where are the spin doctors who made the Dominic Cummings story fade away? We need them now......

 

Just a bit of light relief (!) before matchday!!

 

'To consider this' . I'm not desperate to 'convert' you ya know. But if you require some light reading, R v R (1991) should help you out.

I'm going round in circles a bit anyways. Let me end it by saying Colston = bad person, and violent protestors (of BLM or ALM or bloody anyone)= bad people.

 

Don't want to drag this out any further than is strictly necessary, but I don't think you can honestly say that Colston was a bad person in the context of the point in time that he lived.
He did a lot of good for the city of Bristol which is still seen today in terms of the schools and infrastructure that his money helped fund. He didn't need to bequeath money to Bristol, but he did. As a person of power and influence at that time in history, he was probably no worse than any of his contemporaries.
In an 'enlightened' modern world however, people that still think that slavery and people trafficking is acceptable and practice the despicable trade for their own profit and ends should be jailed for life without parole.
Just sayin

 

Yeah I completely get your point and I agree with it to some extent. We all comply with social norms whether we're aware of it or not, but I just disagree in that even if it was a very different world back then, and even if morals were different, I'd say there was surely enough similarity in right and wrong to know that what he was doing was wrong. It doesn't really matter to me what his contemporaries were doing. As already mentioned, opposition to slavery began before even Colston was born. I'll at least concede that he was less of a bad person than a modern day slave 'owner' would be though, as the norms have shifted over time, as you've said.

But we've said our sides, and I don't see how we can go further without repeating ourselves continuously