To my eye it is a fine statue. A thoughtful study of well…thoughtfulness. He seems to be pondering. Not quite ‘The Thinker’ but certainly noble looking. Yes noble even if he was a slave trader. You see a statue is an idealized version of the subject. That’s what he will have asked for. Or should be an idealized version. I actually prefer it to the Churchill statue.
History. When does ‘history’ start? We say facetiously when a relationship ends he or she ‘is history now’. So that is the morning after the night before. We talk of ‘contemporary history’ but it’s not really REAL history is it? The Second World War is history but its not ‘deep in history’ because (stating the obvious) it’s not such a long time ago but CRUCIALLY ,(to my argument) there are people still living from that time.
The French Revolution IS history. My point-it must have been terrible for the poor aristocrats climbing the scaffold to be topped but we DONT REALLY SHED A TEAR for them now do we? Why? Because it’s history. They’re people from history. (Whereas people do still shed a tear for people in the 2nd World War). We might be interested in Robespierre but don’t shed a tear for him.
Slavery is history. We don’t really care, or ‘have a relationship’ with the slaves that were brought over from Africa. We lament what happened but we put it in the box of ‘that’s history’. The toppling of the Colston statue is about politics today. Most of those taking part were white. It’s an attack on Britishness essentially. They didn’t care (no-one could) about the black slaves because they’re long dead in history. They don’t really care about black people now in my opinion what they care about is destroying what they think it is to be British.
Returning to nobility. I fully expect a statue of a black slave enchained to be put where the Colston statue was. But it won’t be appropriate for an English city. It’s not that kind of nobility that a public statue requires. It needs to be restrained, have decorum. Yes like the Colston statue.
If there is to be a statue of a black man let it be Frank Bruno. He was always described as ‘statuesque’.
Nominated by: Miles Plastic
News just in that a Statue of Cecil Rhodes is to be taken down.
Wondering whether there are any statues of black people being taken down or whether it’s just whitey that needs to be trodden into the ground. Watched some cunt on TV yesterday saying that Africa was a peaceful place before whitey came and everyone lived in harmony with their neighbors and had plenty to eat.
This is bollocks. Africa was a shithole rife with tribal warfare but that doesn’t fit the BLM narrative. All lives matter – not just black ones – and rewriting history doesn’t mean it never happened.
Orwell’s Ministry of Truth has well and truly arrived…
Nominated by Dioclese
Are there facets of Britain’s past that could be construed as sanguinary, immoral and criminal? Yes, surely. But, this applies to every and all nations across the world. Every single nation has a past that does not show it in a particularly good light. It’s human nature to sin, be competitive and strive for the best standards of living while we’re here on this weird and whacky world, so it was inevitable there were going to be winners and losers, people who feel aggrieved, people who don’t agree with the way things get done. The cycle will always continue and there will always be minorities, subcultures and people who perceive themselves as ‘victims’. There will never be a world in which there will never not be any crime, disharmony, injustice , grief, sorrow, suicide, murder, paedophilia, homosexuality, bi-sexuality, transgenderism, dwarfism, physical illness, mental illness . . . because, in case you didn’t already know, LIFE IS UNFAIR AND FULL OF CUNTS!
As for BLM, well, it is laden with hypocrisy, since the continent of Africa had practiced slavery and slave trading on its own people before the Portuguese and Britain started practicing it. And even when Portugal and Britain started it, a lot of Africans were only too happy to help out in order to share the lucrative spoils of the boon (coon boon??) at the height of the trading. Not denying that a lot injustice, criminality and horror took place in antiquity, but there needs to be some perspective and myths dispelled to give it all some balance. In addition, a lot of these woke white protesters are merely sheep who are virtue-signalling; they neither know nor care about the BLM movement fully.
Completely agree with the poster somewhere above who said that he does not feel ashamed of his ancestors’ actions in antiquity, since people back then were living in extremely harsh conditions and life expectancy was short. Also agree with him on the inevitability of winners and losers in life; as I said previously, it’s human nature to be competitive and human nature to sin. And, in a nutshell, life is unfair. I fundamentally disagree with the slave-trading that took place in history, but all races have suffered from slavery and injustice and discrimination, even white people. Everyone is still a slave — a slave to the wage.
PS: The U.K. is still the best nation on earth to live. It may not be perfect, but I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.
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Africa was a peaceful place before whitey arrived. Any of the tribes that lived anywhere near the Zulu’s would endorse that statement. What fucking history books are these fuckwits reading? The happy unicorns rainbow history of Africa lgbtqwsdxz approved without nasty white type facist bastard oppressors translated into woke by a team of black studies scholars and disabled ethnic moralists.
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Apparently the RFU are looking at ‘Swing Low’ as it’s to do with slavery.
Spineless cunts.
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Next up, England to play in black. And the flag to be changed because its image fosters glorifying crusading and imperialism.
Hang the cunts suggesting it.
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The flag is already despised by the wealthy, leftard hypocrite know-alls who influence the media. It represents the ‘untermensch’ of this country whom they also despise.
It’s their fascism but they cant realise it,let alone admit it.
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