
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