Monuments
Posted on 03/31/2022 6:12:26 AM PDT by shadowlands1960
- A statue to famed abolitionist David Livingstone was identified as 'problematic.'
- The statue was among several monuments highlighted in a Glasgow report.
- Glasgow City Council commissioned the report to help it take note of monuments in the Scottish city which has associations with the slave trade.
A monument to a famous abolitionist could be removed due to an alleged connection to the slave trade.
A statue to David Livingstone, the anti-slavery missionary and explorer, in Glasgow was identified in a 119-page report identifying a series of sites in Glasgow with links to slavery.
The monument was identified due to Livingstone's 'defence' of cotton masters having worked in a cotton mill from age 10 which had 'likely' used West Indian cotton.
Livingstone condemned slavery as the ‘greatest meanness ever perpetrated’ but regarded cotton masters as benevolent and paternalistic.
The Glasgow Slavery Audit, commissioned by the council and led by historian Dr Stephen Mullen of Glasgow University, focused on individuals from the city and elsewhere involved in Atlantic slavery between 1603 and 1838.
It was commissioned in September 2019. a year before the Black Lives Matter resurgence in June 2020 which saw the statue of slaver Edward Colston in Bristol torn down and dumped in Bristol Harbour by activists.
Some of the individuals shaped the city, while others are memorialised in eight statues erected around Glasgow.
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This is the height of absurdity.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
The want to get rid of John Brown’s statues as well...........
Dr. Livingstone, I presume? When is this woke war going to end?
Actually, the way things are headed, I believe just having the wrong complexion will be enough to have you eliminated...
Doesn’t surprise me. Liberals will eventually all turn into blood-thirsty fascists that will accept no one who is not ideologically pure. Any mar on your background, no matter how slight or unintentional or how far back, is enough to ruin you, just like in the dystopian movies. They are all Stalin wannabes.
The liberal Taliban at work...
When we decide we have had enough and are willing to “pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”
No one seems to be stopping them so why not?
Isn’t this what Britain fought for in WW II?
So their statues could be torn down and their history re-written.
I have Scottish heritage and I’m not too proud of it.
Could any of these Virtue Grandstanders live up to their own scrutiny?
“If only there be ten righteous ….”
Yeah, I’m 68% English, the rest mostly Scottish with a sliver of Irish. I’m a walking United Kingdom..
“All the stories have been told
Of kings and days of old,
But there’s no England now.
All the wars that were won and lost,
Somehow don’t seem to matter very much anymore.”
Maybe we ought to start ignoring laws coming from Washington DC. After all, it’s problematic since it’s named after George Washington. And he was a slave owner.
BOOM!
So long as they worship Sodomy and Trannies, that’s all that seems to matter today.
Yep those ten year olds were making all the decisions at the plant.....
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