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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Not to mention the District of Columbia. Named after Columbus who has all kinds of issues according to the wokesters of the world.
How can ANY good person even stand to live or work there! It’s hideous!!!!
Cancel the whole bunch of those bastards and biotches
Ask the people who risked their lives in WW II and lost loved ones - many loves ones - how they feel about how their country turned out and was it worth it.
Most said NO, and if the they knew how things would turn out, they never would have fought.
"This isn't the Britain we Fought For say the Unknown Warriors of WW II"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229643/This-isnt-Britain-fought-say-unknown-warriors-WWII.html
Love The Kinks...
“... As long as I gaze on
Waterloo sunset
I am in paradise... “
Remind me again... which ‘religion’ does not like statues of any kind?
Got to find a reason to remove all of them, so it does not look like you are just doing it for that purpose
It sure is.
Make Orwell fiction again!
When you realize these statues are not being removed for anything the subject did - but because they depict White men - then it becomes less absurd and more malevolent.
Progressives I presume?
Wow, how prescient.
The connection being he was against it.
Don’t let the progressives tear down history regardless what that history is.
Without history and traditions... a country has nothing and is easier to topple
Even then they cannot manage to meet their own virtue levels.
You nailed it...
The history destroying piggies strike again. They will only allow statues in America of mythical African “heroes” who they allege made American history by creating the United States of America. Bozo lies. All BS. In their gay Broadway farce, “Hamilton”, the idiots even allege that the Founding Fathers were Africans.
The ChiComs did this after winning the civil war there, and a couple of decades later their allies the Khmer Rouge took it to a whole ‘nuther level.
Mao’s ‘Cultural Revolution’ by his ‘Red Guards’......................
Before that they were basically erasing Chinese history; they were furious that the Nationalists took many historical treasures to Taiwan because it was evidence of their rewriting of history.
having worked in a cotton mill from age 10 which had ‘likely’ used West Indian cotton.
= = =
Doesn’t that make him a slave, too?
Yes, this is not about slavery (which is fine when the moslims and Africans do it) but cancelling white people.
I wear cotton shirts and I like them, so I guess I’ll never get a statue. :-(
“Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”
“Not anymore.”
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