"This woman," Afua Hirsch, is half Ghanian (Black) and half-Jewish (English-Jewish father) whose mother was a migrant to Norway when her father impregnated her there. She probably hates herself even more than she hates Britain and its history.
Posted on 08/22/2017 1:34:05 PM PDT by C19fan
The area I grew up in, leafy Wimbledon in south-west London, is bordered by memorials to two towering historical figures. One side dedicates its streets and walls to the legacy of the abolitionist William Wilberforce: the remnants of a house where he lounged with his friends, and the mounting block he used to get on his horse to ride to the Houses of Parliament, still stand.
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True. I doubt Lord Nelson ever even saw the House of Lords. If he wasn’t fighting he was in Italy with that Hamilton Woman he was having a affair with.
Also England lead the way in abolishing slavery in 1833.
Yes, I looked up the name, because I wondered who wrote this benighted, meritless drivel.
SPOT ON!
My British History stopped at 1781...................
And so the Great Leftist Cultural Revolution spreads from America to Britain.
Imagine if one allowed this women inside Westminster Abbey where all the dead white “racists” are buried. She would tear the place down.
"This woman," Afua Hirsch, is half Ghanian (Black) and half-Jewish (English-Jewish father) whose mother was a migrant to Norway when her father impregnated her there. She probably hates herself even more than she hates Britain and its history.
Of course, the hard left doesn’t give Wilberforce much credit either as he far predated Marx.
America is obviously not adult enough to have statues where nobody is offended or adult enough to walk on past and not let inanimate objects bother them without behaving like little terrorists SOOOO...
I suggest we tear down ALL statues. Every last one in all 50 states. Don’t care their race or religion, if they are stone or bronze. Pull them down, bust them up, melt them down for their raw materials and be done with them. Yes, including the Statue of Liberty. By Executive Order and Federal Decree.
What could be more fair than that?
What could be more fair than that?
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Well, that would seem to ‘solve’ the problem.
But then, with all this new power they have ‘gained’ —flags attached to your home, flag decals, my Vietnam Vet hat etc etc etc will be the new target.
Not being repetitive but the old
‘They Came for the Jews and since I wasn’t Jewish’ etc etc etc is running full amok at this point.
I think the tide would turn once we got that far down the road. Flags are different, but we’ve never “pledge allegiance to the statue”...
As always with The Guardian, the comments are far more interesting than the article. Suddenly all the British leftists are having second thoughts about tearing down statues...as much as they enjoyed watching the chaos in America. LOL. Phony bastards.
-PJ
I think the real story is that Nelson was friends with slave owners and wrote a letter to a plantation owner criticizing Wilberforce which was published after his death at Trafalgar.
Barbados has been debating whether to remove their statue of Nelson (older than London's) for decades. It's still there, though their Trafalgar Square has been renamed National Heroes Square.
In a sense, I am being hypothetical.
I mean keep letting these creeps inch forward and the sky is the limit.
This crap must be stopped.
If it gets to the scenario I was alluding to, blood probably would have been shed.
She is lucky. Her Fathers genes probably upped her I.Q. to 100 or over
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