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This hack claims Nelson was pro-slavery and used his seat in the House of Lords to oppose Wilberforce. I find that idea absolute rubbish. Nelson was made a peer in 1798 as a reward for his victories. He was out to sea most of the time thereafter fighting the Spanish and French until his death at Trafalgar in 1805. I assume this woman would rather be speaking French. But hey Napoleon was trying to create a united Europe.
1 posted on 08/22/2017 1:34:05 PM PDT by C19fan
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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.


2 posted on 08/22/2017 1:37:08 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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This "writer" is an uneducated ( no matter her supposed "degrees" ), black female lefty, who is just a lousy stupid MILLENNIAL who works for SKY NEWS.

Yes, I looked up the name, because I wondered who wrote this benighted, meritless drivel.

3 posted on 08/22/2017 1:39:15 PM PDT by nopardons
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My British History stopped at 1781...................


5 posted on 08/22/2017 1:40:40 PM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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And so the Great Leftist Cultural Revolution spreads from America to Britain.


6 posted on 08/22/2017 1:41:48 PM PDT by samtheman (As an oil exporter, why would the Russians prefer Trump to Hillary? (Get it or be stupid.))
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Imagine if one allowed this women inside Westminster Abbey where all the dead white “racists” are buried. She would tear the place down.


7 posted on 08/22/2017 1:41:54 PM PDT by C19fan
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I assume this woman would rather be speaking French.

"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.


8 posted on 08/22/2017 1:44:36 PM PDT by montag813 (ue)
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Of course, the hard left doesn’t give Wilberforce much credit either as he far predated Marx.


9 posted on 08/22/2017 2:07:34 PM PDT by JimSEA
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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?


11 posted on 08/22/2017 2:57:59 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Let Trump Be Trump. Would you rather have Hillary?)
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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.


14 posted on 08/22/2017 3:11:48 PM PDT by miss marmelstein
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Why don't we tear down the pyramids? Weren't they built by Hebrew slaves? That's something that is still today making money from slavery.

-PJ

15 posted on 08/22/2017 3:17:22 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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You can find websites saying Nelson spoke out in 1806 or 1807 against the abolition of the slave trade even though Nelson actually died in 1805.

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.

16 posted on 08/22/2017 3:39:40 PM PDT by x
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