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Mixed race mayor removes Gainsborough painting of 18th century aristocrat from her office over [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | December 5, 2018 | Amie Gordon

Posted on 12/05/2018 7:23:25 AM PST by C19fan

A Lord Mayor has removed a portrait of a politician linked to the slave trade from her office and replaced it with the picture of an African-American woman.

Cleo Lake took down the 'dull and dated' portrait of Lord Nugent holding the 1750 Act of Parliament, painted by Thomas Gainsborough, from the walls of City Hall in Bristol.

The Mayor has replaced the portrait with a painting of Henrietta Lacks, whose cancer cells became the source of the HeLa cell line and central to modern medicine.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: pc; race
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Bristol, England picked a winner with this new mayor. Race hustling hack. Now there is a generic picture of a lion and someone from across the pond with no link to Bristol. How about a portrait of Edmund Burke who was a MP for Bristol?
1 posted on 12/05/2018 7:23:25 AM PST by C19fan
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I don’t see the problem with removing the painting by a half black mayor. However the media-show aspect over doing this gives me reason for pause. There should be some reverence for the past. And furthermore the ability to be able to look at history from a contemporary view. Not to look at something from 1750 through the values of today.


2 posted on 12/05/2018 7:28:33 AM PST by BJ1
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Should hang up one of those black velvet posters with the girl having a sweet afro and she's on a panther or cheetah.
3 posted on 12/05/2018 7:32:37 AM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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Only a blazing insane mad dog liberal would take down a Gainsborough for some shlock piece of nothing. Soon they will level the rest of yourl lost island and all its past memorabilia.


4 posted on 12/05/2018 7:34:41 AM PST by RArtfulogerDodger (peace, Love, and Joy To All, Especially Obama and Democrats)
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They want us dead, they don’t want equality or parity. This is just the start of what isn’t going to be a nice ending.


5 posted on 12/05/2018 7:35:32 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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<>"There should be some reverence for the past."<>

Just sit down, shut up and be erased you Stupid Cracker!

6 posted on 12/05/2018 7:41:45 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Your Hatred for my white skin makes me a Racist how?)
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Cultural genocide.


7 posted on 12/05/2018 7:45:16 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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This is ridiculous. Henrietta Lacks complete contribution to science was going to the doctor. What a load of race hustling garbage. To even think of replacing a Gainsborough with that picture is an insult to anyone with eyes.


8 posted on 12/05/2018 7:48:51 AM PST by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP! WWG1WGA)
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9 posted on 12/05/2018 7:49:06 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
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So much of this sort of thing is just because the person knows they will be on TV and make headlines. So much of it is display and the greed to be an instant ‘celebrity’. The media is at fault for this. She knew she’d get her face on the cameras.


10 posted on 12/05/2018 7:49:17 AM PST by squarebarb ( Fairy tales are basically true.)
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The Real English Woman!

England should be a wonderful mixture of Nigeria and Pakistan within about 30 years.

Hope the idiot Labor party voters like the nightmare they inflicted on themselves.


11 posted on 12/05/2018 7:58:31 AM PST by Regulator
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So they honor an American? What is the connection to this English town?


12 posted on 12/05/2018 8:06:04 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
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Better ban The Beatles’ Penny Lane while they are at it and rename the lane


13 posted on 12/05/2018 8:06:57 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
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Racist bitch. It’s always about race with these bottomfeeding commie piglets.


14 posted on 12/05/2018 8:36:59 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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‘Dated” LOL! It’s called “history”.


15 posted on 12/05/2018 8:59:18 AM PST by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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I’ve been saying that for years. The problem for them is, they’ll never be on par with whites, so whites must be eliminated.


16 posted on 12/05/2018 9:04:19 AM PST by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

She has one MEAN ASS FACE!


17 posted on 12/05/2018 9:12:19 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Damn wish I knew what she was going to do. I ‘d have paid her a 40 oz bottle of Colt 45 and a carton of Kools for that Gainsborough.


18 posted on 12/05/2018 9:18:20 AM PST by Polynikes ( Hakkaa palle)
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Her bra size is larger than her IQ...


19 posted on 12/05/2018 9:32:09 AM PST by mozarky2 (Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist...)
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Is there a prototypical model for gals like this? Abrams in Georgia, Breed in San Francisco, Moochelle at large? same hair stylists, same condescending attitudes, on a quest to rewrite history, seek justice, talk about a global curse..


20 posted on 12/05/2018 9:49:15 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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