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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 ...


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To: C19fan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa


21 posted on 12/05/2018 11:33:44 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Picture worth many thousand words. This is an evil person clear through.


22 posted on 12/05/2018 1:37:33 PM PST by robowombat (Orthodox)
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