Posted on 07/16/2021 10:10:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
“He did sermons with the head of his opponents on a pike.”
London Mayor Sadiq Khan defended the impending placement of a statue of John Chilembwe, an anti-colonial activist who ordered the decapitation of William Livingstone in front of his children and then displayed his head on a pike, saying it served to “reflect London’s achievements and diversity.”
Yes, really.
Chilembwe was a Baptist pastor and educator who became a militant resistance fighter who railed against the treatment of Africans working in agriculture on European-owned plantations in Malawi in the early 1900’s.
Chilembwe led a violent revolt against the Bruce estates, which culminated in William Jervis Livingstone and other European colonizers being decapitated on his orders.
In 1915, Livingstone was beheaded in front of his own children and Chilembwe subsequently displayed his impaled head on a spike during a church service.
In recognition of his struggle, a bronze statue of Chilembwe is being installed in London’s historic Trafalgar Square, which one website describes as “an act of resilience and revival for an aware British society that is experiencing how centuries of slavery perpetuated by Europeans has hindered African society.”
A statue of #Malawi Baptist preacher, freedom fighter and pan-Africanist John Chilembwe by #Malawi artist @kambalu_s will now stand on Trafalgar Square in London. Congratulations Samsonhttps://t.co/Q5sQf68F7w
— Jack McBrams (@mcbrams) July 5, 2021
“The Chilembwe statue will help bystanders and British citizens reflect on some of the historical grievances that took place so that the social betterment of a western country doesn’t harm another community or race of people,” reports Travel Noire.
When challenged on his decision to green light the statue, even as a ‘woke’ statue commission works to remove sculptures of historical European figures, London Mayor Sadiq Kahn said the statue “reflect(s) London’s achievements and diversity.”
Shaun Bailey (who is black) told Khan, “this is a man who sanctioned the murder of people… he did sermons with the head of his opponents on a pike.”
However, Khan answered that unlike in the case of “colonizers” and other statues he is seeking to topple, the Chilembwe statue is “art” therefore it should be erected.
“I think art has an important role in stimulating conversation,” said Khan. “I also think we should challenge different perspectives when it comes to history. History is complicated and it is always worth getting a different perspective.”
Gee, I wonder where all this is heading?
Statues they support PING
Ask him about the Islamic imperialism that is going on around the world and even in the West.
Ask him about the Communist imperialism that is going on around the world and even in the West.
He’s being glorified BECAUSE he killed White colonizers!
Only a matter of time before they topple Lord Nelson's statue off the column and replace it with Chilembwes and rename the area Chilembwe Square, the site of Chilembwe's Column.
3vil becomes good, and good becomes evil. Hey London, enjoying your new ‘diverse’ leader yet?
This does not surprise me in the least. The Left loves murderers: Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, etc.
Muslims are a religion of peace no matter where they go ... I’d really laugh at that but I’m afraid I’d laugh so hard I’d lose my head.
Whites must be brain dead.
We will tear down your history and replace it with ours.
That’s a statue that needs to be toppled.
He’s being glorified BECAUSE he killed White colonizers
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And they can indirectly use him to condemn Christianity even he was no Christian. He may have called himself one but that is not a man who had any idea who Christ was.
“He did sermons with the head of his opponents on a pike.”
London Mayor Sadiq Khan defended the impending placement of a statue of John Chilembwe, an anti-colonial activist who ordered the decapitation of William Livingstone in front of his children and then displayed his head on a pike, saying it served to “reflect London’s achievements and diversity.”
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the result of UK being bought and paid for by ME petro dollars and resulting open migration
common law is dead in UK.
welcome to shari
It’s a sick, sick, SICK, SICK world..... London, what is wrong with you?
“Gee, I wonder where all this is heading?”
Gee, I wonder where all this be headed.
there I fixed it for ya
Well one upside of this is that by bending the knee to the hate whitey crowd and begging forgiveness for their past sins Europeans have given up their ability to smugly call America racistfor once having slaves while pretending they had nothing to do with that or the other millennia of slavery they had.
Madness, sheer madness.
These woke Brits will reap what they sow.
Joseph Booth also stated that Chilembwe's father was a Yao and his mother a Mang'anja slave, captured in warfare.Slavery in Africa, who would have thought?
Kahn is himself a colonizer - of Britain.
That one needs to get toppled.
“He’s being glorified BECAUSE he killed White colonizers!”
Colonizers or “Civilizers”?
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