Parliament's artworks are being 're-evaluated' because many have a 'racist history' and were bought with wealth from the slave trade, says curator

UK Daily Mail ^ | June 20, 2020 | Kate Dennett

[C19fan]

The curator of parliament's art collection said that artefacts in Westminster are being reevaluated, as many statues and paintings have a 'racist history' and were bought with wealth from the slave trade. The Palace of Westminster lobbies, which are open to the public, are lined with artwork featuring 18th and 19th Century politicians, many of whom were connected to the slave trade. Melissa Hamnett, the head of heritage collections and curator of works of art, said officials are looking at the collection in light of the Black Lives Matter movement.

[C19fan]

Burn Them!!!! Our revolutionaries are even more destructive of past culture than the Leninists.

[livius]

Now, now...they’re just clearing the way for the Brave New World.

[neverevergiveup]

Then they need to get rid of all the mosques in the UK (and elsewhere) because slavery was a big part of muslim culture, and Muhammad captured, owned and sold slaves.

[Gen.Blather]

“Our revolutionaries are even more destructive of past culture than the Leninists.”

Periodically, successful cultures go crazy and destroy themselves. I don’t want to starve, which is where this usually ends up.

I hope that we are so big and widespread that this won’t happen to Western Civilization, but when the very people who are teaching WC in college are out burning things down...well, there ya’ go.

[Hieronymus]

That’s Babel. :) Nice Post.

[HollyB]

How about The mosque in Jersusalem which was built after destroying the temple.

[Machavelli]

And if you check history, the Muslims have been involved in slavery for 1400 years. In the US, this begs the questions, how many people are indirectly involved with slavery by having generational wealth that dates back to antebellum days? Since fewer than 5% of the Southern population owned slaves, I would doubt that a significant population of today’s Americans can trace their lineage back to that group. Most Americans of today descend from immigrants that came here after the Civil War. Slavery is, was, and always will be horribly repugnant.

[Rebelbase]

[kearnyirish2]

You are right that a relatively small number of whites owned slaves, but that doesn’t fit the narrative so it is ignored. Here in the northeast while slavery was legal for a time it certainly didn’t form any economic backbone; that is why northerners were generally OK with ending it in their own states prior to the war.

Outside of the work requirement, I see little difference between the relationship between slaveowners and their slaves 160 years ago and taxpayers and many urban blacks today; the former have to provide every basic need for the latter, and the latter remain in an ignorant, angry, dependent state.

[DoodleBob]

I didn't know George and Bootsy painted, too.

[libstripper]

Now I suppose a history of Nazi Germany can’t include pictures of Hitler, Himmler, Goering, et al, and a history of the Soviet Union can’t include pictures of Stalin, Lenin, and Trotsky.

[SunkenCiv]

The Degenerate Art Exhibition, 19 July to 30 November 1937
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_Art_Exhibition