Posted on 10/19/2020 10:32:21 AM PDT by rxsid
UK City to Change Statues Which ‘Over-Celebrated Empire, Christianity and “Great” White Men’
An official review of statues in Leeds, England, concluded that they “over-celebrated Empire, Christianity and ‘great’ white men” and should be changed through the use of new public-facing plaques putting them a different context.
Leeds was the site of one of the more dramatic statue vandalisations in Britain as BLM unrest swept the country, with an impressive monument to Queen Victoria being defaced with the BLM slogans and pejoratives including ‘racist’, ‘whore’, ‘slag’, and ‘slave owner’ — wholly inaccurately, as the British had abolished the slave trade decades prior to her coronation and spent much of her reign stamping it out globally, at great cost.
The local government responded by announcing a review targeting such British icons as the Duke of Wellington, hero of Waterloo, Sir Robert Peel, founder of the police, and the Black Prince, a medieval royal with no connection to the slave trade or colonialism.
That review, led by Labour politician Alison Lowe, had to conclude that Leeds did not commemorate any major players in the former slave trade ... but nevertheless found a way to taint them as what the newspaper called “beneficiaries of hereditary wealth and colonialism”.
None will be removed, however, as a public consultation found just 10 per cent of people wanted any change.
“I was surprised there were so few people wanted any change… only 10 per cent wanted some active change. I know thousands did not [respond] but we had to take it that they were happy with the status quo,” Lowe told the YEP, perhaps more perturbed than she appeared to let on.
“For black people, we live in a world where white voices and white faces and white names predominate. We don’t like it,” Lowe insisted.
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Hard to believe this is the same country that practically stood alone against Nazi Germany.
“For black people, we live in a world where white voices and white faces and white names predominate. We don’t like it,” Lowe insisted.
Black Marxists making their moves.
This will only end in war.
Article actually indicates that there will be no change, as so few people want any.
Dude you are in the UK not Africa and just who is WE. And by the way nobody cares if you don't like it.
What’s next, a worldwide Jim Jones event?
So, they’re gonna erect a statue of Mary Queen of Scots?....................
You know, Englishmen.
Wogs of the world rejoice!
For your interest.
Rivers of blood coming soon.
For your interest.
England has violated the key principles of immigration.
Only admit people who love England and want to be English.
Of those, only admit those who have something to offer England, and only in numbers that can be successfully assimilated.
I hate to be one of those "Then move to Africa." guys, but seriously, lowe should move to Africa. He can live in a world of predominantly black faces and voices to his heart's content.
Good that they’re being honest.
Worse is they pretend like the US that they’re not doing it.
As: Pull down statues of Founders who wanted America’s worst traits-—like George Washington? Then the slave holders-—like Benjamin Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt? Well, imperialists then——like Catholic Saint Junipero Serra? Wanted to keep slavery perpetuated—— like Abraham Lincoln?
So DO something, invent something, ANYTHING. Has the wheel ever been independently invented in Africa to this day?
Obviously only half-black, although she missed out on the straight hair.
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