Native American enthusiast Brian Connery paints over grinning face on his 10ft statue after villager complained of its ‘racist overtones’ pensioner repainted the face of a black figure on a Native American totem pole he had erected in his garden after a “woke neighbour” complained to police that it was racist. Brian Connery, who is an enthusiast of Native American culture, installed the 10ft decorative wooden feature earlier this summer in front of his bungalow in Brantham, Suffolk. However, a villager took exception to a carved wooden figure on the pole which depicted a grinning black man with bright white...