Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Pic of the week

Black Lives Matter protesters rolling a statue of British slave trader Edward Colston.
Photo by Giulia Spadafora/NurPhoto via Getty Images.


A mob of black people, their faces contorted with rage at the killing of George Floyd 3,900 miles away, spontaneously pull down a 125-year-old statue and roll it into Bristol harbour.

2 comments:

  1. Paddington10 June 2020 at 20:18

    The UK is a slightly different matter.

    Here in the US, most of the Southern Civil War statues were erected in the 1960's by segregationists, who wanted to reinforce the lessons of Jim Crow. Read 'Lies across America'.

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  2. Sackerson10 June 2020 at 20:21

    I;d say it's a very different matter. This is tw*ts on parade. 50 years ago they'd have been spray-stencilling Ho Chi Minh posters on Oxford walls.

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