Current Affairs Liverpool streets named after slavers....

[Moomin]

Should we look to rename the likes of Bold Street, Rodney Street etc

Streets named after notorious slave traders, we should look to change and not honour their legacy of ill gotten gains through the slave trade.

Anyway, lets vote.

 

[Huyton Layne]

Probably. Stevie G St and Rafael St would do.

 

[BlueLlama]

As a non-scouser I was pretty shocked to learn this.
Shameful really

 

[Kurt.]

Django Avenue has a ring to it

 

[roydo]

We have had this same discussion in Bristol for years and years. And in the end, it was generally accepted that no one these days knows why a street, a concert hall, a statue, or a clock tower was named anyrate. It was just what it was called.

And this in a city that was built on slavery, tobacco, and sherry. And also still has streets called Blackboy Hill and Whiteladies Road.

Basically, they arent honoured anymore, they are just there.

 

[Huyton Layne]

We have had this same discussion in Bristol for years and years. And in the end, it was generally accepted that no one these days knows why a street, a concert hall, a statue, or a clock tower was named anyrate. It was just what it was called.

And this in a city that was built on slavery, tobacco, and sherry. And also still has streets called Blackboy Hill and Whiteladies Road.

Basically, they arent honoured anymore, they are just there.

If it were statues or memorials then get rid but Bold Street just makes me think of fights late on a Saturday or where someone would throw a sausage to give a visual representation of how wide someone's mother's vagina was

 

[Toast]

Letsbe Avenue gets my vote.

 

[roydo]

If it were statues or memorials then get rid but Bold Street just makes me think of fights late on a Saturday or where someone would throw a sausage to give a visual representation of how wide someone's mother's vagina was

Different days wasnt it? Those merchants made their money from what we now view, rightly, from pretty crap sources, but certainly in Bristol, gifted huge assets to the city that are enjoyed generations later. Doesnt mean they are glorified.

The largest importer of tobacco built a world renowned university a few hundred years ago. Killed millions by extension of his trade. What do we do? Knock the place down?

 

[tsubaki]

No - doing things like that (or giving pardons to dead men) is pointless and it has in the past been exploited by modern politicians and the public to make them look or feel rather more liberal, humane or caring than they in fact are.

Society / the government / the country should feel shame that those things happened, and streets named after the people responsible is a really good way of reminding everyone. Having constant reminders of the city's past should help people not to forget it, both the good and the bad.

 

[Hickson9]

No.

A pointless token gesture and pointless revisionism.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Letsbe Avenue gets my vote.

Is that just off Delia barks street?

 

[Barnfred 55]

No. It won't change what happened in the past and it certainly won't change who we are now. The vast majority of people will not even be aware of the connections to the slave trade, and for those that do they stand as a reminder of a past age that mustn't ever be repeated.

In fact I would rather the effort was spent trying to eradicate the current slave trade that seems to be creeping back into our society.

 

[Deleted member 28206]

How about renaming Liverpool, port of slaves.

or Barclays, sellers of slaves.

 

[Connor]

Evening @chicoazul

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Penny Lane should be renamed

So says the Devil