Current Affairs Liverpool streets named after slavers....

[degsy]

Nope it will have none whatsoever.

In fact it will do nothing except some nonentities feel good about themselves.

Which is mostly the point of the exercise.
Im still not sure if @Moomin deserves praise for airing the subject or reeling us in, probably both

 

[peteblue]

Which is mostly the point of the exercise.
Im still not sure if @Moomin deserves praise for airing the subject or reeling us in, probably both

it’s actually turned into a decent subject.....fishing trip or not.....

 

[degsy]

it’s actually turned into a decent subject.....fishing trip or not.....

Atm, it easily beats the 'k out of moyes or silva...(neither is the correct answer)

 

[stony]

The most ridiculous thread ever started. I’m surprised tbh.....we would be changing names every 25-50:years as each name fell to the latest pc culture.......goodbye Saville row.......

Probably the most ridiculous analogy I've ever seen. All those slavers weren't evil at all, just politically incorrect by todays standards.

 

[Yakinblue]

Think the City of Liverpool should commission a memorial of some kind with a sincere apology with it.

 

[peteblue]

Think the City of Liverpool should commission a memorial of some kind with a sincere apology with it.

yes, and every Liverpool resident should pay £10,000 compensation to all the families of those who were transported.....

 

[Yakinblue]

yes, and every Liverpool resident should pay £10,000 compensation to all the families of those who were transported.....

Where did you get $10K compo from you silly person?

 

[peteblue]

Where did you get $10K compo from you silly person?

I just made it up, like you did......

 

[Yakinblue]

I just made it up, like you did......

I never made anything up you silly, silly person...

 

[peteblue]

I never made anything up you silly, silly person...

*puts on ignore.....

 

[Yakinblue]

*puts on ignore.....

I take no pleasure in winning arguments and knowing I'm right...

 

[Armaghtoffee]

Think the City of Liverpool should commission a memorial of some kind with a sincere apology with it.

The Slavery Museum?

 

[tonyhorne]

I take no pleasure in winning arguments and knowing I'm right...

Is that because you never manage this?

 

[Taifi gorm]

The Slavery Museum?

This.
Contributing in any form to establishing a few more of these in America, the Caribbean etc only with more of an inclusion of Muslim and African involvement and the fundamental capitalist rather than racial nature of the trade would be a more fitting epitaph.

 

[LEONARD]

Think the City of Liverpool should commission a memorial of some kind with a sincere apology with it.

The Liverpool maritime museum has a permanent and excellent slavery exhibition.

Visitors from around the world are left in no doubt, as regards Liverpool's role in the evils of slavery.

I don't hold with retrospective apologies, but we must be open and honest as regards our city's history, the good and the bad.