Current Affairs The Landmarks of Slavery;

[Eggs]

The toppling of Edward Colston’s statue in Bristol is being lauded by some and highlighted as hooliganism by others, but it has opened a debate about landmarks associated with slavery. London mayor, Sadiq Khan, has ordered a review of sites in the capital like the world famous Guy’s Hospital

A visit to the Maritime museum shows Liverpool‘s association with slavery through many of its street names. Penny Lane is named after 18th Century slave trader, James Penny, whilst the Goree is part of the Dock Road and named after an island off the Senegal coast synonymous with slavery.

I’m an old white bloke and accept its easy for me to say let things be, but perhaps we should be educated about the origin of such sites. I’m not saying we should celebrate that city’s like Liverpool and Bristol have been built on the wealth of slavery but we shouldn’t hide it. Perhaps those street signs and statues could carry an image associating them with their shameful origin.

 

[Debunkology]

Perhaps those street signs and statues could carry an image associating them with their shameful origin.

Well, It would send a far stronger message than tearing it down and eliminating history altogether.

 

[ilikecheese]

Create a museum for all of it. Learn about the history. Grow

 

[PhilM]

The most successful war ship in global naval history, one that captured or sank more ships than any other, was built at the Laird’s Birkenhead shipyard on the western bank of the River Mersey, opposite Liverpool. This was the CSS Alabama: a confederate ship. It was commissioned in Rumford Place by spy, fundraiser and unofficial ambassador to the UK of the Confederate government, Commander James Dunwoody Bulloch.

 

[the sniderman]

thank u for ur opinion whites.

 

[ilikecheese]

Well, It would send a far stronger message than tearing it down and eliminating history altogether.

Putting them in a non public museum is the only way.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

Well, It would send a far stronger message than tearing it down and eliminating history altogether.

You know the story about how, after the fall of the Roman Empire the Visigoths went round systematically smashing up statues of Roman gods and emperors?

No, of course you don't because when a statue is removed all memory of it disappears too.

 

[Eggs]

Putting them in a non public museum is the only way.

....it’s a difficult one, do we change street names associated with the slave trade?

 

[the sniderman]

You know the story about how, after the fall of the Roman Empire the Visigoths went round systematically smashing up statues of Roman gods and emperors?

No, of course you don't because when a statue is removed all memory of it disappears too.

so the story lives on as will this story which has created impact in modern world media about a statue that has stood for 200 years without this amount of scrutiny.

 

[Blueclouds]

What about the costs of museums in years to come. What if the fund get pulled? Maybe wikipedia will still be around to tell the next generations.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

so the story lives on as will this story which has created impact in modern world media about a statue that has stood for 200 years without this amount of scrutiny.

Was exactly the point I was making. A dull statue getting dumped in a river has given Edward Colston more notoriety than 200 years of his likeness sitting in place.

 

[the sniderman]

Was exactly the point I was making. A dull statue getting dumped in a river has given Edward Colston more notoriety than 200 years of his likeness sitting in place.

and u made that point fantastically buddy. i wonder if others rushing to the solution will consider that we should be listening to the disenfranchized now about what they would like done with the statue , including the ones who already took action after years of inaction.

 

[Debunkology]

Was exactly the point I was making. A dull statue getting dumped in a river has given Edward Colston more notoriety than 200 years of his likeness sitting in place.

Yeah, but it will be forgotten in a week. Like a lot of modern stories these days.

Tourists and locals wondering around the city won’t see a statue of Edward Colston anymore. Whereas the statue could have been used to highlight his part in slavery for as long as it stood there.

A wasted opportunity.

 

[Disgruntledgoat]

Yeah, but it will be forgotten in a week. Like a lot of modern stories these days.

Tourists and locals wondering around the city won’t see a statue of Edward Colston anymore. Whereas the statue could have been used to highlight his part in slavery for as long as it stood there.

A wasted opportunity.

You'd never heard of Edward Colston until Sunday, I hadn't either. Now we all know about his activities in the slave trade and some of the brutality his employees went about. The statue has served it's purpose.

 

[the sniderman]

the ultimate goal surely must be the churchill statue my friends. let us see if they pursue this and if the authorities let them take it so easy.