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In reply to the discussion: Protesters Say Statue Tripped [View all]gristy
(10,667 posts)47. Quite the commentary at The Guardian link
last paragraph:
Now is not the time for those who for so long defended the indefensible to contort themselves into some new, supposedly moral stance, or play the victim. Their strategy of heel-dragging and obfuscation was predicated on one fundamental assumption: that what happened on Sunday would never happen. They were confident that black people and brown people who call Bristol their home would forever tolerate living under the shadow of a man who traded in human flesh, that the power to decide whether Colston stood or fell lay in their hands. They were wrong on every level. Whatever is said over the next few days, this was not an attack on history. This is history. It is one of those rare historic moments whose arrival means things can never go back to how they were.
And I must say that the photo in the OP is just beyond amazing. One for the history books.
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I can think of a few other public "monuments" to racism who could do with a similar dunking.
Ford_Prefect
Jun 2020
#6
I had in mind a few of those breathing "monuments" who pretend to serve the people.
Ford_Prefect
Jun 2020
#10
I saw the statue jump and scream "F BLM" and "F Antifa" as it entered the water.
IronLionZion
Jun 2020
#16
That statue CLEARLY had pre-existing conditions that lead to his sinking underwater so
FailureToCommunicate
Jun 2020
#22