Demonstrations against racism have in the Uk triggered a debate about the way in which the british celebrate and commemorate the past as a colonial power on, and Tuesday was a statue of a slave trader in London removed from its socket and carried away.
– Although it is a sad truth that much of our city’s and nation’s wealth derived from the trade with slaves, so there is no reason to celebrate it in our public squares, writes the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, in a tweet with a photo of the statue.
UPDATE: The statue of the slave trader Robert Milligan has now been removed from the West India Quay.
It’s a sad truth that much of our wealth was derived from the slave trade – but this does not have to be celebrated in our public spaces. #BlackLivesMatterpic.twitter.com/ca98capgnQ
Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) June 9, 2020
the Statues, which glorifies the slave traders and colonists, have come into focus in recent days in the Uk in connection with the Black Lives Matter-protests, which began in the UNITED states after the black man George Floyd’s death in police custody.
Sadiq Khan has earlier ordered a review of the statues and street names in the whole of London as a response to the demonstrations in the city.
on Sunday removed the protesters in the English port city of Bristol, a statue of a slaver and threw it in the water.
the Statue depicts Edward Colston, who was prominent in the deal with about 80,000 men, women and children, who were forced from Africa to America in the 1600s and 1700s.
Monday required about 1000 demonstrators in Oxford, that a statue of kolonisten Cecil Rhodes also to be removed.
the Businessman Cecil Rhodes founded the country Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, in the british empire’s heyday and profited on the diamond mines in southern Africa.
See also: Protesters threw slaver statue in the river in Bristol,
