Black Lives Matter demos and protests UK, 2020-2021
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sunnysidedown
caput mortuum
White privilege 2020
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
Ive been reading the link put up by butchersapron
The statue was funded and erected at a time of open class warfare in Bristol. The local wealthy business elites were feeling threatened. The statue of Colston was attempt to attempt to revitalise the cult of Colston. A man who had died 1721. The elites of Bristol had uccessfully set up Colston as a "moral saint" and successful entpreuneur who used his wealth to help the poor some decades before the idea of statue. Colston day was a big event in Bristol. It was not really about Colston it was to show that these Victorian bourgeoisie were the best to run society.
The article shows how they created a myth of Colston. The Colston they invented was how they saw themselves. And how they wanted the lower orders to see them. Elaborate events took place on Colston day - a picture of society were everyone knew there place.
So the statue, for which popular funding was lacking, was brought about in a period when the local bourgeois did not feel secure.
Read two other articles from the excellent site dispelling the myth of Colston.
This is where historical research matters. Colston didn't do the dirty work of slaving. He was the organiser. So at one remove. The defence is that he was a merchant and that his main business was trade not buying and selling slaves.That this part of his business was not main part of his business life. Slaving was part of society in his time so he could not avoid it. Its unfair to pick on him.
Article 2 shows that he was a main player in the Royal African Company. This was set up to buy slaves in the West coast of Africa and sell them in Carribbean. Mainly Jamaica and Barbados. Sanctioned by the King it was a privately run. Colston was a big investor and heavily involved in it- held positions and sat on committees. This was highly successful big operation. Even built its own forts in Africa to protect its interests. Colston left when the going was good with a fortune. He didnt leave because he didnt like slavery. He left as he saw the company future business prospects as poor.
So buying and selling slaves was his main business interest. It was how he became so rich.
He was an organiser of the slave trade. A significant one. Not a bystander or unwilling accomplice. He personally never saw how this was done.
Article one is about the number of human beings that this company transported to Carribbean. It all about numbers and estimates.Got to admire the work that historians have put into this.
Its estimated that 23% died on route.
Estimated 14% were children transported to be slaves.
The amount of money Royal African Company made in Colstons time there ( 1680 - 1692) :
Its this painstaking historical research that dispells the myth of Colston
He was an organiser and profited from the slave trade.
Myths within myths... - Bristol Radical History Group
In the light of recent moves to place a ‘corrective’ plaque on the statue of Edward Colston in the centre of Bristol and calls for it to be removed to a museum it seems the time is right to investigate the origins of this monument and the claim emblazoned on it that it was: Erected […]
www.brh.org.uk
The statue was funded and erected at a time of open class warfare in Bristol. The local wealthy business elites were feeling threatened. The statue of Colston was attempt to attempt to revitalise the cult of Colston. A man who had died 1721. The elites of Bristol had uccessfully set up Colston as a "moral saint" and successful entpreuneur who used his wealth to help the poor some decades before the idea of statue. Colston day was a big event in Bristol. It was not really about Colston it was to show that these Victorian bourgeoisie were the best to run society.
The article shows how they created a myth of Colston. The Colston they invented was how they saw themselves. And how they wanted the lower orders to see them. Elaborate events took place on Colston day - a picture of society were everyone knew there place.
So the statue, for which popular funding was lacking, was brought about in a period when the local bourgeois did not feel secure.
Read two other articles from the excellent site dispelling the myth of Colston.
This is where historical research matters. Colston didn't do the dirty work of slaving. He was the organiser. So at one remove. The defence is that he was a merchant and that his main business was trade not buying and selling slaves.That this part of his business was not main part of his business life. Slaving was part of society in his time so he could not avoid it. Its unfair to pick on him.
Edward Colston Research Paper #2 - Bristol Radical History Group
Introduction This research article is an examination of the Royal African Company (RAC) and the role of Edward Colston (b. 1636 d. 1721) within the organisation as both an investor and executive. It is unsurprising that this history has not been previously collated in this form as Colston still...
www.brh.org.uk
Article 2 shows that he was a main player in the Royal African Company. This was set up to buy slaves in the West coast of Africa and sell them in Carribbean. Mainly Jamaica and Barbados. Sanctioned by the King it was a privately run. Colston was a big investor and heavily involved in it- held positions and sat on committees. This was highly successful big operation. Even built its own forts in Africa to protect its interests. Colston left when the going was good with a fortune. He didnt leave because he didnt like slavery. He left as he saw the company future business prospects as poor.
So buying and selling slaves was his main business interest. It was how he became so rich.
He was an organiser of the slave trade. A significant one. Not a bystander or unwilling accomplice. He personally never saw how this was done.
Edward Colston Research Paper #1 - Bristol Radical History Group
Introduction Edward Colston was an investor, official and eventually deputy governor of the Royal African Company (RAC) from 1680-92. Over this period the RAC purchased and transported tens of thousands of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic into a life of hard labour. This article aims to...
www.brh.org.uk
Article one is about the number of human beings that this company transported to Carribbean. It all about numbers and estimates.Got to admire the work that historians have put into this.
Its estimated that 23% died on route.
Estimated 14% were children transported to be slaves.
The amount of money Royal African Company made in Colstons time there ( 1680 - 1692) :
Its this painstaking historical research that dispells the myth of Colston
He was an organiser and profited from the slave trade.
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two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
at a slight tangent, racists who complain about 'snowflakes' are collectively having a hissy fit at yorkshire tea on teh tweeter
solidaritea ...
at a slight tangent, racists who complain about 'snowflakes' are collectively having a hissy fit at yorkshire tea on teh tweeter
Yeah, I’m a bit cynical of brands jumping on the tweet bandwagon tbh. Amazon have already got in early (think it’s been posted on here already) and so have Nike.
It’s all just a PR move from these type of companies thinking of their bottom line first.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I've no interest what so ever in some imported white privilege American liberal bollocks . I'm for black and white unite and fight. A united working class .
Humberto
Relax
Count me onboard
That type of movement could possibly stop divisive tribalism?
I like this rethink Marty1
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
It's interesting what a week long ban can do 
ska invita
back on the other side
at a slight tangent, racists who complain about 'snowflakes' are collectively having a hissy fit at yorkshire tea on teh tweeter
im sure the impoverished lives of their teapickers and the poverty wage they get paid #matters fuck all to them
continuity plantation business
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littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Still good that they say this, though. I'm trying now - and not always succeeding - not to be too cynical when dodgy politicians or companies, or even coppers, express support for BLM in unequivocal ways. At the very least, they've now set up a level for themselves that we can hold them to in the future. Ah, you agree with this? Ok, so do better then.
ska invita
back on the other side
well its good to slap down british racists on twitter. +50 points
child labour poverty wages continuity of plantation slavery corporate anti-racism washing -1000000 points
TopCat
Putin fanboy
with a knife in her garter.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Was he even born then ?
EDIT:- born the year she lost power.
EDIT:- born the year she lost power.
ice-is-forming
I was born naked, shameless & fucking outrageous..
This is Australian actor Meyne Wyatt, here he is closing up Q&A yesterday with a monologue from one of his plays..
He may as well have said Lord Liverpool! More appropriate actually.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Should have been her heart
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
As tho 1981, 1985, 1990 had never happened
editor
hiraethified
Happening now
www.brixtonbuzz.com
Streatham MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy joins colleagues to take the knee in Parliament, 9th June 2020
Bell Ribeiro-Addy joined Labour colleagues to take to one knee outside Parliament’s today in a symbolic show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter protest movement.
www.brixtonbuzz.com
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
I find this all somewhat depressing. The twitter account has negative references to mixed race relationships and comment that death toll due to virus has been exaggerated.
Its the kind of thing Ive heard before.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Hoddeston in Hertfordshire where the DFLA and mates turned up to protect some statue with a shout of 'go back to Africa', 'There's only one Lee Rigby'
Don't need BLM to turn into a battle of the statues but these twats need confronting when the times right.
Don't need BLM to turn into a battle of the statues but these twats need confronting when the times right.
editor
hiraethified
Britain's finest warriors.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I think some really believe the urban myth that BLM are going to deface war menorials tbh .The same area voted in a BNP councillor about fifteen years ago.
Johnny Vodka
The Abominable Scotsman
A bunch of grim cunts.
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
Im afraid that concept is commonly held in my part of London. Its replaced class.
I looked up the deprivation figures for my home town Plymouth ( white working class) and they are the same as my part of London ( Brixton/ Loughborough Junction) with a large Black working class.Working class in two different areas have more in common that the concept of white privilege/ Supremency will acknowledge.
not-bono-ever
meh
Group of white men 'try to save Edward Colston statue from Bristol harbour'
Pictures emerged on social media of a group of men appearing to be trying to fish the statue out.
metro.co.uk
Hope they are scrap men rather than actual Colston fans ( if there is such a thing)
