Bristol 'should apologise for slave trade'.

[krtek a houby]

Hm in retrospect it looks like Donna ferentes was 100% right in this thread. Dunno if I would have thought that in 2006 though.

Just read through it and yes, some of the comments don't sit well, at all, these days.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Okay, so under what username did this prat used to post?

Tory councillor calls Bristol reporter racist in heated interview

"It’s like the Germans dropping bombs on Bristol in World War Two. We’ve got over it, alright?"

www.bristolpost.co.uk

 

[GarveyLives]

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7 June 2020: Members of the public decommission and dispose the statue celebrating and honouring Bristol white supremacist, Edward Colston, a member and former deputy governor of the Royal African Company, who was responsible for trafficking thousands of enslaved African people, and made himself a fortune in doing so.

The local authority has now found somewhere to relocate it:

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[GarveyLives]

The local authority has now found somewhere to relocate it:

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"The slave trader’s statue is back on show in Bristol. There’s something electric about seeing it supine in a museum ..."

Historian and broadcaster, David Olusoga, comments on the relocation of the monument originally built to glorify the trader in enslaved Africans:

A year on, the battered and graffitied Colston is finally a potent memorial to our past

 

[GarveyLives]

This will be available in schools in September 2021 and, hopefully, makes some positive contribution to revealing the truth behind the legacy of Bristol's involvement in the trafficking of enslaved Africans:

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The textbook, called Bristol And Transatlantic Slavery - Origins, Impact And Legacy covers the period from 1440 right up until 2020, as well as the legacies of the traffic in enslaved Africans in the city. It is written for Year 8 students who are aged 12 or 13​

 

[BillRiver]

This will be available in schools in September 2021 and, hopefully, makes some positive contribution to revealing the truth behind the legacy of Bristol's involvement in the trafficking of enslaved Africans:

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The textbook, called Bristol And Transatlantic Slavery - Origins, Impact And Legacy covers the period from 1440 right up until 2020, as well as the legacies of the traffic in enslaved Africans in the city. It is written for Year 8 students who are aged 12 or 13​

I hope they'll be taught about resistance, by those enslaved, to slavery. I also hope they learn positive facts about African culture and the contributions made by African people to the world.

As a person with Jewish heritage I was only ever taught about Jewish people as passive victims, and it was not helpful to my self-esteem. Nor was it accurate.

 

[A380]

Interesting program on the radio this evening about this work in Bristol.

 

[kalidarkone]

Interesting program on the radio this evening about this work in Bristol.

Perhaps a link to the radio programme would be useful?

 

[A380]

Perhaps a link to the radio programme would be useful?

Perhaps it would have been. Perhaps saying please would have been nice…

 

[kalidarkone]

Perhaps it would have been. Perhaps saying please would have been nice…

I dont really understand why you would bother to let the thread know that you listened to an interesting radio program about the subject matter but not link to it? This seems obvious to me.

 

[GarveyLives]

Historian and broadcaster, David Olusoga, comments on the relocation of the monument originally built to glorify the trader in enslaved Africans:

A year on, the battered and graffitied Colston is finally a potent memorial to our past

Are people really planning to travel to Bristol to glorify the trader in enslaved Africans?

 

[gentlegreen]

The mind boggles ...
Well this is the Internet age so hopefully there will be consequences.....

 

[hitmouse]

Are people really planning to travel to Bristol to glorify the trader in enslaved Africans?

Yep, discussed a bit over on the Tommy Robinson thread. Local news article about it here.

 

[Dogsauce]

Bit late to the party aren’t they? It’s all over. Colston will stay gone.

 

[GarveyLives]

Church leaders have agreed that new windows showing Jesus Christ depicted ‘in multiple ethnicities’ could now be installed at St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol, replacing historic stained glass windows that commemorate trader in enslaved Africans, Edward Colston. The decision by the Consistory Court of The Diocese of Bristol came three years to the day since the toppling of Colston’s statue in the city on 7 June 2020. One of the other panels celebrates the Bristol Bus Boycott with Jesus Christ as a fellow protester and radical:

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Bristol church to install 'multi-ethnic Jesus' stained glass windows instead of 'grotesque' Colston