Re: When is right to remove a statue?

Are you this one?

Re: When is right to remove a statue?

I just knew Punch would turn up sooner or later, how's Judy?

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Are they singers?

Re: When is right to remove a statue?

How about Lester Flat and Earl Scruggs?

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She's good thanks. Cheers for asking, you're a sweety.

Re: When is right to remove a statue?

How about them? Brilliantly talented musicians !!

Re: When is right to remove a statue?

Just watching a debate on this morning .
Two (black ) British women talking about slavery and Nelsons Columns .
As another person pointed out the statue was not put there for Nelsons views on slavery ( which was probaby the same as anyone's else's in that time )

Statues of Oliver Cromwell were also deemed to offensive to the Irish etc etc

We can't rewrite history and remake our country to suit the times or should we?

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Of course not. Our biggest mistake would be to pay any attention to these whingers with chips on their shoulders.

Re: When is right to remove a statue?

I expect there are many statues around the country that might be offensive to other countries, Churchill, Duke of Wellington, William Wallace.

The statues that are the subject of this thread are offensive to American citizens in America.
They are celebrating secessionists that wanted to break from the United States, many see them as traitors today.

Reasons for seeking the break up of America was mainly the right to keep slaves.
The resulting Civil war had a massive death toll, one of the biggest in American history.

Those people wanting the heroes of slavery's statues removed are the descendants of slaves, black Americans.
All decisions to remove statues is a local issue, agreed in towns by locals.

My solution is to move the statues to museums, alongside other slave paraphernalia such as leg irons, stocks, bills of sale etc.etc.

It doesn't rewrite history, it doesn't celebrate traitors, it puts the low points of American history into the correct place, museums, same as Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Re: When is right to remove a statue?

A very cromulent post Bruv.