Every Bristolian knew who Edward Colston was. Bristol born Edward Colston (1636-1721) was a merchant in textiles, wine, oils and shipping, and a great philanthropist who gave most of his wealth to the people of Bristol, endowed schools hospitals and poor relief and did much to turn Bristol into what was for some years the second greatest and most prosperous city in England. Like many wealthy people in his day, he also had links to the slave trade which he came to regret. It was then that he broke all links with the slave trade, campaigned against it and devoted the rest of his life and his entire fortune to philanthropy. The statue, a listed structure, depicted his remorse at having once been connected with the slave trade. The ignorant vandals who tore down Coulston's statue were not Bristolians but immature brainwashed students and imported lefty anarchist parasites from rent-a-mob. Where were Bristol's uselesss police when all this was going on?
@@freeman8128 i can see your frustration but lets say Hitler for example gave all his money to charities and build hospitals would that justify his actions, think about this; He may have made Bristolian lives better but what about all the lives he ruined in the process.
@@neemo2239 Edward Colston was not Hitler, he was a merchant trader of his times, over 300 years ago, taking advantage of something that was already there promoted and supplied by native African rulers and Muslim slavers. EVERY NATION ON EARTH WAS BUILT BY SLAVERY. The British were the first in history to ABOLISH slavery and fight against it at massive cost.
For those curious as to why there was a statue in the first place, and why so many places were named after him. To my understanding, he funded many schools, parks, and other such building projects. However, all of that was funded off of his profits from trading slaves.
Better smash up the Tutankhaman treasures. The Egyptian dynasties had slaves for centuries. And destroy all of Romes historical buildings, as the Romans also had slaves for centuries
Except we don't have statues to Tutankhamen in our streets. Those sorts of constructs are in museums where it is understood that they are products of their time and historical artefacts.
Egyptian slave rescued by the Prophet Moses. And the Prophet Jesus Christ put an end to to the Roman empire. But there are no PROPHET'S to rescue a black people... I wonder If GOD is racist and doesn't see colour.
Nervous Melon This attempt to eradicate history is mindless. What Colston did was appalling by 21st Century standards but we can’t impose our modern sensibilities onto the historic British and try to eradicate heritage whatever it may be.
Also nobody mention that Colston spent his wealth in support and endow schools, hospitals, almshouses and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere. There is a reason why his statue was placed there.
Y X Very good point. The fact is that if this criminal act is taken to its logical conclusion, the protesters should also be pulling down all the buildings erected using money derived from the slave trade! It’s bonkers! They may as well pull down the whole of Bristol!
@@Elfin4 well, whatever - just someone who pushed back, the opposite of Colston. Earl Grey, Wilberforce, how about Thomas Paine ? if the yanks had listened to him, we (and the USA) may not be in quite such a pickle now.
You want to put up a statue of an upper class, wealthy white man who's family no doubt benefited from the evils of the British empire, who bought his parliamentary seat?
One was a genocidal psychopath and one gave us a theory that could save humankind. And don't confuse Marx with Lenin/Stalin in your angry reply, please.
Churchill committed atrocities. He is idolised as a hero in our public education system wrongly, the majority of people are unaware of the evil deeds he committed. Karl Marx was a thinker with idealistic ideas, however wrong/toxic to society you may think those ideas were there would be no valid reason to vandalise a Marx statue.
Connery Ademokun Connery Ademokun the objection is that it’s a classic example of presentism or judging the people of the past through a modern gaze, Colston did nothing illegal for his time, does it make it right? No of course not we have evolved to understand that the trade he was involved in is ethically and morally wrong but during his life time societies’ morals were different, do you know what happens if you judge any historical figure by our standards? They are all bigoted about some thing that we have come to accept. So where do we stop should we pull down all the statues in England as well as the historical and cultural monuments, I can almost guarantee that Stone Age man will have no comprehension in our understanding of sexuality and gender so there goes Stonehenge, Nelson would almost certainly not support gay marriage and supported the colonialist British empire so there goes Nelsons column etc. The point was that should the statue have been up in the city square no the council should have been more active and removed it but a mob destroying it doesn’t help anything, it doesn’t make what he did better and removing it from the public doesn’t do anything to educate future generations about how our society has grown from our mistakes
@@odysseus1660 in 30 years people won't even remember any of the slave trading history as it is hardly taught in our schools. I bet all these people protesting will be more than happy watching the Qatar world cup which is being built off the backs of modern slaves.
When I lived in Bristol I never saw any vote on taking down the statue. I would probably have said take it down. But the thing that I find difficult to understand is that a few steps from that statue is Colston Hall. It's currently being extended into an even bigger music venue. When it is open is regularly full of black and white people both listening and playing, the very same people who tore down the statue. Nobody complains.
earthstick I think they can rename these buildings but they have to give the money back - inflation adjusted. Since as you say, they are benefitting to this day from his donations
@@Tom_Hadler But then we'd never stop would we. Everyone alive in Britain today has benefitted from slavery including you. Who do you owe money to? I'm reminded of what Bob Dylan said about paintings that it was a crime to have then in a gallery. Rather they should be in bus stations and clubs where everyone can see them. Who visits museum s? Putting him in one or destroying him maybe a way of avoiding our past sins. Perhaps he should have been left there with images of the horrors of his trade. Or the numbers enslaved and killed by him?
@@Tom_Hadler By your own deeply flawed logic; If he made his fortune off the back of slaves, by your own logic shouldn't it be taken from hsi estate and given to the slaves ancestors?
The statue should have been taken down awhile ago and moved to a museum where it can teach people right and wrong instead of being thrown into a river and forgotten about
I'm not too sure if this is true, but, the reason why the statue was erected was because of all of the charitable work he did in Bristol. It was only later they found out about his slave trader history. Like I said, I'm not too sure if it's true. I agree with the fact that it should have been put in a history museum. No matter the reason of bringing it down, it's still criminal vandalism. The council should have removed it.
@@edmundblackadder2741 learning from history doesn't mean you display a slaver in a prominent position in the city centre with no mention of his evil deeds.
@@jackbetteridge2155 Ah, still though, such a shame that people are getting angry over something they're not protesting for. If it's not over soon, we may go into a civil war again.
@@mememachine5244 passed with flying colours. I also have eyes so I can tell you how the rope around it's legs isn't being pulled (0:16). It's binded to the rock it is stood on to clear that away when pulling on the rope around it's neck. So I repeat, it is for support to remove the whole thing or else it would have just bent the neck or at an extreme snapped it off.
Not at all.. complete nonsense. He has only been "Slave Trader" since the 7th of June 2020 when some farty edited his wikipedia page.. how about look at all of the altruistic benevolent actions that he took?
Owen Jones thinks giving the mob what it wants will result in peace. I cannot wait for the day in which he discovers what happenned to the French revolutionaries, the Russian Old Guard and the German Socialists.
lol were not erasing the villains of the past you can learn about them in books, museums, or the internet but there is no need to celebrate them. like imagine if we put a statue of hitler on a fucking park
Røff That’s the dumbest thing you could have said, how can tearing down a statue of a slave trader who murdered/abducted slaves be compared to tearing down pyramids which slaves built. If I abduct your child and make them my slave, where should my statue be placed? I forgot to mention if your child gets sick on the travel to my house, then I’m gonna throw them into the ocean 😆 The next time you try to draw a comparison, try to imagine the two scenarios. Drop your location too, just in case you do have any children 😉
@@ragnarralle old zionist theory it has been Proven that it was built by workers It was like an honor to them they were Given lots of food and buried near the Pyramid which was a great honor
Actually several attempts had been made to get the wording of the plaque changed: to mention his attempts to delay an act abolishing the slave trade, but they were ignored.
I guess a few cared. But this is vandalism, so you can't do it in many other contexts getting away with it. This was the perfect time for it, and those who wanted the statue out took their chances.
With all due respect, The Home Secretary would've definitely said otherwise if not in the office. The problem is that politicians only fight for power & less for real justice. They speak when they feel it will be in their interest. So they pull the strings in the media.
Would it be more acceptable then to have a statute of adolf hitler in some British square or other location in the UK, after all he did bring the majority of Germans together under one perspective of how great the German people were as a people, how to economically advance them as a nation, put the German people first before anyone else, not to mention the policies he implemented for his nation of special people (or at least said he would and I deliberately did not capitalise his name because I have no respect for him). He did bring the ‘British’ people together in pride. How acceptable is that. Also how convenient to look at outcomes and ignore cause. Just saying.
@@MusingsOAM the chaining up and stealing children was done by the Africans themselves to other Africans you really wanna learn about slave trade in Africa before u to try make a arugement on it.
Diversity didn't ruin Europe. It made it wonderful. Without diversity we wouldn't have half of the things we have today. I'm all for diversity in people. What ruined Europe was the fact that we didn't make people conform to our cultures but instead we let them stick to their own ways. Not like I have a problem with their way of doing things, however it's created a cultural mess. Cultures that can't melt with each other are conflicting against each other. Neither side is right or wrong, it's just a case of incompatibility. What makes it worse is the fact that leftists are out there catering to those people in order to get their votes. They're fucking their respective countries up so that they can get power. And nobody's doing a thing about it. As a result, we have this. Black people hating whites. White people fed up with blacks. Asians are fed up getting ignored and Arabs are sitting back watching the shit show. On top of that we have a government that's trying to cater to all of these groups and is therefore not successfully helping any of them. Things would just be so much more efficient and people would be much happier if we had just stuck to our own culture and make people coming into the country conform to British culture. At least that way it would give us less to bicker over. With more diversity in people, British culture would grow and mature over time naturally like it has done for almost 1000 years before now. Instead we had to fuck it up and force people who don't get along to live under the same roof. Ain't happening.
And this is pretending to be facts. Colston, was a trader. Not a slaver. He lived for 84 years, traded for about 60 and for just 12 was part of the Royal African Company - which did buy & sell slaves as a small part of it's dealings (all slaves were bought from local chiefs or Arab slaver traders). He headed the company for just 1 year, then left. He made the vast majority of his money from trading wine & fruit from Iberian peninsular, selling cloth & financing. The statue was in recognition that he then bestowed his wealth on Bristol. But lets not let the facts get in the way.
He bought and sold human beings, that is wrong. Like what’s not to understand? Like well he only did it for 12 years, what bullshit. This is not someone who is morally grey, this is someone who sold humans, like is this a joke?
Let me get this straight, we should celebrate someone who headed the company that lead to the deaths of over 12,000 children because he used the money to open a few charities? The argument that the statue should have been removed in the most civilised way, I agree with COMPLETELY but to sit there and pretend as if that stature deserves to be up? Fuck right off mate.
“shipped more enslaved African women, men and children to the Americas than any other single institution during the entire period of the transatlantic slave trade" www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/articles/legacy-slavery-working-party-recommendations. And you say "small part of its dealings". Feel free to post your sources which exonerate him.
Having actually been there with thousands of people, where almost everyone had a mask, there was no verbal confrontation with the police, there was no looting or any property damage, all that was done was there was a statue removed of a man who was involved in a company that resulted in the deaths of 19,000 people. And yet some people seem to be more outraged about a statue being removed than George Floyd being killed, than the fact that you are 9.5 times more likely (fullfact.org/crime/stop-and-search-england-and-wales/) to be stop and searched by the police if you are black, and that you are twice as likely to die in police custody in this country if you're black (www.donsidepiper.co.uk/read-this/black-people-are-twice-likely-die-police-custody-uk-according-statistics-2876490). Not a single police officer was hurt, there was no looting and there were 10s of thousands of people protesting across the country, but yeh they're not peaceful because the statue of a former slaver was torn down.
@@oliverrennison778 You can clearly see in the video that half of the people were unmasked. All you selfish people are doing is causing the second wave of coronavirus. This was completely unnecessary and idiotic. The only thing that will happen is that more and more people will despise the BLM movement because it's destroying society.
If you lived during the period when Colston was alive then you too would be regarded as a racist, so taking that further my and your ancestors were racist....but the term racist never existed then that was how life was and we have evolved to understand that slavery is very wrong...but they did not know this, is was normal life to them...does that make them all evil...no... just not as civilised as we are now...and we will be judged the same by people in 300 years from now
Starman Planet yeah what they have really done here is destroyed a statue of a man who was probably one of the best men of his times, founded many charities gave money and endowed schools, hospitals and churches, people also need to remember that it was his job to be a trader/ merchant and he was working for people as powerful as the king meaning if he didn’t want to take part in the slave trade and he disobeyed his orders and the king then he would most likely be executed or condemned.
Exactly that was how life was there then and we have evolved for the better now. But that doesn't give you the right to stamp out our history good or bad now.
It's interesting that the slaves at that time knew that slavery was inherently evil and persisted to revolt against slavery for centuries. What is even more interesting is that the British -being one of the major hubs of academia - at that time, couldn't fathom this. I guess Britain and other European super-powers weren't as enlightened as they perceive themselves to be.
@@Supersenpai000 They revolted against being enslaved because they thought it was morally wrong? Quick question, if African slaves were more enlightened, why do they still have slaves today?
@@albertaatieno so let's destroy pyramids,colosseum and other monumetns,becuse you know...it was thanks to the slaves...every single country born and lived tha ks to the blood of others
Shame on Bristol's useless police who could have contained and stopped it. Instead they stood back giving free rein to the`mob allowing the riot to develop and take over the city centre, endangering the lives of the law-abiding public and disrupting traffic throughout the entire city. Rumour has it that Bristol's Black Leftist Labour Mayor, Marvin Rees, who has always been open in his hatred of the statue had something to do with this - a suggestion that he rather unconvincingly denies.
Edward Colston was not himself a slave trader but became an early abolitionist. When, as a member of the Royal Africa Company he discovered the true extent and horrors of this evil trade he was so overcome with remorse that he severed all links with the company and spent the remaining 20 years of his life and great fortune on philanthropic and charitable endowments, some of which exist to this day. This elequent statue (a listed structure) was erected in 1908 to commemorate that remorse - which anyone with any sensitivity could see if they had taken the trouble to study it. The vandals who tore it down were ignorant leftist 'rent-a-mob' philistines most of whom had nothing to do with Bristol and had been bussed in.
Yes, they were savages - our forebears handed them this monument, they had no right to remove unilaterally, depriving future generations of the same privileges we had. They purport to be moral, but they're self-righteous thugs.
Concerning the statue of Cromwell, outside the houses of parliament. My ancestors were in Drogheda during the Cromwellian campaign in Ireland in 1649. At no time have I ever been offended at, what is, a statue to a historically important figure. The reason I'm not offended is because I'm not a fragile cry baby who, rather than talking about things that are relevant today, would rather try and erase historical fact.
No one is erasing history cause it is impossible people just don’t want to celebrate a racist slave trader no matter how much he helped Bristol. Slave trade was a sick and twisted thing where black people were targeted for there differences. In the time we live in people like this should not be respected and valued cause what he did was wrong for his time and ours.
oliver fletcher, O.K. let's go along with what you are saying (and I do agree with you to a point), what are these same people doing about modern day slavery that still exists?
@@oliverfletcher833 but they're ok with living in buildings, visiting hospitals ect funded on slave trade yes? You cant just pick and choose what you can and can't like.
@@BloodPixi3 Not the same thing at all. One was breaking no laws at all, regardless of how disgusting the trade was. I wonder how many anti slavery against black people marches you have been on? the reason i ask is because, right now in places in the world people are still bering sold into slavery and i see next to nothing about that. People do not realy care, they just like to virtue signal and cause mayhem!
If we are going to judge him by todays standards then you need to look at all the good he did too. He doesn't have a statue for his hand in the slave trade, that's really all I'm saying.
@@gavstar21 See this kind of behaviour is stupid. The dark history isn't something to be ignored, it's something to be remembered. The present is built on the past, if you think tearing down a statue solves anything, you better tear down the entire civilisation because it's built on slavery with the majority of people being involved in at least racism in one way or the other. What has this solved? Absolutely nothing. It has just taken down a historical piece of architecture that reminds of the past and the society we used to live in, how is tearing down that statue changing this past? What he did in the past was socially acceptable in the past. Not correct by todays standard but if you judge everyone by todays standards, every single, and I mean pretty much every single person has done something that would be illegal today. Not being able to celebrate people's achievements because what they did would not be acceptable today is stupid because in a few centuries time, they'll have similar things. What if everybody starts treating all animals equal to dogs and cats and saying we cannot celebrate the huge strides Elon Musk made in the past because he ate meat and it was wrong. Come on now people, you cannot be this stupid.
I don't think any part of history should be removed good or bad, they are reminders to us all what was and a reflection of what is, we learn from history, and can only progress using a different way of thinking.
A man went to prison, and died there, for allegedly throwing a bacon sandwich at a mosque. But ripping apart our heritage in an appalling spectacle of group hate, not an issue.
@@ljrogers3238 Why on Earth should it? This was the only nation and empire in history to ban slavery around the World. Except for some African and Arab hold outs that is. My forefathers and culture are the heroes of libertarianism and anti slavery and certainly did more to stop it than you ever could.
@UCkx6YDuhLZ3HenUchv2OWNA Please, look at South Africa in this day in age, they call economy different things by the colour they claim there is a white economy and a black economy, you should also know that white people are a minority there and do not want to leave due to being African, it's not about what nation you claim to be part of but your skin. Please research more than what media shows you, and know who Edward Colston was and what his story is, research more than just him but look at many others that EXPLORED Africa, this is about our turn in history. I suggest you do more than comment on someone, you do not know their background or how they lived or experienced. Just please, research and look at history. Please, I beg of you!
Why don't we boycott the music of rappers who have assaulted or murdered people? Surely we should not be celebrating such people in any way? Or maybe......they produce something of value to us and we celebrate them for that. And that doesn't mean we are venerating all parts of their personality. How about that?
Have you ever heard of drill rap? A popular rap genre where artists describe their horrific violent crimes in detail glorifying criminality at every step. You won't see black people condemn this because that'd hurt their wallets and they want to be able to make money off of brainwashing young kids into degenerate criminality.
Ignorant one sided narrative. His statue went up because of the money he gave back to society when slavery folded. Included in his philanthropy were for the slaves - uplifting and improving their condition. But once again ignorance acts before thinking.
I'm so glad he was a philanthropist for the slaves he STOLE from their land. That's like rewarding a murderer for being emotional support of the victims family. Stop bootlicking a literal scumbag
Ignorant yourself. Slavery did not fold until 100 years after Colston's death and his statue was not erected until 200 years after his death. The statue was paid for by public subscription in honour of his compassion and philanthropy. Among other business interests, mainly trading in wines, textiles and oils, Colston had become involved with the Royal Africa Company, a part of whose portfolio was slave trading. After discovering the cruel, evil nature of the slave trade, Colston severed all ties with the company and out of remorse devoted his fortune and the remaining 30 years of his life to philanthropy. The hooligan mob who vandalized Colston's statue were (as usual) attacking the wrong person.
it's irrelevant, there should be zero tolerance when it comes to the removal of all historical statues, monuments and landmarks, no matter if they are interpreted today as good or bad. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
This is what the majority think in this country and thats why the government better do something. Not pussy foot to appease put it back where it belongs.
@Nic Kaufman I know that, I've been visit that village few years ago, but seems not much change about trafficking these days, people borrow lots of money from trafficker to take them to western countries, thinking they make money, first to pay back, then for the families, but no one lend them money, like start little business etc, only for trafficking. What's there to help?
See where you're coming from bud. Absolutely nothing wrong with organising trips to Africa to trap a few backward natives, pack 'em into a ship like sardines, and put them to work like cattle. After all, everybody was doing it, so it must have been OK. Anyway, it's not like they were people or anything like that.
Whether the statue should have been removed or not, the mob has no right to vandalise a public monument. This is meant to be the 21st centruy not 18th century France.
@@simonwest1977 It isn't rewriting history. Statues usually only have a small amount of writing on them anyway. The history of this man is still available online and soon will be in a museum.
That’s what they want they are the real prejudice bawling Racism as an excuse to culture cull western civilisation. It’s about time the Adults told the brats off and reprimand them....
@@jeremymerrifield219 and the public only had around 10k signed on a petition to take it down, in a city/town of 500k. so if we don't like something, and are a minority, it's perfectly acceptable to just tear something down now?
@@josephwanyama6376 My arguement isn't that it was taken down, but rather how, it was taken down. They sited they had asked to take it down several times in a petition. that petition didn't even get 5% of the votes in the city/town it had. To put that in a different way, let's imagine you've just built your dream home, you've saved up all your life for it, it's been there 50 years, and then someone decides your home was built on a burial ground, so they have a petition to tear it down, would it be right if not even 5% who voted, was just allowed to bulldoze your home? -Granted, we're not talking about an actual house here, or a burial ground, however what we ARE talking about, is a statue which reminds us of how, that whole town was built. Not only that, if you've lived in that area, and you take it down like that, despite the statue being racist, you're also, racist. as due to you living there, you have also, benefitted from slavery in some form.
Churchill basically starved out 2 million Indians and caused thousands of ANZAC lives at galipolli he made a massive contribution in WW2 but he was no saint
Many of them don’t know he funded schools , churches hospitals with his wealth , yes he should not be celebrated as a slave merchant as it is a horrible thing but at the time he was alive the slave trade was legal
He did so off the back of profits from slaves, it doesn't make him a good person. Jimmy Saville was highly charitable for example. What would you say about a statue of him?
That money is blood money. Regardless of what he spent it on just because slavery was considered legal doesn't make it right. In some parts of the world it's legal for a little girl to marry but that doesn't make it right.
TSD _SQUADDD imagine being black and knowing that his wealth came from selling ur Ancestors as commodities and not humans. If I make money from trafficking children and humans then donate it to schools etc. should I get a statue? Would you want to show me respect?
@@barteatmyshorts8252 try to burn the quran in england, you'd get shat on by the leftist wankers, i swear some of the logic shown in the last week is retarded
There's a difference between education and glorification. The statue doesn't tell you anything about what Colston did, does it? You have books about Hitler, but you wouldn't have public statues of Hitler.
@@MannieGregg Or more accurately "thinks pictures of police protecting a statue of a slave trader from people protesting police brutality against black people would trigger riots across the country"
And for all those thugs who have any idea of damaging statues of Sir Winston Churchill, I hope the Police prosecute you with the full weight of the law. Sir Winston Churchill is someone reveared and respected in the UK by those who know their history of how he had served in the military in the front line and went on to be Prime Minister and apply his wisdom and courage needed to get us through WWII. If this statue was so offensive why hasn't it been taken down without fuss in the three years of the black Mayor being in office.
Sounds like your in tears pal... Every single person who damaged that piece of shit statue deserves a reward! No room for racists in this world buddy now go to bed.
They're no thugs, they were true heroes only in your eyes and that of that young lady from Ugandan are they thugs. Anyone who thought that disgusting statue of a slave trader should be left in a city centre is devoid of common human decency.
@@romangd8366- Exactly with you 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 % . These people have no heroes so they become hysterical about some shit people and stuff. That shit should have been left in the gutter where it belong
Umm yes they did care. People were trying to get the statue taken down for years. Just because you're ignorant on the history of the statue doesn't mean no one else cared.
Wrong, people have been fighting in Bristol to get this statue taken down for over 3 decades and the George Floyd murder has just bought this to the foreground. Don't think that it should have been done in this way but it should have been removed and put in a museum years ago, just in the same way Jimmy Saville was posthumously stripped of his knighthood.
If those people hadn’t taken down that statue,honouring a racist slave trader, it was never have been removed . There’s talks of it going into a Museum .that mans status should stay in the river just like the 20 thousand African souls who died on the Journey Here and thrown into the sea , with no burial or memorial . He stole them from their families, country and he must not be celebrated! It should be replaced with a memorial for all those he sold , all those that lost their lives!! ✊🏾LEWIS HAMILTON ✊🏾
The very fact that they give time on national TV news for this wicked man who was forefront of so millions of suffering slaves proves that Racism exist very much in the UK. This statue should never have been put up in the first place.
Your crap opinion is in fact what the TV and every body on it are trying to force down peoples necks , read the comments the public hate the hypocritical idiots who risked public health , vandalised a statue and complain of so called racism because a criminal in foreign city died at the hands of the police whilst resisting arrest
British Army soldier, Fusilier Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was attacked by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, on 25 May 2013. He was on duty. Think about it for a moment. What an unnecessary attack was that? Did anyone notice a massive riot like the one we see today over the death of George Floyd? Not because we have forgotten Lee Rigby or his family, but because normal, law abiding citizens do not gang up and behave like thugs. I too feel sad about the way Mr Floyd died. He was a father of young children, but PLEASE, stop this violence and return home safely. The whole world is in chaos, financially broke, unemployment has risen, don’t cause more damage. PLEASE.
These are two entirely different issues though. Black people have been systemically mistreated, harassed and killed by the authority figures who are supposed to be protecting them for over two hundred years. People have tried protesting peacefully for decades, but no change has come of it, black people are still being wrongfully killed by these criminals that call themselves cops. George Floyd's death was the final straw. There was no reason for him to be killed, nor was there for any of the hundreds of innocent black people murdered by police before him. Black people have every right to make themselves heard as they've been ignored for centuries. If asking politely doesn't get you anywhere, then you have every right to make a scene. Lee Rigby's murder was also horrific, deeply disturbing and upsetting. But the context there is entirely different. That was a one-off incident. He was not murdered by law enforcement officers. He did not represent an oppressed group of people. White people are not being routinely killed or discriminated against. As white people, we do not live every day of our lives with the constant reminder of racism. So if there were to have been a riot, what would it have been about? The riots we're seeing today represent so much more than just George Floyd's death. We're not just going to magically all become a big happy loving family by going home, forgetting all about it, and just waiting around for the next tragedy to happen. Now is the time for people to stand up, have a voice and make real change.
You didn't fall for that one did you ? How does a woman witness someone having their head hacked off & films the man holding a knife & her hands are steady , not a sign of shock or terror ! + all the youths on the bus knew they were acting , but if you really want to know who bombed London 77 then check Tony Farrell ex Police Chief who proved it was Mossad using C4 explosives
There’s a difference between remembering the bad parts of our history, and celebrating it. A statue that glorifies a slave trader should not be in the middle of a modern multicultural city. Yes he was a philanthropist, but the money he donated to Bristol will always be tainted. The best way of remembering the past isn’t statues, but educating Bristolians and all of us about what built our cities
Should Bristol itself figure out how much money it made overall ever since Colston contributed and then tax all of the people living and/or working there to pay that money off to somewhere in Africa or something so that the CCP can just guzzle the money up over time with shady bad deals? This whole thing is stupid. I don't let this thing keep me as an eternal slave. And I don't see why other African descendants can't do the same. Focusing on this sort of stuff is just keeping people from getting on with their lives, and it's keeping black people down.
@@flip-phone_becky4655 Shady bad deals, before pointing your fingers at others, look at the mirror first. Go check out all oil companies like Shell , what did they do in Africa and around the world. Many Western firms did the Latin America style banana republic thingy around the world. Dont see you ever talk about it.
@@kaisiangtey8964 I look in the mirror. I see my face that looks like the slaves. I see my hair that looks like that of the slaves. I see a person with slave company middle and last names. But focusing on this sort of stuff isn't going to help anyone. It's ironically keeping black people down. And the worst evil done seems to have been the Africans selling their neighbours to the Europeans.... The whole thing is a mess and only forgiving it and moving on can have people grow upwards and together.
For many in Bristol? around 11,750 of a population of 686,210. Not even 10% but go ahead anyway. Thought damaging public property was a crime? obviously not
We have a new category of crime: "virtuous crime". What makes it virtuous is that it is done by or on behalf of a state designated "victim group". It is not punished. But try to go to church and you'll be behind bars before you can say "Blac..".
I think a written monument should be put there stating " here, once stood a historic monument, that the black lives matter movement destroyed", theres nothing to learn from now because its been destroyed! A lot of British architecture & its materials may of been shipped using slave labour, are they going to be destroyed also? Anything built before the abolishment of slave trade, are they the next on their hitlist?
There's a statue of a well known figure who happened to be quite the racist just outside The Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky. If this movement is about anti-racism and equality, I'll assume that one is coming down next...
Section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977 provides: "...if a person agrees with any other person or persons that a course of conduct shall be pursued which, if the agreement is carried out in accordance with their intentions, either - (a) will necessarily amount to or involve the commission of any offence or offences by one or more of the parties to the agreement, or (b) would do so but for the existence of facts which render the commission of the offence or any of the offences impossible, [added by S.5 Criminal Attempts Act 1981] he is guilty of conspiracy to commit the offence or offences in question." CRIMINAL DAMAGE. Well done idiot. Say goodbye to daddy’s uni money. There’s a job in McDonald’s waiting for you
Maybe most laws of this land are designed to protect imperialism, hegemony & other crimes. Now the time us up to test if you will continue that way. Civilised people know a crime when they see one so have no patience for a political system that protects the big thief & prosecutes the small vandal on behalf of a monarch.
So.....do we celebrate someone who dealt in human beings..... .....or not? Not even a question is it. What IS a question is how the hell does he have a statue and buildings named after him!!
There is no evidence that Edward Colston was a racist. On the contrary, he was known as a kindly compassionate Christian who having become aware of the cruel and evil nature of the slave trade, severed his links to the Royal Africa Company and out of remorse devoted his fortune and the remaining 30 years of his life to philanthropy. It is to commemorate this that the statue was erected in 1895. It is not at all comforting that mob rule should have been allowed to prevail - especially since the ignorant leftist mob got their facts wrong as usual.
can somebody please tell me name of the country which 16th century did not have a slaves, are you telling me the Africa in 16th century did not have the slaves???? Slavery in Mauritania was abolished in 1981, As a fact that was no European people there. This people just need to fight something, but they do not have a courage to fight for something right. or somebody who can fight back. It is easier to pull down than to build up
Taking down the statue is not called democracy and as a coloured person, I don't support this act. The Bengal famine of 1943 estimated to have killed up to 3 million people was not caused by drought but instead was a result of a "complete policy failure" of the then-British Prime Minister - Winston Churchill. Now shall I go to Westminister to take down Churchill's Statue? Are we living in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq? This is a democratic country. Gandhi and Nelson Mandella - will never support this act.
No mention of what he did with all his money. He helped develop the city of Bristol into what it is today. And ppl are complaining about how selective we are with history. The media is doing it. Oh do give me strength.
Absolutely agree. It's just like people did with Jimmy Saville. They suddenly forgot all the charity work he did just because he routinely sexually assaulted vulnerable children. The media is so selective when it suits them.
Black equality, what about white equality, black or white should not make any difference, it's how the people act not what colour they are, so called white people would not be allowed to do the things a black person does
E W yes loads white people cannot play the racist card like some black people do, whites blacks don't make any difference we are all human, unfortunately some black people twist things to their advantage by playing the race card, when that happens it grows out of control, do I blame them, no not really it's the woke culture that allows it that is responsible
I mean it just shouldn’t have been brought down like that, it was a major part of history. I’m all for Black Lives Matter but I don’t think pulling it down and throwing it in a lake was the best way to go about it
Perhaps all statutes should be taken down and carefully and respectfully placed in a museum and no more statutes erected in public places. Wherever possible they should be replaced by trees.
the statue should have been taken down a long time ago and then put in the natural history museum. you shouldn't just destroy something which you deem to be wrong, otherwise you can never learn. if people have issues with other statues of slave traders, take a vote for people in that city and if they deem it to be offensive then the city council should remove it and put it in a museum. the natural history museum could make an entire exhibit from these statues and people COULD LEARN from this instead of being ignorant of the statues existence. if people have a problem with these statues going into a museum then we'll have to destroy all the Egyptian and roman artefacts in there as well. all I'm saying is that wether or not you disagree with the statue being commemorated does not mean you can vandalise artwork (and it is artwork), its just plain wrong.
I dont care about it but what the slaver did at the time was legal and perfectly acceptable & like it or not, slavery happened and was accepted. Im sure theres things going on today that people just accept that will amaze people in the future that it was allowed to happen.
It wasn't legal, it wasn't acceptable. Perhaps in the eyes of the dreadful, evil, horrible Colston and his partners in crime with no moral compass thought it was legal. How despicable. That just tell the country that he and the others came from. The great German nation doesn't celebrate the Furer, Spain doesn't celebrate Franco and that country is happy enough to celebrate individuals who committed the worst crime unimaginable.
@@Koloviv48i some terrible things have happened in many historical buildings, should we be allowed to knock them down for what they represent? I assume that the reasons they decided Colston deserved a statue were many compared to the slavery. Also we all know black slavers existed & slavery was a thing in every culture, today we have illegal immigrant sex slaves & workers, why not put efforts into tackling that instead of fretting about things & people who are loooooong gone.
The statue should of been taken down long ago in a civil manor and im sure it would of been taken down in a civil manor really soon if it was'nt ripped down, dark history should be kept in the museum so people can learn of the mistakes of others. You can't change the past but you can learn of it so it isnt replicated in the future. Estimated 400,000 people died in the colosseum whom we slaves of all races and nations due to the wars of the romans, thats a land mark of a country and a huge tourist sight should we tear down that? Also on that topic many roman tyrants and dictators whom slaughter many and committed acts violence are relevant to this day being the months July, August ect.. Does that mean we should change the names of those months?
I love how no one knew who he was until his statue was defaced and brought down
Every Bristolian knew who Edward Colston was. Bristol born Edward Colston (1636-1721) was a merchant in textiles, wine, oils and shipping, and a great philanthropist who gave most of his wealth to the people of Bristol, endowed schools hospitals and poor relief and did much to turn Bristol into what was for some years the second greatest and most prosperous city in England.
Like many wealthy people in his day, he also had links to the slave trade which he came to regret. It was then that he broke all links with the slave trade, campaigned against it and devoted the rest of his life and his entire fortune to philanthropy. The statue, a listed structure, depicted his remorse at having once been connected with the slave trade.
The ignorant vandals who tore down Coulston's statue were not Bristolians but immature brainwashed students and imported lefty anarchist parasites from rent-a-mob.
Where were Bristol's uselesss police when all this was going on?
@@freeman8128 he was also a slave trader
@@freeman8128 i can see your frustration but lets say Hitler for example gave all his money to charities and build hospitals would that justify his actions, think about this; He may have made Bristolian lives better but what about all the lives he ruined in the process.
@@neemo2239 Edward Colston was not Hitler, he was a merchant trader of his times, over 300 years ago, taking advantage of something that was already there promoted and supplied by native African rulers and Muslim slavers.
EVERY NATION ON EARTH WAS BUILT BY SLAVERY. The British were the first in history to ABOLISH slavery and fight against it at massive cost.
@@neemo2239 Colston didn't advocate a mass genocide and spoke of an idealised race...
For those curious as to why there was a statue in the first place, and why so many places were named after him. To my understanding, he funded many schools, parks, and other such building projects. However, all of that was funded off of his profits from trading slaves.
He done great stuff for Bristol and they overlooked his slave trade because they built it I think when racism was still fine
@@FrostySire Racism is still fine. Its called Affirmative Action.
@@disobeytoday4685 Be quiet
@@disobeytoday4685 Go away.
@@shakeybeatz "Be quiet", "go away"
Or what, you'll cry to your Mummy?
Better smash up the Tutankhaman treasures. The Egyptian dynasties had slaves for centuries.
And destroy all of Romes historical buildings, as the Romans also had slaves for centuries
I couldn't sum up the situation with an analogy more perfect if I tried.
Except we don't have statues to Tutankhamen in our streets. Those sorts of constructs are in museums where it is understood that they are products of their time and historical artefacts.
D'oh
@Ozzy Mandias In a building on a street.
Egyptian slave rescued by the Prophet Moses.
And the Prophet Jesus Christ put an end to to the Roman empire.
But there are no PROPHET'S to rescue a black people...
I wonder If GOD is racist and doesn't see colour.
And yet no one has taken down any statues of George Washington. Interesting.
Nervous Melon This attempt to eradicate history is mindless. What Colston did was appalling by 21st Century standards but we can’t impose our modern sensibilities onto the historic British and try to eradicate heritage whatever it may be.
Also nobody mention that Colston spent his wealth in support and endow schools, hospitals, almshouses and churches in Bristol, London and elsewhere. There is a reason why his statue was placed there.
They should
Y X Very good point. The fact is that if this criminal act is taken to its logical conclusion, the protesters should also be pulling down all the buildings erected using money derived from the slave trade! It’s bonkers! They may as well pull down the whole of Bristol!
Y X that’s not true, he was a killer
Replace the statue with a bronze of Wilberforce - the guy who led the anti-slave movement.
Thought it was Earl Grey from Newcastle who abolished slavery in the UK.
@@Elfin4 well, whatever - just someone who pushed back, the opposite of Colston. Earl Grey, Wilberforce, how about Thomas Paine ? if the yanks had listened to him, we (and the USA) may not be in quite such a pickle now.
@@Elfin4 any good figure who was anti-slavery in the uk then :)
It history get it
You want to put up a statue of an upper class, wealthy white man who's family no doubt benefited from the evils of the British empire, who bought his parliamentary seat?
Churchill statue vandalised meanwhile karl Marx statue is untouched....
hmmm
Because its a grave and not a statue. Also this man is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands, Karl Marx is responsible for 0
One was a genocidal psychopath and one gave us a theory that could save humankind. And don't confuse Marx with Lenin/Stalin in your angry reply, please.
Very true... also irrelevant
Churchill committed atrocities. He is idolised as a hero in our public education system wrongly, the majority of people are unaware of the evil deeds he committed. Karl Marx was a thinker with idealistic ideas, however wrong/toxic to society you may think those ideas were there would be no valid reason to vandalise a Marx statue.
We're so oppressed, we're now fighting statues from over a century ago....
In our NIKE trainers
@@disobeytoday4685 They have LV hats and northface jackets. Arrest all of them.
Sorry for knocking down a Statue of a slave trader I hope it didn't hurt your feelings too bad. I don't understand your objection
Connery Ademokun Connery Ademokun the objection is that it’s a classic example of presentism or judging the people of the past through a modern gaze, Colston did nothing illegal for his time, does it make it right? No of course not we have evolved to understand that the trade he was involved in is ethically and morally wrong but during his life time societies’ morals were different, do you know what happens if you judge any historical figure by our standards? They are all bigoted about some thing that we have come to accept.
So where do we stop should we pull down all the statues in England as well as the historical and cultural monuments, I can almost guarantee that Stone Age man will have no comprehension in our understanding of sexuality and gender so there goes Stonehenge, Nelson would almost certainly not support gay marriage and supported the colonialist British empire so there goes Nelsons column etc.
The point was that should the statue have been up in the city square no the council should have been more active and removed it but a mob destroying it doesn’t help anything, it doesn’t make what he did better and removing it from the public doesn’t do anything to educate future generations about how our society has grown from our mistakes
@@odysseus1660 in 30 years people won't even remember any of the slave trading history as it is hardly taught in our schools. I bet all these people protesting will be more than happy watching the Qatar world cup which is being built off the backs of modern slaves.
When I lived in Bristol I never saw any vote on taking down the statue. I would probably have said take it down. But the thing that I find difficult to understand is that a few steps from that statue is Colston Hall. It's currently being extended into an even bigger music venue. When it is open is regularly full of black and white people both listening and playing, the very same people who tore down the statue. Nobody complains.
earthstick I think they can rename these buildings but they have to give the money back - inflation adjusted. Since as you say, they are benefitting to this day from his donations
WispGB Is it. They owe Colston's offspring arguably. Took his money and benefitted from it. Would be hypocrisy not to give up that bounty
@@Tom_Hadler But then we'd never stop would we. Everyone alive in Britain today has benefitted from slavery including you. Who do you owe money to? I'm reminded of what Bob Dylan said about paintings that it was a crime to have then in a gallery. Rather they should be in bus stations and clubs where everyone can see them. Who visits museum s? Putting him in one or destroying him maybe a way of avoiding our past sins. Perhaps he should have been left there with images of the horrors of his trade. Or the numbers enslaved and killed by him?
@@Tom_Hadler By your own deeply flawed logic; If he made his fortune off the back of slaves, by your own logic shouldn't it be taken from hsi estate and given to the slaves ancestors?
Stephen Glasse Or I may have disbenefited from it; difficult to accurately quantify.
The statue should have been taken down awhile ago and moved to a museum where it can teach people right and wrong instead of being thrown into a river and forgotten about
I'm not too sure if this is true, but, the reason why the statue was erected was because of all of the charitable work he did in Bristol. It was only later they found out about his slave trader history. Like I said, I'm not too sure if it's true. I agree with the fact that it should have been put in a history museum. No matter the reason of bringing it down, it's still criminal vandalism. The council should have removed it.
Exactly, as the old saying goes those who do not learn from history are deemed to repeat it.
@@edmundblackadder2741 learning from history doesn't mean you display a slaver in a prominent position in the city centre with no mention of his evil deeds.
@@azarth8805 it was never a secret that he was involved in the slave trade
@@jackbetteridge2155 Ah, still though, such a shame that people are getting angry over something they're not protesting for. If it's not over soon, we may go into a civil war again.
They tied the legs together like he was gonna get up and run off 😂
... they tied the legs together for more support on the top and bottom to actually get it down
Lou Nahdie Nah I wanna imagine them thinking he will just run off
@@lou4619 You're a moron, that would literally made it harder to pull anything down.
How hard did you fail GCSE physics.
@@mememachine5244 passed with flying colours. I also have eyes so I can tell you how the rope around it's legs isn't being pulled (0:16). It's binded to the rock it is stood on to clear that away when pulling on the rope around it's neck. So I repeat, it is for support to remove the whole thing or else it would have just bent the neck or at an extreme snapped it off.
Erase history, repeat history.
@teejus101Still, he got more likes than you so maybe he's onto something
"Who was *slave trader* Edward Colston and why was his statue pulled down?" Um I think the answer is in that very question
Not at all.. complete nonsense.
He has only been "Slave Trader" since the 7th of June 2020 when some farty edited his wikipedia page.. how about look at all of the altruistic benevolent actions that he took?
For the ill-informed perhaps. Every nation has taken part in slavery in some form or another. But there's a reason why we don't topple the Pyramids.
@@327legoman The pyramids are the wrong shape to topple. lol. I suppose there is still treasure in parts of the pyramids that have not been found yet.
@@327legoman Colston wasn't a nation but an individual.
Is it just slavery at the moment? What about those who supported gay conversion therapy?
Those who erase the past are doomed to repeat it.
Owen Jones thinks giving the mob what it wants will result in peace. I cannot wait for the day in which he discovers what happenned to the French revolutionaries, the Russian Old Guard and the German Socialists.
lol were not erasing the villains of the past you can learn about them in books, museums, or the internet but there is no need to celebrate them. like imagine if we put a statue of hitler on a fucking park
I’ll give £1k to anyone doing the same to Karl Marx statue.
I don't think Marx was a slave trader, idiot.
@@vladsview194 Should we destory all the pyramids too? Since they were built by slaves :)
Røff That’s the dumbest thing you could have said, how can tearing down a statue of a slave trader who murdered/abducted slaves be compared to tearing down pyramids which slaves built. If I abduct your child and make them my slave, where should my statue be placed? I forgot to mention if your child gets sick on the travel to my house, then I’m gonna throw them into the ocean 😆
The next time you try to draw a comparison, try to imagine the two scenarios. Drop your location too, just in case you do have any children 😉
@@ragnarralle old zionist theory it has been
Proven that it was built by workers
It was like an honor to them they were
Given lots of food and buried near the
Pyramid which was a great honor
@@vladsview194 Marx was an ultra hardcore racist and an instigator to genocide multiple times bigger than Hitler. So what?
He was some guy who none of these people cared about the week before they decided to commit this act of vandalism.
Exactly. Morons.
Actually several attempts had been made to get the wording of the plaque changed: to mention his attempts to delay an act abolishing the slave trade, but they were ignored.
@@stephena1196 This. The council did nothing, what a surprise.
@@steveazyb2595 Fake news
I guess a few cared. But this is vandalism, so you can't do it in many other contexts getting away with it. This was the perfect time for it, and those who wanted the statue out took their chances.
With all due respect,
The Home Secretary would've definitely said otherwise if not in the office.
The problem is that politicians only fight for power & less for real justice.
They speak when they feel it will be in their interest. So they pull the strings in the media.
Soooooo true.
I hate this home secretary and I am Indian. She is straight out disgusting!
She's just a wrong un
Is this the new normal then, gather an angry mob and destroy whatever they like?
Hey that's not fair. They steal stuff too.
Hopefully we need to take back the country from the people that are ruining it
Yes until racism is addressed.
Would it be more acceptable then to have a statute of adolf hitler in some British square or other location in the UK, after all he did bring the majority of Germans together under one perspective of how great the German people were as a people, how to economically advance them as a nation, put the German people first before anyone else, not to mention the policies he implemented for his nation of special people (or at least said he would and I deliberately did not capitalise his name because I have no respect for him). He did bring the ‘British’ people together in pride. How acceptable is that. Also how convenient to look at outcomes and ignore cause. Just saying.
@@MusingsOAM the chaining up and stealing children was done by the Africans themselves to other Africans you really wanna learn about slave trade in Africa before u to try make a arugement on it.
I'm so proud of Barbara Lerner spectre and George soros. For making Europe so multicultural and diverse. Great future for us...
What’s wrong with being diverse?
Totally ruined Europe.
3Vimages diversity ruined Europe?
As expected of a globalist;one-worlder like yourself
Diversity didn't ruin Europe. It made it wonderful. Without diversity we wouldn't have half of the things we have today. I'm all for diversity in people.
What ruined Europe was the fact that we didn't make people conform to our cultures but instead we let them stick to their own ways.
Not like I have a problem with their way of doing things, however it's created a cultural mess. Cultures that can't melt with each other are conflicting against each other. Neither side is right or wrong, it's just a case of incompatibility. What makes it worse is the fact that leftists are out there catering to those people in order to get their votes. They're fucking their respective countries up so that they can get power.
And nobody's doing a thing about it.
As a result, we have this.
Black people hating whites. White people fed up with blacks. Asians are fed up getting ignored and Arabs are sitting back watching the shit show. On top of that we have a government that's trying to cater to all of these groups and is therefore not successfully helping any of them.
Things would just be so much more efficient and people would be much happier if we had just stuck to our own culture and make people coming into the country conform to British culture. At least that way it would give us less to bicker over. With more diversity in people, British culture would grow and mature over time naturally like it has done for almost 1000 years before now.
Instead we had to fuck it up and force people who don't get along to live under the same roof. Ain't happening.
We didn’t erase history, we made it.
Bristol City Council, Labour Party majority, would you believe it ?
@Your Mother yes unfortunate what the conservatives have done to them
And this is pretending to be facts. Colston, was a trader. Not a slaver. He lived for 84 years, traded for about 60 and for just 12 was part of the Royal African Company - which did buy & sell slaves as a small part of it's dealings (all slaves were bought from local chiefs or Arab slaver traders). He headed the company for just 1 year, then left. He made the vast majority of his money from trading wine & fruit from Iberian peninsular, selling cloth & financing. The statue was in recognition that he then bestowed his wealth on Bristol. But lets not let the facts get in the way.
He bought and sold human beings, that is wrong. Like what’s not to understand? Like well he only did it for 12 years, what bullshit. This is not someone who is morally grey, this is someone who sold humans, like is this a joke?
Let me get this straight, we should celebrate someone who headed the company that lead to the deaths of over 12,000 children because he used the money to open a few charities? The argument that the statue should have been removed in the most civilised way, I agree with COMPLETELY but to sit there and pretend as if that stature deserves to be up? Fuck right off mate.
“shipped more enslaved African women, men and children to the Americas than any other single institution during the entire period of the transatlantic slave trade" www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/articles/legacy-slavery-working-party-recommendations. And you say "small part of its dealings". Feel free to post your sources which exonerate him.
The enemy is within the gates .....
Then give him what he is owed and he will leave(pay for all the years of free hard labour to the death)
Dead people neither pay, nor get paid, fool.
Another peaceful protest I see.
That is a peaceful protest though, nobody got hurt but a statue. You do realise a statue is not a living being right?
No one was hurt, seems pretty peaceful to me, unless the statue was a Weeping Angel!
Having actually been there with thousands of people, where almost everyone had a mask, there was no verbal confrontation with the police, there was no looting or any property damage, all that was done was there was a statue removed of a man who was involved in a company that resulted in the deaths of 19,000 people. And yet some people seem to be more outraged about a statue being removed than George Floyd being killed, than the fact that you are 9.5 times more likely (fullfact.org/crime/stop-and-search-england-and-wales/) to be stop and searched by the police if you are black, and that you are twice as likely to die in police custody in this country if you're black (www.donsidepiper.co.uk/read-this/black-people-are-twice-likely-die-police-custody-uk-according-statistics-2876490). Not a single police officer was hurt, there was no looting and there were 10s of thousands of people protesting across the country, but yeh they're not peaceful because the statue of a former slaver was torn down.
@@oliverrennison778 You can clearly see in the video that half of the people were unmasked. All you selfish people are doing is causing the second wave of coronavirus. This was completely unnecessary and idiotic. The only thing that will happen is that more and more people will despise the BLM movement because it's destroying society.
KidAAA Yep because pulling down property and rolling it into the river is definitely being peaceful
If you lived during the period when Colston was alive then you too would be regarded as a racist, so taking that further my and your ancestors were racist....but the term racist never existed then that was how life was and we have evolved to understand that slavery is very wrong...but they did not know this, is was normal life to them...does that make them all evil...no... just not as civilised as we are now...and we will be judged the same by people in 300 years from now
Starman Planet yeah what they have really done here is destroyed a statue of a man who was probably one of the best men of his times, founded many charities gave money and endowed schools, hospitals and churches, people also need to remember that it was his job to be a trader/ merchant and he was working for people as powerful as the king meaning if he didn’t want to take part in the slave trade and he disobeyed his orders and the king then he would most likely be executed or condemned.
Exactly that was how life was there then and we have evolved for the better now. But that doesn't give you the right to stamp out our history good or bad now.
It's interesting that the slaves at that time knew that slavery was inherently evil and persisted to revolt against slavery for centuries. What is even more interesting is that the British -being one of the major hubs of academia - at that time, couldn't fathom this. I guess Britain and other European super-powers weren't as enlightened as they perceive themselves to be.
@@Supersenpai000 They revolted against being enslaved because they thought it was morally wrong?
Quick question, if African slaves were more enlightened, why do they still have slaves today?
@@albertaatieno so let's destroy pyramids,colosseum and other monumetns,becuse you know...it was thanks to the slaves...every single country born and lived tha ks to the blood of others
Not protest, riot!
Shame on Bristol's useless police who could have contained and stopped it. Instead they stood back giving free rein to the`mob allowing the riot to develop and take over the city centre, endangering the lives of the law-abiding public and disrupting traffic throughout the entire city.
Rumour has it that Bristol's Black Leftist Labour Mayor, Marvin Rees, who has always been open in his hatred of the statue had something to do with this - a suggestion that he rather unconvincingly denies.
Edward Colston was not himself a slave trader but became an early abolitionist. When, as a member of the Royal Africa Company he discovered the true extent and horrors of this evil trade he was so overcome with remorse that he severed all links with the company and spent the remaining 20 years of his life and great fortune on philanthropic and charitable endowments, some of which exist to this day.
This elequent statue (a listed structure) was erected in 1908 to commemorate that remorse - which anyone with any sensitivity could see if they had taken the trouble to study it.
The vandals who tore it down were ignorant leftist 'rent-a-mob' philistines most of whom had nothing to do with Bristol and had been bussed in.
Yes, they were savages - our forebears handed them this monument, they had no right to remove unilaterally, depriving future generations of the same privileges we had. They purport to be moral, but they're self-righteous thugs.
No mention of how he built the city? Strange, almost like you want our heritage to be destroyed.
he personally built the city?
Mannie Gregg yes he by hand built the city every building and he personally impregnated the first generation of Bristol
Shut up
Concerning the statue of Cromwell, outside the houses of parliament. My ancestors were in Drogheda during the Cromwellian campaign in Ireland in 1649. At no time have I ever been offended at, what is, a statue to a historically important figure. The reason I'm not offended is because I'm not a fragile cry baby who, rather than talking about things that are relevant today, would rather try and erase historical fact.
No one is erasing history cause it is impossible people just don’t want to celebrate a racist slave trader no matter how much he helped Bristol. Slave trade was a sick and twisted thing where black people were targeted for there differences. In the time we live in people like this should not be respected and valued cause what he did was wrong for his time and ours.
oliver fletcher, O.K. let's go along with what you are saying (and I do agree with you to a point), what are these same people doing about modern day slavery that still exists?
Pulling downa statue wont erase Edward Colston or his history. Feel free to worship him in the privacy of your own home, mate.
@@oliverfletcher833 its history get over it
@@oliverfletcher833 but they're ok with living in buildings, visiting hospitals ect funded on slave trade yes? You cant just pick and choose what you can and can't like.
The evil that men do lives after them, William Shakespeare's
To remind us not to repeat it!
@@shawnscannell8855 You are right its time to put up statues of Jimmy Savile you know for all his charity work and such.
@@BloodPixi3 Not the same thing at all. One was breaking no laws at all, regardless of how disgusting the trade was. I wonder how many anti slavery against black people marches you have been on? the reason i ask is because, right now in places in the world people are still bering sold into slavery and i see next to nothing about that. People do not realy care, they just like to virtue signal and cause mayhem!
We must put up a statue George Lloyd he is a modern Saint, has Angel Wings and his sh!t doesn't st!nk!
...the good is oft interred in their bones.....which applies to Colston's philanthropy.
Filling the empty space -- A pot of nice flowers
If we are going to judge him by todays standards then you need to look at all the good he did too.
He doesn't have a statue for his hand in the slave trade, that's really all I'm saying.
Hi Dray. By your logic, we should erect statues of Jimmy Saville for his charitable work. Not for his paedophilia of course.
Gavin Anthony well said
Let's also rip down Mandela statue as he was a terrorist
@@gavstar21 See this kind of behaviour is stupid. The dark history isn't something to be ignored, it's something to be remembered. The present is built on the past, if you think tearing down a statue solves anything, you better tear down the entire civilisation because it's built on slavery with the majority of people being involved in at least racism in one way or the other. What has this solved? Absolutely nothing. It has just taken down a historical piece of architecture that reminds of the past and the society we used to live in, how is tearing down that statue changing this past?
What he did in the past was socially acceptable in the past. Not correct by todays standard but if you judge everyone by todays standards, every single, and I mean pretty much every single person has done something that would be illegal today. Not being able to celebrate people's achievements because what they did would not be acceptable today is stupid because in a few centuries time, they'll have similar things. What if everybody starts treating all animals equal to dogs and cats and saying we cannot celebrate the huge strides Elon Musk made in the past because he ate meat and it was wrong. Come on now people, you cannot be this stupid.
@@gavstar21
The BBC already have a statue sculpted by a paedophile.
Not the right way? In a museum? Wtf? This is exactly the right way, straight into the water.
yes and replace it with civil rights advocates
yeah lets just destroy everything from the past because it might offend some people
at what point did statues hold ALL of the information ever held about people? they don't. books do. try reading one
For the white lower middle classes it was a big relief.
I don't think any part of history should be removed good or bad, they are reminders to us all what was and a reflection of what is, we learn from history, and can only progress using a different way of thinking.
A man went to prison, and died there, for allegedly throwing a bacon sandwich at a mosque. But ripping apart our heritage in an appalling spectacle of group hate, not an issue.
Shut up.
So you would like the UK to be known for countless deaths and slavery
@@djyems1021 witty response. Thick tw@t
@@ljrogers3238 Why on Earth should it? This was the only nation and empire in history to ban slavery around the World. Except for some African and Arab hold outs that is. My forefathers and culture are the heroes of libertarianism and anti slavery and certainly did more to stop it than you ever could.
@@ljrogers3238 Come on. Do explain that one for me.
If I am white I will stand up for my own skin I sick 🤮of violence protest 🤬
@UCkx6YDuhLZ3HenUchv2OWNA Please, look at South Africa in this day in age, they call economy different things by the colour they claim there is a white economy and a black economy, you should also know that white people are a minority there and do not want to leave due to being African, it's not about what nation you claim to be part of but your skin. Please research more than what media shows you, and know who Edward Colston was and what his story is, research more than just him but look at many others that EXPLORED Africa, this is about our turn in history. I suggest you do more than comment on someone, you do not know their background or how they lived or experienced. Just please, research and look at history. Please, I beg of you!
Why don't we boycott the music of rappers who have assaulted or murdered people? Surely we should not be celebrating such people in any way?
Or maybe......they produce something of value to us and we celebrate them for that. And that doesn't mean we are venerating all parts of their personality. How about that?
Have you ever heard of drill rap? A popular rap genre where artists describe their horrific violent crimes in detail glorifying criminality at every step. You won't see black people condemn this because that'd hurt their wallets and they want to be able to make money off of brainwashing young kids into degenerate criminality.
Ignorant one sided narrative. His statue went up because of the money he gave back to society when slavery folded. Included in his philanthropy were for the slaves - uplifting and improving their condition. But once again ignorance acts before thinking.
You can't educate pork it's frustrating but it's true they won't listen, go against the weak minded and all you will get is you're racist bla bla bla
I'm so glad he was a philanthropist for the slaves he STOLE from their land. That's like rewarding a murderer for being emotional support of the victims family. Stop bootlicking a literal scumbag
Ignorant yourself. Slavery did not fold until 100 years after Colston's death and his statue was not erected until 200 years after his death. The statue was paid for by public subscription in honour of his compassion and philanthropy. Among other business interests, mainly trading in wines, textiles and oils, Colston had become involved with the Royal Africa Company, a part of whose portfolio was slave trading. After discovering the cruel, evil nature of the slave trade, Colston severed all ties with the company and out of remorse devoted his fortune and the remaining 30 years of his life to philanthropy.
The hooligan mob who vandalized Colston's statue were (as usual) attacking the wrong person.
This sends out a terrible message to the thugs. Basically saying the town is yours.
if by 'thugs' you mean black people then I guess so, seeing as their ancestors literally built the cities
I am related to Edward Colston and i think these protestors are utterly ridiculous
it's irrelevant, there should be zero tolerance when it comes to the removal of all historical statues, monuments and landmarks, no matter if they are interpreted today as good or bad. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
I'm pretty sure remembering the past is _why_ they tore it down...
This is what the majority think in this country and thats why the government better do something. Not pussy foot to appease put it back where it belongs.
It is sad that slave trade happened, because they were stolen, and today, African and many other countries paid the trafficker to trade themselves.
@Nic Kaufman I know that, I've been visit that village few years ago, but seems not much change about trafficking these days, people borrow lots of money from trafficker to take them to western countries, thinking they make money, first to pay back, then for
the families, but no one lend them money, like start little business etc, only for trafficking. What's there to help?
What's the difference between Protest and Vandalism ?
What's the difference between Freedom Fighters and Terrorists ?
He was a product of his time. There was nothing wrong with what he did at the time, if not him then it’d be someone else
Not everyone was a massive slave trader in his time though. Don't worry, we can keep the statues of people who didn't earn a living from human misery.
See where you're coming from bud. Absolutely nothing wrong with organising trips to Africa to trap a few backward natives, pack 'em into a ship like sardines, and put them to work like cattle. After all, everybody was doing it, so it must have been OK. Anyway, it's not like they were people or anything like that.
That's an awful mindset.
@WispGB Only if white people do it. If black people do it or Arabs do it, we'll keep that hush hush!
shocking. police should arrested the protests.
Priti Patel has absolutely lost the plot ahah
No, she has read the democratic mood pal
Sure it isn't you
No she hasn't. People supporting mob rule have.
This a big W for the UK, peace from Canada, I fuck with y'all
Big L
Whether the statue should have been removed or not, the mob has no right to vandalise a public monument. This is meant to be the 21st centruy not 18th century France.
Oh I see your got a problem with that
So you agree with putting a statue of a man who made 80.000 slaves
Suppose pretty much every historical monument will have to go now then huh?
Do you want statues of slavers in our cities?
@@mikemurray2027 do you want to rewrite history?
@@simonwest1977 It isn't rewriting history. Statues usually only have a small amount of writing on them anyway. The history of this man is still available online and soon will be in a museum.
Nah just the racist ones fam
That’s what they want they are the real prejudice bawling Racism as an excuse to culture cull western civilisation.
It’s about time the Adults told the brats off and reprimand them....
Funny that the statue has been there all this time before they noticed it now 😆😆
The public have asked to have it taken down several times.
@@jeremymerrifield219 and the public only had around 10k signed on a petition to take it down, in a city/town of 500k. so if we don't like something, and are a minority, it's perfectly acceptable to just tear something down now?
@@caboosecabana6068 better late than never
@@josephwanyama6376 My arguement isn't that it was taken down, but rather how, it was taken down. They sited they had asked to take it down several times in a petition. that petition didn't even get 5% of the votes in the city/town it had. To put that in a different way, let's imagine you've just built your dream home, you've saved up all your life for it, it's been there 50 years, and then someone decides your home was built on a burial ground, so they have a petition to tear it down, would it be right if not even 5% who voted, was just allowed to bulldoze your home? -Granted, we're not talking about an actual house here, or a burial ground, however what we ARE talking about, is a statue which reminds us of how, that whole town was built. Not only that, if you've lived in that area, and you take it down like that, despite the statue being racist, you're also, racist. as due to you living there, you have also, benefitted from slavery in some form.
It has been asked to be removed long ago.
Funny no coverage on Churchills statue
I know the media is a joke.
Yup, its not so easy to defend that statue, but the degenerate that vandalised the Churchill statue should be shot.
Churchill basically starved out 2 million Indians and caused thousands of ANZAC lives at galipolli he made a massive contribution in WW2 but he was no saint
@@guiltyagi2685 no one is saying that but he is a main reason that we are even standing here today
@@guiltyagi2685 Go live in Germany or India then.
As a human, I totally disagree with slavery, hate it.
As a history fan, and knowing that statue was made around 1800s, it breaks my heart :(
Wow big men fighting with a statue how brave
It's a symbol of slavery. Don't you understand?
says the keyboard warrior
The statue was oppressing them!
@@ryanheath9974 Is that what we're fighting now? Statues?
I also dont think it was a symbol of slavery, he wasnt put there for that reason was he?
Statues lives matter
But let's put on a pedestal a great human being in George Floyd. Am I losing the plot? Wtf is going on.
George 'Hold a gun to a pregnant woman's stomach' Floyd. But he was an angel!
@@lazaglider I'd be interested if she went to a mural of his and defaced it. Would that be acceptable. Or any of his other victims.
@@mivanp2185I suspect that would depend entirely on the colour of her skin.
yep, you're losing the plot
@@richardbanks9519 no he's not.
Many of them don’t know he funded schools , churches hospitals with his wealth , yes he should not be celebrated as a slave merchant as it is a horrible thing but at the time he was alive the slave trade was legal
Funded with blood money.
He did so off the back of profits from slaves, it doesn't make him a good person. Jimmy Saville was highly charitable for example. What would you say about a statue of him?
That money is blood money. Regardless of what he spent it on just because slavery was considered legal doesn't make it right. In some parts of the world it's legal for a little girl to marry but that doesn't make it right.
TSD _SQUADDD imagine being black and knowing that his wealth came from selling ur Ancestors as commodities and not humans. If I make money from trafficking children and humans then donate it to schools etc. should I get a statue? Would you want to show me respect?
That is blood money. If a drug dealer sells drugs to children and then turns around on donates to schools and hospitals is it alright then?
Should have been removed long ago. It's the council's fault that it has to be pulled down and not removed.
Will the book burnings be soon?
Ye koran and bible first
@@barteatmyshorts8252 try to burn the quran in england, you'd get shat on by the leftist wankers, i swear some of the logic shown in the last week is retarded
There's a difference between education and glorification. The statue doesn't tell you anything about what Colston did, does it? You have books about Hitler, but you wouldn't have public statues of Hitler.
Because vandals tied ropes to it and because no one stopped them
Police in Bristol are left wing.
@@bristolbullterrier.1434 does left wing in this statement mean 'thinks slavery was bad' ?
@@bristolbullterrier.1434 Police in Bristol knew if they tried to stop it it would trigger weeks of rioting across the country
@@MannieGregg Or more accurately "thinks pictures of police protecting a statue of a slave trader from people protesting police brutality against black people would trigger riots across the country"
And for all those thugs who have any idea of damaging statues of Sir Winston Churchill, I hope the Police prosecute you with the full weight of the law. Sir Winston Churchill is someone reveared and respected in the UK by those who know their history of how he had served in the military in the front line and went on to be Prime Minister and apply his wisdom and courage needed to get us through WWII. If this statue was so offensive why hasn't it been taken down without fuss in the three years of the black Mayor being in office.
Sounds like your in tears pal... Every single person who damaged that piece of shit statue deserves a reward! No room for racists in this world buddy now go to bed.
They're no thugs, they were true heroes only in your eyes and that of that young lady from Ugandan are they thugs. Anyone who thought that disgusting statue of a slave trader should be left in a city centre is devoid of common human decency.
@@romangd8366- Exactly with you 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 % . These people have no heroes so they become hysterical about some shit people and stuff. That shit should have been left in the gutter where it belong
It was 2020 my son the year Idiocracy was no longer a film.
No one cared about this before George floyd, just shows that this is gotten out of hand
KnockItWide86 I love this comment
Noah because they were blinded by our country and all the bullshit we’ve been fed , mad how a man getting murdered makes people wonder
Umm yes they did care. People were trying to get the statue taken down for years. Just because you're ignorant on the history of the statue doesn't mean no one else cared.
Wrong, people have been fighting in Bristol to get this statue taken down for over 3 decades and the George Floyd murder has just bought this to the foreground. Don't think that it should have been done in this way but it should have been removed and put in a museum years ago, just in the same way Jimmy Saville was posthumously stripped of his knighthood.
I just wondered what they would have done if it was a black African slave trader which there were many at the time...
Listen mate, like, if it's not trending on Facebook, like, it's not real OK?
If those people hadn’t taken down that statue,honouring a racist slave trader, it was never have been removed . There’s talks of it going into a Museum .that mans status should stay in the river just like the 20 thousand African souls who died on the Journey Here and thrown into the sea , with no burial or memorial . He stole them from their families, country and he must not be celebrated! It should be replaced with a memorial for all those he sold , all those that lost their lives!!
✊🏾LEWIS HAMILTON ✊🏾
@@Gomes719 Hamilton another sporting tosser.
The very fact that they give time on national TV news for this wicked man who was forefront of so millions of suffering slaves proves that Racism exist very much in the UK. This statue should never have been put up in the first place.
Your crap opinion is in fact what the TV and every body on it are trying to force down peoples necks , read the comments the public hate the hypocritical idiots who risked public health , vandalised a statue and complain of so called racism because a criminal in foreign city died at the hands of the police whilst resisting arrest
Welcome to the Middle East.
No they happily have statues of scumbags up there.
Another snowflake. How does that have any relation to this?
Hopefully they rebuild the statue bigger and in gold!
Why would you rebuild a slave traders statue in gold
are you crazy?
he is our ancestor and no matter what.... he is the reason you are here, you are literally spitting on your own ancestors... sorry but you are doomed!
Muten Roshi he shouldn’t be glorified. He was a slave trader. Yes, he’s a part of history, but thats the past.
@@chelseaforlife4675 why not, it will look a very nice.
British Army soldier, Fusilier Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was attacked by Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, on 25 May 2013. He was on duty. Think about it for a moment. What an unnecessary attack was that? Did anyone notice a massive riot like the one we see today over the death of George Floyd? Not because we have forgotten Lee Rigby or his family, but because normal, law abiding citizens do not gang up and behave like thugs. I too feel sad about the way Mr Floyd died. He was a father of young children, but PLEASE, stop this violence and return home safely. The whole world is in chaos, financially broke, unemployment has risen, don’t cause more damage. PLEASE.
These are two entirely different issues though. Black people have been systemically mistreated, harassed and killed by the authority figures who are supposed to be protecting them for over two hundred years. People have tried protesting peacefully for decades, but no change has come of it, black people are still being wrongfully killed by these criminals that call themselves cops. George Floyd's death was the final straw. There was no reason for him to be killed, nor was there for any of the hundreds of innocent black people murdered by police before him. Black people have every right to make themselves heard as they've been ignored for centuries. If asking politely doesn't get you anywhere, then you have every right to make a scene.
Lee Rigby's murder was also horrific, deeply disturbing and upsetting. But the context there is entirely different. That was a one-off incident. He was not murdered by law enforcement officers. He did not represent an oppressed group of people. White people are not being routinely killed or discriminated against. As white people, we do not live every day of our lives with the constant reminder of racism. So if there were to have been a riot, what would it have been about?
The riots we're seeing today represent so much more than just George Floyd's death. We're not just going to magically all become a big happy loving family by going home, forgetting all about it, and just waiting around for the next tragedy to happen. Now is the time for people to stand up, have a voice and make real change.
You didn't fall for that one did you ? How does a woman witness someone having their head hacked off & films the man holding a knife & her hands are steady , not a sign of shock or terror ! + all the youths on the bus knew they were acting , but if you really want to know who bombed London 77 then check Tony Farrell ex Police Chief who proved it was Mossad using C4 explosives
It shouldn't have been brought down at all it should have stayed there
There’s a difference between remembering the bad parts of our history, and celebrating it. A statue that glorifies a slave trader should not be in the middle of a modern multicultural city. Yes he was a philanthropist, but the money he donated to Bristol will always be tainted. The best way of remembering the past isn’t statues, but educating Bristolians and all of us about what built our cities
Should Bristol itself figure out how much money it made overall ever since Colston contributed and then tax all of the people living and/or working there to pay that money off to somewhere in Africa or something so that the CCP can just guzzle the money up over time with shady bad deals?
This whole thing is stupid. I don't let this thing keep me as an eternal slave. And I don't see why other African descendants can't do the same. Focusing on this sort of stuff is just keeping people from getting on with their lives, and it's keeping black people down.
@@flip-phone_becky4655 Shady bad deals, before pointing your fingers at others, look at the mirror first.
Go check out all oil companies like Shell , what did they do in Africa and around the world. Many Western firms did the Latin America style banana republic thingy around the world.
Dont see you ever talk about it.
@@kaisiangtey8964 I look in the mirror. I see my face that looks like the slaves. I see my hair that looks like that of the slaves. I see a person with slave company middle and last names.
But focusing on this sort of stuff isn't going to help anyone. It's ironically keeping black people down.
And the worst evil done seems to have been the Africans selling their neighbours to the Europeans....
The whole thing is a mess and only forgiving it and moving on can have people grow upwards and together.
And the greatest scam of the decade was born
For many in Bristol? around 11,750 of a population of 686,210. Not even 10% but go ahead anyway. Thought damaging public property was a crime? obviously not
Many people who didn’t/ couldn’t go to the protests still supported it. Turnout isn’t the be all and end all of causes
A White Spider - you cant run a functioning democracy based on a tiny monitory of thugs trying their hardest to introduce mob rule
We have a new category of crime: "virtuous crime". What makes it virtuous is that it is done by or on behalf of a state designated "victim group". It is not punished. But try to go to church and you'll be behind bars before you can say "Blac..".
I think a written monument should be put there stating " here, once stood a historic monument, that the black lives matter movement destroyed", theres nothing to learn from now because its been destroyed!
A lot of British architecture & its materials may of been shipped using slave labour, are they going to be destroyed also? Anything built before the abolishment of slave trade, are they the next on their hitlist?
They should put it back up just to put two fingers up to all those who are destroying monuments and statues
There's a statue of a well known figure who happened to be quite the racist just outside The Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky. If this movement is about anti-racism and equality, I'll assume that one is coming down next...
Kris Stoff what did he do?
Don't hold your breath lol.
@@ewgross8408 www.dailymotion.com/video/x16z2ff
I like how we're asking this question after the statue was torn down 😑
Section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977 provides:
"...if a person agrees with any other person or persons that a course of conduct shall be pursued which, if the agreement is carried out in accordance with their intentions, either -
(a) will necessarily amount to or involve the commission of any offence or offences by one or more of the parties to the agreement, or
(b) would do so but for the existence of facts which render the commission of the offence or any of the offences impossible, [added by S.5 Criminal Attempts Act 1981]
he is guilty of conspiracy to commit the offence or offences in question." CRIMINAL DAMAGE. Well done idiot. Say goodbye to daddy’s uni money. There’s a job in McDonald’s waiting for you
Maybe most laws of this land are designed to protect imperialism, hegemony & other crimes. Now the time us up to test if you will continue that way. Civilised people know a crime when they see one so have no patience for a political system that protects the big thief & prosecutes the small vandal on behalf of a monarch.
BTW were can I get all the acts and laws from, anyone know a good website
Mach Breloom: Hansard.
No chance.The middle classes always escape the consequences because they create them.😁
Imagine if people tore down the pyramids because of slaves that were used to build them that had nothing to do with any living person today.... LOL
So.....do we celebrate someone who dealt in human beings.....
.....or not?
Not even a question is it.
What IS a question is how the hell does he have a statue and buildings named after him!!
He was a clever British man from ancient histoy . Some commies told the black folk he had a few slaves an they got mad .
U so right I bet they were just jealous
Although I don't promote violence but people taking matter in their hand and removing the racist's statue was very comforting
There is no evidence that Edward Colston was a racist. On the contrary, he was known as a kindly compassionate Christian who having become aware of the cruel and evil nature of the slave trade, severed his links to the Royal Africa Company and out of remorse devoted his fortune and the remaining 30 years of his life to philanthropy. It is to commemorate this that the statue was erected in 1895.
It is not at all comforting that mob rule should have been allowed to prevail - especially since the ignorant leftist mob got their facts wrong as usual.
can somebody please tell me name of the country which 16th century did not have a slaves, are you telling me the Africa in 16th century did not have the slaves???? Slavery in Mauritania was abolished in 1981, As a fact that was no European people there. This people just need to fight something, but they do not have a courage to fight for something right. or somebody who can fight back. It is easier to pull down than to build up
Mauritania still has slaves, like many other African countries, they didn't want to end their slave trade
Taking down the statue is not called democracy and as a coloured person, I don't support this act.
The Bengal famine of 1943 estimated to have killed up to 3 million people was not caused by drought but instead was a result of a "complete policy failure" of the then-British Prime Minister - Winston Churchill. Now shall I go to Westminister to take down Churchill's Statue?
Are we living in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq? This is a democratic country.
Gandhi and Nelson Mandella - will never support this act.
Andrew Colson - slave trader, now shallow diver...
Edward Colston..😂
No mention of what he did with all his money. He helped develop the city of Bristol into what it is today. And ppl are complaining about how selective we are with history. The media is doing it. Oh do give me strength.
Absolutely agree. It's just like people did with Jimmy Saville. They suddenly forgot all the charity work he did just because he routinely sexually assaulted vulnerable children. The media is so selective when it suits them.
And where did he get that money? The city is built off of the profit of slaves, not the man's hard work.
Black equality, what about white equality, black or white should not make any difference, it's how the people act not what colour they are, so called white people would not be allowed to do the things a black person does
Dont be silly, no one cares about white people
Any examples?
E W yes loads white people cannot play the racist card like some black people do, whites blacks don't make any difference we are all human, unfortunately some black people twist things to their advantage by playing the race card, when that happens it grows out of control, do I blame them, no not really it's the woke culture that allows it that is responsible
Now we need to pull down the statues of the offending royals. There are so many.
Are the slaves entitled to💰 compensation from Donald&Bill?
Black spring .
Why is this knob talking about the USA , he's mayor of Bristol.
Brcause these protests began in usa
Does that mean next to get torn down is the Washington Monument and Mount Rushmore?
One can hope
Colston Hall should be simply named 'Concert Hall' 🤔
Actually, not a bad idea.
I mean it just shouldn’t have been brought down like that, it was a major part of history. I’m all for Black Lives Matter but I don’t think pulling it down and throwing it in a lake was the best way to go about it
That Mayor is the problem
Perhaps all statutes should be taken down and carefully and respectfully placed in a museum and no more statutes erected in public places. Wherever possible they should be replaced by trees.
the statue should have been taken down a long time ago and then put in the natural history museum. you shouldn't just destroy something which you deem to be wrong, otherwise you can never learn. if people have issues with other statues of slave traders, take a vote for people in that city and if they deem it to be offensive then the city council should remove it and put it in a museum. the natural history museum could make an entire exhibit from these statues and people COULD LEARN from this instead of being ignorant of the statues existence. if people have a problem with these statues going into a museum then we'll have to destroy all the Egyptian and roman artefacts in there as well. all I'm saying is that wether or not you disagree with the statue being commemorated does not mean you can vandalise artwork (and it is artwork), its just plain wrong.
His statue was pulled down because British people saw America doing this and wanted to copy what America was doing.
I dont care about it but what the slaver did at the time was legal and perfectly acceptable & like it or not, slavery happened and was accepted. Im sure theres things going on today that people just accept that will amaze people in the future that it was allowed to happen.
It wasn't legal, it wasn't acceptable. Perhaps in the eyes of the dreadful, evil, horrible Colston and his partners in crime with no moral compass thought it was legal. How despicable. That just tell the country that he and the others came from. The great German nation doesn't celebrate the Furer, Spain doesn't celebrate Franco and that country is happy enough to celebrate individuals who committed the worst crime unimaginable.
@@Koloviv48i some terrible things have happened in many historical buildings, should we be allowed to knock them down for what they represent? I assume that the reasons they decided Colston deserved a statue were many compared to the slavery. Also we all know black slavers existed & slavery was a thing in every culture, today we have illegal immigrant sex slaves & workers, why not put efforts into tackling that instead of fretting about things & people who are loooooong gone.
it wasn't acceptable to the black slaves was it?
@@AgtX999 Wow why you denying the truth
The statue should of been taken down long ago in a civil manor and im sure it would of been taken down in a civil manor really soon if it was'nt ripped down, dark history should be kept in the museum so people can learn of the mistakes of others. You can't change the past but you can learn of it so it isnt replicated in the future.
Estimated 400,000 people died in the colosseum whom we slaves of all races and nations due to the wars of the romans, thats a land mark of a country and a huge tourist sight should we tear down that? Also on that topic many roman tyrants and dictators whom slaughter many and committed acts violence are relevant to this day being the months July, August ect.. Does that mean we should change the names of those months?
@mhffc No ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Is everyone going to deface the statue around the BBC? If you bite the hand that feeds you, be prepared to eat each other.
Replace it with a statue of george floyd, he was a peaceful, innocent and protective man that was also humble.