Tories announce plans to protect statues of racists – because that’s where their sympathies lie?
Over it goes: the toppling of the Colston statue, back in June 2020.
It seems the Conservative government has a new enemy to put alongside Priti Patel’s “activist lawyers” – but the theme of racism is the same.
Patel attacked “activist lawyers” who stopped her from deporting people as part of the “hostile environment” policy.
Robert Jenrick – the Tories’ bent housing and communities minister – has set his sights on anti-racism protesters, whom he described as “woke worthies”.
He was referring to people who tore down statues of racists and slave traders during the Black Lives Matter protests last summer.
But the plans he announced did not target people who vandalise public monuments – they are already covered by the criminal damage laws.
No – he wants to stop
left wing Labour councils and mayors from tearing down statues, and changing controversial street names.
He reckons such behaviour is an attempt to erase parts of the nation’s history – but this is clearly hogwash. It is an attempt to change the way our national history is perceived, by de-glorifying people who never deserved any recognition in the first place.
By launching this attack, Jenrick is announcing to the world that the Conservative Party supports racism; that the Tories condone slavery.
https://twitter.com/Andrew_Adonis/status/1350899000350748673
And he may have a surprise, if his legislation gets through Parliament.
Under his plan, neighbourhoods will have to be consulted on plans to remove statues of racists and slavers.
But campaigners in Bristol
pointed out they had tried for years without success to get Bristol authorities to launch an official process to debate Colston’s influence in the city.
So in fact, it seems he’ll be handing anti-racism activists exactly the tools they need to get rid of these stains on our streets.
I would suggest that we don’t tell him, but…
He’s a Tory. There’s no reasoning with them and they’ll never accept they’re making a blunder.
Source: Tories attack ‘baying mobs’ who topple statues of racists and vow to stop them – Mirror Online
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Yes, monuments to slave-owners to be protected. Truly sickening!
Today, 18 January, is Martin Luther King Day in the U S.
There is a new film out about his harassment by the FBI. But the film appears to, and the BBC and the Guardian most definitely do, treat this as if it were a separate issue from his assassination.
This is totally wrong. They are most definitely connected.
https://www.skyhorsepublishing.com/9781510750142/who-really-killed-martin-luther-king-jr/
The whole argument is preposterous! What is needed is a national debate about who we honour and why. Nobody is asking, I believe, for the wholesale removal of statues of former slavers and those who profited from that most heinous trade, for there will be no statues left but for a conversation about who is revered, why and how. Context is everything but we must not, at the same time, ignore the brutal truth. The truth stinks and there is no shying away from that. It is the pretence that these people are all angels. We need to ask, is it appropriate that these people should be remembered in this way, or is there some other way to pay respect to their contribution?
I have long said that racism is greatly misunderstood, particularly by those who wish to abolish it. There is a difference between racism and racial prejudice, which we all have. Racism is a system that we all inherited, the institution upon which many others stand. We need to understand it and dismantle it, in order to build a society of and form the people who form it, not one that is rooted in the maltreatment and bloodshed of some. The truth is that many people have benefited from that system and are, of course, reluctant to see the back of it.