So Edward Colston has been binned due to his links with slavery, but celebrating someone who identifies with a Marxist movement, giving a black power salute is okay.
The statue of slave trader Edward Colston was secretly replaced overnight without council permission by a figure of a Black Lives Matter protester.
Last month, the 18th century merchant’s statue was torn down, dragged a third of a mile and thrown into the Bristol harbour.
His empty spot has been filled with a monument to BLM demonstrator Jen Reid – who was photographed atop the newly empty plinth with her fist raised after the statue fell in early June.
Titled ‘A Surge of Power (Jen Reid) 2020’, the black resin and steel statue was erected in an operation at 5am this morning.
Fucking hell! Okay, so Colston traded in slaves. Something that today, we agree is abhorrent. However at the time, it was a part of life – both African blacks were traded as were European whites (something that the revisionists prefer to ignore – along with current slavery in Africa). It was what it was. But Colston never deliberately engaged in mass murder, unlike the various Marxist regimes of the 20th Century.,
Jen Reid is either ignorant of the piles of corpses that this hideous ideology represents or she is okay with it, in which case, she has no moral compass. As for her anger about George Floyd’s death, perhaps she should care more about Secoriea Turner who was murdered by BLM activists. But that doesn’t fit the narrative, does it? Where are the mass protests about that black life? Or those murdered by BLM in Seattle? It seems that some black lives matter more than others. Colour me surprised by the hypocrisy here.
Once again, we see Marxism doing what it always does, murder innocent people. Nothing about this toxic ideology should be celebrated. Indeed, we should treat it in exactly the same way as we do Nazism, for it is as evil. BLM is a self-admitted Marxist group. Anyone who supports it is supporting an ideology that is awash with the blood of innocents.
Mayor of Bristol Marvin Rees issued a statement stating that the future of the plinth, and any memorials, must be decided ‘by the people of Bristol’.
As someone who lives in the Bristol area, I vote we pull it down and toss it into the harbour where it belongs.
Pulling this statue down, which I presume has been erected illegally and without permission from the local council, would be poetic justice. As you say BLM is a thoroughly Marxist entity and Marxism has a bucket load of blood on its hands, maybe more than Nazism. I’ve never understood why displaying the Nazi version of the Swastika is quite rightly condemned, yet the hammer and sickle, which flew over death camps and execution grounds, is not just morally acceptable but in some circles celebrated.
To add: I’m not of course inciting anyone to any act of vandalism to this ‘sculpture’ of a fan of a mass murdering ideology. This is not only because such an act may be against some law or other. It is also because although the Marxist scum who took part in the pulling down of the Colston statue are likely to get either derisory sentences or even have their charges dropped, Britain’s increasingly biased and two tier justice system is liable to come down hard on anybody who upsets the Marxists, the identity politics grievance mongers, the perpetually offended snowflakes and the BLM thugs.
I’m wondering how long this will go on. The silent majority can see this for what it is. Also, they can kick back when it suits – see also, Goya in the states. The Leftist call for a boycott had the rather wonderful opposite effect to the point where retailers are selling out and having to ration the products.
These Marxist arseholes do not represent the opinions of the majority.
It’s made of steel, might attract a lightning bolt, and resin, would burn nicely.
“Maybe more than Nazism” No maybe about it.
Jordan Peterson Existensialism Nazi Germany and the USSR YouTube
Think I was about 13 or 14 when I figured out that facism and Marxism were two sides of the same coin and that politics is not a straight line from left to right but rather a circle that meets around the back in the darkness of totalitarianism.
In some countries it has been illegal to hold that view and in some places it still is but both my History and General Studies teachers were happy enough with it (1970’s).
The Coston statue looked better too. Not from Bristol, but I know it well, oldest is at uni there and lives just off Whiteladies Road.
They also conveniently ignore that Colston headed up the Royal Africa Company, and that Royal part isn’t just an endorsement. Why aren’t BLM demanding defunding Madge?
Give ’em time.
Well they might try but given the fairly ubiquitous adoration of Madge, particularly amongst the olds, that would not go down well I think.
Could be useful, along with #canceljkrowling to make people look a little closer at the rampant bullshit that is BLM.
They should have something cheerful, non political and something great that has come out of Bristol. I suggest Wallace and Grommit.
I could go with that. With their sidecar outfit.
Wallace and Grommit are altogether too British, unless recast with Idris Elba and a trannie we’ve never heard of.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, with the airbrushed cigar back in place.
I would go along during the night, and paint the face white.
Yep chuck the bloody thing in the harbour as the piece of shit it is !
Have any of these Marxist shits in Bristol been sentenced and banged up yet ?
Beeb and Indy both reported the arrest of a single, unnamed, 24 year old man for criminal damage 4th July. Police comments make it clear they did so unwillingly (because BLM ?).
I bet the police press desker was sad. Doesn’t mean the rank n file like em.
I understand that Colston, described as a slave trader by the ‘unbiased’ media, never dealt in slavery. He apparently made his money from cotton, which is where the slavery connection is. Some may say, therefore that this connection is tenuous.
Meanwhile, the Guardian newspaper, that bastion of left wing rhetoric, was founded by a man who also made his money from cotton, but none of the Marxist BLM or Antifa morons have attacked that building. Wonder why?
Tunnel visioned twats, all of them.
Lol the new statue has been ‘secretly’ removed by the Council.
So it has:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-53427014
I guess Bristol City Council finally saw which way the wind was likely to blow, so better to remove it quietly than to have it follow Colston into the harbour. When polled about the Colston statue, the majority wanted it left in place, as I suspect, the majority do not want the Colson’awl to change names to pander to these Marxist scumbags.
The statue is made of resin which burns very readily. Just saying
Bristol should seriously consider a statue as tribute to the men of the West Africa Squadron.
Seeing as they did more to prevent slavery then all the virtue signalling SJWs (who are content to use mobile phones made from minerals mined by West African children but that’s different because reasons)