📕 Node [[britain is better off without bristol s monument to colston]]

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📓 garden/neil/britain-is-better-off-without-bristols-monument-to-colston.md by @neil

Britain is better off without Bristol’s monument to Colston

Articulated here: The Guardian view on the ‘Colston Four’: taking racism down | Editorial | The…

Fuck yes.

Not in a public celebratory view, anyway. It’s still in a museum to reckon with the past.

[[Colston]]. [[Slavery]].

Because

Colston was a slave trader, one of Britain’s wealthiest
[[Figures such as Colston are not simply remote characters from history]]
[[Britain’s history contains astonishing levels of greed and cruelty]]
[[Acknowledging historic injustices is part of building a more equal society today]]
[[The built environment reinforces cultural messages]]

But

Tackling racism requires a lot more than removing statues

Epistemic status

Type : [[claim]]

Agreement level : [[Without a doubt]]