Tag: Black Lives Matter
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History isn’t being destroyed, it’s being discovered
In 1895, 174 years after his death, a statue of mass-murdering slave-trader, Edward Colston, was erected in the centre of Bristol to commemorate his blood-fuelled philanthropy. 125 years later, this monument was torn down by anti-racism protesters, rolled towards the Bristol harbour, and drowned in the river Avon. Ever since then, the Black Lives Matter…
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George Floyd, Minneapolis, and police brutality
Like most people, I’ve spent the last two weeks glued to my phone, growing increasingly incensed at the fascistic brutality of the American police. In the UK, the United States has always been held up as a beaming example for the rest of Western society. But over the last 4 years, with the help of…