Why would you assume that individuals supporting the BLM movement aren't also concerned and active on other topics? BLM is a single issue movement, so it is not going to be a forum for other important matters. People can support BLM and the RSPCA, Amnesty and any other cause you can think of. It isn't one or the other. If BLM were a political party it would be another matter, because political parties do have to offer a package that covers everything.Pebble wrote: ↑11 Jan 2022, 9:36amYes a single issue movement that spells it out very clearly in the title. Just astonishing that they seem to have no interest in the continuing slave tradepwa wrote: ↑10 Jan 2022, 5:33am
But BLM is a single issue movement. Should they campaign on every other issue too? They don't have a lot to say on climate change or the cost of heating a home either.
And we are not going back deep into history and punishing long-dead individuals. What is proposed is that here and now, in our own age, we cease having effigies of those people on pedestals as if we admire them. All that is required is to take statues down from their pedestals and stick them in museums instead, with text explaining what we know about the subjects of those statues. Just as we already do with most Roman statues. Continuing to have those statues on pedestals in prestigious locations carries the message that we consider that slave trading (in this instance) was excusable because it was okay at the time. And that we can't be bothered looking again at whether we really still admire this bloke, even when we know his effigy upsets some people. That's just so lazy.
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Or indeed the vast number of people the police shoot dead in Lagos.
But getting back to the statue, I don't even no why they had a jury, the video evidence was clear of the law breaking, the judge should of been asking of the police why so few were being charged.
I couldn't care less about the statue being removed, but it should have been through a lawful democratic process and not torn down by a rioting mob.
If you want people charged and convicted without a jury, you might prefer living in the PRC or somewhere like that. The jury saw the images you saw, plus a few more, and decided that what they saw was possibly not criminal in the circumstances. This should make us reflect on what it was that made the jury react this way, and how that should influence the way we go forward. The Tories seem to favour a reactionary approach (as per tradition), but if we want stability, peace and contentment we have to bring the temperature down and look for understanding and consensus. These things have clearly been lacking in Bristol.