Marc Quinn created the likeness of Jen Reid, a protester photographed standing on the plinth after demonstrators pulled down the statue of Edward Colston and dumped it in Bristol's harbour on June 7.
Colston was a 17th-century trader who made a fortune transporting enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas. His money funded schools and charities in Bristol, 120 miles southwest of London. Quinn, one of Britain's best-known sculptors, said Reid had "created the sculpture when she stood on the plinth and raised her arm in the air. Now we're crystallizing it."
City authorities fished the Colston statue out of the harbour and say it will be placed in a museum, along with placards from the Black Lives Matter demonstration.
Like all of them take it down,, sorry
On that subject.
we live in a twilight zone ffs
Oh.. I thought that was a glob or road tar.......
Now there's a statue that deserves to be torn down. Black lives matter but Black Lives Matter is a radical, racist, Marxist mob.
Someone please vandalize this
So it’s ok to put a statue of a vandal! Wether you agree or not with who it depicts the original statue was vandalized.
I am offended. Tear this down!
Disgusting. Why is a small minority being allowed to harsss the country and have to look at this mess. This is not art!!
Whats interesting is if anything happend to this statue, it will be called a hate crime, not vandalism.
This needs to be removed or vandalized immediately.
That’s racist
Tear it down
Pure stupidity ...
An African slave trader or a European slave trader? Jw.
The reason the newsies are promoting this till they're blue in the face is because the next batch of domestic terrorists will come along and indiscriminately tear down the BLM statue as well.
Topple that garbage!
Tear the ugly monstrosity down. BLM is a supremacist Hate group.
Replacing one pile of crap with another is not progress.
As it was done without approval from the city, it should be taken down, and the company that put the statue up find and charged for breaking the law.
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Marxist propaganda
So if this statute was torn down based on “racism” would that be okay?
'Colston was a 17th-century trader who made a fortune transporting enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas. His money funded schools and charities in Bristol, 195km southwest of London.' The ends do not justify the means.
KNOCK IT DOWN ..
Setting up a statue to a Marxist group bent on social chaos. Well done
Too bad people didnt get worked up about existing slavery:
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How racist. What about the Asian protesters, Jewish, LGBTQ... Not very inclusive at all.
Why would they make a statue for a communist terrorist? Someone will hopefully have the balls to tear this one down.
Buying a ticket to go smash this thing!
I don't like it. Time to rip it down.
Terrorists are the new idols
That’s offensive to me personally and needs to be taken down.
This is awesome
All it the statue is saying to people is just like Hitler, one power to rule the world . Rise up and take over . The statue means well but maybe have it standing better would look better.
Many of the 'protesters' these days are rioters and thugs. Children have been killed, innocent bystanders have been killed, police officers have been killed. This statue, in part, represents intolerance and divisiveness and a call to violence. Is this what society really wants?
Many of the 'protesters' these days are rioters and thugs. Children have been killed ... innocent bystanders have been killed ... police officers have been killed. This statue represents intolerance and divisiveness and a call to violence. Is this what society really wants?
CTV, why the hell you are using a white logo? That is absolutely racism. You think white is better than black, right? blm
When will the trojan horse with commies lurking inside be erected?
Tear it down!
This will be also found in the water..all statues need to be removed, so we don't offend anyone!!
Tear it down
Take that thing down. That's all this shit is to replace white history enough burn it down ..
They don’t even know what they’re tearing down half the time.
The statue torn down beforewas one of a FUXKING SLAVE TRADER!IT is now a statue of a BLM protestor who is fighting against systematic racism world wide!If this offends you,you are a fuxking racist who doesn't belong in a civilized world least of all in Canada! BlackLivesMatter
In North America she would need a blind fold for all the Black lives that didn't matter because police weren't involved.
Canadians in the replies proving again why Ghandi should of nuked us.
In 50 years I hope they don’t tear this down as history books will tell about 2020 when trained Marxists posed as protestors in the name of BLM. Why? Because we can never forget our history or we will be destined to repeat ourselves.
How very Marxist. A black protestor with two characteristics replaces a real guy with an infinite number of characteristics, one of them being a slave trader. Communists are great a two dimensional symbology. The idea is to dumb down and dispirit the people. Look at it work.
'We wouldn't get killed if the cops stop using violence when we try to run away from them!' -BLM protesters
Isn’t that the way hitler posed hmm
Tear it down too
Sexual racism.
Shouldn’t take the pigeons and seagulls long to ...
Paint it white
Gives the dogs somewhere to pee
So when do the The Planet of The Apes take over?
Tear one down put another what’s the diff going one side or the other put something that stands for humanity for all
It’s not going to survive.
I find that offensive. She looks like like a communist and communists killed dozens of people in my family. It must come down.
Tear it down
They removed a statue and changed it to something more appropriate faster than Francois Legault could admit to the existence of systemic racism.
BLM is a Hate Group funded by the fascist 🐷 Soros.
That is refreshing to see compared to relics of hate.
better tear that down, because it's a statue and there's no need to understand the story behind it....
Okay great. Can we stop tearing down monuments?
cain_wtf Now we're talking!
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