Edward Colston statue replaced by sculpture of Black Lives Matter protester

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'It looks like it belongs there.' Black Lives Matter supporter Jen Reid says she's 'filled with pride' after she was the inspiration for a sculpture that now sits on the empty plinth where a slave trader's statue once stood. More here:

A sculpture of a Black Lives Matter protester has been erected in secret on the same Bristol plinth from where the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was toppled last month.

march after the statue of Colston was toppled, dragged to the city harbour and dumped into the water.

 

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Keep it up and hopefully it will be vandalised as much as Karl Marx's London memorial! 😂 Marxist shit show of an organisation. Using a slogan as their movement's name hoping people don't lift the lid.

So do white lives matter.

Yes proud she is...

Your statue is straight into the dumpster where it belongs

a fake actor

And the statue was taken down almost immediately

mobjustice is real

Who is taking mockery? The system that we love, respect and have given a good reason for us to stay and live in this country we call UK? Or some bullshitters?

To hell with Bacon Lettuce Mato

Bet we would get put away in 24 hrs if we tore it down and chucked in the river ....

'I like this statue of me and think it should have been there all along instead of that other guy. '

She looks like she’s done time. badgirls

It must come down!

Why not replace it with a statue honouring NHS workers. Or with one for William Wilberforce? An artist putting up a statue of themselves seems like an ego problem.

Fucking cheek removal of the countries history to be replaced because it upset the imported

It really doesn't

'I absolutely love this big statue of myself.' Dear Lord please have mercy on the guy who ends up with this woman.

But what has SHE done for the UK to have a statue? 😂😂😂😂

Pull it down racist statue🤷‍♂️

Lack of stature...and once the pidgeons and seagulls have had a dump on it, it'll resemble every other statue.

Belongs in the river...

So every person can secretly put a statue up and be ok with it? What is going on here - why hasn’t the council taken it down - no one supports this blm Marxist movement - next you will have ExtinctionRebellion guy plinth up - NO THANKS

Totally ridiculous , get rid

Take it down it offends me, I’m offended by the rioting and looting that BLM movement brought with it not to mention the lack of social distancing when thousands have just died in the uk alone

Nice statue but does it really help engender equality? The message here is pull down a statue you disagree with and put one more to your taste in its place!

she's a racist

Hopefully someone will rip it down!

Like hell it does

I wonder what would happen if this statue is torn down! What g F as this woman actually done apart from stirring up hatred

So she turns up to a protest, stands on a plinth, get husband to take a photo of her on the plinth, then makes a statue of herself from the photo, puts it on said plinth then says how amazing she looks. And the news laps it up.

Literally wearing rose tinted glasses.

And who are you

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. George Orwell

A better symbol to unite us all would have been better this just causes the same separation and more drama

So we are now celebrating an illegally erected statue of a woman who represents a violent movement that wants to defund the police force over a misguided view that all police officers are racist.... progress? Me thinks not

How about a statue for this true hero?

Pull it down and replace it with this.

BLM as fuelled tension. There are probably more racists now than there were before all this started. Wouldn’t mind betting someone will decide to vandalise this statue. No end in sight to this. 😔

vandalize the statue and throw it in the fk in river..

Won’t see the week out the good people of Bristol will see that off by the weekend!

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