These are people whose lives and achievements were - shall we say - complicated, and the people who raised the money to erect their statues chose to focus on the"good" they did in life, not the bad.
On the west-facing relief, Colston is depicted dispensing charity to poor children; on the north he is shown at the harbour; on the east is a scene with marine horses, mermaids, and anchors. Yes, the UK had a great empire, but there was a dark side to that supremacy and racism was the rocket fuel of conquest.
Just fvck off will you 🙄
defundBBC the usual rubbish from the BBC trying to cause more harm than good, and like the BLM are trying to make the UK into a racist country. Race stories sell and always will. DefundTheBBC BLMTerrorists
Censorship of history. Learn by it not erase it
Do we have to pay for Marxist propaganda?
Aaaah the BBC ... I wonder what % of the population pays its licence fee and fro what ethnicity.....Turkeys voting for Christmas
More divisive bullshit! DefundTheBBC
What bollocks
Bollocks
Now Myrie the latest elitist hack with a litany of grievances against the people of this Country. The only thing toxic is the venom with which the BBC continues to attack the great history of our Nation. We are actually paying thru the nose for this great privilege
How about a poll to see how many 'us' is. You are always easily led by the noisy minority.
it doesn't affect me at all
More race baiting.
I still find it extremely interesting that statues get vandalised, memorials get pissed on but there’s not a single mention of the royal family as the biggest and truest relic of Britain’s colonial past. This shows us who is really in control in the country!
The only toxic thing here is the biased never ending toxicity that is the bbc and sky news
The sooner the BBC lose the license fee the better 👍 DefundTheBBC
So many people have a problem with the BBC, why don’t you stop following them and read the Sun instead. Clearly trash journalism is more intellectually suited to you x
Bullshit!
Just reading about the Barbary pirates and I’m living in Cornwall.
Most of us are proud of the Empire and it’s achievements.
Doesn’t affect me. I wasn’t alive when the abhorrent slave trade was at its peak.
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I am literally starting to hate the BBC and their daily race baiting agenda.
It doesn’t affect us, but it’s certainly going to affect your license support. Tick tock keep stirring your race baiting pot.
With the aid of msm (BBC and many others) the toxicity in society is reaching extraordinary levels.
BAN THE BBC
White folks, be proud of and embrace your culture. We black folks arent mad at you. Trendy pawns may be misplaced in their frustration, but the enemy are the elites who manufacture these dynamics for POLITICS and to create a lack of UNITY in the community. Unify wwg1wga
Love a good bit of postcolonialism. Just a bit sad the replies seem to forget what the empire left behind and why it's important to learn about it rather than disregard it as 'BBC propaganda'
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Still race baiting then 🙄
i challenge any blm person to cite any black history before the discovery of africa and then tell me history is white washed
Why is it toxic, the legacy of empire is whats given us the most equal society in this countries history. To expect it to start without war, famine, explotation, unfairness and death of every other society in history is plainly insane. BBC fantasy land.
Clickbait. Inciting racism DefundTheBBC
bbc bleating again when most people proud of our history.
BBC breaking news Anybody who is Not called Mohammed Is racist
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Why are you saying ‘us?’ Do you mean you ScumMedia at the BBC, because you bunch of arseholes DO NOT speak for everyone.
The racism.. the systemic institutional racism that permeates the is its anti-caucasian bias.. Where victims are glossed over when the narrative doesnt fit that bias
Flag waving snowflakey gammon tears
shit news
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BBC being part of that
It's history. We put it right 186 years ago. Generations of these guys choose to live here. They dont need to stay and be unhappy. The BBC is an apologist for violence and insurrection from the BLM and its supporters and encourage unrest.
Racism & the BBC: how the toxic legacy of media hate affects us. (How is bbcnews still carrying water for BLM and this nonsense narrative? The death & destruction this movement has wrought is disgraceful, media support for it disgusting, the lies & misinformation shocking)
How anarchists are brainwashing people by only informing people of some parts of history and not the whole story. Black people were first enslaved by black people check your own history before attacking white history.
Yes the BBC still don't employ black presenters
Yet another load of overly PC, apologist b*llocks. Come on , you SHOULD be above this kind of BS.
Bullshit
Sickening to have this come from our BBC. Time for you to go and be a subscription only channels.
The whole world is fucked up DefundTheBBC
The legacy of the empire doesn't affect us..... It affects you!
I'm so sick of your anti British bull... Defund defund defund
They affect nothing. Pigeons go to toilet on them. They were ignored until a month ago
Stop it!!! This is insane!
Defund the BBC.
What Empire, it's laughing stock now.Everyone is free now, you can move anywhere you want, unless you like free housing and benefits UK is the best.
It's just mindless criminal damage
No it doesn’t.
Meanwhile BLM leader gives this progressive missive
GIve it a fu*king rest BBC, we’ve got the message ....
Slavery still goes on around the world now, surely better to sort that out
There's no toxic legacy. Just current day people who do not have a descent psychiatrist.
More racist click bait from the BBC. DefundTheBBC
I did adn thing. My roots are asiatic arriving via North Africa and Europe. I don’t search more. BBC spin to Colston statue due to giving equivalent of 6m£ to schools, hospitals etc. Ironic that a lot of people are not in Africa today due to him!
Is there a competition between the BBC and SkyNews for who can create the biggest divide? Absolute nonesnese 24/7
Every single day. Fuck off. DefundTheBBC
BBC: BAME Broadcasting Corporation.
About those racist job adverts.
Don’t pay my licence because I refuse to watch left wing, paedo loving, hypocritical b**shite continuous fed through my house.
Yes it was terrible. Yes it shouldn't have been done. Yes your plight has been noticed and statues are coming down. What more do you want?! We cant turn back the jeffing clock. Get on with your lives.
More boring bull 💩 from the BBC
wefiles Speaking for the nation not enough, bbc? Get real.
We also gave and fought for democracy, freedom of speech. The bbc has become an institution obsessed with identity /left wing politics, stoking divisions within communities!! . Coming from poor working class background We don’t feel privileged!!
Says the pedos at the bbc!
There is nothing wrong with the empire.. it literally made the modem world. I am grateful for it and i am not even British. queenvictoriarules
Ok last year .
More racial click-baiting. DefundTheBBC
More race baiting by the BBC..... enough is enough.
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F off
Stupid comments from the BAME channel. They want to destroy our history by toppling statues, yet retain and use the accompanying splendid archetecture. Appalling hypocrisy. handsoffourheritage
Everything wrong links back to the empire for you doesn't it. Sad.
Utter bollox.
Yes we get it the Romans were bad but Hey they were good too
Its totally absurd to associate racism with statues. People destroying our heritage are vandals & criminals. BLM is politicized & has a Marxist, extreme-left agenda. Before endorsing such a group, people need to conduct some background research. Who are they? Whos behind BLM?
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White lad Bradley Gledhill 20 stabbed to death by gang of Pakistani Muslims in batley Lancashire last week. Other way around Media be all over it and everyone would know about it. Clearly white lives DONT matter
The BBC circus.
You can’t change the past, stop dwelling on it. Just make sure the futures better.
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Defund the BBC
You are all forgetting of a 80s music video. You can't destroy or take history away from anyone, but you can destroy your own dignity of your own kind as man kind made us all the same as lets paint the world black and white.
What 'toxic legacy'? If it was so bad why do almost all countries voluntarily belong to the Commonwealth still?
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Absolute poppycock
Has zero affect on me but all this bullshit has sent race relations back 50 years. Well done you absolute fools
How about the Eric Gill statue at Broadcasting House. I take it you are removing that.
I don't know my family history much beyond Great Grandparents, nor do I know where in France the Normans who undoubtedly form part of my Genetic make up were from. Can I have an article published please ? Empire has never been much use to me either.
Toxic legacy? The BBC has become unfit for purpose. DefundTheBBC
And how the toxic legacy of the MSM affects us even more
Defund the BBC and their culture war agenda
Does it? Certainly doesn't affect me.
My god, the BBC don't even try to appear balanced any more.
You get that thisbis still britain, british people love britain and hate you right? Are you intentionally committing suicide?
This is history and wouldn’t be such a topic of discussion if it hadn’t been for the events in another country.
DefundBBC You don’t talk about anything else these days. If only you had paid as much attention to the grooming gangs raping young girls in Rotherham and Rochdale. Sick BBC
No mention of black people selling black people and their heavy involvement in slavery, and it could still be happening today
Or, how the BBC are doing their best to bait hatred from social media users.
It doesn't affect me. Just another excuse to moan about something 🐙
More bullshit, it's just history.
Scott1984FP The toxic legacy of communism and Leftism
Clive is saying his life is deeply effected because he doesn’t know where his ancestors were from 400 years ago. Sounds like BS to me!
It doesn't effect me, I'm proud of what my predecessors did. If the British didnt do it someone else would and we would still be living in mud huts. Those were the times and that was the normal. I find slavery abhorrent however it was how it was done. DON'T BLAME ME
Reading the article and the “journalist” not knowing where their ancestors came from, immediately assumes, descendant from African slavery! Whilst slavery was wrong, it’s in the past, many Africans now would love your western lifestyle 🤷🏻
The most toxic part pf empire is that the UK allowed so many former colonial subjects into the UK. If they're not happy, no one is stopping them going back to their cultural homes.
It doesn’t affect me.
BBC are toxic - my children will never be brainwashed with this. It will all backfire defundthebbc borisjohnson
just before six this morning just had a BBC lesson about our past and slavery ,statues ,how racist we were and still our,i find this insulting to whites of today ,BBC are causing more racism
How the toxic BBC keeps race baiting let’s talk about that....defund the BBC!
More bollox from the let's live in the past mob move on FFS
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Now do one on the benefits of Empire. I dare you, seeing as you're supposed to be balanced , and Empire is a topic of pros and cons/good and evil. Stop feeding from one side only and represent the countries views.Stop trying to propagandize us into thinking one way only.
It doesn’t affect us !!!!! It might affect you
Education about black history sounds like another Marxist indoctrination course,exploiting black people as a weapon to bash 'white' people with and demean the concept of the independent nation state for being racist, xenophobic, patricarchal etc. Things aren't as simple as that
This is disgusting and shameful from the BBC. Yet again you are pushing your political agenda, siding with a far left marxist mob and attempting to rewrite history You're meant to unite our country but are dividing it. The BBC is now a parasite and hostile threat to our country
”How the toxic legacy of empire still affects us'... It doesn't. It only affects the perpetually offended / looking for *something* to be outraged about types.
It has never really dumped its empire mindset, continuing to de-stabilise other parts of the world and hoping to benefit from the spoils.
BBC. Please just fuck off. Apologies all for the language but the BBC is a joke and will never find a positive in anything as it doesn't fit in with their (?) views. This just winds people up making a shit situation worse. Bunch of xxxxx!
Criminal and aggressive acts of wilful vandalism such as pulling down statues will not undo past wrongs or address the legacy of slavery.That can only be done through discussion,acknowledgement of wrongs and their persisting legacy, and agreement on how to address them
It only affects us when the toxic media perpetuate it....
Drivel. Concentrate on slavery today. Leicester and Rotherham to name but 2.
Do you know what else is toxic? The BBC. Time to defund it DefundTheBBC
We all know the bbc should be removed we all keep saying it. What actually can be done though in real terms?
Stoking the fire! Give it a rest!
Why is it only Westerners have issues with colonial past? Most of the former colonies couldn't be arsed, it happened, there were good times and there were bad times. Live with it. Seriously, this virtue signalling from Western hypocrites to rest of the world is tiresome.
No one cared until a month ago this shit needs to stop
Says the BBC which was founded out of the 'empire' Maybe you should be torn down then
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The BBC are toxic and should be removed
So encouraging to read most people's tweets are seeing right through the utterly shameful treacherous George Soros neo-Marxist woke propaganda from the BBC. He is probably another one of their funders, like Bill Gates.
Sweeping history under the carpet because of modern sensitivity is stupid. Would you destroy the concentration camps & deny the holocaust This is caustic wokeness at it’s worst
Britain used to have an empire, now the BBC operates global ideological imperialism through BBC News and the World Service. Do the world a favor and shut yourselves down. DefundTheBBC defundBBC
More division creation from the BBC, and the public pay for this drivel. You are the cause of people being affected today BBC, you're stirring the pot telling non-whites they are oppressed in a white majority country and that symbols of British history are adding to oppression.
This is not true. The main agenda was to obtain resources and political influence. Of course there were issues of racial disrespect or disregard in achieving this, which is not really deliberate racism.
Nope. Try the industrial revolution. It's not our fault the blacks hadn't got round to inventing the wheel by then. You're welcome, by the way, for modern medicine, technology, political structures, economics etc etc.
Of the BBC says something is toxic... then the opposite must be true.
ABSOLUTE HORSE SHIT ... Without Empire those people would still be living in mud huts ! Get a life ... go and see the world ...
This is fake news
More bbc propaganda
does not affect me in the slightest
It only affects you if you keep harping on about it
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Do you have any editors or writers that aren't demented?
Tell Clive how you feel:
Oh do feck off. In the same way I am not affected by Germany and the Germans for the killing and maiming my ancestors in two world wars, I refuse to be affected by the evils of the British Empire towards my ancestors. Why would I be affected when the empire never harmed me?
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Stupidity and Propganda: how the toxic legacy media still burdens us with their presence
Doesn't affect anyone.
Toxins can only affect us if we take them in.
How is the BBC still a thing?
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Fuck the bbc
Our history is varied. Some of it is good, some is bad. We should acknowledge it all and from it become better people. But Britain is not alone in this, every nation, every group of people has a history. Some of which is much darker than our own.
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Britain had 130 years of being involved in the slave trade which was stopped 213 years ago Yes people made money but most statues are for other philanthropic contributions to humanity. This trade was propagated by ancestors of many of the BLM protesters
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No, if there is such a thing, it only exists to keep you hacks in work. I respectfully suggest you just shut up.
I don't get you
Thanks to the empire you're an overfunded tv, as if you were yet the television of an empire.
scummedia
It’s not toxic and it doesn’t affect me, fcuk you bbc
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BLM has achieved two things. 1) People are talking about Race differences. 2) People are asking why are Global Capitalism, big corporations and corporate media not just backing BLM but becoming anti white?
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The British working class are being erased from history in order to collectively blame us for the actions of the elites. We were miners, child labourers, industrial factory workers, servants and that's where much of the country's wealth came from.
Only in the Anglosphere are people truly free to sh*t on their country and its entire history. Sounds like the Empire was a great force for liberty I wonder if the BBC is aware of things like the abolition of slavery, English Common law, free trade, voting rights for all, etc
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Racist BLM killed a black 8 year old girl
Is the BBC now owned by BLM and Antifa? It appears so!
BBC and Journalist Activism: How the toxic legacy of bad journalism affects us.
Tearing down history will solve nothing. At least put the statues in a museum if its that bad.
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CLICKBAIT don't fall for it
DEFUND THE BBC. The time has now come.
Don’t affect me mate
Statues cannot talk.
BBC, w a dog whistle to the far left “woke” hordes...
All this BLM stuff has done is shown what complete and utter bastards the media are. The BBC & Sky News are corrupt as they come
We are getting to the point where the silent majority plus the vocal minority are going to toast it all. And I think that’s the actual plan of all this bullshit. It’s pathetic.
And yet we still have the Commonwealth as our colonies hated us so much.
We need to ban the flag of Liberia as it's a symbol of oppression and racism.
This shit stay making black people look soft! Omg stop!
Defund the BBC. Against my human rights paying for it against my will
Do you ever stop. Why is the bbc so obsessed with race, gender identity, and sexuality? Give it a rest.
Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, off
Sooner they defund the BBC the better
Wtf?
Pack it in will ya? Stop it. It's like BLM TV!
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