During a Black Lives Matter protest in central London on Sunday, a statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square was sprayed with graffiti.He said pupils needed to be educated about famous figures"warts and all" and that"nobody was perfect", including the likes of Churchill, Gandhi and Malcolm X.The statue of Robert Milligan was covered with fabric and Black Lives Matter sign before being removedhe did not have ownership of the statues and the land they are on.
He also said it would be"inappropriate" to single out which statues and street names he thinks should go. Instead a number of new memorials in the capital have been pledged by Mr Khan, including ones for Stephen Lawrence, the Windrush generation, a National Slavery Museum or memorial and a National Sikh War Memorial.A statue of Sir Winston Churchill was sprayed with graffiti during a Black Lives Matter protest
The Local Government Association's Labour group has also announced that Labour councils across England and Wales are to review"the appropriateness" of monuments and statues in their towns and cities. Campaigns calling for the removal or amendment of monuments celebrating controversial figures have increased in volume around the UK in recent days.
The cultural revolution has been going on since at least the 1960s, in a gradual, slow motion takeover of politics, media, academia, church etc. It's probably 80-90% complete, and now becoming more overt and direct, in its final push for completion
You talk about Black lives being more valuable than the Union Jack or a statue... well of course ANY life, White, Brown, Yellow, Black is more important, but just as you have your statements, we have ours and as a British person you denigrate your own country. Shameful.🇬🇧
Fuck their cultural revolution and all the companies that fall for this BS.
The great American culture (under continual development) already is closest to the worldly utopia everybody wants. The American Revolution already happened but that is too trite for these geniuses.
I see it as trying to be rewrite history .
BBC is absolutely lovely this new Cultural Revolution. Why do we have to pay for this propaganda
Pol Pot was after the same thing. Trouble was, it was intellectuals (and I use the term loosely in her case) that he targeted and killed. They better be careful what they wish for!
More likely its people who left their own country behind because of tyranny, corruption and the like, now pining for the good old days of home. Can’t have it both ways!
What rubbish she talks. The issue is not racism. It is multiculturalism, and having other cultures disrespect the British Culture that died with the arrival of Windrush, ramming down our throats the culture they left behind. When in Rome, do as Romans do.
You swallow the 'every day' thing so easily. This may be true with social media comments, but otherwise I would challenge. At that point, it's usually 'micro-aggressions' which you also never challenge as if it actually means something. You have activists stirring trouble on TV.
You want to break shackles? Then stop saying black & white...& any other colour, otherwise all of this is hypocritic banter!
If black people think they’ll achieve revolution by taking things away from white people then they are sadly mistaken.
If we lose all this, then what happened in our history will be lost. We need the past to remind us that we can never repeat the racial injustices. Are we then going to remove all books, painting etc. Where will all this end? We need to educate
As even the founder of scouting falls, at least she is being honest about where we are heading. This is a cultural revolution:
Maybe with all the views of racism in the UK, maybe music videos made on social media,showing gangs and vicious dogs, with drug & gun, swearing messages should be removed from all social media to prevent the misrepresentation of the black community? Just a thought.
Try reporting on some happy news for a change or dont you want people to see this and wake up
Landmarks Being Removed | HurricaneHarvey + HurricaneIrma Deut 19:14 Do not remove thy neighbor’s landmark (that your fathers have set Prov 22:28), set in ancient days. Deut 27:17 Cursed (judgment to) to those who do so...
BBCPolitics What shackles the woman is a lawyer so has received a free education and has a career hardly shackled just another virtue signallling we want preferential treatment mouthpiece
The whip hand.
I think we are seeing a call to arms for the right of the country to take matters into their own hands. If the government BorisJohnson won't stop this then it falls to the people to do it.
Statues are a side argument, the real issue for black people is reparations but no politician has balls to go anywhere near,in fear of White backlash.
Yeah, I think calling this a 'cultural revolution' is really gonna convince people that you're not a bunch of Maoist sociopaths.
If you swap the word to tribalism and you will find more deeper issues than simply trying to judge a person by a shade of skin tone. Racism is everywhere including the content of Africa.
From Mao Zedong to the Khmer Rouge, commies love their YearZero and advocate for all culture and traditions within a society to be completely extirpated and replaced by a new revolutionary culture. Of course, such purges rarely end well with dead bodies soon piling up.
The nazis saw the same thing
As we are currently acutely aware of the importance of history, perhaps it’s a good time to remember the millions who died in the Cultural Revolution and decide it’s not an appropriate description
I suggest you read the responses to this tweet. What are you up to bbc?
Absolutely disgusting if you don't like the UK no one is stopping you from moving. Britain has its culture and history if you don't like it then leave. The BBC is a complete disgrace and a bunch of liars can't wait till you are bust
Why are all these activists being given a platform?
What does ‘breaking the symbolic shackles of racism’ mean?
What we are seeing is the beginning of a revolution that seeks to remove anything it doesn't like. What we are seeing is an intolerant minority attempting to tell the rest of us what we can watch, read see and think. What we are seeing is a movement that must be defeated.
The woman is never off TV. Banning things and hectoring........ Yuck.
What we maybe seeing is the start of a new race war.
I suppose it’s not the right time to campaign for the return of the Black and White Minstrel Show then.
Agree with her, totally.
20m innocent ppl died of tyrant Mao’s cultural revolution, teachers beaten to death, children turned in parents who were then executed, countless ppl tortured& their homes destroyed , priceless cultural relics smashed and books burned. Her use of this term makes my blood boil😡
Isn’t this racist?
BBCPolitics Slavery has affected all nations over time, not just blacks.
All Black people want is equality and to be treated humanely. What is so wrong about that? Would you want to walk past a statue of Hitler everyday on your way to work or watch films where the colour of your skin is mocked and your humanity degraded. No, you’ve never had too.
Absolute crap - shut up and go away
Yeah Africa is coming upon the West we will enjoy 24/7 Africa in every street in the western world. Good times!
All too easy to seal club UK people into oblivion using the race word, historical injustices but it does not address the ongoing & massive problem of present day slavery affecting around 40 million people Speak of the present if ending slavery is your goal
Look at the state of that. Citizen Smith meets Dianne Abbott but less intelligent than either
Leave our culture alone
Millions of people died in the cultural revolution in China. This woman must apologize and be banned from ever appearing on BBC
KateWilliamsme Statues I understand. Modern tv programmes I understand. Films, books from 100 years ago I don't get?
Cambridge University and Oxford university should be burnt down while you are at it
And extreme censorship on a level enjoyed only in extreme fascist or communist states run by dictators.
According to the 1860 census (in which his surname was listed as “Ellerson”), he owned 53 black slaves, making him the largest of the 171 black slaveholders in South Carolina. He held 40 slaves at his death and more than 1,000 acres (400 ha) no rioting about black slaveowners?
It's doing nothing apart from Stoke up anger in right wing groups. Which in turn will lead to them protesting, which in turn will lead to left wing anger. There is not going to be a very good outcome from all of this. The ones that want us divided are using it as a play.
Another product of left wing universities, Blair didn't mean education education he meant indoctrination indoctrination
What you’re seeing here is the start of a bloody and destructive, racially motivated, civil war. 💀 💀💀💀💀
How about firing all the white people who work for the BBC? Every day white oppression is broadcast into the homes of BAME people in the UK 🇬🇧 Enough! We can then re-name the BBC, as the BAME Broadcasting Corporation. *Am I doing this right?*
I watched Black Panther the movie as I was told 'get educated innit and watch it'. I now understand that marvel are taking too long to make black panther 2. I know this will make a difference to them and I hope it is made available soon
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Mao would be proud.
Sounds like the re-education camps
Maybe someone who doesn't know about the Cultural Revolution.... 🙄
I think we are going to see a whole heap of empty gestures that make it look like things are Changing, but people will not have changed. We will just get better at hiding our prejudice. There is a saying on my island: 'All skinned teeth ain't smile'!
White Britons: demand reparations from blacks.
This will have a backlash and reckoning. Does she know she’s opening the door to the *real* far right?
Who is this woman ? Where are the BBC finding all these revolutionaries? Remember folks we are funding this news service.
Let’s rip down the Pyramids!
In the last 'cultural revolution' the socialists killed more than a million people.
None of it and I say it again, none of it is going to improve the exam grades and prospects of working class black boys. Only they with the support of their communities can do that. It can be done, as British Indians and Chinese broke free. Look at what they did and emulate.
This is about treating British heritage as though it was a defeated nation and replacing it with extremist left bollocks. She and her left wing extremists can crawl back under what ever rock they came out of.
KNEEL!
No winners here
I see it as a concerted effort to dictate how people should speak and act and it's not going to succeed.
Surely removing all traces of racism in our history is akin to ‘pretending it never existed?’ We need to show further generations how bad it was, not sweep it under the carpet and pretend everything was ok back then!
The ethnic cleansing of the British from their country.
No it’s mob rule
BBCPolitics Now that racism is sorted how about religion can I have all the popes statues taken down
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.
What’s being allowed to happen is a disgrace. Mob rule and middle class guilt. It’s an absolute joke and I now fear more than ever where we are going with this, because the silent majority are beginning to get angry.
Cultural fascism more like .
I think what we are seeing here is a bunch over spoilt kids who have been hiding behind keyboards for weeks under lock down misbehaving because they’ve had to much Sugar and no exercise . I could be wrong though .
Zulu's King 'Shaka' did not just rape & torture women & kidnap children when he conquered villages & other tribes! He took young girls as s*x slaves & boys to be trained to fight his wars & killed & subjugated the men! This was less than 200 years ago! thetimes skypapers
ANYONE EVER HEARD OF 'CRITICAL THEORY' The Left Wing Marxists use it against anyone who disagrees with their new world order agenda, who are immediately branded as “FAR RIGHT EXTREMISTS”, “NAZI”, “HOMOPHOBIC” or “RACIST”. --
BBCPolitics LOl...what utter bullshit See you at the ballot box
Should we now remove all films etc that depict young black men as thugs, gang members, violent gun toting drug lords etc isn't this the NEW racial profiling that discriminates black people and should it be treated any different?
And here’s the reality of George Floyd. The innocent model citizen BLMs are offering up as a martyr!!
This is so wrong and should be stopped and the BBC well I have no words
It’s women like this telling the rest of us how to think and feel that does untold damage to her cause. History is history and can’t now be altered just pulling down statues won’t change that 😡
Thick as a pot of fermented cassava porridge. Ignore.
BBC only plug Racist bigots these days. The lot should be prosecuted. Absolutely disgusting & also divisive.
Abhorrent woman
Yeah the last 'cultural revolution' worked out really well for those it opposed.
No we are seeing black supremacists. Bend the knee in submission, shout down All lives matter, place black people at the centre of the universe and expect only white people to change and revolve around them. Black supremacy
BBCPolitics Cultural Revolution, you say?
BBCPolitics No what we are seeing is a small vocal minority aided and abetted by the MSM taking control of the streets. The silent majority are looking on horrified
Odd spelling of anarchy
we are seeing scupper Brexit plan B.
Is this not the same as censorship. Can't these have disclaimers on them warning of the content. Isn't removing films/shows which depict uncomfortable issues just plain wrong. Would we do this to books?
Stop allowing blm terrorists to spread their propaganda on our publicity funded channel.
That woman is about as racist as you can get, but with an I’m better than you snear attached. Witnessed her incite revolt today and Minchin never said a word. DefundBBC
Think they are losing the concept. History depicts the struggles all people have taken, remove it and it’s gone . That’s what activists do and are very one dimensional.
BBC and there idiots.... I mean experts 😂😂😂🚒
Its time to take a deep breath,take stock as to where we are.This knee jerk reaction to events in the US removing statues+airbrushing History that suits is disturbing.What was a law and order issue with concerns with the arrest has been expanded into an out of context debate.
It really isn't. It's just censorship. There is no revolution.
She got a muppet on her head?
What was the first thing black gangs in London did when lockdown was relaxed. Start shot each other and innocents. ALLLIVESMATER.
Whilst I don’t want to appear unsympathetic to the cause, I ask Dr Shola this, would Floyds death have sparked such outrage if his lawlessness had got him killed by someone protecting themselves, their home, their family?
Notice how these 'commentates' always use communist revolutionary language. And how the BBC always give them air time. Its like the BBC has picked a side.
what I'm seeing here IS racism.
Let's enlighten her about the 'Cultural Revolution' =
One of Mao’s ‘little generals’ exposes horror of the Cultural Revolution
Some really poignant points within the tweets here, well worth noting on both sides!
The real objective and it has nothing to do with Shackles.
If we aren't allowing films and statues then it shouldn't be allowed to be taught in schools either .. then this will be as forgot as apartheid is in India and we can all move on
They'll be burning books next and we know how that ended
Far left extremists being normalised by the ScumMedia
You can’t judge what happened in the past by the morals of the 21st Century. That applies to all attempts to remove statues, films, history itself - what next, burning books? (For those under 30, that's what the Nazi's did). Trying to revise history is not OK. It happened.
I think we are seeing cultural Marxism, the far left asserting itself without challenge and a secret agenda being accepted by gullible but well-meaning fools.
you can remove all the statues on earth but history cannot be cancelled
No one has ever looked at the statue of a slaver, or watch one of these films and thought. 'I want to treat black people differently, these things have shown me the way to believe and the way to behave'
Cultural revolution imposed on the majority by a small minority aided by their media allies. Scary times.
Marxism in a nutshell.
When does the book burning begin? Hitler would love his new Hitler youth.
WTF is that on her head.
Why have you got a race baiter on? Oh yes, bbcbias DefundTheBBC
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