Let’s be honest, many people had to do a Wikipedia search after viewing the images of the statue of Edward Colston being toppled and plunged into Bristol’s harbour.
Shut up scandal sheet!
KateWilliamsme 💯🎯 I was shocked to learned when I left school of how little they teach us about the British empire and colonial history. No wonder there are people who feel 'proud of these imperial statues
Just remembered: the Prophet Muhammad was a slave owner and trader. It wouldn't right to hide this from children. The Prophet Muhammad - the perfect man
People should also start to ask how sugar companies made their money, as parte of the triangular Atlantic trade system, and textile magnates.... ie., how did the UK make its money.
KateWilliamsme Black children should be taught black history by their parents and the wider society. You got your facts wrong about defunding of police advocated by BLM, so you probably shouldn't teach anybody about BLM.
KateWilliamsme Or it's teaching students to blame 'bad people' rather than to self-examine and take responsibility.
Crap
as well as the lessons of mob violence
Thats true!
M82Rose And said criminals wont be punished if you join a mob
Why not just erase history altogether? Or maybe just the bad bits that the SJW's find offensive.
KateWilliamsme 😂😂👏
DanielKebedeNEU take a bow, comrade.
It skips the first part. If we are going to give a history lesson please include all the facts. Slavery was happening inside Africa and the rest of the world. The BLM cause is becoming lost in this. It’s a class thing. To join the establishment you have to become one of them.
toppling a statue taught nothing.
Don't let the mob decide what stays and what goes. If the standard is connections to slavery how long until they target certain places of worship?
MrPranPatel
Yes, it was a great moment in modern British history...people who were there will tell their grandchildren. It should be lionised in song and ritual.
Did it teach how, African tribal leaders were complicit in taking Africans to slave forts, to be sold'? If the woke what to tear down monuments, start with the slave forts in Africa, where these tribal leaders took a continents people to put into bondage.
We need to revamp the whole nations knowledge of history in general. I know so much about 1066, Henry VIII, WW1 and WW2 from school yet everything else I had to learn on my own.
BREAKING NEWS :Washington DC to be renamed as it was found to be named after a slave owner. The mob are in further discussions about mount Rushmore as it was found that 2 former slave owners and 1 racist are depicted.
Teach people something, RyersonU or NameToBeDecidedU CBCIndigenous ChiefsofOntario
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