A resin-and-steel statue of a Black Lives Matter protester was surreptitiously placed early Wednesday atop a pedestal in the English city of Bristol previously occupied by the toppled statue of a 17th-century slave trader named Edward Colston.
The sculpture of protester Jen Reid was made by Marc Quinn, an artist who said he was inspired to create the piece after seeing a photograph of Reid standing on the platform with her fist raised during Black Lives Matter protests.Quinn, who is a well-known artist in Britain, said in a statement on his website that the statue was erected without formal consent from local authorities in Bristol.– would be a"permanent solution to what should be there ...
The statue of Colston was brought down and thrown into Bristol's harbor by anti-racism protesters last month as part of a worldwide reckoning sparked by the death of George Floyd, a Black man, while in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25.The 18-foot high bronze statue of Colston had stood on Colston Avenue in Bristol since 1895. Colston traded textiles and wool and used some of the proceeds to build schools, churches and almshouses.
It's only temporary but yesssss I'm happy 😊 ☺ 😌
Topple that evil shit too.
Take that Terrorist Statue Down
Yasssss! They big mad on this thread..love it! ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
this is total bullshit
How Stalin like of them.
Pigeons will do their thing on this statue as they did on the last statue.
This is a better replacement.
Won't be there long
Assuming tax payers paid for this too? Let’s celebrate this while hundreds of black men and women are being shot and injured daily with no focus on the REAL systemic issues that impact likelihood to commit crime.
Tear it down. The Marxist statue offends me.
Insanity
I love the Brits!
So they erected a statue of a terrorist.
This ain’t it...it’s so cringe.
All lives matter.
This isn’t gonna end well.
Can't wait till the elections over and this shit stops.
I'm offended. Let's topple it
Won’t be there long
I find it offensive and racist. It must be removed immediately.
What is with the Black Power salute she’s doing? I find that racism offensive
That's a black power statue. Here the left goes again.
Joke
Here we have a statue that actually pushes the idea that it's okay to be racist.
Tear it down and throw it into the sea. No Monuments to Communists.
This needs to be torn down immediately.
Replacing one evil murdering maniac with another, bright.
What about a memorial to the innocent victims killed by black-on-black violence in the last few months? Noo! Let’s just put up a statue of a lawless rioter. And lets make sure her boobs are really showing! Good job!!
Absolutely ridiculous. The statue should have been of any number of actual slaves whose story was never told. Instead we have this woman who celebrates the protest movement rather than the life of an actual slave. As chaotic and unfocused as the uk protest itself. Underwhelming
U G L Y
Keep them up. Remind everyone how communist BLM are when they oppress you as poor people begging for food.
Totally ludicrous
“Do not worry too much about the statues which are now coming down. They mean surprisingly little. Worry more about the ones they are soon going to be putting up, and what they will represent...”
outrageous this why a statue of a Marxist supporter. If you want to replace an statue then do it well and put something positive. For example, an image of a nurse who saves people.
Fucken kill me now Seriously sure put up a statue representing another racist movement which is what BLM is ... Weres the fucken change I don't see it
Meanwhile, Poland is peaceful.
Ludicrously insane.
BLM: Burn, Loot & Murder
nice one....let them know
By now we all see and see very clearly before our eyes the good and the evil !! Maten is nine and Tren is Biden ok !! and the day has been carrying a mission from god !! Biden followed the path of the evil of the tanks against humanity !!
The beginning of the end...
guys let's destroy this shit!
Terrorist organization rip it down. Put up WITHOUT permission.
MoveOn BlackLivesMatter
Whites are a nice, welcoming people. Until their not.
This is Dope
Let go there and destroy it!
communists
Excellent idea
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