UK: BLM Marchers Rip Down Historic Statue, Throw It In Harbour by JACK MONTGOMERY for Breitbart
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Black Lives Matter marchers in Bristol tore down a statue of philanthropist and parliamentarian Edward Colston and threw it the harbour over his ties to the slave trade.
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Edward Colston, who lived from 1636 to 1721, was something of a British Carnegie in his day, using his fortune to fund almshouses for the poor, hospitals, schools, and other charitable enterprises in Bristol, London, and the wider country. He was celebrated as “the brightest Example of Christian Liberality that this Age has produced both for the extensiveness of his Charities and for the prudent Regulation of them” after his death.
Colston earned much of his fortune trading items such as fruit, fabrics, and wine. Sadly, however, the Merchant Venturer lived in a time when slavery was considered a legitimate business, not just in Europe but in Africa as well, and part of his fortune was earned through ties to the slave trade — particularly during his time as a member of the board of the Royal African Company from 1680 to 1692.
Colston has therefore become a hate figure for the left in recent years, with activists in Bristol demanding that their former MP, commemorated as a “wise and virtuous son of the city” by his memorial plaque, be removed from any places of honour and remembered only as an evil man.
This happened a few moments ago.
The Edward Colston statue has been pulled down. pic.twitter.com/E0BUxVHonc— BBC Radio Bristol (@bbcrb) June 7, 2020
This long campaign culminated in his 19th-century statue being ripped down by a mob, who were ostensibly protesting the death of George Floyd on the other side of the Atlantic despite the anti-coronavirus regulations against mass gatherings, on Sunday.
