UK Protesters destroy Slave Merchant’s 125 year-old Statue
UK Protesters destroy Slave Merchant’s 125 year-old Statue
It was a day of reckoning for the memory of British slave merchant, Edward Colston as his 125 year-old statue was destroyed by #BlackLivesMatter protesters in Bristol, United Kingdom.
Colston’s statue was therefore hauled into River Avon in disdain. This is how much the killing of George Floyd in the United States has disgusted not just America, but the world
The UK’s had a weekend filled with demonstrations, but this one’s is the most symbolic. The crowd dismantled a bronze statue of Edward Colton in the shipping town of Bristol … and taking it down wasn’t enough for them.
After using ropes to pull the monument off its base, the protesters dragged it over to the River Avon and tossed into the water … watching it quickly sink.
The statue had stood in Bristol since 1895 in tribute to Colton, who traded an estimated 84,000 African men, women and children to the Caribbean and North America.
Several petitions have failed to get the statue removed, but the BLM crowd would not be denied and massive cheers went up — from white people too — as it sunk to the bottom of the river.