I think there are better ways to teach future generations about slave traders than erecting enormous fucking monuments in their honourhttps://twitter.com/francesweetman/status/1269645909681455105 …
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Where you say you err on the side of thinking tearing down this one is a bad idea? And where you say memorials can help teach people directly after that?
Imo I would simply not criticise people for tearing down a monument of a man who was made famous by literally buying and selling black people
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Is not knocking a statue down the same as wanting to put one up, Sarah?
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I would argue, Frances, that defending keeping up a statue of a man made famous for slave trade isn’t much better
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