Just like with the Colston statue, statues aren't history. This statue held so little historical value they let it sit in storage for 50+ years. It was a monument to a racist built by the racist's racist employers, wheeled out in the 90s to increase apartment prices in London
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And thy still honor him, why?
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They don't it was because someone wanted money, no-one in Bristol wanted it and during s protest on Sunday it was knocked down
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why would ppl build a statue of a slave owner tho-
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It got knocked off during a protest on sunday
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Omg omg My dog is giving birth right now
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Robert Milligan deserved to be a slave.
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