Statues come down: the toppling of the mighty
Good riddance to bad rubbish, but what next?
Lalkar writers
At the moment a sizable number of statues are coming down around the world as the unfettered racist police murder of George Floyd in the US has drawn attention to the link between racism and black slavery.
Britain was, of course, was the major slave trading country, bringing enormous wealth to the slave traders who, being rich, rapidly received recognition as the great and the good. Some of them donated a part of their vast fortunes to public works for the benefit of the less fortunate; one of them wrote the hymn Amazing Grace.
Nevertheless, those who suffered at the hands of these bandits and their descendants cannot feel that whatever good works they might have done wipe out their unspeakable crimes.
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