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The egyptians are gonna have to remove the pyramids...
They are a symbol of slavery.
Chinese have to remove the great wall of China... Its a symbol of slavery too.
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Thousands of people attended the demonstration in Bristol, one of many in the UKsparked by the death of George Floyd while he was under arrest in Minneapolis in the United States last month.
A group of protesters surrounded the statue on Colston Avenue, erected in honour of a man whose ships sent about 80,000 men, women and children from Africa to the Americas between 1672 and 1689.
Colston's memory has divided the city for years, with some thinking history can't be changed and others campaigning successfully for his name to be erased from streets, schools and venues.
Image copyrightDAVE BETTSImage captionThe statue in Colston Avenue was erected in 1895
There was clear frustration in Sunday's crowd, partly because the statue still stood in 2020, but also because it had simply been covered for the protest.
The canvas covering, which had already been targeted by egg-throwers, was torn off with some people saying they wanted to look the man in the eyes. Soon ropes had been tied round the bronze monument and the process of removing it began.
Once the covering was removed, three protestors climbed atop the statue to fasten two ropes around the head.
Thirty seconds later Colston was on the floor. Many jumped on the fallen statue, others holding a Black Lives Matter banner climbed the plinth where it had stood.
There was not so much joy when the statue hit the ground as anger, but the crowd had not finished with the monument.
It was dragged the short distance to Bristol Harbour and dumped over the quayside.
Quote from: Guest post_id=365230 time=1591600666
Thousands of people attended the demonstration in Bristol, one of many in the UKsparked by the death of George Floyd while he was under arrest in Minneapolis in the United States last month.
A group of protesters surrounded the statue on Colston Avenue, erected in honour of a man whose ships sent about 80,000 men, women and children from Africa to the Americas between 1672 and 1689.
Colston's memory has divided the city for years, with some thinking history can't be changed and others campaigning successfully for his name to be erased from streets, schools and venues.
Image copyrightDAVE BETTSImage captionThe statue in Colston Avenue was erected in 1895
There was clear frustration in Sunday's crowd, partly because the statue still stood in 2020, but also because it had simply been covered for the protest.
The canvas covering, which had already been targeted by egg-throwers, was torn off with some people saying they wanted to look the man in the eyes. Soon ropes had been tied round the bronze monument and the process of removing it began.
Once the covering was removed, three protestors climbed atop the statue to fasten two ropes around the head.
Thirty seconds later Colston was on the floor. Many jumped on the fallen statue, others holding a Black Lives Matter banner climbed the plinth where it had stood.
There was not so much joy when the statue hit the ground as anger, but the crowd had not finished with the monument.
It was dragged the short distance to Bristol Harbour and dumped over the quayside.
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