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Atop a 150 foot tall pillar in the centre of Edinburgh stands a statue of a man whose amendment to an abolition bill delayed the end of the Atlantic slave trade by 15 years, time enough for another 600,000 people from Africa to be kidnapped, transported and enslaved.racist
eugenicist. And let’s not even get started on London: everywhere you look, reminders of colonisation and genocide in India are placed on pedestals; monuments to Britain’s gobsmacking ability to whitewash history. Modern, industrialised Britain was built on the enslavement of Black people and the subjugation of the people whose countries it colonised, but too often the persecutors are commemorated as noble men and philanthropists. Want to see how widespread it is?ToppleTheRacists.org is a newly launched map that aims to highlight the backstory of every racist statue in the nation.
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