Statues come down as George Floyd protests force Europe to grapple with racist past.
His statue was also removed from the Antwerp suburb of Ekeren to be cleaned and restored Tuesday.
"It's part of our history and what we were in the past," he said, adding that he understood the calls and that context was important but that removing the statues was not the answer. “We have a lot of history that a lot of people don’t know about and it really impacts people of color and particularly black people in Belgium,” she said. “A lot of the white majority citizens in Belgium do not understand why black people are so angry because they have never been taught about it.
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