More justice?🙁

[Raeturbo]

https://apple.news/AycdgHbkgTVGa8pWvhsP2lg

[dave the builder]

"the law is an ass"

very little justice is being dispensed in the UK

which is why there is so much crime

you need to deter people from doing wrong

bring back hard labour and hanging

[Lizzie Zoom]

The outcome I believe was predictable.

For many years there has been strong suggestions made to the authorities in Bristol to remove this statue, so now, although done in a dubious manner, 'the people' decided to demolish it themselves after a political movement formed to do so.  Democracy in action?  Well now no doubt many on both sides of any argument will have their opinions on this, but what is done is now done.

Who would now demand the statue is re-instated?

[Rangie]

"the law is an ass"

very little justice is being dispensed in the UK

which is why there is so much crime

you need to deter people from doing wrong

bring back hard labour and hanging

. 

Or let's be allowed to shoot the bastards.

[Raeturbo]

Rule for one group and a rule for another, anybody who shows resistance to this bo((0x is certainly treated far more harshly. I've said it before it's a recipe for disaster.

[Rangie]

Just seen the arrogant cu**s walk out of court on the news , need their arses kicking or a trip into Brixton to see the nightlife that would be poetic justice.

[Doctor Gollum]

So, in summary, four white middle class sociology students from a University built and paid for by the very chap whose statue they destroyed get cleared after doing what they wanted because a convicted drug dealing arse hole died of a drug overdose. 4,000 miles away.

Only in the current 'reality' could that be considered predictable, let alone acceptable. 

[Sir Tigger KC]

That's probably a Pandora's box that's been opened this afternoon in Brizzle.   

[Raeturbo]

Makes you wonder who the f@cks  in charge

[dave the builder]

Makes you wonder who the f@cks  in charge

Someone's in charge ?   

when did that happen ? 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

So, in summary, four white middle class sociology students from a University built and paid for by the very chap whose statue they destroyed get cleared after doing what they wanted because a convicted drug dealing arse hole died of a drug overdose. 4,000 miles away.

Only in the current 'reality' could that be considered predictable, let alone acceptable. 

Zackly. 

[Lizzie Zoom]

So, in summary, four white middle class sociology students from a University built and paid for by the very chap whose statue they destroyed get cleared after doing what they wanted because a convicted drug dealing arse hole died of a drug overdose. 4,000 miles away.

Only in the current 'reality' could that be considered predictable, let alone acceptable. 

Zackly. 

But the facts are that 3 residents of Bristol, and one from elsewhere, and none students, along with many others, pulled the statue of Colton, a 17th century slave trader who's company was responsible for the shipment of about 84,000 black, men, women and children slaves, down after years of local disquiet over it's presence.  Some of the protestors may have been students at the University of Bristol, but that institution was first conceived in the 19th century as a College, later becoming a university, all without any financial support from the long dead Colston of the 17th century.

The pulling down of the statue was part of the global Black Lives Matter protests, sparked by the illegal killing of a black man by US police, but all as a result of centuries of injustice to black people, with racial discrimination very prevalent in many white countries, including the UK and Bristol in particular.  This city, along with others, witnessed racially fuelled riots in the 1980's that is still remembered by the black communities, which has not been helped by events affecting young black men, with the case of Stephen Lawerence highlighting proven institutional racism by the police.

Therefore the death of a US drug dealer, in the manner it happened with the visual evidence available, was just the spark to set the tinderbox off, with the BLM movement the result.

Those are the facts, but why any white person should feel affected by the downing of a statue of a largely forgotten and unknown 17th century slave trader is personally beyond me.  I certainly have better things to worry about in this world than that.

[Raeturbo]

Indeed and a learned influential person such as yourself should realise this will make things worse not better let sleeping dogs lay. I wonder what would happen if it was a WLM group that pulled down  a statue they didn't like, this is the thin end of the wedge and I'm speaking up because I want to keep some of the history/ culture alive and well so as ordinary kids growing up know it.

[Andy B]

not forgetting that some black men also owned black slaves in the day

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001106h/who-do-you-think-you-are-series-18-3-alex-scott

[Marks DTM Calib]

Ask yourself this, if I had gone and pulled it down for similar reasons, what would have happened to me?