A statue of King Leopold II of Belgium was taken down in Antwerp today after it was vandalised by protesters because of his brutal colonial rule in the Congo.
Leopold owned the Belgian Congo as his personal property from 1885 to 1908 and subjected its people to forced labour while he exploited the country’s rubber reserves – leading to millions of deaths in what some regard as a genocide. [...]
White people cannot have their heroes, because white people are evil and cannot feel pride for anything ever.
You must feel shame, because you were mean to blacks that one time.
You do not have a history, other than being mean to blacks, so you don’t need to remember where you come from and what your people went through.
The only thing that you need to remember is that you were mean to blacks, and that you are evil.
Workmen have torn down the monument to 18th Century slave trader Robert Milligan in the West India Docks he helped to construct in London’s Isle of Dogs – after a day of Black Lives Matter protests have taken place across Britain.
This afternoon, amid growing pressure to act, the Museum of London removed the giant bronze figure of the Scottish merchant who owned 526 slaves at his Jamaican sugar plantation. [...]
Forcing black people to work is a crime against humanity.
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