So you gonna erase history and somehow that would fix up the whole deal? My country has been under Dutch colonialism for 350 years and Japanese occupation for 3,5 years. Yet we never take down Dutch historical monument and we never destroy the prison that was used to keep my ancestor as a captive instead we turned it to a museum together with other historical dutch and forts itself. For Yamato hotel we also turned it into Majapahit hotel and continue good diplomatic relationship with Japan because we want to build a better future for our next generation instead of fulfilling them with hate and bigotry towards other people simply because what their ancestor may have done in the past.
Me too, I’m a Brit and I feel so ashamed that this statue has been allowed to be erected in the first place. So pleased it’s been taken down and chucked into the river. 💕
@@blessedbeford6130 yh cause who cares about what it was made of or what it could do to the wildlife in the river. It's all good tho cause Tyrone thinks your down with the blacks. 👏
@@chrisclarke3965 the people who built the pyramids were buried with them and were paid very well. more slave propaganda shoved down our throats from young that science proved bullshit
@@Iason29 Why did they say that? Maybe to make people fear death and dead so they will be more submissive somehow? Romans are smart for sure though. They still rule the world!!! Just their name's been rebranded. lol
400 years of building the country and railway for free with a whip, 2.2 millions slaves thrown at see for not being strong enough or resisting, stolen from your home, your language and religion forcefully changed. To date still face systematically racism and all they care about statue? Look into your heart!
@@crystalgilliam3006 Apologies for the profanity - I hate when people just post quotes. Besides, the correct Solzhenitsyn quote is: "To destroy a people you must first sever their roots." - Orwell said the same thing. But how is toppling a statue severing anything and/or destroying slavery/racism? (well I guess as a symbolic gesture). Antiquity Sumerians have the first known super power with recorded slavery.
www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/jun/08/rolling-emergency-of-locust-swarms-decimating-africa-asia-and-middle-east This also
Perhaps *_in_* centuries to come. There will be a long hiatus, filled only with the forced (and enforced) _historical_ narrative chosen by those 'masters' who today, thus far, control only the easily used, but through them, and the blindness and gullibility of the greater populous, will ultimately completely enslave and control everyone.. as _one_ ... *NWO*
@@aconcernedcitizen6056 he done wonders by using the lives of innocent black people and if u dont agree ur just as bad as the police officers who killed george
@@abdulrazeqkakar173 Why the fuck are you all getting so rallied up about this killing when it didn't even happen in your country!? The police in Britain a way less worse than Americas
@@sabi2557 I agree, you shouldn't celebrate such people so I agree with the removal of the statue, but it does not excuse throwing the statue in the river - you should put it in a museum so you can learn from it. If the Germans can do it with their Nazi history, we can do it with our own tragic past. Ironically, the recovered statue itself now carries a greater footnote in history. It's now not only a reminder of a brutal past, but also a reminder of the speed at which public perception can change (and the destructive power it can wield when misguided).
Agree and disagree it belongs in a museum not in the streets!!!!!! You keep it in the streets and you're going to cause hurt feelings and tempers to flare.
I've studied plenty of history and I can tell you, there is no reason to revere Edward Colston with statues. As other people have said, he belongs in a museum along with other figures such as Sir Oswald Mosley, Prince William Augustus - Duke of Cumberland, and Jack the Ripper.
@@Thor.Jorgensen Did prophet Muhammad know any slaves? What was Ghandi's opinion on indigenous Africans? Are there any world famous structures remaining that were built by slaves? Shall we break them all down and put them in museums?
@@George-sc4yh Here we go with another one of you guys with your tu quoque fallacies (aka whataboutism) And your argument really falls flat when you remember that it's considered blasphemy to erect statues or paint images of Muhammad. So there are no statues of Muhammad anywhere in the world. And Gandhi neither owned or sold slaves.
@@AK-rz6xx I think all its done is create a fierce upswing in white nationalism if I'm completely honest. We'll see though, it's going to be an interesting year.
Good so you should it has a horrible history Humans have enslaved people for thousands of years and still do today .from estimated statics they believe there is over 20 million slaves today
@AJ P These are the lies you keep telling yourself to keep your privilege intact...unfortunately for you the new generation are righting so many centuries of wrongs...
Yes teach children all of the horrible things instead of including the good. Edward Colston (statue) was also responsible for building schools and hospitals and setting up charities for the poor
@@breadloaf666 I've never read that Jesus did anything but love, and forgive those that did wrong. Yes some may have hated him, but he knew returning hatred was not the right and morally decent answer. Ever heard the phrase 2 wrongs don't make a right?
@yo pierre I feel I know the scripture you're trying to use, but I'll bet you can't send the chapter and verse where Jesus did what you say. Literally destroyed a temple for working on the Sabbath. What Bible is that written in? Find it, please.
@yo pierre Oh you poor boy. Even today when faith plays a smaller part in daily life good god fearing people are expected to pray every day and WILL go their place of prayer EVERY DAY. So that's point one rubbished and on to point two. He knocked over and cast out the traders tables and their goods, nowhere does it say any religious symbolism touched, plus if someone entered your house and took all your belongings, would you say they literally took your house? Well actually you might but an intelligent person wouldn't. And point three. If you'd continue to read and understand you'd know the temple he was talking of was his body. And after dieing and raising again 3 days later the people realized what he had been saying and that he truly was the son of God. So, is there anything else you need correcting on or are you going to keep going back to edit your comments to try and not sound so stupid?
I know right, first people wanted haircuts, then they wanted sex, then they wanted to go to the beach and now they dont want racism, all equal acts given covid-19
Oh you mean that fake virus that doesn't exist. They cant even show us pictures of the virus. They draw cartoons of it and expect us to beleeve it exists
@@googlesucks7840 they would have been stolen. It does matter who brought and sold them that should be traces and people should be held accountable. whats worse is they were predominately stolen from their families, their homes. Forced into a life nobody would wish on their worse enemy.
The iron oxcide will give nutrition for algae and micro life in the water, giving small fish a feeding ground, thus feeding bigger fish and so on, an artificial Reef.
This was a disgusting act of vandalism I don’t care if he was a slave trader he is a piece of history and it is against the law to do that never mind the reason it happened it is vandalism and a crime. The romans has slaves but you don’t see anyone pulling down the colosseum do you? Disgusting
@@Themealman no i won't be against the statue of stalin or hitler as well what has happens already happened so let the statue be there as a historical monument and he did do some good things and back then having slave was a pretty normal thing (sorry for my english it isn't my native language)
@@Themealman but i just have to say one thing why did you called there (Uk) history disgusting slavery was a pretty common thing in africa and asia too and in my opinion that's pretty biased as ancient egyptian used to be slave holders too
If for some reason Hitler's statue was preserved in Germany, and after 300 years it was destryoed, would you call it vandalism? It seems to me more like really late justice
In Italy there are a lot of monuments rapresenting fascism and built by fascism but no one was touched after the war BECAUSE IT’S CULTURE, IT’S HISTORY. If you destroy historical monuments you act as ISIS.
@@Andrea-pb6nk There are limits to it though. What about Soviet statues? You know they mass produced statues of their leaders and that's also why De-Stalinazation happened. Just few years ago there was still 5,500 statues of Lenin in Ukraine. Would you say mass produced statues for propaganda are culture? If there was one, I say keep it for history and culture. If there is 100,000 worldwide, I say melt them into something useful, maybe keep ones that are actually memorable and special.
Comrade Laika so in Italy we have to destroy completely the Colosseo because it rapresents a simbol of christianity persecutions and aslo because there is not only the Colosseo as a Roman arena in the world. It’s just past, it’s just history. If you want delete the past you are not different from a dictatorship government or a stupid movement.
Next up is we attack Africa for selling us slaves, and then we attack Egypt for using slaves to build the pyramids. Eventually we'll have attacked the whole world and we'll be dead. Sounds awesome to me.
Victoria adopted a black child Sara and her best friend Abdul was from India. She and her husband Albert strongly opposed the slave trade in the British Empire (that was already banned in 1833). Please open your history books before you make stupid statements
Actually I feel like this statue is going to be a powerful historical relic of what is happening right now. Once they fish it out of the water I can see it as an installation including video footage in a museum. Because a statue you just pass by thinking it must be some important person. Like this you can see that this person was an important and rich part of society once but was highly criticised later. This is very powerful. I am against vandalism but this particular incident is truly amazing. Kind of like the Berlin wall is too.
I would have prefered that they remove the statue carefully and take her to a secret and safe place . You see , for those who removed the statue , the object is a symbol , but to me is a oblect of art , created by an artist and to destroy a piece of art is , in my opinion vandalism . But , there's worse : what if someone decides that Winston Churchill is not worth of a statue and decides to remove and destroy it ?...
It sounds you weren’t against the vandalism then if you found it amazing and you clearly haven’t read on who the man of the statue your talking about is apart from he was a slave trader
im back ! its taken me a few days to get out of the water! but my spirit lives on forever!! i cant believe all the interest im getting now, thanks so much. regards edward.
@J S theyre all just hopping onto the "trend" remember when loads of people changed their instagram pfps to blue for sudan? what happened to that? its because its a trend in a month its gonna change till they find the next trend they can hop in because most of them dont truly care
@J S it's a well known fact in history that white man responsible for the worst and largest slave trading there is, from african to middle east and asian heck even in western countries as well. As the matter fact they're also one of the pioneer in slave trading.
Ah yes the future is very bright when angry mobs can do whatever they want and get away with it if they use the hoax of racism as an excuse. Guess that means I can rob a bank if I think that bank is racist and nobody can stop me.
hahahaha De-glorifying a slave trader after the public of the town petitioned the government multiple times to remove it for all is not the same selfish privilege as robbing a bank for your own greed. The first one is a resistance. You are the mob.
@@Ruwen.S It still sets a bad standard though that if enough people don't like something they can just destroy it. The west should never fall under mob rule and that's what we're seeing. Imagine if some people destroyed a Malcolm X statue because he was a racist, you lot would be screeching and screaming about criminal damage but this is okay because it's your team.
If movies have taught me anything that statue should've had a epic slow motion splash into the water while someone giving a speech about how the struggle is over.
@@thoughtfullondoner1202 hey IQ 40 did you notice that whites outnumbered blacks when all this went down? You probably would have been a slave trader too, back in the time of Edward colston. The statue is down deal with it racist.
Dont be a couple of limp dicks, that statue annoyed the people of Bristol for 25years, 4 years ago there was another 15,000 petition to remove it but it was ignored. Now the pile is in the dock, and can stay there good on the people of Bristol. You wet ninnies
No regrets? Good for him, that is why he is spending the rest of his life in jail. Maybe you should try and do the same and see what would happen to you
zakari musah WTF are you talking about idiot? Did you even watch this video? Protestors dumped the statue in the river while the police chilled. The reporter asked the officer if he regretted standing by while the protestors dumped a symbol of slavery and oppression into the river, and the officer said: “We did the right thing. No, no regrets.” Stop being stupid.
Exactly. It would be so easy for him to hmm and ahh and sit on the fence or retroactively say, we probably should have stepped in to cover his ass but he didn't. I appreciate his clarity and sticking to his guns. Good on that man.
How many times have our history books been burned by those who propose a new and better way. The signs of the times are there for all to learn by people
@@avrandlane2735 ... Who said he was wrong? Please advise. I compared history books (what he posed) to monuments (what the video is about). This is not the equivalent of burning history books.
@@avrandlane2735 Also to you and the OP I pose that far too many times evil and injustice have been allowed to thrive because good people held their tongue and stilled their hands.
@Timothy 2:2:3 I mean that's good and important and I'm glad the mayor wants to but I think we can all happily say that Indiana Jones was saying that before anyone else lol
@Timothy 2:2:3 I completely realize that I just wasn't going to let it go without being said that Jones said it first. I'm just that much of an indie fan bro... thus the laughing at the end of my last comment 😆
People like you who says history is not a problem, are people whose blood line benefited from slavery. Slavery is not just a word, its killing of people and stealing their fortune. Europe has old money that came from slavery even today and its still benefiting. If someone kills your mother and father and steal money and their gold today, tomorrow you must just practice what you preaching by simply forgetting and say history is not a problem , plus you further need to praise those individuals who killed your parents by placing their statues for the reminder of what they did to your parents.
Mecdot but what is destroying the history going to do? It happened and we can’t change that, it will always be a part of our history so why don’t we focus on the problem of police brutality instead of instead of defacing historical structures because vandalism is putting a bad label on the BLM campaign as it’s no longer peaceful protesting, its now crime.
Tom.w_ 21 knocking down statues isn't "destroying history" it's showing that we shouldn't glorify the people of past who have committed racist acts even if it was acceptable at the time
ghelila I understand that but i don’t think that it’s being done in the right way, for example, the Colston statue shouldn’t have been taken down like that when it could have been taken down formally in a much safer way instead of vandalising the statue and tearing it down in a way that could’ve seriously injured someone
Mascot, and whoever doing the vandalism, breaking, "doing peaceful protests with vandalism", - that's your choice - it's nothing about the history and racism in the past- its today you are showing to the whole world how wild and vandal you can be, breaking, killing, . ... that's it... I will not be surprised, if tomorrow "somebody like vandals will decide to stop reading and printing the bible, - actually I wd say - in so many years past- unfortunately, some ppl are still vandal....
It's a pity that such a historical statue was destroyed. China destroyed a large number of cultural relics in the 1960s. Now everyone regrets that history.
Can we just acknowledge that police officer who had no regrets in not intervening because he understood how it would have escalated things? He knew that statue was going to be torn down even if he and his fellow officers tried to stop it. At least this way there it didn't result in a violent altercation between the police and protesters. He made the right call. That's good police work right there. America take notes.
ERIKA ANTAO oh shut up! People are taking a stand to racism and tbh, he shouldn’t be celebrated. No one should keep a statue of a man who represents racism and slavery.
Let's remove the pyramids as well they were built by slaves, that Julio's Caesar marble statue, break it, he also had slaves and killed thousands, Pompey destroy his statues as well, queen victoria, Catherine the great, George Washington, Luis XVI broke France and starved millions, Luis XIV killed many to build Versailles so let's just burn it burn it all, do you see where this is going
Almost all historical figures owned slaves.. different times and different rules. Judging long dead people by today's standards and trashing statues is not going to help. Removing history just shows ignorance and self entitled attitudes
@@gravedigger664 if riots going to far.. Some people will get really pissed. And this Riot is a result of racism for centuries. With a lot of angry people. And America has the best conditions to let this escalate (even more) violently.
@@gravedigger664 are you blind or are you one of them? there are thousands of innocents dead because of this, and when people use the BLM BLM BLM in your face BLM statement its honestly corrupting the future
@@gravedigger664 i heard yesterday that trump wants to use the national guard against the people in Seattle.. Doesn't sound like very deescalating. So what else do you need?
@Phil Capitalism has helped more people escape poverty than communism has ever done. Since many eastern countries adopted capitalism world poverty has dramatically fallen. You have to be another level of ideologue to assume or even hope that entire populations would be content living in a system which always turns out to be one in which some people are more equal than others, and one in which you are eternally confined to the restrictions other people have placed upon you.
@@jamietherooster The problem with capitalism is the game is rigged. Your born into a system that has already been set up to keep you in your place. It's like joining a game of monopoly after its been playing for hours. All the good stuff is gone, all the property is owned. In Britain the top 500 wealthiest families haven't hardly changed for 1000 years. Do you think they earned it? Or do you think just maybe they stole it? Or worked some poor buggers to death getting it? Karl Marx was an economist who saw how unfair the system was. He's only vilified by the establishment because just maybe they would lose their wealth. 5 people own most of press in Britain. Billionaires that don't even live in Britain. Do you think they have your interests at heart? Have a think..
Gross criminal damage. Pandemic negligence , if covid affects BAME persons more, hopefully these unlawful gatherings will get rid of a few thousand more.
@@coronaproof2399 you do realise he isn’t the problem you type of people are applauding this problematic behaviour and promoting destruction and vandalism just because you don’t like it does not mean you can be ahead of the law 👍🏻
People say that the statue want to get a little swim so they help him..but after they help the statue get into the water,,they forgot that the statue doesn't know how to Swim..So they say that the statue has been drowning 😂😂🤣🤣🤣😅
Do you guys still remember all those "thankyou"s and rainbows for NHS that you painted weeks ago? Well... now you just showed NHS a middle finger for all their hard work by rioting during pandemy. That really proves how much you people care.
I suppose they could have marched and kept the 2 metre distance. It could have been a well organised protest and very civilised. But George Floyd murder wasn't civilised. 🤔
@@glorialouiise Masks and social distance are reducing the risk, but not preventing it. BAME people are more vulnerable to catch the covid, so if black lives matter so much, they should stay home for time of pandemy. There is still incredible amounts of unhumane acts happening each day on our planet and it's important to fight for equality. Would be just smart to not fight one crisis by cost of the other.
Jesus christ you beta snowflakes have become so got damn fragile you get offended by a statue. Unbelievable. How do you manage to get through life without some form of medication for them nerves?
@toasteh lol they just don’t respect history for what it was bk then some people don’t realise slavery was just a normal/profitable trade UNTILL it was abolished P.S to all who think I’m for slavery when reading this I’m not I’m just pointing it out... ‘those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it’
@@kf1570 Good comeback bro. Fuck me you progressive blm morons are literally intellectually incapable of engaging in a discussion or think for yourselves.
@I want it All the exact point I’m trying to make lol I’m not even being hateful or anything just pointing out THE FACTS bk then but if u choose to reply with a stupid comment don’t comment at all my dude 😂😂
Why would you even want to make a statue of a person like that? That never should have been made in the first place. Needed to be destroyed. 'Thou shalt not make any graven images, or any likeness that is in heaven above, or that in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.......,
I think you are actually spot on. Most people won't know the history, but I noticed the striking similarities too. Attacks on the wealthy and the mother or primary culture - the prize was 10s of millions of corpses.
No the statues are a celebration of these people. By removing them they are not censoring the past because book and museums still exist. Plus, most people who aren’t from Bristol didn’t even know who Colston was until this incident and now they’re the first ones the complain about history being erased. You can’t miss what you never had 😂
D 1 that’s why calling it vandalism is not entirely correct. Context context context. Had they brought it down themselves before it would have been already solved. I am very happy that there is a lot of common sense around this. Also very happy for all being sensible while still going for very needed and significant change. And after all, it was a piece of metal. But we are speaking of human lives and values of humanity. That is the greatest context.
Jordan Nkosi um, nope. Oh............ um........... the depth to that is immense. Because of yeah........ but i have seen monuments that have been taken down when a change has happened. Although it is still observable in a museum. But taking down a statue in itself is not uncommon.
It will be as it should be as a lot of children adults don’t even look at the statues including myself. Least if in a museum people can learn the history behind it which is better.
@@Craig121000 that "we" is very telling. a collective of irate people tearing down everything they deem impure by the tenets of their ideology. Well, we've seen it very well. It all leads to guillotines, firing squads and killing fields in the end.
Torquemedia idk where you living at but in NYC and NJ the Islam community is HEAVILY involved. At every protest that I’ve been to and from the pictures I’ve seen-they are very much aware. I don’t c why it’s an issue for them to protest exactly what you’re trying to make them look bad for. Pointless typing 🙆🏾♀️
What are you saying? Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Great Britain colonized many countries around the world, they sold non into slavery except africans. Do you know how some of these blacks became slaves? They were kidnapped and starved so they couldn’t scream, now I’m talking little children as well. So please make your points clear
I hope none of these young people don’t kill any loved ones by spreading the virus to them, imagine having that on your conscience for the rest of your life.
Weird how they only mentioned once, in passing about his involvement in the slave trade. They talk about his history and seem to gloss over the fact he was responsible for the deaths of thousands.
Yeah because he built schools for white kids from the sale of black people and kids it's OK because he gave the city loads of money and built schools . Disgusting how such men are on statues.
Erasing history does not change it. Let's focus on the future, preserve the monuments (even the monuments to dark chapters of our past) and use them to educate future generations. destruction of symbols from the past is just nonsensical.
Stan the HeadHumongous it didn’t erase history. It changed our understanding of it. He was and still is recognised as a slave trader. But he’s no longer honoured.
@@MsColl90 how is toppling a statue changing the entire society's perception of a historic figure? Putting the statue in a musuem and tell every on-looker the history behind would be a way better history lesson than tossing the statue (which has its own historic and artistic value although some are likely to disagree) into the river, which causes a media frenzy for 2 days and soon people will forget about it. If physical destruction of anything that symbolises the evil side of human history is the way to go, then we should also destroy almost every building in Berlin, London, Rome, Washington, Beijing and the list goes on.
I think you need to read up on the term 'monument'. You're not necessarily wrong, but there is a difference between learning from history and commemorating it. Statues are invariably monuments.
What a stupid argument! There are no statues in the UK dedicated to Hitler but I know who he is. One statue of one of the many British slave traders in a city you rarely visit is hardly going to educate you.
I'm of Polish descent. Polish people are slavic people. Slavic people, or slavs for short, have been conquered and enslaved for so many more centuries than black people that it dwarfs black slavery completely. In fact, slavic people, or slavs for short, have been enslaved so many times over the centuries that the word slav is where the modern english word slave came from. Polish people were also in the Nazi concentration camps along with the jews as well. The vast majority of the black slaves in America were all owned by only a tiny percentage of white southerners. So, the vast majority of white Americans are not related to slave owners in the past. And, both white and black people from the north died in order to end that slavery in the Civil War. So, the next time someone of _any_ colored skin tells me to "check my privilege" simply due to the color of my skin, I say, check your history, and your racism.
Because Africans where selling slaves in the 17th century to any one who could afford it. He broke no laws, unlike the rioters who destroyed his statue.
I really appreciate how UK black and white came together to show thier frustration against racism, as we are facing same thing in South Africa after 25 years in democracy.
Oliver La Roi I’m really sorry if I said anything wrong, I do understand these being taken down but I wish it could have been in a more respectful way, and that we can preserve it or something
So, if we accept to erase from history everyone connected with slavery, shouldn't we also take a look at Mahomet who was a slave owner, a slave trader, and codified it in the coran ? It's a real question.
How is toppling a statue erasing someone from history? They don’t believe a slave trader should be commemorated (rightly so). Where are the statues of Muhammad? Oh yeah - *they don’t exist*
@@CarpeDiem-vc3gq you're missing the point. It's not about a statue only but about slavery owner and trader. What's the most someone who've done that 3 century's ago and now it's done. Or someone who codified it with a book that's still teaching it until today. You do know that slavery is still going on, right ? It's where I can see hypocrisies.
@Ark Mobile Evidence you think you're smart or what ? The point is not a statue, but people who had huge impact on slavery. Read the comments before making a fool of yourself.
Women did the same thing so they could live free and vote, gay people did this so they now no longer fear abuse 24-7, black people did this in my grand father and fathers days and now no longer sit at home worrying when they will be hung out of the blue. Sometimes this works and sometimes it doesn't, more often than not it succeeds. this is hardly rocket surgery.
@@RandomNooby There is a difference between peaceful protests and mob violence. Societies change positively through peaceful discussion and actions, not through the knee-jerk reactions of those wishing to see the world burn. "An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
@@TheChappa very true but unless you suggest gene drive modification for humanity, THAT IS US ALL; OF US, enough pain and rage 99% go nuts, mix that up with 1% psychopathic personalities just in it for the shits n giggles, add some random extremists of the opposing view, aiming to push the media narrative to chaos n violence and voila
People were aware of Colston's history and tried for years to have his statue removed through formal representations,but some grew frustrated and finally took direct action. They did so because he was a symbol, but more importantly he highlighted how England held a very prominent role indeed in colonising Africa, and the use of slavery. It held dominion over more people on the continent than any other colonial power. Those who say you can't judge the past with 21st century hindsight are simply wrong.To brand,chain, and consign someone to the bowels of a ship sometimes for weeks on end, with minimum food and water, and for them to lie in their own filth was seen as an affront to human rights and dignity, and immoral by many at that time too.They included social reformers,Quakers and other Christian thinkers, and politicians. As a middle-aged white guy my experience of being racially discriminated against is somewhat limited. But,present day events have convinced me,at least, that studying the history of colonisation years ago as a module,part of my degree, was not an irrelevant waste of time.
I hope those protestors develop the integrity to recognize that every culture participated in slavery and that few have worked as hard as the British people to eliminate it. Not everyone who owned slaves deserves to be singularly defined by that, and there are virtues that may have overshadow their shortcomings.
That statue belongs in a museum, not on the streets. History is stored in museums. Indeed that statue is a slap across the face for all black people every time they walk past it. Let’s not glorify a slave trader and racist.
