everything wrote:grzegorz wrote:I was reading some on Churchill and it sounds like he had the thinking of what would have been typical for an colonial Englishman of his time.
I spent some time on a former English colony in the islands and as expected those of English descent thought much the same as their grandparents did. I suppose the South here is probably similar among some land owning families.
Not sure why they would want his statues removed but obviously Churchill symbolizes something to some people that I was not aware of.
Perhaps, as pointed out, we should have no more statues.
The irony is it used to be said that history is written by the winners yet we can see that you can only silence history for so long. Eventually most of it will come out.
I listened to a speaker yesterday who was horrified to find her ancestors had a plantation and owned 5 slaves. Her more recent ancestry was super poor but that doesn't make up for or change anything.
I should clarify that I don't think these people were guilt free of the past as much as they did see themselves as superior because of their English blood much as Mexicans with more Spanish blood look down at the indigenous who do the lowest paying jobs and often face discrimination.