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BLM-Bristol UK Protesters Topple Statue of Worlds Biggest Slave Trader Edward Colston. (Pictures Below of His Slave Caves in Bristol)...

Protesters pulled down the bronze figure of the 17th century slave trader and dumped it in the floating harbour as 7 June Black Lives Matter demonstration took place.


Statue that had long been a focal point of local anger rolled down to harbour and pushed into the water


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Black Lives Matters protesters in Bristol have pulled down a statue of the slave trader Edward Colston.


Demonstrators attached a rope to the Grade II-listed statue on Colston Avenue on Sunday before pulling it to the ground as crowds cheered. They then jumped on it and rolled it down the street before pushing it into Bristol Harbour.

The historian David Olusoga compared the action to the toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.


However, the home secretary, Priti Patel, urged the police to respond. She told Sky News: “I think that is utterly disgraceful and that speaks to the acts of public disorder that have actually now become a distraction from the cause in which people are protesting about.”.... ....

Supt Andy Bennett, of Somerset and Avon police, said his force was carrying out an investigation into criminal damage.

However, Bennett told the BBC he understood that Colston was “a historical figure that’s caused the black community quite a lot of angst over the last couple of years”, adding: “Whilst I am disappointed that people would damage one of our statues, I do understand why it’s happened, it’s very symbolic.

“You might wonder why we didn’t intervene and why we just allowed people to put it in the docks – we made a very tactical decision, to stop people from doing the act may have caused further disorder and we decided the safest thing to do, in terms of our policing tactics, was to allow it to take place.”


The mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees, said: “I know the removal of the Colston Statue will divide opinion, as the statue itself has done for many years. However, it’s important to listen to those who found the statue to represent an affront to humanity.”

The bronze statue, erected in 1895, has long been a focal point for anger at the city’s role in the slave trade and the continued commemoration of those who were involved in it.

A petition to remove it had garnered more than 11,000 signatures. It said: “Whilst history shouldn’t be forgotten, these people who benefited from the enslavement of individuals do not deserve the honour of a statue. This should be reserved for those who bring about positive change and who fight for peace, equality and social unity.”

Colston’s company transported more than 100,000 slaves from West Africa to the Caribbean and the Americas between 1672 and 1689, cramming them into ships to maximise profit.

NB: Colston’s ships stopped at Bristol docks for cleaning and replenishment of water and supplies. Before they reached the docks the slaves were offloaded into caves alongside the Bristol canal.
Many years ago I crawled down an access way from Clifton Suspension Bridge to look into the caves and the entrance from
the River Avon. It was horrific. Both entrances are now closed off to the public.







An 1878 drawing of the Clifton Suspension Bridge











Redcliffe's hidden caves

Hidden behind a small door in the banks of the harbour are the Redcliffe Caves. They consist of series of man made tunnels built in the Middle Ages.

But to this day the mines are shrouded in mystery.

Rumours persist that around this time the Redcliffe Caves were used to keep slaves chained to walls...

The slaves, including women and children, were branded on the chest with the company’s initials, RAC. Unhygienic conditions, dehydration, dysentery and scurvy killed more than 20,000 during the crossings and their bodies were thrown overboard.

The Bristol West MP, Thangam Debbonaire, now the shadow housing secretary, joined calls for the statute to be taken down in 2018. She said the city “should not be honouring people who benefited from slavery”.

Colston gave great sums of money to Bristol, but it was earned from slavery. Debbonaire said: “Having statues of people who oppressed us is not a good thing to be saying to black people in this city.”


Action has been taken to erase Colston’s name from other parts of the city. Colston Hall, Bristol’s largest concert hall, announced plans to change its name in 2017, and Bristol city council determined in January 2018 that a second plaque should be placed on Colston’s statue highlighting his role in the slave trade but wrangling over the wording delayed it. A portrait of Colston was removed from the lord mayor’s office later the same year.

Opposition to the Colston statue grew at around the same time as the Rhodes Must Fall campaign, which called for the statue of Cecil Rhodes, an ardent imperialist, to be removed from Oriel College, Oxford. The college refused to accede to the demands.

The toppling of the statue follows the pulling down of several Confederate statues during Black Lives Matter protests in the US.

Explaining the reason for the Grade II listing, Historic England says: “The statue is of particular historical interest, the subject being Edward Colston, Bristol’s most famous philanthropist, now also noted for his involvement in the slave trade.”



Ice Cube's Passionate Response After Edward Colston Statue Pulled Down in Bristol UK

Former N.W.A. member Ice Cube responded after Owen Jones tweeted about Black Lives Matter protesters dumping the statue of Edward Colston




US rapper Ice Cube posted an impassioned tweet in response to protesters' toppling of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol city centre.

O'Shea Jackson, better known as Ice Cube, tweeted to his 5.2 million followers: "THEY WILL ALL FALL."

The former N.W.A. member, who has been a major voice in the Black Lives Matter movement, shared a tweet from journalist Owen Jones.

Mr Jones tweeted: "Edward Colston was a leading figure in the transportation of an estimated 84,000 Africans, including children, as slaves. 19,000 died on the journey from West Africa
to the Caribbean and the Americas.



Edward Colston Statue: Society of Merchant Venturers Respond


The society was heavily involved with the slave trade and put the statue up in 1895

Bristol's Society of Merchant Venturers has said it will 'continue to educate itself about systemic racism' and will 'never forget the 12 million enslaved human beings', after a statue of slave trader Edward Colston was pulled down in the city.

The society, which has existed formally since 1552, controlled Bristol's merchant trade and was heavily involved in the transatlantic slave trade throughout the 17th, 18th and into the 19th centuries.

Merchants were behind the erection of the statue of Edward Colston in The Centre in Bristol in 1895, and the society continues to run a large number of schools, including two named after him, in Bristol today.



Edward Colston Statue: Mayor Gives Update on Statue's Future


Bristol's Mayor has confirmed a statue of Edward Colston which was toppled during a Black Lives Matter protest and thrown into the Harbour will eventually be retrieved - but it is not the council's priority right now.

Speaking live on BBC Radio Bristol, Marvin Rees said he does not support criminal damage and warned about the dangers of mass gatherings, a sentiment he also reflected yesterday (June 7).

He said it is "highly likely" the statue will end up in a museum.

Speaking about whether the statue had been taken out of the Harbour yet, Mr Rees said: "It's still underwater, at some point it will be fished out... we will obviously take the statue out.


The 20 Other Things in Bristol Which Commemorate WORLD Slave Trader Edward Colston

The statue is by no means the only thing which is named after him or celebrates him...

The toppling and subsequent dunking of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol's floating harbour on Sunday has opened up the history of the slave trader and Bristol's role in the slave trade to the world.

Many commentators from across the globe expressed surprise a statue of a man responsible for opening up the industrial-scale slave trade to Bristol, and whose own ships transported tens of thousands of people in chains from West Africa to the Americas.

But the statue was just the most obvious. The following list was originally published in 2016 and counted 20 other buildings, schools, businesses, windows, tower blocks and pubs that were named in honour of Edward Colston.

Here it is updated, and the updating tells the story of how Bristol has begun to slowly, painstakingly and gradually move away from the Colston name.




1. Colston's School


Bell Hill, Stapleton, BS16

One of the few things in Bristol with a direct link to Colston himself, as opposed to things which were named after him long after his death.


Colston School was founded by Edward Colston in 1710. He was an old man by then, in his 70s, and had made his fortune running the Royal Africa Company in London and then bringing the slave trade to Bristol in later decades.

He tried to donate the money to open a school for boys in Bristol some seven or eight years earlier, but it didn't get the backing needed locally because he insisted only children whose parents were strict Anglicans could attend. He didn't want any of his money to be spent on educating the children of Dissenters, and in Bristol, with Quakerism and other strands of Christianity strong, that wasn't supported.

In the end, he persuaded the Society of Merchant Venturers to take on the school he founded, and they do to this day. It's an independent private school which costs up to £13,185 a year to attend.

Who could rename it? The Society of Merchant Venturers/school governors.



2. Colston Street

Soundwell BS16



No, not the one in the city centre where the Colston Hall is, but a fairly unremarkable road out in the east of the city. This Colston Street runs from opposite the Turnpike pub on the main Soundwell Road into the streets of post-war council housing on the western side of the main road into the Hillfields area.
Who could rename it? Bristol City Council


3. Colston Yard pub - now changed

Colston Street BS1



(Image: James Beck)


The pub is named after the back alley street which runs behind it, and was only renamed in the middle of the 2010s. For years, this pub was named the Brewery Tap, owned by the Smiles Brewery, and then Butcombe Brewery had it and it was called The Yard.


It underwent major refurbishment in 2015 by new owners Rozi Hempstead and Jack Werner, who formed the Distinctly Cape Pubs Ltd company, and was soon named the Bristol Post's pub of the week and got the Mark Taylor seal of approval.

In November 2017, the pub changed its name, from the Colston Yard to the Bristol Yard.



4. Colston's Almshouses

St Michael's Hill, BS2

Another building with a direct link to Colston. Edward Colston paid for them to be built for the poor in 1691 and 12 people or families lived in them, and were expected to attend chapel twice a day. Built in 1691, in Colston's first few years of returning to Bristol, they are a designated Grade I listed building.

They are now still operating as homes - 12 one-bed flats which were refurbished in 1998. The trustee for the almshouses is the Society of Merchant Venturers.
Who could rename it? Society of Merchant Venturers

5. Colston Hill

Stapleton BS16
A narrow road which separates Holy Trinity Church, Stapleton with Colston's School itself. The road is a picturesque back lane of homes which narrows to become a footpath down to the River Frome.
Who could rename it? Bristol City Council


6. Colston's Primary School - now changed

Cotham Grove BS6



(Image: Jon Kent)

A state primary school which is now an academy managed by the Co-operative Society. The school's latest Ofsted report said all aspects of the school were good, apart from the leadership and management, which is outstanding.

The Co-operative ethos means parents, teachers and local residents can get involved in the running of the school, as long as they sign up to the Co-op movement's values of fairness, equality and self-help.


After the debate over renaming the Colston Hall, the school's governors, parents, staff and children embarked on a long-running project to have a discussion about the name. They concluded they would change it, and in September 2018, it opened for the new school year as Cotham Gardens Primary School.


7. Colston Street

City Centre BS1

The hill which runs from St Augustine's Parade in The Centre to Upper Maudlin Street by the BRI. Gives its name to Colston Yard, the Colston Hall and the Colston Tower. So much so this area of town - in the absence of another more obvious name - could well be known as 'Colston' itself.

It was originally called Steep Street, but was renamed by the Victorian city leaders in honour of Edward Colston.

Who could rename it? Bristol City Council


8. Colston Road Easton BS5

Residential street in the Chelsea Road area of Easton which is at the heart of the gentrification of this bit of inner-city Bristol. An ordinary road of turn of the 20th century terrace homes which runs east towards Whitehall.

Who could rename it? Bristol City Council


9. Colston Consulting

Portwall, Redcluffe

Recruitment firm that in 2016 was based in the second tallest building in the city, Castlemead. The firm has more than 40 years' combined experience in recruitment and specialises in high-end data management, technology and developer roles.

Who could rename it? Colston Consulting.


10. Colston Yard

off Colston Street BS1

Dead-end back alley which runs from the top of Colston Street between and underneath two shops. Another back alley that runs down the hill towards the city centre was recently named Johnny Ball Lane after the TV presenter.

Who could rename it? Bristol City Council


11. Colston Arms

St Michael's Hill, Kingsdown BS2



(Image: James Beck)

Small pub on the steep St Michael's Hill which is a regular haunt for students and staff from the nearby hospitals. Has a regular pub quiz which includes a round where those taking part make models out of Play-Doh.

Who could rename it? The landlord.


12. Colston's Girls' School

Cheltenham Road, Montpelier BS6



(Image: South West News Service)

Opened by the Society of Merchant Venturers in 1891, it shares Edward Colston's family motto of 'Go and do thou likewise' with The Colston's School. For more than a century it was a fee paying girls' school - the female equivalent of the boy's school over in Stapleton, but in 2008 it converted to a state-funded academy school.

That increased the number of girls from ethnic minority backgrounds and now it is one of the city's highest-achieving secondary schools, and the school with the most demand for places in Year 7. The Society of Merchant Venturers still have a controlling majority on the Academy Trust.

"We recognise that Edward Colston is a divisive figure in Bristol and that we have a role to play in the passionate debate about the use of his name across the city," said a school spokesperson on Monday, June 8.

"This is an ongoing discussion that we are very much part of, with one immediate action being the removal of the statue of Colston from the reception area of Colston’s Girls’ School," she added.

Who could rename it? The Society of Merchant Venturers/ school governors/ trustees


13. Colston Parade

Redcliffe BS1

A narrow street of traditional Georgian houses which is bordered on one side by the church yard of St Mary Redcliffe Church.

Who could rename it? Bristol City Council


14. Colston Tower

The Centre BS1

The most prominent building in the area known as The Centre of Bristol, it was built in 1973 and is becoming regarded as a classic of brutalist modern architecture. The 18 floors and 63m height make it the sixth tallest building in Bristol, but it towers over the open space of The Centre and houses a number of different major businesses, including banks and insurance firms.

It has changed hands a number of times in the 21st century, most recently in 2014 when London-based Resolution Property bought it for £12 million. The clock was added in 1995 and sits next to the name 'Colston Tower' which is illuminated in red every night.

Who could rename it? Resolution Property


15. Colston Avenue

The Centre BS1




The Centre area of Bristol is effectively two different roads which run either side of what used to be a water-filled dock which went all the way up to what is now Electricity House. But the roads are called different things in different places. Both sides of The Centre around Colston's Statue and the Cenotaph are officially Colston Avenue, a road which continues on the western, northbound side towards Lewins Mead, while the other side of the road is still Rupert Street.

Who could rename it? Bristol City Council


16. Colston's Lower School

Park Road, Stapleton BS16

Part of The Colston's School, the Lower School is based in an adjacent site a bit further up Park Road in Stapleton.

Who could rename it? Society of Merchant Venturers / school governors


17. Colston Hall and Colston Street Bar & Kitchen - to be renamed

Colston Street, BS1

Bristol's premier concert hall and its associated bar and kitchen restaurant.

When the Colston Hall reopens following its £50million refurbishment next year, the entire concert hall will be renamed, although its new name is yet to be announced.

On Monday, June 8, a spokesperson for the Colston Hall said: "We announced three years ago that we would be changing the name as part of the transformation of the Hall, which is currently closed whilst the redevelopment work is taking place. The Hall was built 150 years after Colston died and was not founded with any of his money.

"The current name does not reflect our values as a progressive, forward-thinking and open arts organisation – we want it to be representative of the city, a beacon of its values of hope, diversity and inclusion.

Who is going to rename it? Bristol Music Trust


18. Colston Window

Bristol Cathedral BS1



(Image: SWNS)

The stained glass window commemorates Edward Colston in Bristol Cathedral, and is now the subject of consideration by church leaders. It's the biggest window in the cathedral.

Who could remove it? The Diocese of Bristol


19. Colston Dale

Stapleton BS16

Across the River Frome from Colston's School is a post-war council development around Trendlewood Park, just south of the old Blackberry Hill Hospital. One of the side roads off Trendlewood Park is called Colston Dale.

Who could rename it? Bristol City Council


20. Colston House - renamed

St Mary Redcliffe & Temple School, Redcliffe



(Image: BristolLive)

For decades St Mary Redcliffe School divided its pupils into houses, and one of them was called 'Colston'.

But in February 2019, the school announced it was scrapping all of the names, and had come up with new names. Colston was being replaced by Johnson, after Katherine Johnson, the African-American mathematician, who did the calculations that enabled the Apollo moon landings.






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Trump in Tulsa: City Faces up to Violent Past Ahead of Rally...

Donald Trump is holding his first political rally since the start of the pandemic in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this weekend. His choice of location and the date have raised tensions in a city struggling to come to terms with its history of violent racism.

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Donald Trump has rescheduled his Tulsa rally to Saturday


On 1 June 1921, a white mob ransacked the prosperous black neighbourhood of Greenwood, killing an estimated 300 people and burning 35 blocks of homes and businesses to the ground.

The bodies of the victims were buried in mass graves and, for decades, the memory of those fearful first few days in June were buried with them.

"Following the massacre, both blacks and whites swept this under the rug," says Mechelle Brown, programme co-ordinator at the Greenwood Cultural Center, which preserves the history of the neighbourhood.

"They had to focus on surviving. They said that to talk about it meant to relive it, and it was too painful to relive."

The killing started after a young black man was accused of assaulting a young white girl in a downtown office elevator.




Greenwood was once known as Black Wall Street....

The man, Dick Rowland, was arrested and there were fears he would be lynched. A group of African Americans went to the jail to protect him and were confronted by a larger group of white men. Shots were fired and the ensuing violence lasted for several days.

Thousands of white men, some of them deputised by the police, descended on Greenwood. Ten thousand people were forced from their homes. Others were murdered. Eyewitnesses said planes circled overhead dropping bombs of turpentine or coal oil while buildings were torched from the ground.




It remains the deadliest single act of racial violence in American history.


Nobody was ever charged in the looting and destruction and city officials who stood by - or took part - were never held accountable for failing to protect their black residents.


The neighbourhood never fully recovered from the massacre


But as the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre approaches, the city has begun to reckon with its past.

A commission has been set up to locate the graves and identify the victims - although a test excavation at one of the sites has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. Emphasis has been placed on education with plans to teach the history of Greenwood in all Oklahoma state schools. And the neighbourhood is being promoted as a cultural and tourism destination.

Oklahoma's Republican governor Kevin Stitt has invited Mr Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence to tour Greenwood ahead of Saturday's rally - a move that has infuriated many residents.

The president has been widely accused of inflammatory rhetoric and of fuelling racial divisions during protests after George Floyd, an unarmed black man, was killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis last month. He has called for a law and order crackdown that critics say hasn't addressed the concerns of peaceful protesters.

Some Tulsa residents say the president's visit to Greenwood would be disrespectful and increase the risk of spreading the coronavirus within a vulnerable community. Statistics show that the death toll among African Americans is disproportionately higher than among white people.

"We are very concerned about all these people coming into our state as well as being escorted into our community to visit the Greenwood Cultural Center. That's like bringing them right onto our house," says TheRese Adunis, whose grandparents survived the Tulsa Race Massacre and whose father was born a few months later.

"Because we're coming up on the 100th anniversary of the massacre, Greenwood is a hot tourist stop right now. Our city and our state want to promote it but it's like, you want to make money and you want to be known for our misery but you don't care about our lives," she says.




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She's also angry that despite repeated promises no reparations have ever been paid to the survivors of the massacre and little has been done to reduce social and economic disparities within the city.

Before the massacre, Greenwood was known as Black Wall Street, the richest African-American neighbourhood in America, with some 300 black-owned businesses.

It was a centre for jazz and blues that profoundly influenced the music legend Count Basie. Apart from a handful of historic markers, there is little evidence of that prosperity today. The north side of Tulsa, with its population of 65,000 African Americans, remains separated by railway tracks from the predominantly white and richer south side of the city.

"They want to take credit for talking about it instead of taking ownership and fixing it," says Damario Solomon Simmons, a lawyer and activist in Tulsa who has represented some of the survivors.

He'll be taking part in a rally with the Rev Al Sharpton on June 19th, a date also known as Juneteenth, a national commemoration of the end of slavery in the US.

President Trump had planned to hold his campaign rally on Juneteenth but postponed it by a day following local protests.

"It's an opportunity to leverage the history of Greenwood and the massacre for his own benefit," says Mr Solomon Simmons. "That's what we're seeing throughout the city - powerful people who are utilising the history to push their agenda and give cover to their gentrification efforts."

After the 1921 massacre, Greenwood residents rebuilt their community without aid or money from the state. For a while it flourished, but never fully recovered and eventually declined.

Mr Solomon Simmons says the death of George Floyd has sparked a new awareness of the ongoing inequalities and injustices facing African Americans.

"We who are advocating for legislation, we have to redouble our efforts. The time is now. I can't imagine a better time with the whole world watching," he says.





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Trump canceled outdoor speech at Tulsa rally over low turnout






This is what overflow looks like at the Trump rally in Tulsa right now. Pence is scheduled to speak out here in about 10 minutes. People still streaming in but not nearly the number the campaign said they were expecting.





Instead of a showcase for the great enthusiasm Trump is supposed to engender in his supporters, it left quite a different impression.


Not only did we not see the massive crowds we were promised, we saw something else, something deeply disturbing....
We saw a president willing to risk the lives of his supporters in order to garner political support.
Six Trump staffers organizing the event had tested positive.
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President Donald Trump couldn't wait. His presidency is nosediving, with bad news erupting all around him. His answer was Tulsa, a campaign rally in blood-red Oklahoma, the state he won by a crushing 36 points in 2016.

But Tulsa did not deliver. The event that was supposed to trumpet his return to greatness -- and the country's return to normalcy -- instead brought embarrassing scenes of empty bleachers, a dismantled stage and a familiar speech unsuccessfully trying to reignite public fears.

After raising expectations with claims that a million people had requested tickets for his first campaign rally in more than three months, the vacant seats were the biggest story of the night. It was a bad omen for November, and Trump undoubtedly saw it with his own eyes as he scanned a sea of blue seats devoid of supporters on the top level of the arena that he and his campaign had said would be bursting beyond capacity; so full, they expected, that the campaign planned for a second outdoor speech to bring an additional 40,000 people unable to find a seat indoors.

Instead, the outdoor speech was cancelled, the stage dismantled. The campaign absurdly tried to explain by claiming that protesters blocked the entrances.

But every reporter there confirmed that was not true.


Maybe Tulsans weren't dying to see Trump during a pandemic, although many thousands did come, possibly risking their lives to follow a president who showed he doesn't value the health of his supporters enough to follow the advice of health experts.

They had urged him to postpone the rally. Oklahoma has seen rising numbers of coronavirus diagnoses in the runup to the meeting, and an indoor gathering of thousands -- most of them without face masks -- may be the best possible way to spread the contagion.





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The speech covered mostly familiar terrain, old promises, racist attacks and outrageous statements. The theatrical incitement and divisiveness genuinely energized the crowds when Trump first took to the hustings four years ago. Now it's mostly more of the same.

We're used to him now. We've heard it all before.

Still, as with so much that is happening in the world today, we have to remind ourselves how abnormal it all is, to hear a president of the United States threaten violence against Americans and traffic in prejudice.

Speaking of recent anti-racism protests, he warned, "our people are not nearly as violent. But if they ever were, it would be a terrible, terrible day for the other side." It's unclear who exactly "the other side" is. The speech was filled with the usual racist innuendo.
He called Covid-19 the racist term "Kung-flu," dog whistled, "they want to demolish our heritage," and spoke of the brutality of gangs, claiming that if Vice President Joe Biden and the Democrats are elected, "our country will be destroyed."

Does anyone really believe that?


The crowds cheered when Trump attacked CNN or China, but it appeared to me that his effort to make them hate Biden didn't elicit quite so much excitement.

The speech was typically self-centered, with a bizarre more than ten-minute long riff on his ultra-slow descent from the West Point ramp, and absolutely no words of compassion for the nearly 120,000 people in this country who have died during the pandemic.

Instead, Trump repeated the lie that coronavirus numbers are climbing because there's more testing, shockingly revealing that, "I said to my people, slow the testing down, please."

The White House predictably claimed he was joking.

Experts say testing saves lives. Slowing the testing leads to more deaths.



If this was the great comeback, the relaunch of Trump's campaign for re-election, it was a flop, and Trump most likely knows it. Don't be surprised if heads roll in the campaign.

Instead of a showcase for the great enthusiasm Trump is supposed to engender in his supporters, it left quite a different impression.

Not only did we not see the massive crowds we were promised, we saw something else, something deeply disturbing. We saw a president willing to risk the lives of his supporters in order to garner political support. Six Trump staffers organizing the event had tested positive.

Every image of the crowd of Oklahomans holding Trump 2020 signs made one wonder how many among them was breathing in the coronavirus. How many will contract Covid-19; how many will take it home to their relatives, to their neighbors, friends and co-workers?
How many will die because of this Trump rally?

Instead of a triumphant relaunch, we saw a president threaten anti-racism protesters, and that started even before the rally.


Instead of a president confident in his achievements, we saw a man in the midst of a string of defeats. We saw a man unable to recognize the depths of the crisis faced by his country.

Trump is in freefall, presiding over the worst public health crisis in a century, the highest unemployment rate since World War II, the biggest sustained protests in decades.

He is losing in the Supreme Court; his poll numbers are nosediving.

If Tulsa was supposed to salve Trump's wounds and send him on his way to victory, it accomplished nothing of the sort. You cannot count Trump out, but he is certainly down.




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In the 24 hours before this rally, his administration launched a shambolic effort to push out a prosecutor who is investigating criminal cases targeting people close to Trump.

It was a spectacularly incompetent effort, and one that succeeded in making us wonder why Trump wanted to get rid of the prosecutor; one more wound on a presidency that is bleeding its way to the finish line.


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US Under Siege From Far-Left Fascism Says TRUMP in Mount Rushmore Speech

US President Enflames Nationa Tensions with Attack on Leftwing Revolution and Plan for National Memorial of Statues of ‘American Heroes


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Standing beneath Mount Rushmore on the eve of American independence day, Donald Trump staged a defiant celebration of what critics say is white identity politics and warned the nation’s history is under siege from “far-left fascism”.





Mount Rushmore in South Dakota depicts the images of US presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Washington and Jefferson owned slaves


The US president defended the symbolism of statues and monuments before a packed crowd at an event that revelled in political incorrectness calculated to enflame the country’s current divisions and enrage liberal critics. There were few face masks and even fewer people of color on stage or in the stands.

Trump has 'gone awol' as president amid coronavirus pandemic, says ex-CIA director

“Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values and indoctrinate our children,” Trump said. “Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders, deface our most sacred memorials and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities.”




Donald Trump, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, at Mount Rushmore. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP


In an effort to fight back, he announced a surprise executive order establishing “The National Garden of American Heroes”, a vast outdoor park featuring statues of “the greatest Americans to ever live” – a selection sure to provoke debate and controversy.

Mount Rushmore in South Dakota depicts the images of US presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Washington and Jefferson owned slaves and have found their legacies increasingly questioned since the police killing of African American George Floyd in Minneapolis by a white police officer on 25 May triggered a wave of Black Lives Matter protests and the toppling of dozens of Confederate statues.

The president has shown no sign of embracing the public mood, but has rather dug in with a “law and order” response, promising harsh penalties for anyone who vandalizes statues, resisting changes to military bases named after Confederate generals and retweeting (then deleting) a video in which a man shouted “White power!”.

On Friday Trump become the first president since George H W Bush in 1991 to attend Mount Rushmore’s independence day celebration. He saluted and his wife Melania stood with hand on heart as the national anthem played, the stars and stripes unfurled on big screens and Blue Angels jets flew overhead.




“This monument will never be desecrated,” Trump declared, eliciting cheers. “These heroes will never be defaced. Their legacy will never, ever be destroyed. Their achievements will never be forgotten. And Mount Rushmore will stand forever as an eternal tribute to our forefathers and to our freedom.”


In remarks that offered little by way of reconciliation, he went on to rail against “cancel culture, driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees. This is the very definition of totalitarianism, and it is completely alien to our culture and to our values. It has absolutely no place in the United States of America.

Trump abuses our national parks, and he's doing it again at Mount Rushmore
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“This attack on our liberty, our magnificent liberty, must be stopped, and it will be stopped very quickly.”

He added darkly: “In our schools, our newsrooms, even our corporate boardrooms, there is a new far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance. If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted and punished.”

Gesturing to the overwhelmingly white crowd, he said: “Not going to happen to us.”

Trump added: “Make no mistake, this leftwing cultural revolution is designed to overthrow the American revolution.”

When the president said he was deploying federal law enforcement to protect monuments and arrest and prosecute offenders, the crowd rose to their feet and applauded. When he proclaimed, “They want to silence us, but we will not be silenced,” there were chants of “USA! USA!”

In a swipe at sports professionals and others who take a knee to protest racial injustice, Trump said: “We stand tall, we stand proud and we only kneel before almighty God.”

He went on to announce the National Garden of American Heroes in an executive order that said it should include statues of figures like Frederick Douglass, Amelia Earhart, Benjamin Franklin, Billy Graham, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King Jr, Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, Jackie Robinson, Antonin Scalia, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Tubman, Booker T Washington, George Washington and Orville and Wilbur Wright.

After the speech, Trump sat with Melania to watch a fireworks display above the monument, accompanied by patriotic music and historical readings, the first since 2009 due to environmental concerns and wildfire fears. South Dakota says the surrounding Black Hills National Forest has “gained strength” since then and that fireworks technology has advanced.

But the threat of damage was one more example of how, if president’s advisers had designed a stunt to goad his critics in the media and Congress, they could hardly have chosen a more incendiary time and place.

Protesters blocked a road leading to the monument.

Authorities worked to move the demonstrators, mostly Native Americans protesting that South Dakota’s Black Hills were taken from the Lakota people against treaty agreements and objecting to Trump celebrating American independence on their sacred ground.

About 15 protesters were arrested after missing a police-imposed deadline to leave.

The Democratic National Committee tweeted at one point that Trump had disrespected Native Americans and that his South Dakota trip was “glorifying white supremacy”. It subsequently deleted the tweet.

As in Oklahoma and Arizona last month, Trump held an event with a big crowd despite health experts’ recommendations to avoid large gatherings amid a surge of coronavirus cases to a record of more than 50,000 per day. Covid-19 cases in Pennington County surrounding Mount Rushmore have more than doubled over the past month.

It was reported on Friday that Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of the president’s son Donald Trump Jr, has tested positive for the coronavirus.

She had travelled to South Dakota but did not attend the event.


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BLM Protesters Set Light to Department of Corrections Building and Local Businesses For Second Night in Defiance of the National Guard Deployed to Restore Order Following Jacob Blake Police Shooting



'People cannot argue with what they’re seeing': Michael Douglas says videos of police brutality make it impossible to ignore Black Lives Matter


Protesters and rioters defied 8pm curfew and took to streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, in second day of unrest

Fire was set to businesses, including a furniture store and a car dealership, and more property was damaged

Police formed a ring around the Kenosha County courthouse and fired tear gas to try and disperse protesters

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers deployed the National Guard as anger grows over Jacob Blake's shooting

Blake, a 29-year-old black man, was shot in the back seven times by Kenosha police on Sunday

The shooting took place as police were responding to a domestic disturbance at a home in Kenosha

Blake has a criminal record, including a recent arrest warrant for sexual assault


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Viral moment: On Sunday night, cell phone video appeared to show Jacob Blake being shot multiple times in the back by police officers in front of his children in Kenosha, Wisconsin


Rioters set fire to car dealerships, furniture stores, dump trucks, and a Department of Corrections building while protesters clashed with National Guardsmen as Kenosha, Wisconsin, descended into violent chaos on Monday.

The unrest entered its second day as outrage grows over the police shooting on Sunday of an unarmed black man in front of his home.
Jacob Blake, 29, is listed in serious condition in a Milwaukee hospital after a Kenosha police officer fired seven shots into his back while responding to a domestic disturbance call.

There is no police body-cam footage of the shooting as it was previously decided by city and law enforcement leaders that the devices cost too much to provide them to officers.

But a mobile phone clip of the incident went viral on social media on Sunday, igniting widespread outrage three months after the death of George Floyd.

















Meanwhile, details have emerged about Blake’s criminal past, including a recent arrest for sexual assault.

According to online records, Kenosha County prosecutors charged Blake with third-degree sexual assault, trespassing, and disorderly conduct in connection with domestic abuse.

It was unclear whether that case had anything to do with the shooting.

In 2015, Blake was also charged with resisting arrest and carrying a concealed weapon after he pulled a gun at a local bar in Racine.

Wisconsin's governor called out the National Guard on Monday, and police skirmished with protesters who defied a curfew to take to the streets.

Protesters chanted, 'No justice, no peace' as they confronted a line of law enforcement officers who wore protective gear and stood shoulder-to-shoulder in front of the courthouse entrance.





Blake and at least two officers were filmed wrestling with each other on the pavement near his SUV (seen right)

























Police first fired the tear gas about 30 minutes after the 8pm curfew took effect and protesters refused to disperse.
But hundreds of people stuck around, lighting fires and screaming at police.

It is thought that the city, which is home to around 100,000 people, has so far lost a mattress store, church, Mexican restaurant and a cellphone shop in the raging fires, according to witnesses.

Dozens of cars, traffic lights and windows have also been smashed by looters who continue to run riot.

Ordering 125 Guard troops deployed to Kenosha, on the shore of Lake Michigan 40 miles south of Milwaukee, Governor Tony Evers also decried what he branded excessive force in the shooting of Jacob Blake, and called for a special legislative session to consider police reforms.













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Caged Congolese Teen: Why a US Zoo Took 114 YEARS to Apologise

Ota Benga was kidnapped from what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1904 and taken to the US to be exhibited. Journalist Pamela Newkirk, who has written extensively about the subject, looks at the attempts over the decades to cover up what happened to him.

BBC NEWS, 27 AUG 2020







More than a century after it drew international headlines for exhibiting a young African man in the monkey house, the Bronx Zoo in New York has finally expressed regret.





The Wildlife Conservation Society's apology for its 1906 exhibition of Ota Benga, a native of Congo, comes in the wake of global protests prompted by the videotaped police killing of George Floyd that again shone a bright light on racism in the United States.

During a national moment of reckoning, Cristian Samper, the Wildlife Conservation Society's president and CEO, said it was important "to reflect on WCS's own history, and the persistence of racism in our institution".

He vowed that the society, which runs the Bronx Zoo, would commit itself to full transparency about the episode which inspired breathless headlines across Europe and the United States from 9 September 1906 - a day after Ota Benga was first exhibited - until he was released from the zoo on 28 September 1906.

But the belated apology follows years of stonewalling.


'He Was a Zoo Employee'


Instead of capitalising on the episode as a teachable moment, the Wildlife Conservation Society engaged in a century-long cover-up during which it actively perpetuated or failed to correct misleading stories about what had actually occurred.

As early as 1906 a letter in the zoo archives reveals that officials, in the wake of growing criticism, discussed concocting a story that Ota Benga had actually been a zoo employee. Remarkably, for decades, the ruse worked.



Who Was Ota Benga?

Captured in March 1904 by US trader Samuel Verner from what was then Belgian Congo. His age is not known, he may have been
taken by ship to New Orleans to be shown later that year at World's Fair in St Louis with eight other young males

The fair continued into the winter months where the group was kept without adequate clothing or shelter

In September 1906 he was exhibited for 20 days in New York's Bronx Zoo, attracting huge crowds

Outrage from Christian ministers ended his incarceration and he was moved to New York's Howard Coloured Orphan Asylum run by African American Reverend James H Gordon

In January 1910 he went to live at the Lynchburg Theological Seminary and College for black students in Virginia

There he taught neighbourhood boys how to hunt and fish and told stories of his adventures back home

He later reportedly became depressed with his longing for home and in March 1916 shot himself with a gun he had hidden. He was thought to be aged around 25.

In 1916, following Ota Benga's death, a New York Times article dismissed as urban legend tales of his exhibition.

"It was this employment that gave rise to the unfounded report that he was being held in the park as one of the exhibits in the monkey cage"




Ota Benga (R) pictured at the World's Fair in 1904 where he and others were exhibited as "pygmies"...


The account, of course, contradicted the numerous articles that a decade earlier had appeared in newspapers across the country and in Europe.

The New York Times alone had published a dozen articles on the affair, the first under the 9 September 1906 headline:

"Bushman Shares A Cage With Bronx Park Apes".


Then, in 1974, William Bridges, the zoo's curator emeritus claimed that what actually occurred could not be known.

In his book The Gathering of Animals, he rhetorically asked: "Was Ota Benga 'exhibited' - like some strange, rare animal?" a question that he, as the man who presided over the zoo archives, would know best how to answer.

"That he was locked behind bars in a bare cage to be stared at during certain hours seems unlikely," he continued, patently ignoring mountains of evidence in the zoological society archives that reveal just that.

An article about the exhibition, written by the zoo director, had in fact appeared in the zoological society's own publication.

Nonetheless, Bridges wrote: "At this distance in time that is about all that can be said for sure, except that it was all done with the best of intentions, for Ota Benga was interesting to the New York public."


'Friendship Between Captor and Captive'


Compounding these deceptive narratives was a book published in 1992 and co-authored by the grandson of Samuel Verner, the man who went to Congo heavily armed to capture Ota Benga and others to exhibit at the 1904 St Louis World's Fair.

The book was absurdly characterised as the story of friendship between Verner and Ota Benga.




A return to Congo would have been prohibitively expensive for Ota Benga


In at least one newspaper account since the book's publication, the younger Verner also claimed that Ota Benga - who had vigorously resisted his captivity - had enjoyed performing for New Yorkers.

So for more than a century, the very institution and men who had so ruthlessly exploited Ota Benga, and their descendants, contaminated the historical record with untrue narratives that circulated around the world.

Even now, Mr Samper has apologised for exhibiting Ota Benga for "several days", and not for the three weeks he was held captive in the monkey house.

The zoo has now posted online digitised documents it holds of the episode, among them letters that detail the daily activities of Ota Benga and the men who caged him.

Many of those letters are already cited in my book, Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga, published in 2015.

In the five years since its publication, zoo officials had inexplicably refused to express regret or even respond to media inquiries.

And while I had the opportunity to visit the primate house where Ota Benga was exhibited and housed, the building has since been shuttered to the public.


'Best Room in The Monkey House'

Now, Mr Samper says: "We deeply regret that many people and generations have been hurt by these actions or by our failure previously to publicly condemn and denounce them."

He also denounced founding members Madison Grant and Henry Fairfield Osborn, both ardent eugenicists who played a direct role in Ota Benga's exhibition.

Grant went on to write The Passing of The Great Race, a book steeped in racist pseudo-science that was praised by Osborn and hailed by Adolf Hitler.


Osborn went on to lead for 25 years the American Museum of Natural History where in 1921 he hosted the second International Eugenics Congress.

Curiously, Mr Samper did not mention William Hornaday, the zoo's founding director who was also the nation's foremost zoologist and founding director of the National Zoo in Washington, DC.

Hornaday had littered the cage housing Ota Benga with bones to suggest cannibalism and had brazenly boasted that Ota Benga had "the best room in the monkey house".

Some feel the conservation society now needs to follow its incomplete apology with rigorous truth-telling befitting a leading educational institution.

The episode offers the zoological society the opportunity to educate the public about the history of the conservation movement and its ties to eugenics.

The Bronx Zoo's founding principles were among the most influential disseminators of specious racial inferiority theories that resonate still.

One suggestion has been that the society might also consider naming its education centre for Ota Benga, whose tragic life and legacy is inextricably bound to the Bronx Zoo's.


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Black Man Killed by US Police After Being Shot 20 Times in Back by Two Officers

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department claims Dijon Kizzee had punched an officer after he was ordered to stop before dropping a gun as he tried to flee the scene

A black cyclist was killed by police after being shot more than 20 times in the back during a bicycle violation stop, his lawyers claim.


Daily Mirror UK, 2 SEP 2020.





The killing of Dijon Kizzee has renewed protests in Los Angeles by demonstrators angered at deadly violence against black people by police.

The Los Angeles county Sheriff's Department and a lawyer representing 29-year-old cyclist Mr Kizzee's family have given diverging accounts of Monday's incident.

Two sheriff's deputies opened fire at Mr Kizzee after he dropped a handgun he was carrying and punched one of the officers, police said.





His attorney Benjamin Crump, who also represented the family of George Floyd, said they stopped him over a bicycle violation


Protests have become a near daily occurrence across the US after Mr Floyd was killed by a white Minneapolis police officer in May

They have continued in Kenosha, over a white police officer's shooting of Jacob Blake, a black man, seven times in the back, leaving him paralysed.

"You don't kill any race but us, and it don't make any sense," Fletcher Fair, Mr Kizzee's aunt, told reporters at the site of the shooting on Tuesday where activists called for an independent investigation by California's attorney general.




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The unrest has become a major issue ahead of November's presidential election.

Republican President Donald Trump arrived in Kenosha on Tuesday as he seeks to rally his base of white supporters by defending police against criticism of brutality.




Dijon Kizzee's aunt Debra Ray (L) cries where Dijon Kizzee was shot by two sheriff deputies (Image: ETIENNE LAURENT/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)


Mr Kizzee was riding his bike on Monday afternoon in Los Angeles County's Westmont neighborhood when two sheriff's deputies who had been driving by tried to stop him.

He abandoned his bike and ran for a block with the deputies in pursuit, Brandon Dean, a sheriff's department spokesman, told reporters on Monday evening.

Mr Kizzee then punched one of the deputies in the face, dropping a bundle of clothing he was carrying, the department said.

The deputies said a semi-automatic handgun was in the dropped bundle, and both of them began shooting Mr Kizzee, the department said.

Mr Dean said he did not know what part of the bicycle code Kizzee was suspected to have violated or how many times the deputies shot him, other than saying it was fewer than 20.

His office declined to answer questions about the shooting and the status of the two deputies on Tuesday.

The county coroner was due to conduct an autopsy on Kizzee on Tuesday.

However, Mr Crump, a civil rights lawyer known for representing black victims of police violence around the country, wrote in a Twitter post: "They say he ran, dropped clothes and handgun. He didn't pick it up, but cops shot him in the back 20+ times then left him for hours."

The attorney asked on Twitter for people to send him any videos of the incident, saying that sheriff's deputies are not required to wear body cameras.

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White supremist groups grow in size and power, encouraged by Donald Trump


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US Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has spoken to Jacob Blake whose shooting by police sparked days of protests in Kenosha.

Donald Trump says his rival wants to appease domestic terrorists by visiting the city.

But the growing visibility of armed groups on both the right and left in America is raising alarm.

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Lawyer Dies After Cops Taser Him Repeatedly, Sparking Deadly Riots in Colombia

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A lawyer has died in Colombia after cops tasered him repeatedly for 'not social distancing' - sparking riots across the country that have left five people dead.

Furious protests erupted following the death of Javier Ordonez, 46, who was pulled over by police in the capital Bogota on Wednesday for drinking alcohol in the street and allegedly breaking social distancing rules.

A harrowing clip shows two cops pin Ordonez to the ground and taser him repeatedly, as he begs them: “Please, no more.”

A witness can also be heard saying: “They’re going to kill him”.

The dad of two was subsequently taken to a police station, where family and friends allege that he was subject to further abuse.

He was later moved to hospital, where he died of his injuries.

Colonel Guillén Alexander Amaya Olmos, head of the local police force, said that officers were called to reports of a fight in the street.

The police chief claimed that officers arrived to find eight “drunk” people in the street and attempted to break up the fight.

He told Semana newspaper: “It was necessary for the police to restrain them”.

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Wealthy UK MP Urged to Pay Up For His Familys’ Slave Trade Past

H
e's the MP with the Downton Abbey lifestyle. But the shadow of slavery hangs over the gilded life of Richard Drax

Richard Drax, the Conservative MP for South Dorset, has inherited the Drax Hall plantation in Barbados after his father’s death in 2017


Irish Central, 13 DEC 2020.








Richard Drax, Conservative MP for South Dorset, earlier this year. Photograph: Graham Hunt/Alamy




A wealthy Tory MP is facing demands to pay reparations for his family’s part in the Caribbean slave trade after the Observer revealed that he now controls the plantation where his ancestors created the first slave-worked sugar plantation in the British empire almost 400 years ago.

The MP for South Dorset, Richard Drax, has inherited the 250-hectare Drax Hall plantation in Barbados from his father, inquiries by the Observer have established. His father died in 2017. Drax has not yet declared the land or its properties in the parliamentary register of members’ interests.

Last week, leading figures in the Caribbean Community’s (Caricom) Reparations Commission described the Drax Hall plantation as a “killing field” and a “crime scene” from the tens of thousands of African slaves who died there in terrible conditions between 1640 and 1836. The Draxes also owned a slave plantation in Jamaica which they sold in the 18th century.

Sir Hilary Beckles, a prominent Barbadian historian of slavery, said Drax must acknowledge the wealth brought to the family by slavery. “If Richard Drax was in front of me now, I would say: ‘Mr Drax, the people of Barbados and Jamaica are entitled to reparatory justice.’”

Beckles, the chair of the Caricom Reparations Commission and vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies, said: “Today, when I drive through the Drax Hall land and its environs, I feel a keen sense of being in a massive killing field with unmarked cemeteries. Sugar and Black Death went hand in glove. Black life mattered only to make millionaires of English enslavers and the Drax family did it longer than any other elite family.”

Official sources in Bridgetown, Barbados, confirmed the MP now farms Drax Hall. One document reveals his involvement in the farm, showing that in February he registered the plantation as a business in the Barbados Companies House in his full name, Richard Grosvenor Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax.

On Friday, the MP said he does not yet legally own the Barbados holdings “as these are still going through the probate process and have not yet transferred to my name. Once that process is completed, I will of course register it in proper accordance with the rules.”

David Comissiong, the Barbados ambassador to Caricom, said on Friday: “There have been centuries of looting and siphoning off the wealth which should have remained in Barbados.

“This was a crime against humanity and we impose upon him [Mr Drax] and his family a moral responsibility to contribute to the effort to repair the damage.”

Like many of his ancestors, Drax is a Dorset MP and is probably the wealthiest landowner in the House of Commons, with 5,600 hectares of farmland and woodlands. The estate’s finances are largely opaque to the public gaze and involve at least six trusts and other disconnected financial entities.

Harrow-educated 62-year-old Drax, a former Guards officer and BBC journalist, lives at Charborough Park, noted for its three-mile long brick wall running alongside one of Dorset’s major roads.

In the centre of the park is the Grade I-listed mansion. Drax also owns some 125 Dorset properties personally or through family trusts and could be worth as much as £150m. He also owns a £4.5m holiday villa on nearby Sandbanks, which is rented out at up to £6,734 a week in peak season.




In Barbados, the imposing plantation house, Drax Hall, built around 1650, still stands – the oldest house in the western hemisphere – and sugar is still grown on the plantation.


Drax rarely comments on his ancestors’ history of slave owning. When he first stood for parliament in 2010, he was asked by the Daily Mirror about his historical responsibility. He replied: “I can’t be held responsible for something that happened 300 or 400 years ago.” Drax said it was an attempt to smear him. “They are using the old class thing and that is not what this election is about. It’s not what I stand for and I ignore it.”

On Friday, Drax said: “I am keenly aware of the slave trade in the West Indies, and the role my very distant ancestor played in it is deeply, deeply regrettable, but no one can be held responsible today for what happened many hundreds of years ago. This is a part of the nation’s history, from which we must all learn.’’

The Barbadian historian Beckles, however, told the Observer: “It is no answer for Richard Drax to say it has nothing to do with him when he is the owner and the inheritor. They should pay reparations.”
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