Lewis Hamilton moment

Not many more inclusive at the time than slavers: actively keeping non-indigenous people in work.........

I just had a look at the racist statue website to see if it had changed.

There are a few up here that have been added.
Duke of Sutherland, notorious for the Highland clearances but also MAY have been involved with the slave trade.

And in Dundee the "Statue of James Carmichael (1868-1934) who was an engineer, as the plaque says, but was also a colonial administrator and military officer who served in Burma, Aden, Somalia and India. He was appointed head of engineering for the Crown Agents for the Colonies in 1904."

So, now it appears they're looking to remove the statue of anyone who worked 'overseas' during the empire because that clearly makes that individual either a slaver or a racist?

There don't appear to be any contributions from mainland Europe, perhaps it won't let you?

Bloody Hell! Now I've got to remove the photos of my dad as well as my grandad! What a family of arseholes I come from.......

I saw that. One of the comments is 'I had to endure walking past his statue everyday' (well, I've corrected the grammar there).
Hmmm, I bet at the time whoever wrote that didn't know anything about Peel apart from his involvement with the police. Unless of course that statue has a Ready Brek type field that emanates pure racism to the, I assume, black person that made the comment 

The Spectator's Steerpike's tongue in cheek list of statues, street & place names for Khunt to remove:

London's landmarks
Downing Street, named after George Downing, who defended from first-hand experience the economics of West-Indian slavery.

Buckingham Palace, built by John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, and his third wife Catherine Darnley, an illegitimate daughter of James II, a prominent Briton who was the founding governor and largest shareholder of the Royal African Company.

Fitzrovia, this well-heeled district of London celebrates the offspring of Charles II, a prominent Briton of the 17th century and a major investor in his brother’s Royal African Company.

Westminster, this may be a popular London landmark, but it was nevertheless founded by William the Conqueror. Although the Normans gradually reduced slavery in England, the Domesday Book of 1086 reveals that, at the end of his rule, William still presided over a populace where more than one in ten were slaves.

Tower of London, the first stone castle in Britain was erected by the same William. Although for most of its existence it carried out the peaceful business of incarcerating and executing previously free citizens, its origins remain tied to an oppressive, slave-supporting monarch.

Oliver Cromwell, the prominent statue in Parliament Square stands in stark contrast with Cromwell’s expansion of the Irish slave trade.

The British Museum, founded on the basis of the collection of Hans Sloane, who worked as a doctor on a Jamaican plantation before marrying a Jamaican heiress.

Bank of England, the bank has a long and troubled involvement with the slave trade, especially the Society of West Indian Merchants.

Trafalgar Square, is linked to the Trafalgar headland in Spain that saw, and did not obstruct, many slave ships travelling past it to Cadiz, a major port in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

King’s Place (premises of the Guardian) and King’s Cross, commemorates statue to King George IV, a prominent Briton who continued to oversee slavery in the plantations of the West Indies.

Victoria (region, train station, and underground line), Queen Victoria presided over India, where slavery was not formally outlawed until 1843. Although she formally oversaw that process, her inactivity prior to that speaks volumes.

Queen’s Park Rangers, the name of this football club ultimately commemorates the same Victoria.

Victoria and Albert Museum, named after the imperialist Queen Victoria and her husband, Albert.

Crystal Palace FC, commemorates her husband’s expensive Exhibition of 1851, very probably funded indirectly by the slave trade.

Nelson's column, celebrates Lord Nelson, who opposed the abolition of the slave trade.

William Gladstone, the four-time prime minister may have opposed the slave trade, but his father was a major plantation owner in Jamaica and was compensated by the government after abolition. His statue on the Strand must no longer stand.

Achilles Statue, Hyde Park, this Greek ‘hero’ caused countless deaths in the Trojan War by taking umbrage at having to give up his captive slave Briseis.

Monument, although this huge column primarily commemorates the loss of 70,000 people's homes to the Great Fire of London, its pedestal memorialises several controversial supporters. It records the names of Sir Richard Ford and Sir Robert Viner, both Mayors of London, but both active supporters of the slave trade. More shockingly, the sculpture on its west face depicts Charles II and his problematic brother.

Cleopatra's Needle, this obelisk casts a shadow over the Embankment. Not only was it built by Thutmose III, a slave-owning pharaoh of Egypt, but it was donated to Britain by Muhammad Ali Pasha, ruler of Egypt and Sudan, who enslaved and traded captives throughout his problematic reign.

London, England’s capital city bears all the hallmarks of its problematic origins. Londinium was the name the slave-owning Romans gave to their new city, founded as a major base for their invasion and subsequent oppression of native Britons. Boudica, Queen of the Iceni and keen opponent of slavery, did good work by burning the city to the ground in AD 60, but the Romans had the arrogance to rebuild. Should the capital therefore be renamed?

Tongue in cheek? I bet there are members of his commission that actually want a lot of those on the list for "redesignation".

It's of the Duke of Wellington, Tim.

The horse is nice, though. Can they be separated?

Since he’s in uniform then the horse is probably one of his war mounts, trained to bite and kick those friendly Napoleonist we were so beastly to, so the horse must go as well.

www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/arts/television/protests-fictional-cops.htmL
Paw Patrol.
Fucking Paw Patrol
I don’t know what’s worse, that fucking imbeciles are going after it or ‘the paper of record’ uses the improbability of people going after it as a reason for an article attacking cop shows because they show cops as the good guys.

Sir Robert Peel, too. That's going to throw police chiefs into a hand-wringing panic.

On a serious note this is all pretty much guaranteeing Trump a second term in the US and Boris and his pals another turn here.

This is being completely ignored.
All the teenagers will be fully aware of it now because its on Instagram so they can take offence from the statues without bothering to look up from their phone as they actually walk past it, unless its been geo-tagged in the post and that pops up at the right moment.

Yep.

Some Russian comedian I follow on Twitter made the point that what follows hand-wringing do-gooders attempting to remove historic monuments that made a country what it is results in nationalists defending those artefacts that they wish to remove. They will be using words like "British", "English", "Heritage" etc. in their groups' names and will be clearly wearing union jacks, St George's crosses in their apparel to make sure that those looking on will see a defence of heritage against those that want to change the nation, whether it's for better or worse. If it continues too long then we end up with a political landscape whereby the best way to win power is through nationalism (there are 10 times more whiteys than black and brownies in the UK) and as that continues the only way to win power over the other nationalist is more and more extreme measures in the manifesto, so ghettoism (although reading the BLM website they seem to support ghettoism for themselves), forced expulsion and legalised persecution - remember no one was murdered in Nazi Germany's KZs as it was all legal there at the time.

No one is ever going to eradicate racism, sexism, homophobia and I mean never ever ever. It's already all illegal in the UK and Europe but guess what it's out there. No one in a position of power is going to say they're discriminatory but how do you uncover whether they are or not? If a number of whites are employed or promoted above blacks they can point to the policies that says they treat everyone equally and the interview process showing that they employed the best candidate. The fact that the assessors put the cvs with funny surnames to one side and then interviewed some for effect will never be discovered.

What this current activity is doing is bringing more overt racism to the fore, on both sides: don't assume I'm a hideous racist because I'm white, my paternal granfather was a soldier in India and my maternal forefathers were white South Africans. Nobody should be kneeling down for the actions of their forefathers - they should be living their lives inclusively, which surely means recognising differences without wishing to do harm based merely on those differences.

All lives matter and maybe BLM needs to address its own house (based on the FBI statistics I posted earlier) before it starts on those just wishing to walk past outside.