Milliner | Feminist | Visual artist | Queer | Disabled | 1of25| Green Cllr ~ Shadow Cabinet | GPEW ERO | Bristol Green Party co-coordinator | them/they
Jun 7, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
The statue of slave trader Edward Colston demonstrates exactly why people are protesting across the world.
Since the day that statue was erected, there have been calls to remove it. They weren't 'different times', people knew then like they do now that it was wrong 1/ #blm
Over the decades, centuries, that the statue has stood people of Bristol have asked for it to be removed.
There have been debates,petitions, letters. again and again people have asked very nicely to remove it, using all their democratic powers to do so. 2/ #blm
