BLM protests/ Riots.

[PhilTheFragger]

Can we start a separate thread for that or would that be frowned upon?

Its been done already
Didn’t end well

 

[Lord Tyrion]

So now Swing Low is in the firing line.

It has been previously. I'm pleased to say rugby fans ignored the objections last time and will likely do the same now as well. Especially so as there is no rugby at the moment, the objections are effectively being fired at a blank space. A song is not owned by any one group, anyone can sing it.

 

[User20205]

So now Swing Low is in the firing line.

Swing low has always been a bit dodgy, IMO.
Think it started because of Chris Oti.

 

[User20205]

Swing low has always been a bit dodgy, IMO.
Think it started because of Chris Oti.

And it’s terrible!!!

 

[spongebob59]

It's been done then

https://twitter.com/x/status/1271449790816157697

 

[Fade and Die]

Boris absolutely nails it.....

https://twitter.com/x/status/1271388180193914880

 

[USER1999]

I don't think they are going to repair it. It'll be put on display in a museum that will tell the story of Colston, slavery, Bristol, up to and including what happened to the statue and why. Fixing it and removing the graffiti would be erasing our history, wouldn't it?

So I can vandalise anything, and add grafiti to anything I want to, and it should be left there as it's history? Not sure about that. It would be a pretty ugly, damaged, and painted up world.

 

[SocketRocket]

And it’s terrible!!!

Dont know about that, always seemed OK on the rugby tour coach after a good match along with those hand gestures.

 

[User20205]

Dont know about that, always seemed OK on the rugby tour coach after a good match along with those hand gestures.

Ties around your head, trousers around your ankles ?

 

[huds1475]

So I can vandalise anything, and add grafiti to anything I want to, and it should be left there as it's history? Not sure about that. It would be a pretty ugly, damaged, and painted up world.

I think Karen was referring, with either ironic or humourous intent, to the view that statues shouldn't be pulled down by random vigilantes as they can teach us about our past.

Something a black history chap, from that there Liverpool, spoke quite eloquently about on the news last night.

 

[huds1475]

Daubing a wall with "Kaz woz 'ere" on the other hand is probably not historic. Unless I ever amount to something, which looks less likely every day. Plus only I would use apostrophes in graffiti.

Good grammar elevates ones graffiti!

 

[ColchesterFC]

Daubing a wall with "Kaz woz 'ere" on the other hand is probably not historic. Unless I ever amount to something, which looks less likely every day. Plus only I would use apostrophes in graffiti.

Good grammar elevates ones graffiti!

Should that not be "one's graffiti"?

 

[USER1999]

I know it divides opinion but, like it or not, what happened to that statue was not simple vandalism. Erecting monuments to slavers is history but so is tearing them down.

Daubing a wall with "Kaz woz 'ere" on the other hand is probably not historic. Unless I ever amount to something, which looks less likely every day. Plus only I would use apostrophes in graffiti.

Sure, but what offends someone can only be qualified by them. So if they decide something is offensive, it is, and clearly they can vandalise it as they see fit. Everything is history, after all.

 

[SocketRocket]

Should that not be "one's graffiti"?

Shouldn't that be 'shouldn't that be'

I'll get me coat!

 

[SocketRocket]

Ties around your head, trousers around your ankles ?

Jumpers for goal posts.(apologies in advance if the Fast Show is now 'persona non gratis')

 

[SocketRocket]

Jumpers for goal posts.(apologies in advance if the Fast Show is now 'persona non gratis')

 

[ColchesterFC]

Shouldn't that be 'shouldn't that be'

No.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Guys
Back on track please

 

[SocketRocket]

I remember looking at this grave in Henbury Church yard in Bristol as a boy. It's the grave of the last slave in the UK named Scippio Africanus on the stone. It seemed a historic monument to me then and made me reflect on the lives of Black people in the past and how horrible slavery was. What do we think, should it be left or removed, I think it should stay so people can look at it and reflect as I did.

 

[huds1475]

Should that not be "one's graffiti"?

LOL. Definitely.

Slowly walks away with tail between legs ?