JK I totally reject your suggestion I should be ashamed of wanting the statue removed!
I agree with your some of your comment and I don’t see anyone as yet at least having an issue with the stigma attached to it or it being legally removed, You ask “what we are saying, that as long as we gain from it through philanthropy that slavery is okay?"
Well absolutely not and 100% completely to the contrary JK!
Firstly I consider there is a problem with the mob removing it as they did.
And secondly IMO irrelevant of 40 years of non-action by his predecessors who had far less, probably zero, personal history attached to what Colston did I question why the mayor during his 4 year tenure wasn’t proactive in its removal given his stated personal abhorrence at it presence.
He had the power to change 40 years of wrong but he chose not to action.