Blimey - its a cull of statues and pub signs all over BritainArchived Message
Posted by Marion on 9/6/2020, 10:01 pm
100,000 people sign petitions to replace slave trade statues and signs around the UK
Hundreds of petitions have been started on petition platform Change.org to replace statues and signs of slave traders, colonialists and imperialists since the statue of Edward Colston was torn down on Sunday.
One of the most popular petitions, with almost 30,000 signatures, calls on the UK Government to remove all slave trader statues from around the UK..
A similar petition calls for road names to be changed in Glasgow, with 20,000 people calling on Glasgow City Council to rename all streets named after slave owners.
Almost 30,000 people have signed a petition to Derbyshire Dales District Council to “remove the racist caricature of a black man’s head from the Green Man pub sign” in Ashbourne whilst a counter-petition to keep the “Black’s Head” has nearly 3,000 signatures.
The long-running campaign to remove the statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College in Oxford has been reignited with 7,000 people signing a petition to the University of Oxford to “Remove your racist statue”