Protestors in Bristol have hurled a statue of Edward Colston into the sea, which is a slightly more dignified exit than he gave the 19,000 slaves he is estimated to have killed. Unfortunately, due to the sheer number of racist monuments in Britain, disposing of them would turn the river Avon into a quarry.
In fact, the ratio of sculptures in the UK is predicted to be of 10% slave traders, with the remaining 90% are all concrete nudes of generic racists, from the House of Lords. Yet to delete the nation’s bigoted past, would mean erasing London, Glasgow and the whole back catalogue of ‘Little Britain’. One protestor explained: ‘We’re just focused on ancient racist millionaires, so Alan Sugar better watch out.’
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