They All Must Fall

Statues of racists have no place in modern society

Ryan Spence
6 min readJun 19, 2020

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On 7 June 2020, residents of the UK city of Bristol took matters into their own hands and pulled down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston that had stood in the city since the year 1895.

Think about that. For over one hundred years, a monument stood to a man who profited from the brutality of slave trading. A man who’s…

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Ryan Spence

life coach for lawyers and corporate professionals | author | yoga teacher | podcaster | BigLaw dropout. 💫 Twitter & IG: @iam_ryanspence