They All Must Fall
Statues of racists have no place in modern society
6 min readJun 19, 2020
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…