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greentricky
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I completely back the toppling of the Colston statue.
What to do with colonialist statues is a fascinating topic for a history teacher to deal with.
New Delhi created a "graveyard of statues" for the viceroys and other administrators of the British Raj.
The statues still exist but they've been sidelined. It seems like a very apt approach.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lseih/2019/06/20/coronation-park-and-the-forgotten-statues-of-the-british-raj/
There's a statue of Queen Victoria in Georgetown, Guyana that was put up in the 1890s and damaged with dynamite in the 1950s by anticolonial protestors. After independence they took it down, but then brought it back again in 1990, I suppose arguing that it's part of their history, painful or not. It still gets vandalised regularly now.