I suspect you'd feel the same kind of emotion if you were standing in front of a statue that was venerating the enslaving of 84,000 of your ancestors, 19,000 of whom died in the process.
Oh, so those that felt that emotion were the actual ancestors of the African slaves he traded? Got a link for that?
No need to. Read Angles post and you'll understand why I asked.
He was inferring that those that that were charged with pulling down the statue were ancestors of those enslaved. There's no mention of BLM.
I made no such assertion, nor any implication that the protestors of that day were "actual ancestors" of the slaves. It was a generalisation, like referring to the historical people of Britain, as 'our ancestors'.
It's easily possible that there was some tenuous bloodline from the slaves to many of the protestors.
But as you well know, or ought to know, due to the enslaving process, any attempt in identifying bloodlines of slaves is impossible because the slaves were forcibly separated from their families and no records of their origins or family ties, was attempted nor kept. Many descendants of slaves have attempted to identify their roots, but always the point of their search that results in a blind alley, is the point of their enslavement.
As you ought to know well, during the enslaving, and subsequent enslavement, families were separated, and sometimes the child was taken from the mother at birth, at the whim of the slave owner.
So you've asked for a link to records that any intelligent person would know does not exist.
So stop trying to be smart ar5e, and accept that empathy exists in many people, who feel obliged to support the victims of heinous historical acts, many of whom may have been distant ancestors, but we'll never be sure.
What we do know is that the enslavement of people 200 years ago has repercussions for people today, not only on the general level of the prejudice and discrimination demonstrated towards them, but also on a more personal level, in that the majority of the descendants of slaves do not know their origins, and it has proven impossible to find out due the barbaric actions of so called "philanthropists".
While many may wallow in the existence of buildings and organisations in Bristol, let us be aware that those buildings and organisations exist because of the bloody sacrifice of the slaves, enslaved, and worked to death against their will.
That isn't what I understand 'philanthropy' to be. To describe Colston as a philanthropist is an abomination.
