A Sunny Saturday
Jun. 13th, 2020 04:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzy_daveWell folks, after the dreary nondescript day yonder and without any brickbats thrown in my direction - I can say today has been a lovely warm sunny day in Faversham. I did a couple of hours sunbathing in the garden - which is resplendent with a range of flowers newly bedded by Mary and her green fingered cohorts. Sadly my rose bush has given up flowering more roses for now. However, there are a few white roses from the smaller bush opposite of my front door. Trouble is, it is less spectacular.
This recent debacle over statues should be germane to the whole "black lives matter" zeitgeist. Racism in any form should be quashed and reminders of any superiority over any other race should be countermanded with appropriate actions such as the taking down of the statue in Bristol. Ideally it should be placed in a museum in which both diacritical histories can be weighed upon each other. Yes, he might have been a philanthropist but also a slave owner that branded humans. Churchill certainly helped to win the war but also advocated white supremacy. Context is crucial.
Still I wonder what in a hundred years future generations will think of us.
This recent debacle over statues should be germane to the whole "black lives matter" zeitgeist. Racism in any form should be quashed and reminders of any superiority over any other race should be countermanded with appropriate actions such as the taking down of the statue in Bristol. Ideally it should be placed in a museum in which both diacritical histories can be weighed upon each other. Yes, he might have been a philanthropist but also a slave owner that branded humans. Churchill certainly helped to win the war but also advocated white supremacy. Context is crucial.
Still I wonder what in a hundred years future generations will think of us.
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