Can anyone tell me why

@melissa001 Everyone is commenting. You’re not saying anything new. What you don’t understand is that people have been asking “politely” for decades. Some of the Confederate statues were put up long after the Civil War ended, by segregationists specifically to intimidate former slaves and their descendants.

@bijouxbroussard @melissa001 The statue of Edward Colston in Bristol has been the subject of a campaign for years and years, decades. I remember back in the 80s some musicians refusing to play Colston Hall in Bristol all as part of the campaign to have his "legacy" reevaluated. Sadly for hundreds of years we the privileged white have not responded to black concerns. We've dismissed it as "ages ago", "it's changed now", etc. etc. but it does matter to people who live their whole lives in a society that is institutionally set up to discriminate against them. If you don't do anything eventually they take things into their own hands.

Many years ago a wise man said to me - "Wherever you see violence or damage ask yourself what is the perceived injustice? You will always find one".