Do statues tell us anything about history?

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sCMy6t5Cf8]

IMO this video is excellent. There is nothing good to gain by commemorating people who benefitted from historic racism.

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SmartKat · 56-60, F

The same people who cheered back in 89 and 90 when the Berlin Wall came down, and people were pulling down statues of Lenin....are upset when people in 2020 take down statues of Confederates. 🤔

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@SmartKat Lennin just wasn't part of the team Kat.

GOOOOOO TEAM 💪

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Kwek00 GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Kanaries!

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@Burnley123 Haven't lost since march.

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO CANARIES 🐣

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Kwek00 [quote] Haven't lost since march.[/quote]

Silver linings, eh? 😂👍

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@Burnley123 Best non-loosing streak since the summer-stop from 2019 man

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Kwek00 A team that never loses until it has to go on the pitch. 🤗

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@Burnley123 It's the canarie-way my boy 👬

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Kwek00 It was the Burnley way when I was growing up and I've seen us lose to so many lower-league teams in tiny crappy grounds. We are about as good as a club our size could be in English football right now so I'll enjoy it while it lasts.

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@Burnley123 There were years Burnley, that COVID-19 lock down in MArch, could have saved the canaries from downgrading.

This year however, we were already saved. 🤨
When it rains 🤷‍♂️

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@Kwek00 Just found out about the King Leopold statue coming down. Your thoughts?

Kwek00 · 41-45, M

@Burnley123 Don't know what you read. But the Brussels governement [i](yes, they have a governement... I know, it's crazy) [/i] decided to remove as much colonial imagery from their territory as possible.

I don't know how they are going to do that exactly. I think if Brussels was going to be really free of colonial imagery, there wouldn't be much left of Brussels. Since a lot of it was build by king Leopold 2, who had 2 nicknames: "The Butcher of Congo" and "The Architect". That last nickname, kinda points out how important he is for the cities where he pumped money in. His entire idea was to build Belgium up to a "great nation" by creating extravagant architecture [i](and do we have that in Brussels and others parts he loved)[/i] so he could show off to other nations. It was a prestige thing for him.

But you can get rid of the leopold 2 statues, getting rid of the buildings, squares, arcs, ... well, that would be kinda bizar. And if they get rid of it, lets hope they don't do it like they did in this youtube video. Just take them to the Congo Museum (als Leopolds work btw) in Tervuren, there is a nice garden there, where you can place all these things in, and put land marks that explain the context of these images. So that people can go watch them there, and get some context.

Not like my youth, where our history kinda skipped Leopold 2, and didn't really talk about Leopold 3 either. So we spend more time talking about great Albert 1 was, because he was a war hero.