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Right. both in the us and the uk. we ve seen confederate monuments in the us being taken down, nearly 100 there, and also in the uk, local authorities looking at statues of people who. ..you know, colonialists who were responsible for heinous acts towards native people, and that kind of thing. where do you stand on that? because there are prominent african britons such as kwasi kwarteng, who was the first black chancellor of the exchequer who says, i don t think you can just rip down statues, that s illegal and an act of vandalism. people should learn more about the empire. do you think he has a point? well, i don t quite agree with his point. and i think there s a way in which, of course, you know, what happened in bristol was something which had been a community debate for over three decades. that s the statue of colston, who had made a great deal of money from the slave trade, ....
Local authorities looking at statues of people who. ..you know, colonialists who were responsible for heinous acts towards native people, and that kind of thing. where do you stand on that? because there are prominent african britons such as kwasi kwarteng, who was the first black chancellor of the exchequer who says, i don t think you can just rip down statues, that s illegal and an act of vandalism. people should learn more about the empire. do you think he has a point? well, i don t quite agree with his point. and i think there s a way in which, of course, you know, what happened in bristol was something which had been a community debate for over three decades. that s the statue of colston, who had made a great deal of money from the slave trade, brought down in bristol. precisely. and i think, in a way, kind of, like, out of the spirit of black lives matter, that event occurred and, in a way, it did create ....
Right. both in the us and the uk. we ve seen confederate monuments in the us being taken down, nearly 100 there, and also in the uk, local authorities looking at statues of people who. ..you know, colonialists who were responsible for heinous acts towards native people, and that kind of thing. where do you stand on that? because there are prominent african britons such as kwasi kwarteng, who was the first black chancellor of the exchequer who says, i don t think you can just rip down statues, that s illegal and an act of vandalism. people should learn more about the empire. do you think he has a point? well, i don t quite agree with his point. and i think there s a way in which, of course, you know, what happened in bristol was something which had been a community debate for over three decades. that s the statue of colston, who had made a great deal of money from the slave trade, ....