silveth:

afaithforgotten:

“I fucking love this photo. Where stood the statue of a slaver, stands the raised fist of a proud black man. Share it wide.

Bristol isn’t erasing history. They are making it.

How shameful it would be to have to tell your kids and grandkids that - when this happened - when the greatest movement for civil rights swept the world and tore down idols to slavery and inequality and made Western society a better place at last - you stood against it.

Finding #AllLivesMatter on someone’s old facebook wall will be like finding Nazi memorabilia in a dead relatives attic.”

- Taken in Bristol, United Kingdom

[Image description: A black man kneels with his fist in the air on the now-empty plinth of the statue of 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston that was pulled down and dumped into the harbor in Bristol on June 7, 2020. The plinth is surrounded by circles of protest signs laid on the ground.]