statues

Jun

France, Macron, racism, Reuters, statues

Reuters: Macron says France won’t remove statues, erase history

PEJOURNAL - French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday fighting racism should not lead to a “hateful” re-writing of history following worldwide protests over the killing of George Floyd, a black man, by a police officer in the United States. Some protesters in the United States and elsewhere have targeted statues of historic figures associated with slavery or other past human rights abuses. “I will be very clear tonight, compatriots: the Republic won’t erase any name from its history. It will forget none of its artworks, it won’t take down statues,” he said in a televised address to the nation.

CNN: Cathartic acts of rage, or the rewriting of history? How statues became political lightning rods

Jun

Black Lives Matter, Churchill, CNN, Colston, Columbus, george floyd, Leopold, statues

CNN: Cathartic acts of rage, or the rewriting of history? How statues became political lightning rods

PEJOURNAL - Statues are products of one era built to endure into others. They loom over streets and squares while the views of those who pass by change, from generation to generation. Most people, most of the time, are indifferent to these persons of stone and bronze. Not now.From Richmond, Virginia, to Bristol in England, statues of men who championed or traded in slavery centuries ago are being torn down. The soul-searching about race prompted by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has extended into how the history of racial persecution and prejudice is remembered. It is a heated…