Derby to stop taking the knee.....

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Yes they probably were poster boys of their generation. I don't recall "history" judging them, but rather BLM protesters were judge, jury and executioner. I didn't care for the verdict as it was not arrived at in any reasonable way, but rather by mob rule.

I’ll stick with answering you GP because you have at least have not tried to deflect.
I’ll agree that the ultimate action looked like ‘mob rule’...but let’s consider a few more facts.
For years historians, campaigners and members of Bristol’s black community had been lobbying for the statue to be removed.
In 2017 those that owned Colston Hall declared that they were planning to change the name. The same was true of Colston Primary School and the Colston Yard Pub.
Yet still the statue of Colston remained in a city described as ‘wilfully blind to its history’.

Is it any wonder then that, fuelled by the anger of what is still happening to black people in the USA, this symbol of oppression and wrongdoing was toppled in the way it was? No one had listened to the requests for a statue to a man whose activities had led to the enslavement of 84,000 and deaths of up to 20,000 black people to be removed.