New Posts For Thread: Cecil Rhodes Statue next on the list for this afternoonhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31650473/cecil-rhodes-statue-next-on-the-list-for-this-afternoonThe mob going out today in Oxford.Think the existentialists argue that charity is simply self indulgence.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31650473/cecil-rhodes-statue-next-on-the-list-for-this-afternoon?post_id=559428063#559428063Think the existentialists argue that charity is simply self indulgence.Tue, 09 Jun 2020 13:49:08 -0500You don't need to donate cash on condition your name is plastered all over the placehttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31650473/cecil-rhodes-statue-next-on-the-list-for-this-afternoon?post_id=559428009#559428009You don't need to donate cash on condition your name is plastered all over the placeTue, 09 Jun 2020 13:39:54 -0500Most blacks living here came from the Caribbean. Not hard to work out their ancestry. Sadly they’re too fick to realise they have unwittingly benefitted from the slave trade by being able to live in GB. That doesn’t excuse the slave trade but likhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31650473/cecil-rhodes-statue-next-on-the-list-for-this-afternoon?post_id=559427891#559427891Most blacks living here came from the Caribbean. Not hard to work out their ancestry. Sadly they’re too fick to realise they have unwittingly benefitted from the slave trade by being able to live in GB. That doesn’t excuse the slave trade but likTue, 09 Jun 2020 13:15:16 -0500All this tosh about the virtue of philanthropy.They had so much of it off the back's of other's suffering they hardly knew what to do with it.If they could they'd have taken it with them.Just because they bequeathed it doesn't absolve them.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31650473/cecil-rhodes-statue-next-on-the-list-for-this-afternoon?post_id=559427793#559427793All this tosh about the virtue of philanthropy.They had so much of it off the back's of other's suffering they hardly knew what to do with it.If they could they'd have taken it with them.Just because they bequeathed it doesn't absolve them.Tue, 09 Jun 2020 12:57:22 -0500indeed if Councillors/Mayors etc stand on cleansing history from our cities and get voted in by the public then let them do their cleansing.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31650473/cecil-rhodes-statue-next-on-the-list-for-this-afternoon?post_id=559427781#559427781indeed if Councillors/Mayors etc stand on cleansing history from our cities and get voted in by the public then let them do their cleansing.Tue, 09 Jun 2020 12:55:53 -0500macarony • June 9, 2020 6:08 PM BSTNo they will still want the money The irony.Just wait until they get their act together and realise there are still members in the HOC from lines of slave owners/sugar lobbists and those who lent money to the govehttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31650473/cecil-rhodes-statue-next-on-the-list-for-this-afternoon?post_id=559427697#559427697macarony • June 9, 2020 6:08 PM BSTNo they will still want the money The irony.Just wait until they get their act together and realise there are still members in the HOC from lines of slave owners/sugar lobbists and those who lent money to the goveTue, 09 Jun 2020 12:37:37 -0500All them threads you started are workingHands off Churchill though.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31650473/cecil-rhodes-statue-next-on-the-list-for-this-afternoon?post_id=559427677#559427677All them threads you started are workingHands off Churchill though.Tue, 09 Jun 2020 12:30:26 -0500Democracy in actionBeautifulhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31650473/cecil-rhodes-statue-next-on-the-list-for-this-afternoon?post_id=559427673#559427673Democracy in actionBeautifulTue, 09 Jun 2020 12:29:26 -0500A public square in Plymouth named after the 16th-century slave trader Sir John Hawkins is to be renamed, the city council has said.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31650473/cecil-rhodes-statue-next-on-the-list-for-this-afternoon?post_id=559427665#559427665A public square in Plymouth named after the 16th-century slave trader Sir John Hawkins is to be renamed, the city council has said.Tue, 09 Jun 2020 12:28:15 -0500The University of Liverpool has agreed to rename one of its halls of residence after a group of students called on it to remove former prime minister William Gladstone’s name due to “his views on slavery”https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/31650473/cecil-rhodes-statue-next-on-the-list-for-this-afternoon?post_id=559427657#559427657The University of Liverpool has agreed to rename one of its halls of residence after a group of students called on it to remove former prime minister William Gladstone’s name due to “his views on slavery”Tue, 09 Jun 2020 12:27:26 -0500