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............branding him a 'war criminal and white supremacist'
http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/campaigners-slam-bristol-store-lush-100880
Campaigners have slammed a window display in a Bristol store that quotes Winston Churchill’s words about a united Europe – not because they are demanding Brexit, but because they have branded Churchill a ‘war criminal and white supremacist’.
The cosmetics and toiletries store Lush in Broadmead has written a long quote by the wartime leader apparently in a direct statement about Brexit, but it has incurred the fury of the Bristol People of Colour Collective.
Their members went in to Lush to discuss the window display quote with them, and were told it was a national campaign – so are now lobbying the head office to have it removed.
The window display quotes Churchill’s speech to a packed crowd in Amsterdam in 1948. He told the Dutch people who hailed him as a hero: “We hope to see a Europe where men of every country will think of being a European as of belonging to their native land, and that without losing any of their love and loyalty of their birthplace.
“We hope that wherever they go in this wide domain, to which we set no limits in the European continent, they will truly feel, ‘Here I am at home. I am a citizen of this country too. Let us meet together. Let us work together. Let us do our utmost - all that is in us - for the good of all.’
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
“How simple it would all be, how crowned with blessings for all of us if that could ever come, especially for the children and young men and women now growing up in this tortured world. How proud we should all be if we had played any useful part in bringing that great day to come,” Churchill added.
That quote is currently printed on the window of Lush’s store in Broadmead, but there are objections from the People of Colour Collective, a campaign group set up in Bristol three years ago to ‘end the harmful and oppressive structures and attitudes that exist in society’.
“The fact that any brand, especially one that is rooted in ethics, can uphold Churchill or anything he’s said about unity when he was a war criminal, a white supremacist and responsible for literally millions of deaths is wild and we won’t stand for it!” said a spokesperson for the group.
Churchill has been consistently voted the ‘Greatest Ever Briton’ in polls, mainly carried out at the turn of the Millennium. The two-time Prime Minister led the country through World War Two, but before 1940 had something of a controversial career as a politician.
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In 1937, he told the Palestine Royal Commission: "I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia.
“I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place,” he added.
And there are several controversies about Churchill’s actions when he was a minister in the 1910s and 1920s – not least in Ireland, and when he advocated using mustard gas against the Kurds and Afghans in a series of imperial wars in the Middle East.
http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/campaigners-slam-bristol-store-lush-100880
Campaigners have slammed a window display in a Bristol store that quotes Winston Churchill’s words about a united Europe – not because they are demanding Brexit, but because they have branded Churchill a ‘war criminal and white supremacist’.
The cosmetics and toiletries store Lush in Broadmead has written a long quote by the wartime leader apparently in a direct statement about Brexit, but it has incurred the fury of the Bristol People of Colour Collective.
Their members went in to Lush to discuss the window display quote with them, and were told it was a national campaign – so are now lobbying the head office to have it removed.
The window display quotes Churchill’s speech to a packed crowd in Amsterdam in 1948. He told the Dutch people who hailed him as a hero: “We hope to see a Europe where men of every country will think of being a European as of belonging to their native land, and that without losing any of their love and loyalty of their birthplace.
“We hope that wherever they go in this wide domain, to which we set no limits in the European continent, they will truly feel, ‘Here I am at home. I am a citizen of this country too. Let us meet together. Let us work together. Let us do our utmost - all that is in us - for the good of all.’
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
“How simple it would all be, how crowned with blessings for all of us if that could ever come, especially for the children and young men and women now growing up in this tortured world. How proud we should all be if we had played any useful part in bringing that great day to come,” Churchill added.
That quote is currently printed on the window of Lush’s store in Broadmead, but there are objections from the People of Colour Collective, a campaign group set up in Bristol three years ago to ‘end the harmful and oppressive structures and attitudes that exist in society’.
“The fact that any brand, especially one that is rooted in ethics, can uphold Churchill or anything he’s said about unity when he was a war criminal, a white supremacist and responsible for literally millions of deaths is wild and we won’t stand for it!” said a spokesperson for the group.
Churchill has been consistently voted the ‘Greatest Ever Briton’ in polls, mainly carried out at the turn of the Millennium. The two-time Prime Minister led the country through World War Two, but before 1940 had something of a controversial career as a politician.
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In 1937, he told the Palestine Royal Commission: "I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia.
“I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place,” he added.
And there are several controversies about Churchill’s actions when he was a minister in the 1910s and 1920s – not least in Ireland, and when he advocated using mustard gas against the Kurds and Afghans in a series of imperial wars in the Middle East.
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Who funds this Bristol People of Colour Collective?
And would the Bristol White People Collective or something similar receive any funding ?
And would the Bristol White People Collective or something similar receive any funding ?
Bristol was considered 'too multicultural' to celebrate St George's Day in 2016.
Bristol City Council allowed the national day to pass without a single event for the patron saint, despite its history dating back to 1222.
Council chiefs said 91 different languages are spoken in the town and it would be "very difficult to commemorate them all". - Daily Express
Bristol City Council allowed the national day to pass without a single event for the patron saint, despite its history dating back to 1222.
Council chiefs said 91 different languages are spoken in the town and it would be "very difficult to commemorate them all". - Daily Express
Another story from last year:
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/aida-is-the-latest-victim-of-the-university-thought-police-a7350911.html
A student production of Aida is the latest victim of the university thought police – but it won't be the last
A student production of Aida has been cancelled after complaints from activists that white actors were likely to be cast in the leading roles – and this, they said, constituted “cultural appropriation”.
Music Theatre Bristol didn’t plan to stage Verdi’s original romantic opera, but the musical written by Elton John and Tim Rice. This version focuses on the forbidden love affair between Aida, a captured Nubian princess, and Radames, captain of the Egyptian guards.
Millie Evans, a Bristol University student, led complaints on social media, writing: “it’s quite simply [sic] really: if you are going to put on a production set in a particular place with a particular cultural context, then you need to reflect that with the ethnicity of actors… if this show is put on and white washed – ‘oh let’s just add a bit of eyeliner’ – then I think that’s disrespectful, dumb and embarrassing….look at Liz Taylor in Cleopatra!!!”
I wonder what Evans made of the sell-out production staged by the same student group last year, West Side Story? Did it have the requisite racial profiling to pass Millie’s Facebook litmus test?
Faced with complaints from other campus activists, the Bristol production of Aida has now been cancelled, which seems a shame. I went to the opening night of the musical in New York back in 2000 and since then it has been translated into 15 languages, delighting audiences from South Korea, Japan and Israel to Switzerland, Uruguay and China.
This Aida is not about black oppression or racism, it’s a simple love story which transcends borders and languages. But try telling that to the thought police at Bristol University.
Surely the point of theatre is to entertain and stimulate. Does Glenda Jackson playing King Lear or Maxine Peake starring as Hamlet constitute “sexual appropriation” – or is that somehow something different?
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The people running Music Theatre Bristol ought to toughen up and just stage their show, but they seem too lily-livered. There’s a worrying (and growing) movement in our universities which seeks to promote political correctness. Speakers have been “no-platformed”, denied the opportunity to present views which might (God forbid!) cause offence.
The whole notion of “cultural appropriation” is ludicrous. It started with black students in the US moaning about white people wearing dreadlocks, as if a hairstyle can only belong to one ethnic group. The Rolling Stones have just announced they are releasing a new album on 2 December consisting of cover versions of songs originally recorded by legendary bluesmen such as Howlin’ Wolf and Little Walter.
For half a century this bunch of white men have made millions of pounds playing the music of poverty stricken black artists, and who’s complaining? If that’s not cultural appropriation, I’m a taco. Will the students of Bristol University be banning Stones tracks from their parties?
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/aida-is-the-latest-victim-of-the-university-thought-police-a7350911.html
A student production of Aida is the latest victim of the university thought police – but it won't be the last
A student production of Aida has been cancelled after complaints from activists that white actors were likely to be cast in the leading roles – and this, they said, constituted “cultural appropriation”.
Music Theatre Bristol didn’t plan to stage Verdi’s original romantic opera, but the musical written by Elton John and Tim Rice. This version focuses on the forbidden love affair between Aida, a captured Nubian princess, and Radames, captain of the Egyptian guards.
Millie Evans, a Bristol University student, led complaints on social media, writing: “it’s quite simply [sic] really: if you are going to put on a production set in a particular place with a particular cultural context, then you need to reflect that with the ethnicity of actors… if this show is put on and white washed – ‘oh let’s just add a bit of eyeliner’ – then I think that’s disrespectful, dumb and embarrassing….look at Liz Taylor in Cleopatra!!!”
I wonder what Evans made of the sell-out production staged by the same student group last year, West Side Story? Did it have the requisite racial profiling to pass Millie’s Facebook litmus test?
Faced with complaints from other campus activists, the Bristol production of Aida has now been cancelled, which seems a shame. I went to the opening night of the musical in New York back in 2000 and since then it has been translated into 15 languages, delighting audiences from South Korea, Japan and Israel to Switzerland, Uruguay and China.
This Aida is not about black oppression or racism, it’s a simple love story which transcends borders and languages. But try telling that to the thought police at Bristol University.
Surely the point of theatre is to entertain and stimulate. Does Glenda Jackson playing King Lear or Maxine Peake starring as Hamlet constitute “sexual appropriation” – or is that somehow something different?
0:00
/
2:09
The people running Music Theatre Bristol ought to toughen up and just stage their show, but they seem too lily-livered. There’s a worrying (and growing) movement in our universities which seeks to promote political correctness. Speakers have been “no-platformed”, denied the opportunity to present views which might (God forbid!) cause offence.
The whole notion of “cultural appropriation” is ludicrous. It started with black students in the US moaning about white people wearing dreadlocks, as if a hairstyle can only belong to one ethnic group. The Rolling Stones have just announced they are releasing a new album on 2 December consisting of cover versions of songs originally recorded by legendary bluesmen such as Howlin’ Wolf and Little Walter.
For half a century this bunch of white men have made millions of pounds playing the music of poverty stricken black artists, and who’s complaining? If that’s not cultural appropriation, I’m a taco. Will the students of Bristol University be banning Stones tracks from their parties?
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