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Quand les statues se font déboulonner...

Is an equal future possible without re-examining the past? Following the death of George Floyd, protestors across the UK and the US have torn down statues of historical figures involved in slave trade and colonialism – such as, on this picture, Christopher Columbus. For protestors, this is a call to take a closer look at what history (and its monuments) aim to glorify. In the UK, their plea was heard. Cities such as London, Birmingham or Manchester have pledged to remove statues and street names containing any links to slavery, and to replace them with monuments which, according to Manchester’s councillor Luthfur Rathman, offer a better representation of the “shared story of our multicultural and diverse city”.

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