Time town car park name was changed

In Medway we have a car park between the railway station and the bus station in a central position of Chatham, the John Hawkins car park, named for one of the earliest and successful of British slave traders.

He was responsible for transporting more than 80,000 people in chains from West Africa to the Caribbean. Many of them died on the way and those remaining were sold into slavery.

It seems to me obnoxious in the

21st century we still show how we venerate this slave trader by keeping his name enshrined in such a central position. We should take his name off the car park and simply call it by its geographic name: Waterfront car park.

Calls are being made for the John Hawkins car park to be renamed