Thousands of protestors demonstrated across the UK following the painful death of George Floyd, a black American , at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer in the prime area of downtown on 25 May 2020. This disgraceful incident had world wide repercussion and caused revulsion among millions of people watching TV visuals. There were protests across the US cities and also in England which used Slave Trade as a money spinning business in the early centuries. In the following months the enraged people in the US wanted the statues of Confederate generals removed and in England people targeted numerous statues of slave traders like 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol, Robert Milligan, East London and former PM William Gladstone whose family owned slaves in the Caribbean. The latter's statue was not yet defaced. There are countless statues of slave traders and officers linked with colonialism and soon, I believe, they will be shifted to the near-by museums, unfit to be on display in public places in this modern era.
Former PM of Britain Winston Churchill:
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| .Winston Churchill's statue thesun.co.uk/news |
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| Graffiti on Churchill's statue., a sworn racist.thesun.co.uk/news/ |
Above images: Top - The is the statue of Winston Churchill located in Woodford Green in northeast London, - the second one defaced in June 2020 as part of Black lives matter campaign that became a global protest. The statue was covered in graffiti. This commemorative statue erected in 1959 after Churchill served as MP for the area from 1924 to 1964 became a target in June 2020 and had several messages sprayed onto the base. Surprisingly the world-famous memorial was defaced with letters ACAB - which is believed to stand for 'All Cops Are B******s'
Above images: Bottom - On 6 June in the same year another statue of Churchill was targeted in Parliament Square London; the statue was defaced, with the words (Churchill) “was a racist” written on it’s base. To many Asians, blacks and liberal white people this statue is a symbol of colonial exploitation using race as a ruse and had to be knocked off the pedestal.
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Gov. George Wallace (USA) :
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| Gov. George Wallace, Alabama, USA en.wikipedia.org |
Above image: Gov. George Wallace (USA) (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) took the oath of office on 14 January 1963, standing on the gold star marking the spot where, nearly 102 years earlier, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as provisional president of the Confederate States of America (slave states). Unsuccessfully each time Wallace opposed desegregation and supported the policies of "Jim Crow" during the Civil Rights Movement. In his inaugural speech, Wallace said, ''In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.'' ( his sentence had been written by Wallace's new speechwriter, Ku Klux Klan leader Asa Earl Carter). ...................
In the 1960s Gov. Wallace, a sworn racist and segregationist was against higher education to black Americans. As an American politician he served as the 45th governor of Alabama for four terms. He made no compromise on Jim crow laws and and sought to stop the racial integration of the University of Alabama at any cost. He stood in front of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963 and prevented the entry of black students enrolled at the university, blocking their path.
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| George Wallace at the U of Alabama, Birmingham, USA |
Above image: Racist Wallace standing against desegregation while being confronted by U.S. Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach at the University of Alabama in 1963.......................
This became known as the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door". He was highly critical of racial integration and voting rights to Black Americans and his preoccupation with race was based on his belief that black Americans comprised a separate and inferior race. In a 1963 letter to a social studies teacher, Wallace stated they were inclined to criminality – especially "atrocious acts ... such as rape, assault and murder" – because of a high incidence of venereal disease. Desegregation, he wrote, would lead to "intermarriage ... and eventually our race will be detreated (sic) to that of the mongrel complexity."
In September 1963, again defiant Wallace attempted to stop four black students from enrolling in four separate elementary schools in Huntsville, Alabama. After intervention by a federal court in Birmingham, the four children were allowed to enter on September 9, becoming the first to integrate a primary or secondary school in the southern state of Alabama.
Wallace desperately wanted to preserve segregation, a legacy of confederate ideology. In his own words: "The President [John F. Kennedy] wants us to surrender this state to Martin Luther King and his group of pro-Communists who have instituted these demonstrations.'
The University of Alabama at Birmingham removed his name - George C Wallace four-term governor and presidential candidate from a campus building, over his support of racial segregation. A UAB building named after Wallace in 1975 was later changed to simply the Physical Education Building
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Wallace
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Enoch Powell , British Politician and MP:
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| British politician and a racist. Enoch Powell theguardian.com |
Above image: British Politician and MP Enoch Powell - On April 20, 1968, Enoch Powell, a leading member of the Conservative Party in the British parliament, made a provocative speech that would i divide the nation with its racist, incendiary rhetoric. Speaking before a group of conservative activists, Powell said that if immigration to Britain from the country’s former colonies continued, a violent clash between white and black communities was inevitable. “As I look ahead,” Powell said, “I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see ‘the River Tiber foaming with much blood,'' an allusion to a line in Virgil’s Aeneid. He maintained that it would not be enough to close Britain’s borders—some of the immigrants already settled in the country would need to be sent “home.” If not, he declared, attributing a quote to one of his constituents, “in this country, in 15 or 20 years’ time, the black man will have the whip hand over the white man.
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| 968 Enoch Powell' provocative speech on racism. theguardian.com |
Reactions to the 1968 Race Relations Bill, which Powell's speech was aimed against, were considered "a turning point from biological racist discourses to cultural racist discourses", with Powell being the chief articulator of this "new racism" in British politics
The Times said in April 1968, following the speech:
''The language, the innuendoes, the constant appeals to self-pity, the anecdotes, all combine to make a deliberate appeal to racial prejudice. This is the first time a serious British politician has appealed to racial hatred, in this direct way, in our postwar history. It occurred within a couple of weeks of the murder of Martin Luther King and the burning in many American cities. It is almost unbelievable that any man should be so irresponsible as to promote hatred in the face of these examples of the results that can follow''
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_UK_Conservative_Party#Winston_Churchill
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Eugene Bull Connor, US politician and segregationist:
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| Racist Bull Connor of Alabama USA reallifevillains.miraheze.org |
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| US politician and super miscasts Eugene Bull Connor |
''The indelible impression of Birmingham as a symbol of racism and police brutality was chiseled into history under the leadership of 'Theophilus 'Eugene “Bull” Connor, who served more than two decades as the city’s commissioner of public safety.''........ ''But police abuse of Blacks was not limited to protestors and activists. Jim Crow laws more than authorized police to step way over the line of civility''..
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| 1963 Birmingham Police Chief Eugene “Bull” Conner Pinterest |
The entire US was shocked with repugnance to see on national TV visuals of violence let lose against the black Americans who wanted voting rights. Bull Connor was a psychopath and went to the extend of directing high-pressure fire hoses against the civil right activists including children. The force of water was such that it could rip open the thick bark of trees. Not content with fire hose, he asked the police to set the attack dogs against civil rights activists. The outrages impacted the southern states and the backlash led to major social and legal changes in the Southern United States. It contributed to passage by the United States Congress of the Civil Rights Act of 1964......................
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| Attack dog and Bull Connor of Alabama. istockphoto.com |
Above image: To men like Bull Connor of Birmingham, Alabama setting the attack dogs against innocent black or colored people is a symbol of valor and wisdom. Chances are that these people, if threatened with ferocious attack dogs, next time they will think twice to get involved in protest.
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| Attack dogs against Civil rights activities 1963 .econospeak.blogspot.com |
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| Jim crow laws in Southern USAslideserve.com/ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Connor
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Sir Charles Tegart, Notorious British India police officer:
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| Police officer of Calcutta Charles tegart. artuk.org/ |
Above image: Sir Charles Augustus Tegart KCIE KPM (1881 – 6 April 1946) was a British colonial police officer (of Irish decent) in India and Mandatory Palestine (a geopolitical entity as part of partition of the Ottoman Empire in the region of Palestine under the terms of British mandate for Palestine) and had a name for instilling fear among the Indian natives. He was more known for his notoriety for his brutality and use of torture in dealing with victims than for his integrity in his official work. He was known to be ruthless and "uncompromising with detainees". His expertise in torture and brute forces was at full display in the later part of 1930s when he was with the British Mandate of Palestine. Simply speaking, he was a ruthless a Devil in Police Uniform
Charles Augustus Tegart, was the most famous policeman of British India for his tactics against the revolutionaries in Bengal but a hated villain to Indian nationalists for his intelligence work against their cause. Tegart joined the newly-established intelligence branch of the Bengal police that tracked lots of revolutionaries and led to large-scale detentions and deportations of suspected terrorists under the 1915 Defiance Act of India Act. In 1917 Tegart served as one of the principal advisors to the Rowlatt Committee, which was investigating ‘revolutionary crime’ in India. He took the credit of being the first officer of the Indian Police (IP) and on his recommendation, the Special Branch was created to deal with hard core criminals, revolutionaries, etc.
That Tegart is said to have survived six assassination attempts in India is a tell-tale story of his notoriety and repressive brutality in dealing with natives and their demand for freedom. Undeterred by several attempts on his life, not withstanding danger to his life, he had the audacity and guts to drive around in an open-top car with his Staffordshire Bull Terrier riding on the bonnet as if the critter was his main body guard. He was awarded the KCIE in 1937 and Lord Lytton, then Governor of Bengal was in full-praise of him for his serious efforts to curb freedom activities. He became the Superintendent of Police in 1908, and received the King's Police Medal in 1911. Through devotion to duty and ruthless dealing with revolutionaries, he earned the ire of Indian natives who wanted the British to leave the Indian soil for good.
Though he was not a racist, he was known to have treated Indian natives, particularly, freedom fighters in a shabby manner. To him mercy to the nationalist who wanted free India was an anathema.......
https://navrangindia.blogspot.com/2018/07/sir-charles-tegart-notorious-colonial.html
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British Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, Mass murderer:
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| Butcher of Amritsar, Col. Reginald Dyer of British India army.alamyimages. |
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| Mass murderer Reginald Dyer of British India army.slideplayer.com |
The British Army officer Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer, CB (9 October 1864 – 23 July 1927) was the one who have a fillip to India's freedom struggle. A psychopath and racist as a temporary brigadier-genera he along with Punjab Governor Michel O Dwyer ICS was responsible for the unjustified mass murder at Jallianwala Bagh on 13 April 1919 in Amritsar (in the province of Punjab). Indian history books refer to him as "the Butcher of Amritsar" because because after careful planning and and closing all the gates in the bagh except one he had his troops open fire on a large crowd of roughly 15000 to 20000 people without any prior warning. It was a Sikh religious function of Baisahi at the park (bagh0 and Dyer asked his troops to keep shooting at the thickest crowd until they ran out of bullets. of his order to fire on a peaceful crowd. Though the official report said only 379 people died and more than 1000 injured, the unofficial casualty was more than 1000, many of them were bled to death without any medical aid or any ambulance service. When the victims fell on the ground like 9 pins in the bowling alley, Dyer was looking at them with glee. A notorious racist and a criminal in military uniform. Though he was given simple punishment by removing him from the military, he became a celebrated hero back in England. The English news paper and some ladies awarded him with a purse of 25000 pounds for his patriotic duty of saving British nun in Amritsar. This massacre was a turning point in Indian history and a death knell was already tolled leading to India's freedom from the oppressive British rule.. As of today neither the British Government nor the royal family member, particularly the queen never came up with an official apology for the atrocities done during their colonial rule in India .....................
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Dyer
https://navrangindia.blogspot.com/2018/02/murderous-gen-reginald-dyer-s-final.html
