Jun 10, 2020
The Museum of London said that the statue of Robert Milligan, a Scottish slave trader and merchant who by the time of his death owned two sugar plantations and 526 slaves in Jamaica, had "stood uncomfortably" outside its east London premises, for a long time.
#Incredible progress#in dealing more honestly with our colonial past#it is SO improtant to have these public conversations#abotu what really happened#these people built our cities and made our countries rich#but they ruined lives#killed people#destroyed societies#and we need to acknowledge that we are profiting from that#and others are still suffering because of that#even if we are not technically responsible#it's a lie that we built our coutnreis ourselves#people in africa#in asia#across the world#have suffered#and are suffering because of that#looking that in the eye is essential