Michael Coren is a newly minted priest in the Anglican Church of Canada. He is supporting the current fad of tearing down statues of people who did not live up to contemporary standards of what is acceptable or not acceptable. I’m not using “right” or “wrong” in case it triggers someone.
Naturally, this amounts to whether the person was a racist or a slave trader. Hence we have Coren’s article applauding the casting of Edward Colston’s effigy into the the sea. I confess, although I am indifferent as to whether Edward Colston spends quality time with the fishes, I am uneasy of the impulse to expunge the parts of history that don’t live up to the expectations of contemporary mores.
Still, back to the headline. The Anglican Church of Canada has admitted that it is riddled with systemic racism. Michal Coren has joined the ACoC. That means he is, at the very least, drawn to a racist organisation; he is simpatico with it – it’s no good, I can’t bring myself to call it a church.
And to think he might have joined ANiC. Good riddance Michael Coren
From here:
Good riddance Edward Colston
Bristol, Liverpool and London were the three main slave ports of Britain in the 18th and early 19th century. It was an inconceivably lucrative business, and financial failure was virtually impossible. Ships sailed off to Africa, loaded up on human cargo, exchanged men, women and children in the West Indies for sugar or in America for cash and goods, and then returned home to sell what they had. Countless people made fortunes, and if slaves died on the voyage—and many did—there were plenty more to steal. And rape, beat and torture.
One of those profiteers was Bristol’s Edward Colston, who in the late 1600s as a prominent member of the Royal African Company transported more than 80,000 people, making what today would be tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars. He was also a moneylender. When he died in 1721 he left a substantial amount to local charities, perhaps out of a guilty conscience. There were oceans of blood on his hands.
It was the statue of this man that was torn down and thrown into the harbour last week in Bristol, and became a pulsating image throughout the world as those protesting against racial inequality had their long overdue say. Ten thousand people demonstrated in the western city of Bristol in a peaceful show of defiance, and when they disposed of the repugnant Colston the local police not only refused to intervene but also explained that they understood.
Next: John A McDonald.
Shows that it is still true that self righteousness is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. Most of us had never heard of Colston, but the mob want to demonstrate that they aren’t like him: They are far superior.
BTW, Sir John A is already gone from Victoria.
Yes and who are todays Colstons? Those who promote the death of children in the womb perhaps; those who undermine the gender identity of children perhaps; those who promote homosexual values perhaps? What goes around comes around.;
Although I will never condone the wanton destruction of public property or willful vandalism, the truth is that this statue has been asked by polite Bristol society to be removed from public view for nearly 30 years. True that Colston gave away a lot of the money he made from the profits he made selling nearly 100 thousand human beings into servitude during the 17th century but nevertheless, the truth is, he was a slave trader. For those who never heard of Colston until this “mob” tore it down just tells me how unaware you are of British colonial history and the history of the slave trade. I cannot celebrate in your ignorance..To those who want to deflect to the abortion issue… well, okay whatever, do your thing.. Peaceful, thoughtful, respectful people for nearly 3 decades had asked that this statue to be taken down because of the offense it caused Bristol’s nearly 60,000 citizens of African origins plus many more who are not of African origins were ignored. The murder of George Floyd gave the “less” polite people the motivation and the will to remove something the good citizens of Bristol perhaps should have done years ago
I suggest the statue has done what was asked of it for all those years. Polite Bristol society does indeed appear to have been removed from public view.
Although I will never condone the wanton destruction of public property or willful vandalism, the truth is that this statue has been asked by polite Bristol society to be removed from public view for nearly 30 years. True that Colston gave away a lot of the money he made from the profits he made selling nearly 100 thousand human beings into servitude during the 17th century but nevertheless, the truth is, he was a slave trader. For those who never heard of Colston until this “mob” tore it down just tells me how unaware you are of British colonial history and the history of the slave trade. I cannot celebrate in your ignorance..To those who want to deflect to the abortion issue… well, okay whatever, do your thing.. Peaceful, thoughtful, respectful people for over 3 decades had asked that this statue to be taken down because of the offense it caused Bristol’s nearly 60,000 citizens of African origins plus many more who are not of African origins where ignored. The murder of George Floyd gave the “less” polite people motivation to tear it down.
Surely the people who have a right to decide whether this or that statue should be installed, removed or replaced are the people who are there, who know the history, and who have skin in the game – perhaps both literally and figuratively.
As one who is well aware of British colonial history and the slave trade, I ask Mr. Hansen what he has done to help alleviate the plight of millions of men, women and children in slavery today. That is the reality Mr. Hansen. It is current. It is real flesh and real blood and real suffering. You can rationalize about a mob in Bristol vandalizing a 125 year old bronze likeness of a slave-trader 300 years dead, or you do much more, and now.
Many, many years ago, someone in my Sunday School told me that Noah had three sons – one white, one brown, and one black. I believed this story because I was only five or six years old.
A very good story!
History cannot be rewritten. Some history should not be repeated.
What will be the fate of ‘Amazing Grace’ when the Globalist Revisionists actually open a hymn book?