'This day an age it is wrong to be celebrating a slave owner and slave trader.' GoodMorningBritain
host shared his views on what happened, and compared it to the statue of Sir Winston Churchill, which was also vandalised during the marches this weekend.
‘You’re not going to bring anyone with you on any campaign and attempt to change for the better if you desecrate Sir Winston Churchill.Acknowledging that the former Prime Minister ‘wasn’t perfect’, the 55-year-old continued: ‘He said some racially inflammatory things, there is no question of that, but he saved the world and this country from Adolf Hitler, a Nazi, one of the worst racists in history.
‘He was using slave trade money to do it and time has moved on, history I’m afraid will judge him on the slave ownership and trading more than what he did for the community. ‘He was a slave owner and slave trader – it’s a big debate if you want the picture of Churchill being defaced as your image from the protest march it is going to annoy a lot of people in this country, it will detract from what you’re trying to achieve.’He added: ‘The Colston statue removal, I get that, I think you could have brought a lot of people with you on that. Many would have said, “yeah, this day and age it is wrong to be celebrating a slave owner and slave trader.
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