Removing statues .. Do you end the history of racism and colonial times?

Removing statues .. Do you end the history of racism and colonial times?

The series of abuse in the memorial series continues during the demonstrations in various countries to demand the end of racial injustice after the killing of the African-American, George Georges Floyd, while he is in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25.

The killing of Floyd was followed by a global wave of anti-racist protests, and led to a campaign to remove statues that glorified warlords or symbolized racism.

While some say that these statues and symbols are nothing more than representations of historical and cultural eras, the protesters say that they depict their people as if they are heroes, but they are accused of committing crimes of murder, displacement and racism, some peoples still suffer from its consequences until now.

Authorities in countries experiencing such protests are trying to protect the statues or remove them "quietly", but removing them or protecting them for a period away from the eyes of angry demonstrators will not nullify a historical or cultural era whose effects collide every time a racist crime such as Floyd's murder is committed.

In Britain, London Mayor Sadiq Khan ordered workers to put the panels on the Winston Churchill statue in Parliament Square and a host of other monuments to protect them from damage ahead of another weekend of protests, the Daily Mail reported.

The statues symbolizing characters who participated in the "slave trade" or had a history with racism in a difficult situation, protesters brought down a statue of a 17th-century slave dealer, Edward Colston, in Bristol, Britain, last Sunday, during the protest "Black lives are important" after Floyd is killed.

The protesters hung a strand of the statue in the second row on Colston Street, before pulling it to the ground, while crowds chanted.

Protesters rolled the statue onto the street in an attempt to destroy the controversial statue in Britain, where the bronze statue, which was erected in 1895, is considered a focal point of the city's anger, especially as its owner was engaged in the slave trade.

In New Zealand, the Hamilton City Council removed a statue of a British naval captain after an indigenous man (Maori) demanded that he be forcibly overthrown.

In 2013, a local company awarded a statue of Captain John Hamilton to the city in the center of the North Island, which was named after him.

The British Guardian newspaper quoted Taitimo Maibei as saying he intended to remove the statue during a protest rally, Saturday.

He said that Hamilton's statue suggests as if he were a hero but he is "a deadly remnant."

Hamilton was a leader during the Battle of the "Gate Gate" in the wars of New Zealand in the 19th century, which was a series of bloody battles between Maori and the British government over the purchase of disputed territories and colonial occupation.

In the United States, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, called last Wednesday to remove 11 statues of military and officials symbolizing the Confederate era, as part of efforts to combat racism.

In a letter to a joint parliamentary committee, Pelosi, the leader of the Democrats in Congress, said that "the statues of men who called for brutality and barbarism to reach this explicit racist end constitute a hideous insult to the ideals of democracy and freedom."