Martin Luther King Jr said that a riot is “the language of the unheard”, and his sentiment applies to all sorts of unlawful political action, including the toppling of statues.
Interestingly, in 2019, Labour’s vote share among BAME groups was considerably larger than any overall general election consensus in recent years; despite the Tories gaining the highest GE vote share of any political party since 1979, they still only earned a relatively paltry 43.6% of votes. In 2019, as, everyone else decided to vote in a way that allowed a man with a long history of making anti-Black comments to become Prime Minister.
Calls to respect the ‘democratic process’ also ignore that it has achieved very little, as far as Colston’s legacy is concerned. In 2018-19, a year-long back and forth between different counsellors, MPs and other political figures over the wording on a plaque intended to reveal Colston’s links to the slave tradeI am reminded of the recently freed black Jamaicans in Jean Rhys’, who burn down the childhood home of the novel’s main character Antoinette.
Such action is necessary for societies where both democratic mechanisms and demographic realities neuter the political hopes of minorities. If slavery and colonialism were once lawful, how can politicians be so sure in their condemnation of lawlessness? More importantly, how can we trust politicians to make the distinction?
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