Submitted on Thursday 11th June 2020
Rejected on Monday 22nd June 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Remove all Statues of Slave Traders in the UK
Statues do not teach history. Statues - quite literally - place figures on pedestals. To place a historical figure on a pedestal is to portray them as heroes - as people worthy of respect. For slave traders, this is simply not the case.
The UK must not shy from our colonial history. We cannot forget the atrocities commited; we cannot forget the role we played in the slave trade. However, we must stop placing slave traders in positions which portary them as worthy of respect.
A similar petition received over 100,000 signatures on change.org. I hope that it can gain some traction on here too.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Encourage and support the removal of memorials that glorify the slave trade: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325449
Create an advisory board to review public statues and decide on their removal: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/325673
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