Beckford & Cass Guildhall Slaver Statues To Go But City Still Failing On Diversity
The results of the City of London’s Historic Landmarks Consultation are in and they are exactly the PR farce we predicted when we wrote about it back in September 2020, concluding: Our guess is the City of London will remove the Cass and Beckford statues from the Guildhall in a miserable attempt at appearing enlightened but it will fail to make more meaningful changes that would lessen the grip on power of middle-aged white men at this local authority. While we’d like to see the Cass and Beckford statues removed, it’s clear that abolishing the business vote would have a much more beneficial effect in terms of inclusion and diversity. Memorials may be the most visible aspect of institutional racism but our anti-racist work does not stop with their removal, it must go on to utterly transform both institutionally racist organisations – such as the City of London council – and the world.
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