The truth about the murderous extremist Sadiq Khan wants to put on a pedestal in Trafalgar Square and what it reveals about the monumental hypocrisy of the hard-left, by CALVIN ROBINSON
A year on since a hard-left mob undemocratically tore down the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol and the debate over who we choose to put on a pedestal is raging as furiously as ever.
So-called liberal progressive politicians have been fanning the flames to appease the woke crowds baying for statues to be torn down left, right and centre.
Leading the charge is London mayor Sadiq Khan, who has organised a committee dedicated to deciding which monuments should be toppled next.
So one might question why Mr Khan is so happy for a larger-than-life statue of a racist man who incited the murder of white people to take pride of place in the heart of his city.
The proposal by artist Samson Kambalu to put a sculpture of Baptist preacher John Chilembwe atop the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square should make even Black Lives Matter activists wince.
Leading the charge is London mayor Sadiq Khan, who has organised a committee dedicated to deciding which monuments should be toppled next
The proposal by artist Samson Kambalu is to put a sculpture of Baptist preacher John Chilembwe (left) atop the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square
Chilembwe is said to be ‘subversive’, because Africans were forbidden to wear hats before white people in 1914. But in truth, he was an extremist who attempted to organise an uprising against colonial rule.
He sent his anti-white followers with orders to ‘kill all European men’ and bring back the head of William Livingstone, a local plantation boss. (European women were not to be harmed – he may have been a murderous terrorist, but he was also quite the gentleman, it seems).
Livingstone was apparently still alive when Chilembwe’s followers burst through the door of his family bedroom and decapitated him with an axe – in front of his wife and two small children.
Chilembwe proceeded to conduct a sermon in church next to the severed head of Livingstone, impaled on a pole.
The double standards on display are staggering.
Colston founded and endowed schools, houses for the poor, hospitals and churches. Yet his statue was torn down due to his unsavoury involvement in the Atlantic slave trade.
Cecil Rhodes founded the oldest graduate scholarship and the most prestigious international scholarship in the world, promoting unity among English-speaking nations and contributing to the diversity of Oxford. Yet there are endless petitions for the removal of his statue at the university’s Oriel College.
A year on since a hard-left mob undemocratically tore down the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol (pictured) and the debate over who we choose to put on a pedestal is raging as furiously as ever
Chilembwe was a terrorist, inciter of murder and a charlatan, claiming to be a Christian while preaching next to the severed head of his sworn enemy, whom he’d ordered the beheading of. His statue will go on display next year, in the centre of our nation’s capital, for all to see.
Neither Colston nor Rhodes was perfect.
But looking at the bigger picture, they contributed to our society in a way that at least deserves a democratic conversation about whether their statues should remain or not. Chilembwe does not.
The eagerness from the hard-left to tear down Colston’s statue and petition the removal of Rhodes’s, yet remain tellingly silent on the topic of Chilembwe, tells us all we need to know about their motivations.
These people clearly don’t want to remove statues that may cause offence, nor do they want to remove statues of racist individuals from the past – they merely want to remove dead white men in their anti-white, anti-British agenda.
They attempt to destroy Western society and stoke tensions and division along the way – while pretending the ‘culture war’ is all in the minds of crazy right-wingers.
The evidence is there for all to see and their actions speak louder than words.
I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say the very soul of our nation is at stake. We must not let them win.
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