All seems stupid to me - why rename streets? Who's is going to appease? Or will it make white do-gooders feel better about themselves and less 'guilty'? I hate all this denial of our past - Liverpool as a major city was built off the slave trade, so short of smashing up every one of our historic buildings we'd be better off just getting on with it.
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Yes the 'slave trade' was bad (just go and see the Maritime Museum's exhibition...), but it formed only a very small part of the world's history of slavery, involving all races both as slaves and traders. It happened, it still happens, and renaming streets isn't going to change that.
Why rename them after abolitionists? Why do the council feel the need to do this? Do they think it'll make history go away? Of course it won't! Some of these people need to grow some balls and stop faffing about.
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