Dutch king retires the Golden Coach- symbol of colonialism

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Gloria Emeagwali

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Jan 14, 2022, 3:46:15 PM1/14/22
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Harrow, Kenneth

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Jan 16, 2022, 4:59:41 AM1/16/22
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there are different ways to think of monument to past figures/powers etc. one is to break them; another to hide them away, say in museums, confining them to the past,.
i would have no real problem with using graffiti. that preserves the protest in a way that is alive. i realize this is a "desecration" but that's the whole point: the values embodied in this chaise, carriage, are symbolic of an order that is to be overturned, including in its symbology
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Emeagwali, Gloria (History)

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Jan 16, 2022, 2:36:24 PM1/16/22
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What struck me most was that even the former
colonial powers recognize their culpability - whilst a few
die-hards who should definitely know better,  anachronistically
 try to exonerate them.




Professor Gloria Emeagwali
History Department, Central Connecticut State University
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Gloria Emeagwali's Documentaries
2014 Distinguished Research Excellence Award in African Studies
 University of Texas at Austin
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New York African Studies Association
 

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Harrow, Kenneth

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Jan 17, 2022, 4:40:47 PM1/17/22
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in france the apologists for colonialism constitute an important part of the rightwing of their political spectrum. i am not sure how that plays out in other former colonial powers. i suspect it is similar, but don't know.
in reversal, even during the colonial period, there were lots of anti-colonialist, like sartre say, who opposed the ideologies of colonialism.
we would have expected the left, led by the communists, to be systematically anticolonial, but stalin was too realpolitik for that. when the socialists came to power in france in the 30s, and continued the colonialist ideology, stalin backed away from supporting national liberation parties or even movement for rights of indigenous people to vote. it was on that issue that camus quit the communist party in algeria, having been betrayed by the soviet two-faced turnabout.
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Oluwatoyin Adepoju

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Jan 17, 2022, 4:41:01 PM1/17/22
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Not exoneration but insisting on the need for sensitivity to a complex situation.


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