Ok what I loved about this is the ease with which someone can look up at their pub and go "yeah that IS pretty racist and needs fixing" and then instead of doing this whole drama about it, they...
A pub named after 17th Century slave trader Edward Colston has covered over its sign amid plans for a name change.
The Colston Arms in Kingsdown, Bristol, has hung up a temporary banner calling it "Ye olde Pubby Mcdrunkface" and asked people to suggest new names.
The sign outside the pub reads "We are listening. Black Lives Matter."
"It's not me that's keen to make the name change, I just want to make sure the debate happens," he said. "The point I'm making is that it's not my voice that needs to be heard. I'm a white middle aged man, it's the people, the community around Bristol."
Ok what I loved about this is the ease with which someone can look up at their pub and go "yeah that IS pretty racist and needs fixing" and then instead of doing this whole drama about it, they just print out a banner and have some fun with it. Letting the separation from a racist past be about renewal and positivity instead of a conflict between those who acknowledge that past, and those who pretend it doesn't matter.
Ok what I loved about this is the ease with which someone can look up at their pub and go "yeah that IS pretty racist and needs fixing" and then instead of doing this whole drama about it, they just print out a banner and have some fun with it. Letting the separation from a racist past be about renewal and positivity instead of a conflict between those who acknowledge that past, and those who pretend it doesn't matter.