Now they want to tear down Nelson’s Column! London landmark should be toppled in wake of US statues row as the legendary figure is dubbed a ‘white supremacist’

‘Nelson’s Column should be torn down because the 18th Century naval hero was a ‘white supremacist’, a writer and broadcaster has claimed.
Afua Hirsch, a journalist for Sky News, said it is time to ‘look at our own landscape’ following a number of campaigns to remove similar statues in the US.
She said the monument in London’s Trafalgar Square was a prime example of one which should be felled because Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson‎ defended slavery.‎ ‎
In an article for the Guardian, titled ‘Toppling statues? Here’s why Nelson’s Column should be next’, she argued that the ‘colonial and pro-slavery titans of British history’ should stop being ‘memorialised’.’
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