The statues teach us about our past, with all its faults.”Well, to be blunt, Britain has been erasing, airbrushing, glossing up the past for decades. Boris Johnson also said: “The statues teach us about our past.” Really? But, unfortunately, the pretense of an altruistic past has been maintained with such vigour that the real “sordid” past is lost. Admit the past, teach the truthBoris Johnson also observed in his tweet that tearing down the statues would be to lie about history and diminish education for future generations. Admit that the imperial past involved acts which are abhorrent and undermined human dignity.

Source: Dhaka Tribune June 14, 2020 14:15 UTC