The words of the niche
On May 25th, the African -American man Freud was killed by the police over -lawful law enforcement, which set off a citizenship with anti -racial discrimination and extended from the United States to Europe.When people start to consider racial problems, they have to trace history, so there is a new wave of thought that criticizes the history of colonial history.
In the United States these days, the statue of the navigator Columbus in the New World in the Americas was pushed down; in the UK, the statue of the charity Kolston was pushed into the river;Siege.
Why are their statues be pushed down?
Perhaps because the statue and monument lies in strengthening a great image, but simplify history.May wish to ask why you discovered the New World?Where does this impression come from?The Americas existed, and there were ancient civilizations such as Ma Ya, Aboriginal people and kingdoms in various places.The achievements of Columbus opened the sailing era and wrote the programs of European imperialism and colonialism.At the beginning of the last century, the United States began to celebrate Columbus, and now the controversy is getting bigger and bigger, because it is the starting point of historical pain for the original residents of Indians.
Then Kelston, at the end of the 17th century, he was engaged in slave trading. In recent years, Britain has discussed his historical positioning.The local concert hall and school named after his name have also been replaced in the past few years.As for Lionpad II, it was originally notorious. At the end of the 19th century, the Congo was persecuted by the people under his horror colonial rule.
No one is absolutely lofty or absolutely evil. When reviewing history, positive and negative evaluations are tied to make history more three -dimensional and comprehensive.Who doesn't know about this?
Maybe those who push the statue are too irrational. Is this practice too politically correct and burst?But I believe that this is the outbreak of emotions caused by the lateness of justice; and the death of Freud stimulated many people's sense of urgency for historical justice during the crisis crisis.
The symbolic significance of overturning statues and destroying monuments is greater than practical significance. How can we reconcile with history?It is necessary to communicate and educate extensively, perhaps the opportunity to change now.If you are worried that politics is too correct and avoids the problem, you may be more unsolvable.Conversely, it is not enough to cater to the trend.
Earlier this year, the British poet Roger Middot; Robinson, who won the Eli Poetry Award with a portable kingdom (temporarily translated), was talked about the history of the ethnic history when he was interviewed by the British Guardian.The Caribbean Chinese poet said: If you look back at the history of blacks and ethnic minorities who have experienced colonialism, they have endured unrealized pain.Those pain disappeared from the historical books, but it would not disappear because people avoided it.I won't hit my child, but I come from a family who can beat the child.People have forgotten where it comes from, but it comes from slave experience.You can forget the root cause of trauma, but you can pass the trauma from generation to generation.I want to break this cycle.
Robinson's way of breaking the cycle is to write poetry and music; Stark Middot; Lee's way is to make a movie.His latest DA 5 Bloods uses black veterans who participated in the Vietnam War to examine the historical difficulties of African -American and the contradictions inside the ethnic group, and leave a lot of room for thinking.
In May, MCA writer Zhang Guixing lectured on the Singapore Book Fair online. When sharing the original point of his historical dark side of his ethnic group, there are too many people with great light.forging.He wanted to write a story that was unknown under the monument.
The statue of Coleston has been salvaged, and the local cultural relics conservation agency decided to retain the graffiti of the demonstrations on the statue. After all, it was also part of history.
In the past, statues and monuments were established in the form of affirmative sentences. One of them was a great man, and a certain man was a great man, and some of them were the victims.What I want to discuss next, I think, it is no longer to push down which statues, but to discuss how to pass art to allow these historical symbols that exist in public space to get open discussion.
(The author is a senior reporter [email protected])
