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Author	LexyNoise
Comment	As far as I'm aware, there's no talk of removing the Wellington statue. There are five statues in Glasgow that they've got in their sights for one reason or another, but Wellington isn't one of them. * The Thomas Carlyle statue in Kelvingrove Park (for an essay he wrote about why slavery should never have been ended, citing black people as inferior and lazy) * The Lord Roberts monument in Kelvingrove Park (for setting up concentration camps during the Boer War) * The Colin Campbell statue in George Square (for his involvement in the Opium War in China, and for things that unfolded during the Indian War for Independence) * The John Moore statue in George Square (for crushing a slave rebellion in the Caribbean) * The Robert Peel status in George Square (for setting up the police, which does seem like a flimsier reason than the others) There's also, bizarrely enough, a large rock on Dunoon beach they want to break apart. It's shaped like a bird's head, and US soldiers stationed nearby in the 60s painted it to look like a crow's head and called it "Jim Crow". The name is a reference to an old blackface minstrel character from the 1830s, and the name was used for anti-black pro-segregation laws passed in the Deep South up until the mid 1970s. It's been painted over several times, but someone keeps painting the crow back on it. [There's a picture of it here if you want to see it](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jim_Crow,_Hunters_Quay.jpg).
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Created	Fri 12th Jun 2020 2:18pm
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As far as I'm aware, there's no talk of removing the Wellington statue.

There are five statues in Glasgow that they've got in their sights for one reason or another, but Wellington isn't one of them.

* The Thomas Carlyle statue in Kelvingrove Park (for an essay he wrote about why slavery should never have been ended, citing black people as inferior and lazy)
* The Lord Roberts monument in Kelvingrove Park (for setting up concentration camps during the Boer War)
* The Colin Campbell statue in George Square (for his involvement in the Opium War in China, and for things that unfolded during the Indian War for Independence)
* The John Moore statue in George Square (for crushing a slave rebellion in the Caribbean)
* The Robert Peel status in George Square (for setting up the police, which does seem like a flimsier reason than the others)

There's also, bizarrely enough, a large rock on Dunoon beach they want to break apart. It's shaped like a bird's head, and US soldiers stationed nearby in the 60s painted it to look like a crow's head and called it "Jim Crow". The name is a reference to an old blackface minstrel character from the 1830s, and the name was used for anti-black pro-segregation laws passed in the Deep South up until the mid 1970s. It's been painted over several times, but someone keeps painting the crow back on it. [There's a picture of it here if you want to see it](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jim_Crow,_Hunters_Quay.jpg).