John Hamilton statue removal, Hamilton City, New Zealand, June 12, 2020. | Photo: Twitter/ @alghadeertv_eng
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Meanwhile, Australia’s PM Scott Morrison maintains that slavery did not exist in his country.
In New Zealand, Hamilton City Mayor Paula Southgate Friday removed the statue of John Hamilton, a British captain who died in the Gate Pa battle against the Maori people in 1864.
Her decision occurs after a Maori resident publicly declared that he had planned to tear the statue down during anti-racist protests over the weekend.
“An increasing number of people consider the statue to be personally and culturally offensive. We cannot ignore what is happening around the world,” Southgate said, as reported by RNZ.
The removal of the Hamilton statue is part of the reaction generated by the George Floyd’s murder in the United States, a violent act that triggered marches against racism and the withdrawal of symbols linked to the oppression of minorities around the world.
In New Zealand, whose Maori name is Aotearoa, hundreds of statues, streets, and cities are named after British colonizers and slave traders. In this country, however, the symbolic recognition of the Maori and their historical legacy is practically non-existent […]
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Hope the statues go into museums. Otherwise auctioning or recycling them might give something back as little as it may be.
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Excellent point. Perhaps New Zealand needs its own holocaust museum.
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