Everybody seems to be "getting their knickers in a twist" about statues of imperialists (Rhodes) and slave owners/traders. Yet there is hardly a murmur about the 21 million to 40 million (dependent on your definition) of slaves that are in the world today. It is truly dreadful and I suspect that many of us, me included, are wearing items of apparel that were made by modern day slaves. We may no longer have the wooden hulks plying their evil trade across the seas but people are in similar or worse conditions than slaves in the plantations.
Removing statues and changing street names might make some people feel better, but surely it would be better to stop the abuses that are taking place today - or am I missing something?
Click here to learn about slavery today.
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