'By not asking for permission, protesters around the world have shifted the ground underneath the feet of those in power.'
When protesters pull down, deface, or otherwise destroy racist monuments erected by governments and other institutions, they are forcing a reckoning. These protesters are creating something new by adding to a space that was once dominated by a single narrative. In the case of the removal of the Colston statue, protesters left signs spelling out their collective vision of a better world and used the plinth as a backdrop for photographs.
This created an opportunity for people from all walks of life to stand where only a white man stood before, illuminating how countless people had contributed — and still contribute — to the modern world by choice and by force. History is never just the work of a single “great man.
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