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“Colston’s presence is a metaphor for racism”: Bristol artists reckon with the city’s painful past
the death of George Floyd, a black man killed in America by a white police officer, tore it down – his statue stood on Colston Avenue.“In some senses his presence [around the city] is a metaphor for how racism operates,” Bristol-based artist, musician and poet Solomon OB says; he was among the local voices who occupied Colston’s empty pedestal to speak on June 7. “Ever present, but often in the background.”The plaque below the now-empty pedestal dates back to 1895, and currently makes no mention of his role in the death and enslavement of many thousands of Black people.
