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Question Time: Some Brits 'still don't think slavery was a bad thing', top author says

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There are still Brits "who don't think slavery was really a bad thing" and misunderstand colonialism as about helping people out, an author has said.

During a debate about the whitewashing of Britain's history on Thursday's Question Time, Bernardine Evaristo praised protesters who removed Bristol's Edward Colston statue.

Taking the "law into your own hands" in order to highlight the "relics of Britain's murky past" is "really important", she said.

Multiple Black Lives Matter demonstrations have taken place across the UK since the death of George Floyd in the United States.

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