GT
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Glasgow City Council Officer
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2023-05-18
• 3 comments
Trail Map
Proposal code:
GlasgowCommunityChoices-2023-05-4
A Slavery and Colonial Legacy Trail should be created, following a similar format to the Glasgow Mural Trail.
Glasgow City Council supports a City Centre Mural Trail ( https://www.citycentremuraltrail.co.uk/) and could do something similar, with an increased focus on education, for places in the city with links to the transatlantic slave trade.
There are proposals for QR codes to be displayed beside street names / statues / buildings across the city with links to slavery. Everywhere that has a QR code should be included in this trail.
The trail can be added to as required, could be limited to the City Centre, or could have various trails with varying distances.
If a third sector organisation or private business wishes to do this (with ZERO financial support from GCC) then they are welcome to however under absolutely no circumstances whatsoever should GCC waste a single penny of tax payers money on this divisive and wholly unnecessary project.
The people of Glasgow have far more serious, real world problems that need attention rather this this attempt to drag up 200 year old racial issues which no one alive today has any involvement. This is nothing more than an attempt by those who stand to gain personally (whether politically or financially) to stir up racial division and animosity.
Wholeheartedly disagree. The divisions are being caused by comments such as this that reduce the efforts of this campaign to a 'one or the other' situation. Creating a strawman further entrenches those divisions.
GCC has plenty of social and infrastructural issues that must be addressed, both in the immediate and long term. An undertaking such as those being proposed here would have invaluable long term impacts to Scottish society and education through a better awareness and understanding of social justice issues.
Wholeheartedly disagree. The divisions here are caused by a bunch of race grifters driving this divisive and fractious process, we wouldn't be having any disagreements here if this wasnt brought up in the first place. Its not like without this the people of Glasgow would be wholesale supportive of slavery is it?!
Anyone who claims this whole process isn't just a cynical and ideologically driven attempt to stir up racial division are being intellectually dishonest. Not a single person alive today took part in or suffered from the TAST, Glasgow as a city doesn't endorse, support or otherwise look favourably on slavery. There isn't anything to be gained from the expenditure of public funds except the lining of pockets for those of the correct ideological persuasion as well as the further spreading of racial division and animosity.
I note that none of these proposals are going to tell the whole story such as the colossal involvement of African nations in the TAST.
If a third sector organisation or private business wishes to do this (with ZERO financial support from GCC) then they are welcome to however under absolutely no circumstances whatsoever should GCC waste a single penny of tax payers money on this divisive and wholly unnecessary project.
The people of Glasgow have far more serious, real world problems that need attention rather this this attempt to drag up 200 year old racial issues which no one alive today has any involvement. This is nothing more than an attempt by those who stand to gain personally (whether politically or financially) to stir up racial division and animosity.
Wholeheartedly disagree. The divisions are being caused by comments such as this that reduce the efforts of this campaign to a 'one or the other' situation. Creating a strawman further entrenches those divisions.
GCC has plenty of social and infrastructural issues that must be addressed, both in the immediate and long term. An undertaking such as those being proposed here would have invaluable long term impacts to Scottish society and education through a better awareness and understanding of social justice issues.
Wholeheartedly disagree. The divisions here are caused by a bunch of race grifters driving this divisive and fractious process, we wouldn't be having any disagreements here if this wasnt brought up in the first place. Its not like without this the people of Glasgow would be wholesale supportive of slavery is it?!
Anyone who claims this whole process isn't just a cynical and ideologically driven attempt to stir up racial division are being intellectually dishonest. Not a single person alive today took part in or suffered from the TAST, Glasgow as a city doesn't endorse, support or otherwise look favourably on slavery. There isn't anything to be gained from the expenditure of public funds except the lining of pockets for those of the correct ideological persuasion as well as the further spreading of racial division and animosity.
I note that none of these proposals are going to tell the whole story such as the colossal involvement of African nations in the TAST.