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This really is the height of tokenistic irresponsibility: councillors in Liverpool are agitating for the name of one of the world's most famous streets - Penny Lane - to be changed because it may have been named after a slave-trader. As one of the people interviewed in the Daily Mail's report points out, this attempt to erase social memory, to revise history, is more than stupid. It is also dangerous.
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If they are so concerned about Liverpool's slave trading past, why don't they put up a plaque about it. Plaques are a boon to civic history - they put the past out in the open (quite literally) and allow people to make up their own minds about the issue as they go about their daily lives. A city's past is not something decided by a city council subcommittee - it exists in the people that live there. Sadly, it is hard to image a council that would consider whitewashing its history being able to come up with a well worded plaque that didn't itself try to caress the historical truth and pander to politically correct sentiments.
Posted by celt | July 13, 2006 10:20 AM
Posted on July 13, 2006 10:20