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To: Plymouth City Council
Remove Nancy Astor Statue
Remove/Take down the statue of Nancy Astor
Why is this important?
Remove and take down the Statue of Nancy Astor in Plymouth.
She was Anti-Catholic, Anti-Semitic and a Nazi sympathiser.
Her statue remains to celebrate racism and slavery.
It needs to be taken down and is featured on a 'Statue Hit-List' according to this post by the telegraph:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/09/protesters-draw-statues-hit-list-toppling-colston-memorial/
Nancy Astor was famous for being the first woman to take a seat in parliament, but she was not the first woman to have won a seat.
Revolutionary suffragist, Constance Markievicz was elected to the House of Commons earlier in 1918, but the Irishwoman refused to take the oath to the crown.
A further troubling aspect of Nancy's character was that her time was rife with bigotry, yet she stood out amongst bigots.
Her are some of her quotes:
Nancy Astor to MP Alan Graham in 1938: "Only a Jew like you would dare to be rude to me."
To James McDonald in 1934 at a Jewish charity dinner at the Savoy Hotel in London: “Did I not after all believe there must be something in the Jews themselves that had bought them persecution throughout all the ages. Was it not therefore, in the final analysis, their responsibility?"
Nancy also reportedly told an African-American church that they should be grateful for slavery because it had allowed them to be introduced to Christianity, while in Rhodesia she proudly told the white minority government leaders that she was the daughter of a slave owner."
Please support this petition to support equality and promote the values we have today rather than the ignorance, bigotry and racism of the past.
Thank you.
She was Anti-Catholic, Anti-Semitic and a Nazi sympathiser.
Her statue remains to celebrate racism and slavery.
It needs to be taken down and is featured on a 'Statue Hit-List' according to this post by the telegraph:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/09/protesters-draw-statues-hit-list-toppling-colston-memorial/
Nancy Astor was famous for being the first woman to take a seat in parliament, but she was not the first woman to have won a seat.
Revolutionary suffragist, Constance Markievicz was elected to the House of Commons earlier in 1918, but the Irishwoman refused to take the oath to the crown.
A further troubling aspect of Nancy's character was that her time was rife with bigotry, yet she stood out amongst bigots.
Her are some of her quotes:
Nancy Astor to MP Alan Graham in 1938: "Only a Jew like you would dare to be rude to me."
To James McDonald in 1934 at a Jewish charity dinner at the Savoy Hotel in London: “Did I not after all believe there must be something in the Jews themselves that had bought them persecution throughout all the ages. Was it not therefore, in the final analysis, their responsibility?"
Nancy also reportedly told an African-American church that they should be grateful for slavery because it had allowed them to be introduced to Christianity, while in Rhodesia she proudly told the white minority government leaders that she was the daughter of a slave owner."
Please support this petition to support equality and promote the values we have today rather than the ignorance, bigotry and racism of the past.
Thank you.
