messagefollowreblogembeddashboard
home ask past links about

Loes. 26. autistic.

It is only through the ordinary that the extraordinary can make itself perceived.
- P.L.T.

(twitter)

belgiumthroughbelgianeyes:

belgiumthroughbelgianeyes:

Should our government remove all statues of Leopold II? Or should they add context and install signs that talk about our history in the Congo?

Doing nothing isn’t an option if you ask me.

Or more importantly: should our history teachers finally teach what actually happened? The only thing I remember being taught is that king Leopold II “colonized” the Congo. He was “on a mission”. No explanation what that meant, not a word about genocide, nothing about racism.

Or is that just me?

via
1 year ago51 notes
#i only have a very vague memory of learning about the colonisation#i just have a picture in my textbook in my mind of the slavery so being shocked by that is probs why i've got that bit of memory#then i looked up a docu on youtube this tuesday and watched it and i was so disgusted#i didn't know it was that much worse#i think the statues should be moved to a musuem where the full story and truth is told#don't really buy the whole 'but he got belgium out of poverty' argument like honestly fuck outta here that makes it sounds like that made a#MURDER#of millions of innocent black people worth it#so yeah those statues gotta go#and replaced with statues of other people who contributed great thing to our country and are from more diverse backgrounds
  1. spring-bi reblogged this from rooibosmusings
  2. lenvolee reblogged this from belgianreader2
  3. hyphen-ed reblogged this from rooibosmusings
  4. rooibosmusings reblogged this from breakthebeam
  5. breakthebeam reblogged this from belgiumthroughbelgianeyes and added:
    Put it in a museum with context, and make it a mandatory visit for every 4th grade class in the country (if I remember...
  6. kiwibes said: I agree with reforming the curriculum though. Now it is too much depending on the teacher
  7. kiwibes said: @kyraspem I thought of it cuz I think there will always be schools/,families that wont visit the museums but they will have to walk in the street anyway
  8. kyraspem said: @kiwibes leaving the piedestals with clarification is actually a great idea, hadn’t thought of that
  9. naneuu reblogged this from sous-le-saule
  10. stidean reblogged this from itsmedaloser
  11. dr-im0tep said: @kyraspem I agree with you!
  12. sous-le-saule reblogged this from belgianreader2
  13. itsmedaloser reblogged this from aracookie
  14. aracookie reblogged this from belgiumthroughbelgianeyes and added:
    Personally, I barely studied Belgian history at school. We didn't have the time anymore to study it, so we just skipped...
  15. spacelizzbian reblogged this from belgiumthroughbelgianeyes and added:
    Nope, same here. Not. A. Word.
  16. pancakebatters reblogged this from belgiumthroughbelgianeyes and added:
    If possible one or two of the historical important statues, like the one in Oostende, should be moved to a museum where...
  17. raidenxrose reblogged this from bae-wulf
  18. i-am-the-pirate-queen reblogged this from savingpltravers
  19. savingpltravers reblogged this from belgiumthroughbelgianeyes
  20. bae-wulf reblogged this from belgiumthroughbelgianeyes
  21. kiwibes said: I had one class on the congo massacre and one on the rwanda genocide though
  22. zipp-it reblogged this from belgiumthroughbelgianeyes
  23. kiwibes said: Remove the statues but leave the piedestals with some clarification…lest we forgot. It will be sth obviously ‘wrong’ in the landscape which will be more visible than moving them fully to a museum or just adding a plate
  24. kyraspem said: when I hear how other teachers handled the subject
  25. kyraspem said: Remove the statues and put them for my part in a museum with explanation. If you put a statue in the public it glorifies whatever it stands for, in this case colonialism. Also, there needs to be done something about the fact that students barely get teached about the belgian colonial history. It should definitely come up earlier than the last year in secondary school, and I was lucky that I had a teacher that thoroughly explained what happened, but he is an exception
  26. fistupheaddownhailhailtotheking said: so that the horrors congo suffered bc of our country arent forgotten or pushed aside any longer
  27. fistupheaddownhailhailtotheking said: i think the statues should probably be moved into museums or smth like that, so that his crimes against humanity arent just an afterthought when seeing the statues? if that makes sense. also definitely yes the belgian history curriculum 100% needs to add the genocide, bc it isnt right to hide it away like it never happened. also maybe put some rememberance monuments in the places where leopold II statues stood
  28. belgianreader2 reblogged this from belgiumthroughbelgianeyes and added:
    I think the statues should be kept because he was an important part of Belgium’s early history and took part in shaping...
  29. belgiumthroughbelgianeyes reblogged this from belgiumthroughbelgianeyes and added:
    Or more importantly: should our history teachers finally teach what actually happened? The only thing I remember being...
s