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Sell Me Something More Than Snake Oil And Lies

by Ian Whiteley

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Sell Me Something More Than Snake Oil And Lies

 

They say that pulling down statues

Is rewriting history

As though the sculptors who made them

Were historians

And not some commissioned artist

Doing what he was told

 

Sell me something more than snake oil and lies

 

It is a form of history

Cast in the wealthy viewpoint

From the stance of the privileged

It’s...

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Thursday 11th June 2020 2:21 pm

NaPoWriMo207   day11 (72)   statues   history   BLM   lies   perspective   removal   the Bop

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