Would it be politically incorrect to add to the statute of Queen Victoria and the Lion? I think not. I have a suggestion or two although will not make my suggestions in your blog. Personally may I suggest renaming Victoria Park with an Indigenous Name, and leave the statute. Furthermore, I would encourage some thought of removing the cannon from the island that is symbolically aimed at another statute.
Again, telling the story this way doesn’t have to be yet another way of separating the sheep from the goats, or reducing the story to two polarities that are intrinsically at odds with one another. We have far too many of those kinds of distinctions already, each with a measure of credibility but none that are anywhere near the whole truth. The purpose of the kind of differentiation I’m proposing here is to set the stage for reconciliation and genuine peace, not triumph and capitulation.
Would it be politically incorrect to add to the statute of Queen Victoria and the Lion? I think not. I have a suggestion or two although will not make my suggestions in your blog. Personally may I suggest renaming Victoria Park with an Indigenous Name, and leave the statute. Furthermore, I would encourage some thought of removing the cannon from the island that is symbolically aimed at another statute.
Again, telling the story this way doesn’t have to be yet another way of separating the sheep from the goats, or reducing the story to two polarities that are intrinsically at odds with one another. We have far too many of those kinds of distinctions already, each with a measure of credibility but none that are anywhere near the whole truth. The purpose of the kind of differentiation I’m proposing here is to set the stage for reconciliation and genuine peace, not triumph and capitulation.