2020 hindsight is going to have a new meaning.

Would you be happy if your Great Grandfather was portrayed as a barefoot supplicant at the feet of a slave owner. This is apparently the only statue of Abraham Lincoln outside the US.

David Hume was a philosopher and economist who firmly believed white europeans to be superior to other races and said so. 

I always knew that Regency Edinburgh was built with profit from colonialism with slavery as a foundation, and I am ashamed of the taint on such a beautiful city, 

We really are going to have to have a long hard think about the way forward, with respect and a willingness to change.