“The Blood Is On Our Hands In History, To Look Back With Any Kind Of Nostalgia Is Dangerous”: IDLES’ Joe Talbot On Britain Owning Up To Its Chequered Past

Following global demonstrations in support of the Black Live Matter movement and the toppling of a statue commemorating slave trader Edward Colston in his hometown, the Bristolian punks’ fiery frontman stresses the importance of remembering that racism isn’t an exclusively American problem. I’ve always been aware that Bristol was a slave-trading town. I didn’t grow up in the city, but over the years I would pass through sporadically before moving in and you would see the signs. There are pockets of old pubs and buildings that used to be slave houses. There are roads named after certain points in history related to the slave trade. There are even underground structures where slaves used to be housed. What I wasn’t aware of is how dangerous the day-to-day [normalisation] of that hi...

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