Professional Communications: Views on the Removal of a Statue

PROFESSIONAL
COMMUNICATIONS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY .................................................................................................................................3
Argument in essay.......................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ..............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Professional communication is denoted as communicating at a professional level. This
report demonstrate opinions and views at an individual level about certain articles demonstrate
different views about the removal of slave trader Edward Colston stature from university. This
report is structured in such a way that three different articles cover different areas related to the
topic will be discussed to reach to the best level of conclusion against the article. On the basis of
critical evaluation of all the three articles views will be presented under this project over removal
of statue.
MAIN BODY
First article involved in the brief favoured of removing the statue of Victorian imperialist
Cecil Rhodes. Article favoured the removal on the ground that with the pace of time certain
modifications must have been introduced in the practices. This article favours the campaign
started in 2015 after the student graduated and reignited by the recent Black Lives Matter
demonstration all around the United Kingdom (Baillie, Duker and Nsele, 2019). Over the time
the racism cases with BAME people that include black, Asian and minority ethnic peoples. The
support of the removal is granted based on the ground that the stature is not letting diversity to
be spread across the United Kingdom which should be resulted into removal of the statue. Other
factual statements also granted to favour the article that Simukai Chigudu an associated
professor of African Politics at the University of Oxford said that there is a substantial shift in
the position due to amount of pressure on Oriel College from various constituencies has been
greater this time. The article also feel that there is plenty of time remaining to marinate the wider
anti-racist, anti colonial arguments.
The second article do not favour the decision of removing the respective statue. The
article state that despite the fact that the increasing pressure protestors are creating to remove the
statue this must not be removed and stick to its existing position at the university. This article
states that the stature give strength to the anti-racism debate with BAME people (Simon, 2021).
This further spread awareness related to not to offer discrimination in society as all peoples must
be treated in the same manner as other individuals are treating in the society. The statue further
protecting history of the pastime related to the Colston – a slave trader (Hicks, 2018). The stature
symbolises the history and contribute in saving the pastime of Britain.