When I said that “Darwin was next” in the line of statue-removal, renaming, and accusations of racism, I wasn’t kidding. Darwin was an abolitionist, but he did evince some white superiority in his writings and letters, calling blacks “savages” and “barbarians” (I lecture on this). It’s only a matter of time before that bigoted paternalism, ubiquitous in 19th-century England, would bring Darwin down.
It’s starting:
Dr. Schierenbeck is a plant geneticist, taxonomist, and evolutionist at California State University, Chico.
I looked up “decolonization” on Wikipedia and found this:
Decolonization (American English) or decolonisation (British English) is the undoing of colonialism, the latter being the process whereby a nation establishes and maintains its…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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