ANTI-COLONIAL activist Shabaka Kambon advised TT nationals to choose their historical heroes very carefully, speaking to reporters after the success of his Cross Rhodes' campaign to remove the statue of explorer Christopher Columbus from Tamarind Square in Port of Spain. He spoke to reporters on August 8, after the statue was removed on August 6 to be kept at the National Museum.

Kambon said he was actually intent on preserving the legacy of the appropriate people, to be celebrated nowadays.

"Imagine growing up in the Caribbean racialised as white and everybody who represents your community historically is a criminal and a villain. That can't be a good thing."