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Talbot County [MD] Council votes to move confederate statue [to Harrisonburg, VA]
WMDT Salisbury MD ^ | 9/15/21 | Javari Burnett

Posted on 09/15/2021 11:13:31 AM PDT by foreverfree

TALBOT CO., Md. – After a long uphill battle, the Talbot Boys statue at the county’s courthouse will get a new home.

The vote comes after the council met tonight with two resolutions up for discussion.

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The resolution to move the statue passed with a vote of 3-2.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Maryland; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: csa; statues; wokeness
The Talbot Boys and Frederick Douglass statues have been flanking the entrance of the Talbot C.H. for about the past 20 years. Now the square will become exclusively Frederick's burg. [roll eyes]
1 posted on 09/15/2021 11:13:31 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: foreverfree

They should replace them with “The Taliban Boys”.


2 posted on 09/15/2021 11:23:06 AM PDT by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders,)
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To: foreverfree

The Eastern shore used to be a solid part of the former country named America...


3 posted on 09/15/2021 11:30:54 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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When the day of reckoning comes, the Boys will be back.

4 posted on 09/15/2021 11:43:24 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: foreverfree

At least they didn’t destroy the statue, as happened to the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond.


5 posted on 09/15/2021 12:23:48 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: foreverfree; 100American; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; ...

Of course they did.

This is soooooo Maryland.

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


6 posted on 09/15/2021 12:31:18 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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....“I was born and raised in St. Michaels Maryland, but when I come up to Talbot County to Easton to pay my taxes I have to look at something to me is very hurtful,” said community member Stephanie Chester. “I think we’ll start to see more diversity and people will be more sensitive to other people that don’t look like them.”

oh, brother.....if I hear or read one more time about “diversity” and “sensitivity” and “inclusiveness,” I’m gonna puke......


7 posted on 09/15/2021 12:34:47 PM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: foreverfree

Guess they’ll be changing the name of the county.

I’m sick of these bastards.

Who’da thought Eastern Shore would go woke, besides tourist-ridden Ocean City?


8 posted on 09/15/2021 1:51:31 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

We watched China and Russia go woke 60+ years ago. (My Grandfather went through that revolution in Russia)

That we didn’t learn from their mistakes disgusts me.

In ‘84 I went to visit family in Communist countries. Went to East Berlin and Yugoslavia. Hell holes.

Went back to Germany a few years after the wall came down. Spent a day at Brandenburg Gate watching families get reunited after decades.

Sobbed all day.

Chopped out a piece of that wall and to this day it is front and center in my living room.

The piece I have is painted in red, white and blue.


9 posted on 09/15/2021 4:19:43 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: foreverfree

The statue depicts a boy in his mid-teens who joined and fought in the Confederate Army. It should remain as a historical lessen how so many young boys, North and South, participated in this American tragedy. Politicians on both sides should have found a better way to phase out slavery.


10 posted on 09/15/2021 4:57:05 PM PDT by RicocheT
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An article in the Talbot Co. paper (sorry I don't have the link, and IIRC it's paywalled anyway) was more specific as to the statues future location. It's at...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cross+Keys+Battlefield+Artillery+Ridge+Trail/@38.3440308,-78.8385946,738m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89b48fa608cbaecb:0xb7e67a2aff16f417!8m2!3d38.3440266!4d-78.8364059

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11 posted on 09/20/2021 7:18:42 AM PDT by foreverfree
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https://www.shenandoahatwar.org/artillery-ridge/ tells about that battlefield.

ff

12 posted on 09/20/2021 7:19:54 AM PDT by foreverfree
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