Posted on 03/03/2021 12:56:16 PM PST by CedarDave
Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney’s name has been removed from a historic warship in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor by the Living Classrooms Foundation.
The foundation’s removal of Taney’s name from the ship serves as the latest in a series of gestures meant to acknowledge past wrongs and signal solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police.
James Piper Bond, LCF president and CEO, said in a statement Wednesday that the organization was inspired to make the change, calling the court ruling “an abomination” and “great injustice” toward Black Americans.
“The national historic landmark we are charged with stewarding should be reflective of our values of equality and opportunity for all,” Bond said. “We are not erasing history. Nor is it our intention to minimize the service and sacrifice of the men and women who have served with honor aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Taney. Our intention is to learn from history and celebrate the legacy of the ship and those who served aboard.”
The ship will, at least for now, be referred to by its hull identification WHEC 37, which stands for high endurance cutter, according to the foundation. The Taney name already has been removed from the ship’s stern.
“The name is being removed because it is a symbol of hate, repression and racial inequality,” said Chris Rowsom, executive director of the Historic Ships in Baltimore museum and vice president of Living Classrooms.
In a statement, U.S. Rep Andy Harris R-MD) said the removal of the name counters the foundation’s educational mission.
“Attempts to re-write shortcomings in our history, instead of using them to educate future generations, is a very bad idea — especially for a museum whose whole stated purpose is history.”
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“We are not erasing history.”
Horse hockey.
I knew about this back in the Fall or so it was announced. They hate Taney so much anyway, it was going to happen regardless of the latest temper tantrums.
But sorry, this IS erasing history, history of Pearl Harbor!
Any map and layout of the attack will name the different ships as they WERE, not as “they should be”. Will peopleeasily recognize this was at the attack?
Oh, but then, of course since we areTERRIBLE, HORRIBLE people in a horrible country, PH will soon be depicted as purely righteous on the part of the discriminated-against Japs.
They make far too much out of this.
Long time now all the DC transplants in our “western” MD towns have been erasing its history. They long since insisted Taney be removed as a statue and naming in places there.
I’m shocked they haven’t insisted on changing the town name “Taneytown”, in which my cousins family and my BIL’s son family live.
Very insulting to those who served. I am sorry.
Methinks you are a bit too glib about Taney.
His stuff is removed mostly from Frederick, a lovely large town being ruined by...guess....DC transplants who’ve overwhelmed the natives. Seems to me the natives don’t all appreciate their history being erased by votes of limo libs who are holier than thou.
The questions and comments on THIS THREAD alone indicate you are right.
Many good educated people don’t know, and are innocent of anything it might mean.
Taneytown, MD is named after a different Taney. Like that matters.
I have no desire to get rid of his name from the ship.
Taney - “despised by Lincoln”
And, you are correct: “His [Taney] opinion was based on what he and the majority of other Justices interpreted in the Constitution, it was a 7-2 decision. The cure was to amend the Constitution, not legislate from the bench.”
Same for aborting babies -— individual responsibilities that are not matters for government by judiciary, where federal legislators fear to tread.
Did Lincoln - instead of making war - go straight to the Congress and demand that slavery be abolished?
No.
Rather, Lincoln would have Taney invent some Extra-Constitutional Space in which slavery could be lost.
The same Extra-Constitutional Space where unborn babies are now lost.
The cure *has been* to amend the Constitution, not legislate from the bench.
A) Ban slavery.
B) Authorize the federal government to provide for abortions.
But . . .
A) Could the mid-19th century country ban slavery?
B) Would the 20th and then 21st centuries country create an Amendment to authorize the federal government to provide for the killing of unborn babies?
Probably . . .
A) Yes; it did after a major fight.
B) Now, we are in the contest to determine if truth and life will win.
And as a resident of Frederick County, I’m well aware of what’s happening. The county council is now Democrat-led, and they basically kicked off their reign by sniffing up Sheriff Jenkins’ butt about his expenditures for 287(g).
So, it’s another reason to be glad I’m eventually moving to Florida. Although Frederick strikes me as more of a swing county. Jan Gardner (D) became executive in 2014, but voters picked Trump in 2016, but then again, they picked Biden in 2020. So hopefully, things can be reversed, but I won’t be around for long to swim in any wreckage as Maryland slowly but surely becomes an open-air prison under Biden and whoever succeeds Hogan.
And I loathe Justice Taney, but the ship can keep his name, given its significance in history. After all, what will the history books say? “Coast Guard Cutter Thingamahoojie did exemplary work in containing damage at Pearl Harbor?”
Our veterans and war dead do indeed deserve better than that.
He’s the only relatively decent member of Maryland’s entire Congressional delegation. The rest of them are a clown car, IMO.
First Catholic Supreme Court justice but the Romans don’t brag about it.
Regarding my brief remarks in reply 35.
I am not satisfied with the blind group-think of James P. Bond. That he would condemn the ship, while claiming to not condemn the ship.
A good man whom I knew, had served aboard a USCG cutter, such as the Taney, and was both a black gentleman and from Baltimore.
It would never have occurred to my friend to perform a “James P. Bond maneuver for public consumption.”
And, my friend actually did have to learn to swim. He knew what it meant to be on station, waiting to help people lost at whatever point of no return, they found themselves.
Concerning my friend, he served honorably and never advertised nor protested nor invented the modern inventions of the political left, whereby a man wastes a lot of make-up to paint himself to be a victim.
Instead, my friend was simply a decent, noble, yet ordinary man and regular member of the service he had chosen, determined to do his duty.
On that note, thank you, CedarDave, for doing yours, too.
I don’t blame you wanting to move to FL. Esp. After this disastrous year wherein FL remained somewhat sane.
My best friend moved to FL 5 years ago. Her son was going to public school this year. HS with some 3000 students (something they never allow anyway here in hoiwty-toy county), all went back to school in Sept. it’s been pretty sane for her.
Wish I could say the same.
No, it’s not. It is exactly as standard English letters imply. It’s TANE EE.
Borgias?
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What are they gonna do, rename it the USCGC Karen?
I guess you know better than the Cornell history professor who corrected me when I sat in on his class some years ago.
Follow this link.
I don't make this stuff up.
ML/NJ
I can’t imagine the woke crowd to have even a clue who Taney was let alone have any knowledge of Dred Scot. Someone is scanning Wikipedia for things to cancel. Same thing in Minneapolis where Lake Calhoun has been renamed to some barely pronouncable Lakota name because Calhoun was a slave owner. For all what most people knew Lake Calhoun could have been named for a Fred Calhoun a local saloon keeper and corrupt politician
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