No one tell the left Washington owned slaves as I’d like to someday show my kids Mount Vernon.
1. I’m surprised it took them this long.
2. By Montgomery County standards, this is positively enlightened. I would have expected them to melt the statue down, erect one of an oppressed minority in its place, and issue a heartfelt apology for anyone and everyone who might have been offended at the previous statue’s former existence.
3. White’s Ferry is far more rural than Rockville, so the presence of the statue is less likely to offend delicate sensibilities.
I will note that it's hilarious that this is Democrats' idea of good government: Forcing the taxpayers to foot the bill for relocating a statue. "Don't you see, if we move it from this spot, to this other spot ten miles down the road, all racial wounds will be healed! Don't you blacks feel your lives are tangibly better today?"
I'm still on the wall as to the necessity of the Civil War....and further...what the hell was won??
This was Washington's south and Jefferson's south. The war was all about money and power...not slavery.
Slavery was on its way out. The industrial revolution changed the world.
Totalitarians like to erase history.
It’s kind of like what the muslims do when they take over new terror-tory. They destroy and deny the history.
Most of the churches in Kosovo are gone and the few remaining Serbs are being driven out of what was their homeland. While the Albanians gloat.
Burning Civil War books too?
Might as well go full-blown facist.
Factoid: Montgomery County MD has more public debt than the entire state of Montana.
I think that for every Confederate statue they remove, they should erect a statue of one of the thousands of blacks that fought for the Confederacy.
It’s the Democrats problem, let them deal with it which is what they are doing in a state like Maryland. Dems started the Klan, Dems were about to be an extreme minority in the South, Northerners saw the folly of this long ago.
Leftists Nazi fascists win again. Only approved words and monuments allowed.
Democrats doing this now, Democrats had their white supremacy society in the Civil War, the Dems can go to hell.
If you simply erase history, it’s as if it never happened.
All we know is Bush wanted to keep slaves and his general Trump killed all the Jews to stop Sacagawea from becoming a Massachusetts Senator. Obama descended from the heavens and saved us.
Does anyone know when and where the book burnings will take place? The enlightened ones are so special. /sarc
Don’t go back to Rockville.
Yet another attack on our history.
This is our history. Do the Left want us to forget our history?
Historical Districts do not contain history. The houses and yards and the communities do not look like they did hundred yrs ago. So why call them historical districts. I’m beginning to think it is all a game
Ping!
Maryland “Freak State” PING!