Posted on 10/14/2016 5:24:51 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A Maryland city has cleared what could be the last obstacle to its plan to rid the City Hall courtyard of a statue of the man who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision affirming slavery.
Frederick’s Historic Preservation Commission voted 4-1 Thursday to allow the removal of the bust of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, and a nearby bust of Maryland’s first governor, Thomas Johnson, who owned slaves. City officials say both will go to nearby Mount Olivet Cemetery, where Johnson is buried. …
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No history means no future.
“Yes, Virginia, progressives have great huge holes in their heads that let their brains fall out. It’s why they are mindlessly hooked on symbolism.”
Replacing them with plaques nothing the change in historical attitude might be fitting.
nothing => noting
And sometimes some things are messy, such as whom we choose to honor and when and how.
This isn’t a hill to die on.
It doesn’t change the fact that so-called progressives are overrun with mindless douchbag snowflakes.
Let them be offended.
Oh please. We are all but Human Beings, all imperfect and with Feet Of Clay. How about investigating some of these SJW’s. See just how ‘pure’ and free of taint their lives have been. Might we come up on some old shoplifting charges?
B&E’s or Domestic Violence charges perhaps? Maybe even some accusations of Hate Speech too! How ironic that would be.
And how predictable.
Their death toll is in the hundreds of millions, not scores (groups of 20).
Washington and Jefferson owned slaves too, so next they’ll take them off of the currency.
Soon we’ll have no history at all, and no national culture or underpinnings, or traditions, beyond the glories of diversity.
This PC crap is a religion folks, and it’s out to destroy everything that we hold dear.
Leftists erasing history just like Stalin’s people did.
Parts of Maryland are a real “RED STATE”.
Barbara Fritchey is spinning in her grave, just on principle.
historical and cultural jihad - and nobody protests
I posted this on other threads, but it’s applicable again.
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/1984/section1.rhtml
“Winston Smith . . . sees the Ministry of Truth, where he works as a propaganda officer altering historical records to match the Party’s official version of past events.”
The Ministry of Truth is alive and well. The only thing George Orwell got wrong is that it is located in the People’s Republic of Maryland instead of in London. Liberals are disgusting.
There is a certain Political Party linked to slavery that needs to be cleared.
Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. And the best way not to learn it is to hide it.
Ban all art.
Ban history.
Ban the truth.
Note to self: use time machine to foil slave trade to North America. Win win for all!!!
Mohammed owned and sold slaves and his followers continued the business after his death.
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