Posted on 08/14/2017 7:24:51 PM PDT by 11th_VA
In the wake of a violent white supremacist rally in neighboring Virginia, House Speaker Michael E. Busch said Monday it’s time to take down Maryland’s most prominent Confederate-era monument.
Busch said the statue of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney — author of the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery and denied citizenship to black people — should no longer preside over the front lawn of the Maryland State House.
“It certainly doesn’t belong there,” said Busch, an Anne Arundel County Democrat.
“It's the appropriate time to remove it,” he said. Leaving it in place after white supremacists openly rallied “would send a message that we condone what took place, that slavery is alright.”...
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Erasing history is the easiest way to rewrite it.
Every slime ball demagogue politician wants into the act.
When do they get to Woodrow Wilson?
The only statues we are going to have left are statues of basketball players in front of arenas.
After wiping away all of our history, it will be so much easier for our school kids to be taught that Barack Obama founded the USA.
Taliban removed statues too.
Hitlers SA brown shirts closed down free speech, attacked other groups who had a different view.
See a pattern here with the college aged Antifa snowflakes.
This is really getting funny-——they are like adolescents trying to be popular.
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Is there a statue dedicated to justice behind the church and state schools decision?
He was a Klansman and his hate of Catholicism influenced his landmark secision.
Time to rename all the MLK streets that encourage death and destruction.
ESAD you ignorant, retarded, low IQ and general welfare filth.
The American flag is next. I hope you all realize that.
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Washington, Lincoln ......may as well use a big eraser.
or Robert “KKK” Byrd
Yep. King was an adulterer, whoremonger and plagiarist
And if he was alive today he’d be on board with quotas and discrimination against whites and Asians
Content of character, myas
Unemployment?
Crime?
Drugs?
High school drop out rate?
Single moms?
Nope, statues.
Since they are actively removing Statues and Memorials to History’s most Prominent Democrats, shouldn’t we just Outlaw the entire Party and banish all members as racist and ship them off to Venezuela or something.??
American flags on poles will surely be soon.
I was wondering when they would get to Taney
Fascinating man. Lived through a lot of history
Married sister of Francis Scott Key
Appointed to the Supreme Court by Andrew Jackson to replace Chief Justice John Marshall
First Catholic appointed to the USSC
Swore in Abraham Lincoln at his inauguration
Lincoln and his staff scorned Chief Justice Taney because of Dred Scott decision ( which had actually helped launch a young Illinois State Senator named Abe Lincoln into higher office with his “ House Divided” speech)
Also skirmished with the President over lack of habeas corpus in civil,war detentions and arrests
Taney inherited slaves and property but emanicipated them and paid them lifetime pensions
Died in poverty due to civil war property loss
Died on the day slavery was declared illegal in Maryland
I figure the Jefferson Memorial is going to be in their sights
Gnomes are racists.
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