Posted on 08/16/2017 3:39:04 AM PDT by VanShuyten
BALTIMORE - Contractors in Baltimore have removed several of the city's Confederate statues overnight.
The Robert E. Lee and “Stonewall” Jackson monument in Wyman Park Dell was removed early Wednesday morning.
The Confederate Women's Monument on West University Parkway was removed overnight as was the Roger Taney Monument from Mount Vernon Place. Taney was a Supreme Court justice who ruled African-Americans could not be considered citizens of the U.S.
It is unclear if and when the city’s remaining Confederate statue - the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Mount Royal Avenue - is scheduled for removal.
A commission appointed by former Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake recommended removing two of four Confederate-era monuments in 2015. On Monday, Baltimore's City Council made the decision to remove them.
Current Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh said she wanted the statues to be placed in Confederate cemeteries elsewhere in Maryland.
In an effort to prevent the kind violence seen in Virginia on Saturday when white nationalists came to Charlottesville to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, Pugh did not announce when the statues would be removed.
On Tuesday, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has called for the removal of a statue of Justice Roger B. Taney from the grounds of the State House.
I hope you’re right.
The Confederacy was not my history. The Confederacy was the result of a Democrat hissy fit that cost hundreds of thousands of Americans their lives. If you want to claim that history for yourself then feel free to do so, but please leave me out of it.
Statues of Obama will be springing up everywhere.
If the cities want those statues, what right do we have to stop them?
OK, please explain to me what right you have to force a city that you don't reside in to keep statues that its residents don't want?
I don't see how trying to preserve monuments to a Democrat hissy fit that cost hundreds of thousands of Americans their lives is going to stop that.
As citizens of the city the reside in, don't they have that right?
What obligates them to retain statues that they don't want in cities that they, not you, reside in?
Who is denying who their freedom?
I’m not oblivious to what the Democrats are trying to do, but I’m not going to worry about them tearing apart their own history.
The Confederacy was not my country. It was the creation of the Democrats' hissy fit that cost hundreds of thousands of American lives.
Alrighty, then.
I see the removal of Civil War statues as equal to schools banning “Huckleberry Finn”, changing lyrics to songs to be PC, etc. Much of the content is not socially acceptable by today’s standards. Some of it is downright ugly. But all of it is part of America’s history.
As for Obama statues, it won’t be a case of cities opting to have them or not. We WILL have them. We won’t have choices.
Democrats of then aren’t the democrats of today.
The last pole I saw showed 79% of Americans want Confederate statues to remain.
> I don’t see how trying to preserve monuments to a Democrat hissy fit that cost hundreds of thousands of Americans their lives is going to stop that.
Give them an inch and they’ll chop you head off. That’s how the left works.
OK, you're not oblivious. You're just aiding their agenda by taking this side on this issue.
I’m not going to worry about them tearing apart their own history.
Ah yes, party loyalty trumps all. Never mind the fact that a Democrat (or Republican) from 150 years ago would be completely unrecognizable to their counterparts today. If you can find one thing that Andrew Jackson or Grover Cleveland had in common with Barack Obama, you might have a case.
It’s a waste of time to argue with GOP establishmentarians who say “Confederates are evil because they were Democrats.” Anyone who thinks that there’s an ideological connection between Jefferson Davis and Barack Obama is either monumentally stupid, or else is just using party affiliation as a flimsy cover for their sympathy with the liberals’ PC agenda. I suspect the latter - there are plenty of Republicans who drink the politically correct Kool Aid on issues of race and culture.
Funny. I don't remember anyone consulting me when they name streets in cities I've lived in after Martin Luther King and other heroes of the left. If I can live with that, you and the BLMers can learn to live with a statue of Robert E. Lee.
Hannity certainly does that. I enjoy hearing him champion the 65 civil rights act while boasting he’s a Reagan Republican. Reagan of course opposed that bill as did Goldwater, IIRC as a gross power grab by the national government that would crush individual freedoms. It probably turned out worse than either one of them predicted. They oughta rename some of the agencies it created the Ministry of Equality and Freedom etc in honor of George Orwell.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
If you're talking about retaining the Civil War monuments as a way of never forgetting what happened in the same way as preserving the concentration camps in Germany as a reminder of what we must never allow to happen again, I agree with you. However, that's not what we're talking about here.
As for Obama statues, it won’t be a case of cities opting to have them or not. We WILL have them. We won’t have choices.
Chicago is not going to build a statue of Obama in some red county in North Dakota. The only way this happens is if this country elects another Obama or Clinton, in which case we're screwed anyway.
They most certainly are. The Democrats of 150 years ago wanted their slave labor, just as today's Democrats want their freebies at the expense of our labor.
The Democrats run around with their faces covered attacking people who don't agree with them now, just as they've been doing since the Civil War ended.
And if they get their way, they'll split the country just as they did 150 years ago, rather than accept our President's policies.
They haven't changed at all.
Let's just say that's true. Does the country have the right to force Chicago to keep the statues if they don't want them?
It's bad enough the Democrats are trying to tag us with their racist past, without having you accepting it on our behalf.
Accept their legacy on your own behalf, but leave me out of it.
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