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.
You were asked, in the voting booth when selecting your representatives. I suspect the yea votes outnumbered yours.
If I can live with that, you and the BLMers can learn to live with a statue of Robert E. Lee.
I don't care either way. I would be OK with keeping them, although probably not for the same reasons you would.
The democrats of yore would want to tear down Confederate statues?
Sorry for the shore and western panhandle folks.
“Sherman should have marched on Baltimore not Savannah. We’d be much better off.”
And New York, Boston, Chicago etc.
“> 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”
Use this as a rule of thumb. If democrats want it then it is rotten for America.
“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?”
F Chicago.
No, the Democrats of today would want to tear them down, to eliminate any monument attesting to their past.
They don’t give a shit about their past. They don’t even know about their past beyond last week. They are doing it just to poke a stick in America’s eye.
In other words, you're perfectly happy to be an enabler of the radical left's cultural agenda. You just use the flimsy excuse that "Jefferson Davis was a Democrat" to hide the fact that you seem to agree with Antifa's views here.
You go ahead and abjectly ingratiate yourself to the Left like McCain and Graham do, but leave the rest of the people on this thread out of it. Unlike you, I'll take Robert E. Lee over Antifa and BLM any day.
So if voters in Philadelphia decide to tear down a statue of George Washington and replace it with one of Barack Obama, Huey Newton, or Malcolm X, I guess you'll be fine with that too.
Well at least now you acknowledge it's their past, not ours.
Since you use Philadelphia as your example, I couldn't care less what they choose to do with the statues in their own city.
No, I just don't want to be associated with the Confederacy's legacy, which is nothing more than another creation of the Democrats.
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