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.
“Anyone see the 2 crybabies on Fox just now”
Sorry; can’t “go there” any more (to Fox).
“and the struggle”
Or, as Moochelle Obama and half of the FNC chicks would say, “shtruggle”.
“Stephanie Rawlings Blake...”
Same scowl on her face as Michelle Obama.
Calling someone a “cuck” doesn’t change the fact that those idiot Nazi LARPers in Virginia basically handed the media another Dylann Roof anti-Confederate propaganda victory.
I don’t like the statues you like. I don’t like the music you like. Or the TV shows you like. I don’t like the words you speak. And, if you’re white, I especially don’t like the color of your skin.
And if someone “tears your down,” I couldn’t care less.
Yeah, cute.
That clusterfrick caused more statues to be lost then would have. You can stick your fingers in your ears all you want, and call people names, but two weeks ago this wasn’t even on the national radar.
The only thing worse than the Obama fanboy that organized it, are the idiots on FR that still thought it was a great idea!
There's the OAN (One America Network). I'm so glad I got it, it's immensely better than Fox. If only for one reason: OAN doesn't constantly harp, 24/7, about the damn Russia crap. Then there are plenty of other reasons.
First for those who may be concerned the experience of watching it is little more than watching some YouTubeer, and all the amateurism that goes along with such an experience it's not. It has the look and feel of Fox News without all the dopes like Juan Williams, Marie Harpf (or whatever the hell her name is that former State Dept holdover from Odummer) and all the rest of the leftist shills that aren't there just for "balance" but actually contaminate, with their stupidity and hate, the message the others bring.
Secondly, if your cable provider doesn't carry the channel (most don't) call them to ask to add it but in the meantime you can get a Roku device for $30 (you don't need the more expensive unless you want to go full Roku) and then add OAN once you set up Roku. It will then cost you just $5 a month to watch OAN (it's not free but really, only $5 a month).
It's worth it because again this isn't some amateur hour, it's a real, professional news outlet that is always on, like any cable news network, but without all the leftist bilge. If you want to occasionally see the leftist viewpoint turn on Fox they are good for that, because they at least have (some) actual conservatives taking them on (unlike the parody that is CNN and the rest of the crap networks). It's good to monitor on occasion what the left is up to and what their current tactics are. That's what Fox is good for IMO. But when you get tired of Russia Russia Russia 24/7, and all the "fair and balanced" you can take go to OAN you won't regret it. My blood pressure has dropped 5 points since adding OAN.
THEN YOU AND ME.
Nope, they are removing these items to keep them from getting vandalized and defuse the situation.
What exactly did they do?
Yet another perpetually angry black woman. The irony is that "her" people in Baltimore are no better off today than yesterday. They will still shoot dope and shoot each other. It ain't the white man doing the killing.
Based in the Taney Court decision people in 1864 didnt “ like” what the Constitution said or didnt say, so they amended the Constitution
Thats how a democratic republic operates
Gee if Taney ( a democrat) had legislated Dred-Scott from the bench and the Court had accepted Dred’s lawsuit, would we even have had a civil war and abolished slavery outright? Would Lincoln have become President?
Idiot. ANYONE who object to this Leftist/Racist statue tear-down insanity will be labeled a “Nazi.” ANYONE.
Now my state’s Leftist governor wants to take down the Confederate Memorial in MY town. A memorial that honors the military service of MY ancestors not his. We locals plan to protest the governor’s action.
If the transplanted Yankees don’t like it and call us all “racists” they can go back to the Yankee shitholes they came from.
So now Baltimore can replace the confederate memorials with those of Malcolm X, Elijah Mohammed, Obama and Oprah.
Cuck.
What state is that?
NC.
At least the pigeons will have new figures to crap on
Go pigeons
Trump needs to point out that the Democrats are erasing their history, just like the emails.
Jefferson Davis, Taney, Jackson and most of the confederates were DEMOCRATS.
At the end of this path we’re starting down, every white person in America will be a “confederate symbol.” Money will be changed, towns and cities renamed, perhaps a state or two and certainly many buildings.
I wonder if the modern alt-left recognizes the irony of the fact they are destroying alt-left legacy?
I thought I read on FR yesterday that the sheriff of one NC town plans to press charges against those who took the law into their own hands and tore down a statue.
I was really surprised to hear this about North Carolina. I thought the conservatives outnumbered the leftists there like in SC.
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