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Baltimore could follow New Orleans by removing Confederate statues
« on: May 30, 2017, 04:07:24 pm »
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Baltimore could follow New Orleans by removing Confederate statues

‘We will take a closer look at how we go about following in the footsteps of New Orleans,’ mayor Catherine Pugh tells local newspaper
Could Confederate monuments in Baltimore suffer the same fate as this statue of general Robert E Lee in New Orleans, which was taken down this month?

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Sunday 28 May 2017 17.14 EDT
First published on Sunday 28 May 2017 17.04 EDT

The mayor of Baltimore wants to explore the possibility of removing monuments to figures from the Confederacy, “following in the footsteps of New Orleans”.
'If I had my gun on me, I'd shoot him': the civil war over statues in New Orleans
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Catherine Pugh told the Baltimore Sun the city could save money by auctioning off the monuments.

“The city does want to remove these,” Pugh said. “We will take a closer look at how we go about following in the footsteps of New Orleans.”

New Orleans recently removed three prominent statues of Confederate figures – of President Jefferson Davis and two generals, PGT Beauregard and Robert E Lee – and a monument heralding white supremacy. The removals, mostly carried out overnight and with strict security, attracted protests and some arrests but not the widespread unrest some feared.

Continued: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/28/baltimore-remove-confederate-monuments-mayor-new-orleans


Oh, but how can this be? We heard on this forum that Maryland was one of the places the Union allowed to have slaves and they forced no decree on it.  Maryland was only the state where such Union stalwarts such as John Wilkes Booth were born.
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Re: Baltimore could follow New Orleans by removing Confederate statues
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2017, 04:30:59 pm »
Quote from: TomSea on May 30, 2017, 04:07:24 pm

Oh, but how can this be? We heard on this forum that Maryland was one of the places the Union allowed to have slaves and they forced no decree on it.  Maryland was only the state where such Union stalwarts such as John Wilkes Booth were born.

How?  You know how.  They ignore the parts of history they don't like.... and if all else fails... they erase those inconvenient parts and rewrite it to suit their agenda. 
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Re: Baltimore could follow New Orleans by removing Confederate statues
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2017, 05:52:29 pm »
This is getting straight up stupid.

What's next?  Are Liberals going to move the Mason-Dixon line to the Virginia and North Carolina Border and pretend they were never part of the South?
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Re: Baltimore could follow New Orleans by removing Confederate statues
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2017, 05:55:16 pm »
I visited the Jackson/Lee monument a few months ago.  It's right near a Union monument.

There's a disgustingly worded sign the city has put up in front of it.
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Re: Baltimore could follow New Orleans by removing Confederate statues
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2017, 06:01:47 pm »
I'd like to see them try to remove this one.........

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Re: Baltimore could follow New Orleans by removing Confederate statues
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2017, 06:03:08 pm »
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New Orleans recently removed three prominent statues of Confederate figures – of President Jefferson Davis and two generals, PGT Beauregard and Robert E Lee – and a monument heralding white supremacy. The removals, mostly carried out overnight and with strict security, attracted protests and some arrests but not the widespread unrest some feared.

The side that might be offended by such is not the side that riots. HTH
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Re: Baltimore could follow New Orleans by removing Confederate statues
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2017, 06:05:28 pm »
Quote from: mrpotatohead on May 30, 2017, 06:01:47 pm
I'd like to see them try to remove this one.........



Oh they have talked about it over the years.  I lived in Loganville/Snellville for many years in the 90's.   I loved Stone Mtn.
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Re: Baltimore could follow New Orleans by removing Confederate statues
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2017, 06:24:27 pm »
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Maryland, a slave-owning state, remained in the union during the civil war, which was fought from 1861 to 1865. Rawlings-Blake’s commission noted that though 65,000 Marylanders fought for the north, 22,000 fought for the Confederacy. The city of Baltimore contains only one public monument to the union.

A slave owning state? Neat! Where do I get one?
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Re: Baltimore could follow New Orleans by removing Confederate statues
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2017, 08:00:38 pm »
@TomSea
Another idiocy of this movement is the way P.G.T. Beauregard's statue was taken down in New Orleans, when, as Wikipedia states:

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He was active in the Reform Party, an association of conservative New Orleans businessmen, which spoke in favor of civil rights and voting for the recently freed slaves, hoping to form alliances between African-Americans and Democrats to vote out the Radical Republicans in the state legislature.
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Re: Baltimore could follow New Orleans by removing Confederate statues
« Reply #9 on: May 31, 2017, 01:32:05 am »
Quote from: mrpotatohead on May 30, 2017, 06:01:47 pm
I'd like to see them try to remove this one.........



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