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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBaltimore could follow New Orleans by removing Confederate statues
Source: The Guardian and agencies
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Sunday 28 May 2017 22.14 BST
The mayor of Baltimore wants to explore the possibility of removing monuments to figures from the Confederacy, following in the footsteps of New Orleans.
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.
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A commission appointed by the previous Baltimore mayor recommended removing a monument to Roger B Taney, a Marylander who wrote the 1856 Dred Scott supreme court ruling that denied citizenship to African Americans, and a statue of two Virginians, Confederate generals Lee and Thomas Stonewall Jackson.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/28/baltimore-remove-confederate-monuments-mayor-new-orleans
bresue
(1,007 posts)Wasn't Maryland a union state?
teenagebambam
(1,592 posts)...was also a slave state. As a "border state" loyal to the Union, Maryland's slaves were not freed under the Emancipation Proclamation.
Sympathies were very divided during the war. I live in rural western Maryland, and society here still bears a lot of that division. It's a very curious place.
Panich52
(5,829 posts)from state song.
Maryland Moves to Finally Scrub Northern Scum From State Song NBC News 3/17/16
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/maryland-moves-finally-scrub-northern-scum-state-song-n541071
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)And fuck the deplorables who whine about it. I am eager for the day when little kids ask their parents about the barren plinth and their parents cannot remember whose despicable likeness once resided there.