BALTIMORE (WJZ)– A key panel voted to remove a statue of Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney from the grounds of the State House in Annapolis Wednesday.
The Baltimore Sun says the vote was done by e-mail and that three of the four-member State House Trust voted in favor of removing the statue of Taney, who was the author of the infamous Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery said black Americans could not become citizens.
Lt. Gov. Boyd Rutherford, House of Delegates Speaker Michael E. Busch and Charles L. Edson, who represents the Maryland Historical Trust, voted in favor of removing the statue.
It’s not clear how the fourth member, Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, voted. Miller said he does not support removing the statue, but he also would not try to block its removal.
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People are so ignorant. They can remove all statues everywhere, but it is not going to change history.
Statue lives matter!!
They are not trying to change history. They are trying to change our future by eliminating our traditions, beliefs, past, principles, etc. The things that made us who we are.
They tried to eliminate Christmas
They want to eliminate religion
They desecrate our flag
They want us to forget our gender
They want us to not think of abortion as not taking a life
What do you believe in? They are coming after that!
Statue of a Democrat who was Appointed by a democrat president and slave owner!!
To what end? What will removing this statue do to heal? People have hated for years regardless of statues, icons, and ideology. What happened in Charlottesville was the festering wound finally bursting open. What has changed since the civil rights movement and all that bloodshed. I am appalled at the bigotry and racism; skin heads and white supremacists have no place in our society. BUT...the left isn't squeaky clean either and the politically correct movement has stifled that. We can't have it both ways. People today did not live during the reign of slavery and only know about it from an historical perspective. It is just that, history, let it be and let's quit blaming each other.
They will burning all history books next.
Satans soliders are desperate the clock is running out
If we just go ahead and remove all this stuff, will they then just get work, get off of welfare, and do something constructive?
Satan is gathering all his people believe in Jesus and be saved!
I say vote to remove State House Trust members that voted for this removal.
Fahrenheit 451. Watch it.
8:05 Why wouldn't they? If no statues, no history, then no slavery. No slavery then no reparations right? No affirmative action. No MLK. No BET. No NAACP. No BLM. No excuses!
“Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it's in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there. Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution. Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Where does it stop?
Agree.... John 3 vs 16
Shame on us.
How about remove all Law and let us go at it with the radical left and let the best man woman trans left so standing win.
Great please remove the trash
If all of these Civil War statues are going to be removed then I think we should remove all of the statues relating to Martin Luther King, Harriet Tubman, and all the other black history statues.
Get to work on SHI* that counts. Playing "follow the leader" need not count as working for the people. Do you think this will get you re elected?
U R wrong!
If you remove it, may I suggest you reimburse the people who paid for it. AND pay for removal out of your own pockets. I know, I for one am sick of seeing this statue & being reminded of slavery! NOT! Don't even know where it is!
8:05, 7:10 & 8:27...Amen!
Larry Hogan's political career is toast. If you want to tell him how you really feel then go see him at Seacrets in Ocean City. He is scheduled to be there from 8 PM to 10 PM this Friday night.
#NotMyGovernor
I'd be willing to bet a large percentage of protesters have not one single brain cell among them that even knew who this man was. Sad that we can't get our legislature to act as quickly on other issues as this panel has acted on this one.
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