BALTIMORE — Leaders in Maryland are joining a call to remove Confederate emblems from state and local memorials and parks.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said she will proceed with changing the name of a popular park that bears the name of Robert E. Lee. It is the latest move to take down any signs of the Confederacy from public view in the wake of the church shootings in South Carolina.
Confederate symbols, particularly the flag, have been controversial and offensive to some for some time. But now, the move is on to make the symbols far less prominently displayed, much to the protest of those who say they just want to preserve part of the nation's history.
Now back from the West Coast, Rawlings-Blake said on Wednesday that she will agree with the request of Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz and begin the process of removing the name of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from the popular park the city owns off Falls Road.
The mayor said renaming the park is not as simple as switching a sign and will require a legal process to make the change.
"My administration is taking a look at how you make that happen. It's not just changing a sign out, but we are taking a look at it and I fully support the change," Rawlings-Blake said.
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14 comments:
So very wrong. History is a part of who and what we are. Renaming parks and taking away the conferedate flag is not going to change history . Being politically correct is a fad that society things they have to go along with, but it still does not negate the fact that history is history, like it or not.
Name it THUG park
Idiot mayor. She's almost worse than our idiot mayor.
This is not about 'doing the right thing'. This is about power. The progressive need for self-affirmation trumps other people's needs or desires. Also low-class blacks in positions of power that feel the constant need to spit on whitey. Disgusting.
Agreed
So let us all act like the Civil War never happened, nor did Pearl Harbor, the Holocaust, WWI & WWII or any other bad thing in the new politically correct, historically wrong world of today!
An attemp of the liberals to erase.the fact that States once had sovereignty and had no issues about fighting for it!
Stupid is as stupid does!
Did not the Confederate Flag could kill what caliber is it
9:20 Huh? You could be a politician.
Arlington National Cemetery is located on the farm that Robert E Lee owned during the Civil War. Is some liberal dingbat going to suggest we dig up all the graves because it's racist? I like most Americans refuse to push our history under the bus.
A deranged white person was finally pushed over the deep end by blacks, so he murders nine otherwise innocent people.
Response: erase every trace of dirty white heritage we can.
Seemingly otherwise normal black man murders nine white coworkers, states he wanted to kill more whites.
Response: None.
Are you listening Shore leaders!!! You know this is censorship marxist BS..please tell us you wont support this??
The Nation of Islam flag, African flag, Mexican flag and I can name other flags that in the same context the Liberals are using against the Naval Jack can be used against these flags so if the Politians remove the Naval Jack and other Southern Memorials then they have to continue and expand to these other Anti - American Flags / symbols
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