Baltimore's Monuments Are Coming Back and leftists Ain't Happy
Baltimore’s controversial Confederate monuments return to the city
Baltimore’s controversial Confederate monuments return to the city
(They’re doing cartwheels in Baltimore trying to devise ways to keep Southern Heritage from public view or ‘contextualize it’ into obscure villainy like a kalifornia ‘art’ museum. Here’s a novel idea: Put them back! - DD)
(Wesley Case, The Banner) - Nearly nine years later, the splatters of red paint are still visible on Baltimore’s Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument — a scarlet reminder of the contentious, ongoing debate over the right and wrong ways that America remembers its history.
The statue is one of four city-owned monuments that made national headlines in 2017, when Mayor Catherine Pugh ordered their secret removal as cities around the country confronted statues that critics said glorified slavery and racism.
Since September, Baltimore has loaned the sculptures to “MONUMENTS,” a Los Angeles art exhibit designed to recontextualize what these divisive statues represent in today’s society.
With the exhibition now over, a question remains: What will happen to Baltimore’s controversial monuments upon their return home?
The city is still figuring it out.
As of now, the Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation (CHAP), the city-run organization responsible for preserving Baltimore monuments, “is collaborating with…
Baltimore leaders will be outraged by confederate statues coming back, but have nothing to say in regards to rampant crime and poverty in the city.
Now why look at statues of brave, Christian men of the South fighting to defend their women and children, and homes from a barbaric invasion when you can travel to California and pay tribute to leftist heroes like pederast homosexual Harvey Milk, or travel to Minnesota to pay homage to woman beating drug addict, thief George Floyd.