Talbot County council votes to keep Confederate statue (Baltimore, Frederick: house, land)

[NJ2MDdude]

The council has chosen to take the path less travelled.

https://wtop.com/maryland/2020/08/ta...md-courthouse/

A statue that honors Confederate soldiers will remain outside one Maryland county’s courthouse.

It comes after members of the Talbot County council voted 3-2 on Tuesday against a measure that would have led to the “Talbot Boys” statue’s removal. The statue, dedicated in 1916, commemorates the 84 soldiers from the county who fought for the Confederacy.

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During the meeting, those against the resolution claimed voters should be the ones to make the decision, not the council.

“This should be in the hands of the community, and not our hands,” said council member Chuck Callahan, a Republican.

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[bus man]

This is how this sort of thing should be decided; by the people, speaking through their representatives. Not by the whim of a mob.

[MrRational]

Originally Posted by NJ2MDdude

The council has chosen to take the path less travelled.

https://wtop.com/maryland/2020/08/ta...md-courthouse/

Feckless leaders.


Nope... Talbot doesn't get a pass either.
Not on the Court House grounds especially.

[westsideboy]

Originally Posted by bus man

This is how this sort of thing should be decided; by the people, speaking through their representatives. Not by the whim of a mob.

Yup.

[NJ2MDdude]

Originally Posted by MrRational

Feckless leaders.


Nope... Talbot doesn't get a pass either.
Not on the Court House grounds especially.

The statute itself simply memorializes the Confederate soldiers from Talbot County killed during the Civil War. Not sure why Union soldiers from Talbot County were excluded. There was a proposal to replace the statue with a new one that memorialized both Union and Confederate soldiers KIA, but that proposal failed.

The fact that the statute is on court grounds is irrelevant. This still would've been an issue. I note that there's also a statue of Frederick Douglass on the court grounds.

[MrRational]

Originally Posted by NJ2MDdude

The statute itself simply memorializes ...

Bull.


NONE of these statues should have ever gone up. Anywhere.
Those installed within a veterans cemetery is not an intolerable concession.
In front of a COURT HOUSE on public grounds is outrageous.

[NJ2MDdude]

Originally Posted by MrRational

Bull.


NONE of these statues should have ever gone up. Anywhere.
Those installed within a veterans cemetery is not an intolerable concession.
In front of a COURT HOUSE on public grounds is outrageous.

Tough luck.

The statute will remain in place in 2022, after which the general public may get to decide what to do with the statue.

What are you going to do if the GP then chooses to keep the statue on public grounds?

[bufflove]

Originally Posted by MrRational

Bull.


NONE of these statues should have ever gone up. Anywhere.
Those installed within a veterans cemetery is not an intolerable concession.
In front of a COURT HOUSE on public grounds is outrageous.

Bull, indeed. Kudos to Councilman Pack for trying to do what is right. To read that his mind had changed since '15 gives me hope. Progress might be obscenely, reprehensibly slow in some parts of the country, but bending towards justice is inevitable.

[BaltimoreBruiser]

During the meeting, those against the resolution claimed voters should be the ones to make the decision, not the council.

I agree with that. It's unfortunate, however, that in 2020 we still rely on archaic methods to vote for issues that could and should be decided outside of election years. But that's an entirely different argument lol

[bufflove]

Originally Posted by BaltimoreBruiser

I agree with that. It's unfortunate, however, that in 2020 we still rely on archaic methods to vote for issues that could and should be decided outside of election years. But that's an entirely different argument lol

If elected officials can simply throw up their hands and shirk responsibility over something as simple as a local confederate monument on public land (in the 21st freakin' century) then I don't understand their purpose in the first place.