Let's think a little before tearing down some statues

[packman]

In Philadelphia, some idiots don't know or don't care what they attack ---

Baldwin was a devout member of the Presbyterian Church and a consistent donor to religious and secular charitable causes throughout his life.In 1824 he was a founder of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

In 1835, he donated money to establish a school for African-American children in Philadelphia and continued to pay the teachers' salaries out of his own pocket for years thereafter. Baldwin was an outspoken supporter for the abolition of slavery in the United States, a position that was used against him and his firm by competitors eager to sell locomotives to railroads based in the slaveholding South.

Baldwin was a member of the 1837 Pennsylvania State Constitutional Convention and emerged as a defender of voting rights for the state's black male citizens.

One of his last philanthropic efforts was the donation of 10% of his company's income to the Civil War Christian Mission in the early 1860s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_W._Baldwin

[hlthe2b]

1. HIstorians need to be speaking out vocally (since so few of our citizens seem to know any history)

or only learned a simplistic, propagandized, or bastardized form of history.

[SharonClark]

3. Most citizens were never taught history besides a couple of presidents and a couple of

battles. It's shameful. I became a history major in college because it was the one area of my K-12 education that I felt was the weakest.

It's too bad there wasn't some standing at the Baldwin statue to defend it and explain his history.

[Mariana]

2. I suspect that some of those "idiots" are white supremacists

and that they know exactly whose statues they are attacking, and why.

[GeorgeGist]

4. +1

of course they do.

[struggle4progress]

5. mobs suck