Roger Taney Statue Removed From MD State House Overnight

[ehrnst]

Video footage shows crews hauling away from the Maryland State House a statue of Roger B. Taney, the U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision upholding slavery and denying citizenship to African Americans. News4's Justin Finch reports live from Annapolis.



http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Roger-Taney-Statue-Removed-From-MD-State-House_Washington-DC-440983433.html

[greeny2323]

1. Sweet!

I'm loving this.

[dalton99a]

2. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney: "No rights which the white man was bound to respect"

“In the opinion of the court, the legislation and histories of the times, and the language used in the Declaration of Independence, show, that neither the class of persons who had been imported as slaves, nor their descendants, whether they had become free or not, were then acknowledged as a part of the people, nor intended to be included in the general words used in that memorable instrument...They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit."

Throw that statue in the trash