Commission continues talks of removing city's Confederate monuments (MD)
Nate Croll
October 29
... Pousson, the director of preservation and outreach at local nonprofit preservation organization Baltimore Heritage Inc., provided exhaustive evidence linking the Confederate memorials throughout the city to the long-running narrative of racist, revisionist history which is the hallmark of the “Lost Cause” and Neo-Confederate movements ...
... Loewen .... asserted that the statues should be removed “because they state something about the influence of the Confederacy, or Neo-Confederates . . . and their still being on the landscape implies that we’re still like that." This reasoning is hard to fault given the shrinelike status the memorials have achieved with contemporary Neo-Confederate groups, some of which have taken to holding rallies at the Jackson-Lee Memorial every Martin Luther King Jr. weekend ...
Because of the protected status granted to three of the four memorials by Historic Easements, it’s still unclear how quickly alteration or removal of the monuments could be implemented, but the commissioners stated that the Maryland Historical Trust Easement Committee is being kept abreast of the commission’s progress ...
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