{"id":16727,"date":"2017-08-23T18:39:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T01:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=16727"},"modified":"2017-08-23T18:39:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T01:39:02","slug":"on-rotten-legacies-from-people-who-were-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2017\/08\/23\/on-rotten-legacies-from-people-who-were-people\/","title":{"rendered":"on rotten legacies from people who were people"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 What is Maryland to do about this Roger Taney statue<\/a>, the man — Supreme Court Justice — best known for authoring the Dred Scott Decision?\u00c2\u00a0 In a previous bout of statue removing, they decided to “compromise” by sticking up fellow Marylander and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall statue.<\/p>\n

I tend to want to keep these things up, and contextualize them… maybe change the meaning of what the heck a statue is representing, though I suppose that means a degeneration of the Marshall statue.\u00c2\u00a0 Here they are — Supreme Court Justices from Maryland!<\/p>\n

Which, theoretically, would have put me on the side for now embattled Maryland state Senator Mike Miller<\/a>, except then he’ll lob this at us…<\/p>\n

Miller, an avid reader of history, also defended Taney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s character, describing him as a man with a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153complex\u00e2\u20ac\u009d past.<\/em>
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unlike George Washington who freed his slaves upon his death, Taney freed his slaves early in his life,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the letter said.<\/em>
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Roger Brooke Taney was not a Confederate officer and he remained loyal to the Union until his death in 1864,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Miller wrote. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Many historians have debated the conflicting anti-slavery words and works of Roger Brooke Taney.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

Might be an interesting subject for a book, I suppose, in exploring the what of the great compromises upon compromises in societal racism on not wholly evil men.\u00c2\u00a0 But put it this way — the founder of the Ku Klux Klan — or, something of some early key figure — ended up denouncing the entity<\/a> as it turned to a more violent vigilance and into the role as military wing of the Democratic Party.\u00c2\u00a0 All very interesting. Not worth venerating or celebrating the guy.\u00c2\u00a0 His statues must go… as they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting.\u00c2\u00a0 What is Maryland to do about this Roger Taney statue, the man — Supreme Court Justice — best known for authoring the Dred Scott Decision?\u00c2\u00a0 In a previous bout of statue removing, they decided to “compromise” by sticking up fellow Marylander and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall statue. I tend to want to keep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16728,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16727\/revisions\/16728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}