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Someone poured red paint over a Confederate monument in Bolton Hill, defacing the 114-year-old statue during a weekend in which violence erupted at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va.
Baltimore police had not received reports of the vandalism, a spokesman said Monday afternoon. But red paint had drenched the statue of a dying Confederate soldier embraced by a winged figure of Glory. The soldier grips a Confederate battle flag, also smeared with red paint.
The confederate statue vandalized with red paint was erected by the state chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy in February 1903. The inscription reads “Gloria Victis,” meaning “glory to the vanquished.”
The monument stands on Mount Royal Avenue near Mosher Street.
In 2015, after a white man killed nine black church members in South Carolina, the monument was tagged with “Black Lives Matter” in yellow spray paint.
The people best equipped to punish those treasonous rebs lived 150 years ago, not in 2017. And they were punished. Those in power were imprisoned or executed, had their property (other than slaves) taken from them. Those who had any moderately desirable property were deprived of it by carpetbaggers who came down and took it. They were deprived of representation as the northerners saw to it that their agendas were pushed through in the south. And none of these actions as policy were necessarily undeserved. To the victor goes the spoils, and to the victor also goes the manner in which a nation heals itself after years of infighting. Those in power from 1865 through Reconstruction did some things well and some things poorly, but they dealt with it. And as their veterans came home, forgiven for their transgressions by the same folks they made war against, they tried to resume their lives, often finding that they didn't have one and had to start over by building fresh out west. These veterans continued to live and eventually died out, many drawing war pensions from the states for which they fought and sacrificed. And they were so honored with memorials in southern towns by the individuals they lived with. People who respected them. People who actually knew them. Go to any old town cemetery in the south where Confederate soldiers are buried and you will see the stars and bars planted by their gravestones. I guess there are a few folks who look at that and think, "Those damn negroes" while yelling at clouds in the sky, but most see that and think of that war and the unfortunate consequences it had for families of that town and the nation as a whole.
That's not to say they were all saints. Shit, our founding fathers weren't all saints either but we honor them all the same. Several of them owned slaves. But somewhere along the line "the south" has been blamed for every modern ailment in American society. The south didn't start slavery. It didn't codify it in the Constitution. It was an evil that existed long before 1861 and one that would've likely existed in the US another 20-30 years had there not been a Civil War. It certainly didn't exist due to Robert E. Lee or the average southern soldier as represented by the Durham statue. Getting POed over dumb monuments would be like me suddenly deciding to hate Turks and Austrians because of WW1.
A bunch of snot nosed college kids attempting to judge confederate soldiers 150 years past the context in which they lived is preposterous. Like this action is really making a positive difference in society. It's just an excuse to make trouble. The Nazi fucks don't try to cloak their actions in good intentions. Antifa and clowns like these kids tearing down these statues do. That's the primary difference between the two. Both are intolerant of viewpoints contrary to their own. They're both piss and vinegar and shit for brains.