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In reply to the discussion: Here are the Confederate Memorials Getting Removed In US Cities [View all]kwassa
(23,340 posts)31. He was chief justice for a long time. Not confederate, but extremely racist.
The WaPo has a good article about him in today's paper. There was quite an argument about adding his bust to the Capitol statuary back in the 1860s.
The issue to be decided before the Supreme Court was whether Scott, who had spent time in a free state and free territory, should remain enslaved or be set free.
The question is simply this, the Supreme Court Justice Taney wrote, Can a negro, whose ancestors were imported into this country, and sold as slaves, become a member of the political community formed and brought into existence by the Constitution of the United States, and as such become entitled to all the rights, and privileges and immunities, guaranteed by the instrument to the citizen? One of which rights is the privilege of suing in a court of the United States in the cases specified in the Constitution.
In a 7-2 decision against Scott, Taney declared that despite the fact that some states had given black people citizenship, black people were not and could never be citizens of the United States.
When the Constitution was ratified, Taney ruled, black people were 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 that the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his own benefit.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/08/16/removing-a-slavery-defenders-statue-roger-b-taney-wrote-one-of-supreme-courts-worst-rulings/?utm_term=.a493f936c047
Maryland was a split state, with many going to fight for the South.
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Here are the Confederate Memorials Getting Removed In US Cities [View all]
Julian Englis
Aug 2017
OP
Those statues were erected to "show the black man his place," to remind whites of a "glorious" past
Hekate
Aug 2017
#7
Oh but I do care. I think us not staking out a moral position will hurt us more in 2018.
SunSeeker
Aug 2017
#40
COLORADO petition to: Remove Sand Creek Massacres' Architect's Statue from State Capitol
CrispyQ
Aug 2017
#3
Sexist too, from the Daughters of the Confederacy no less, barefoot & nipples. . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2017
#23
What better time than when black soldiers returned from fighting WWI in Europe on America's ...
Hekate
Aug 2017
#47
I don't understand why Taney had a statue to begin with, or why he's considered "confederate"
Calista241
Aug 2017
#25
WWI was a hundred years ago. African American soldiers were returning home and needed reminding...
Hekate
Aug 2017
#48