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Princess Turandot

(4,787 posts) Wed Aug 16, 2017, 02:31 AM Aug 2017

Holy cow. Baltimore apparently decided that enuf was enuf and took down the 4 confederate..

monuments there. They were already working on it but after Saturday, a city councilman filed a motion to take them down immediately.

Three of them:

Link to tweet

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Holy cow. Baltimore apparently decided that enuf was enuf and took down the 4 confederate.. (Original Post) Princess Turandot Aug 2017 OP

Baltimore has done the right thing. CottonBear Aug 2017 #1

Great! Hope this sparks more peacebuzzard Aug 2017 #2

Now this is the proper answer to the terrorism of Saturday. NutmegYankee Aug 2017 #3

Excellent news, ExciteBike66 Aug 2017 #4

CottonBear

(21,596 posts)

1. Baltimore has done the right thing.

Reply to Princess Turandot (Original post)

Wed Aug 16, 2017, 02:40 AM

Aug 2017

There one Confederate monument in my Southern town. It is right in the middle of the main downtown street.

Hopefully, it, along with the thousands of others across the South, will be removed from our public streets, parks and spaces over the upcoming year(s).