Baltimore removed all of its Confederate monuments overnight
Given what happened in Charlottesville last weekend and the president’s latest not-so-tacit endorsement of white supremacists—in which he also expressed more concern about preserving monuments commemorating slave owners than the attacks on counter protesters by otherwise “fine people”—you might think that plans to remove statues dedicated to Confederate generals and the like have been temporarily shelved to prevent more violence from the so-called “alt-right.” But Baltimore is not playing with these neo-Nazis. After voting on Monday to take down monuments dedicated to Robert E. Lee, Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, and Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney (who wrote the majority decision on Dred Scott V. Sandford), the city executed the removals overnight, CNN reports.