Outrageous! Congress acts to remove bust of Dred Scott decision author, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney

[MAGA Macho Man]

I find this appalling. Chief Justice Roger Taney was an advocate for White civil rights. This is a travesty by removing this patriotic historical figure from the capitol. The founders and first Congress never intended for blacks to be citizens of the new country. Only White people. It should have stayed that way.

Congress acts to remove bust of Dred Scott decision author

The bust of a U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote an infamous decision on slavery could soon be leaving the Capitol

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[NewsVine_Mariyam]

I find this appalling. Chief Justice Roger Taney was an advocate for White civil rights. This is a travesty by removing this patriotic historical figure from the capitol.

Congress acts to remove bust of Dred Scott decision author

The bust of a U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote an infamous decision on slavery could soon be leaving the Capitol

www.ny1.com

LOL oh you've got jokes huh ?

 

[Doc7505]

I find this appalling. Chief Justice Roger Taney was an advocate for White civil rights. This is a travesty by removing this patriotic historical figure from the capitol. The founders and first Congress never intended for blacks to be citizens of the new country. Only White people. It should have stayed that way.

Congress acts to remove bust of Dred Scott decision author

The bust of a U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote an infamous decision on slavery could soon be leaving the Capitol

www.ny1.com

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My question to Democrats is when will they remove the statue of former KKK recruiter Robert Byrd from the Senate hall and change the names of his many federal buildings, bridges and road in West Virginia.

 

[MAGA Macho Man]

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My question to Democrats is when will they remove the statue of former KKK recruiter Robert Byrd from the Senate hall and change the names of his many federal buildings, bridges and road in West Virginia.

Great question!

 

[Darkwind]

 

[1srelluc]

They gonna dig up his grave too?

 

[SeaMajor7]

The demented LEFT's constant war on the past is a Marxist hallmark of their true nature....

 

[Moonglow]

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My question to Democrats is when will they remove the statue of former KKK recruiter Robert Byrd from the Senate hall and change the names of his many federal buildings, bridges and road in West Virginia.

Ask them then.

 

[Moonglow]

The demented LEFT's constant war on the past is a Marxist hallmark of their true nature....

I think they don't want reminders of tyrants and oppressors.

 

[Moonglow]

They gonna dig up his grave too?

They should be treated like Hitler.

 

[SeaMajor7]

I think they don't want reminders of tyrants and oppressors.

You neo-Marxists are the very tyrants you pretend to oppose.
Of course, self-awareness is not your strong suit.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

I think they don't want reminders of tyrants and oppressors.

Like Lincoln? Grant? FDR?

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

They should be treated like Hitler.

Who's "they", exactly?

 

[Moonglow]

You neo-Marxists are the very tyrants you pretend to oppose.
Of course, self-awareness is not your strong suit.

Then prove whom I have enslaved and abused for monetary gain. If not then I would suggest you sell yourself into slavery to find out how benevolent the system is.

 

[Moonglow]

Who's "they", exactly?

The leaders of the war who kept people in bondage.

 

[Moonglow]

Like Lincoln? Grant? FDR?

They did not enslave a race for monetary gain.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Interesting that not a single person from the right in this thread disagreed with the statement that only white people should be allowed to be citizens.

 

[easyt65]

Reminds me of how terrorists desroyed historical artifacts in the ME.

Wiping out evidence of your history and calling all past founding fathers and leaders racist, criminals, etc... allows those doing so the opportunity to reshape the country in their preferred Marxist image.

 

[BlindBoo]

I find it distasteful to hide such a disgusting chapter in our history of cruelty to man. We should learn from history not hide from it.

"Taney would have been on reasonably strong ground had he limited himself to upholding the district court’s decision based on the idea that status was to be determined by the states. Alternatively, he could have held that Scott was not entitled to sue Sanford in federal court on the basis of diversity of jurisdiction, because Missouri did not allow even free African Americans to be citizens. But Taney outraged much of the North by asserting that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States. The framers, in his view, did not regard African Americans as being among the “people” for whose benefit and protection the new government was founded, notwithstanding the perfectly general language of the Declaration of Independence and of the preamble to the Constitution."

Two justices, John McLean of Ohio and Benjamin R. Curtis of Massachusetts, wrote devastating critiques of Taney’s opinion. Curtis in particular undercut most of Taney’s historical arguments, showing that African Americans had voted in a number of states at the founding. “At the time of the ratification of the Articles of Confederation,” he wrote:

All free native-born inhabitants of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and North Carolina, though descended from African slaves, were not only citizens of those States, but such of them as had the other necessary qualifications possessed the franchise of electors, on equal terms with other citizens.

Thus, Curtis argued, they were members of the nation and could not now be denied the right to claim citizenship."

Dred Scott decision | Definition, History, Summary, Significance, & Facts

Dred Scott decision, legal case (1857) in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (7–2) that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory was not thereby entitled to his freedom, that African Americans were not and could never be U.S. citizens, and that the Missouri Compromise (1820) was...

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Reminds me of how terrorists desroyed historical artifacts in the ME.

Pretty sure they used explosives to destroy the artifacts, not vote on resolutions to remove them to other locations.

 

[Muhammed]

I think they don't want reminders of tyrants and oppressors.

The Democrats are simply trying to hide their sordid history. The Democratic party is simply trying to hide their party's racism again, kinda like when they wanted to tear down statues of their fellow Democrats in Charlottsville.

Taney was a hardcore member of the Democratic party of slavery and racism.