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Beau talks about the removal of a statue of Roger Brooke Taney, known for the infamous Dred Scott decision, and the importance of moving from symbolic gestures towards concrete actions to address historical injustices.
History buffs, activists, voters
Beau's emotional tone and full depth of analysis on the symbolism of statue removals and the need for tangible actions beyond symbolic gestures.
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Well, howdy there internet people, it's Beau again.
So today we are going to talk about statues and discuss yet another statue being removed.
One that is leaving the Capitol.
It's a statue of Roger Brooke Taney.
Now if you're not familiar with that name, that's okay.
His name is overshadowed by the name of a decision he wrote.
The Dred Scott decision.
If you're not familiar with this, it was a Supreme Court decision that basically held
that black Americans couldn't be citizens.
Was really what it was focused on.
But the language in that decision will live on forever.
It held that black people had no rights that white people were bound to respect.
Taney looked at the founding documents of this country as an agreement to keep a permanent
underclass.
He looked at phrases, philosophical phrases, that lovely flourishing language, all men
created equal, and didn't see it as a promise of a better day.
He saw it as an agreement to constantly and forever keep people down.
His statue is being removed.
His statue is being removed.
There will undoubtedly be people crying about moral relativism and historical relativism
and so on and so forth.
You don't have to do that with Taney.
Taney, his views are objectionable today.
They were also objectionable then.
This wasn't a period in time when there weren't a whole bunch of voices talking about how
far this country had strayed, how it isn't living up to those promises.
So it was removed by vote.
It's going to Biden.
I'm certain he'll sign it.
In a nice little bit of poetic justice for the justice, his statue will be replaced by
Thurgood Marshall, who if you don't know, was the first black associate justice of the
Supreme Court.
That's nice.
I like that.
It's a symbolic act.
It is a symbolic act.
The promises laid out in those founding documents are still not being lived up to.
There are a whole lot of people who do not have the benefits that were enshrined in those
promises.
But each symbolic act carries us closer to real action, tangible action, to write the
many things that this country has done.
Removing a statue because it is embarrassing, yeah, I get it.
Righting the wrongs, that's a whole lot better.
Anyway, it's just a thought. Y'all have a good day.
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