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BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore's mayor says she wants to explore removing the city's Confederate monuments, "following in the footsteps of New Orleans."
Mayor Catherine Pugh tells (http://bsun.md/2qx3nQd) The Baltimore Sun that the "city does want to remove" the monuments, and could save money by auctioning them off.
New Orleans recently removed three prominent Confederate statues and a monument heralding white supremacy. A commission appointed by the previous mayor recommended removing a monument to Marylander Roger B. Taney, the Supreme Court justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision denying citizenship to African-Americans, as well as a statue of two Virginians — the Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson.
Instead, former Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake put up signs calling them propaganda designed to falsify history and support racial intimidation.
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