Nobody has ever accused a social justice warrior of being brave, or smart. Baltimore mayor steals public property in the stealth of the night, from Baltimore Sun [1]:
Confederate statues in Baltimore were removed from their bases overnight by city contractors, who used heavy machinery to load them onto flat bed trucks and haul them away — an abrupt end to more than a year of indecision on what to do with the memorials.
Mayor Catherine Pugh, who made the decision Tuesday morning to remove the monuments overnight, watched in person as the four statues linked to the Confederacy were torn from their pedestals.
I am not in awe of the late Bobby (Robert E.) Lee as a military strategist. However Bobby Lee was no Nathan Bedford Forrest. Lee attacked military combatants in board daylight. You can’t say so much for Mayor Pugh.
Reax, Professor Althouse [2]:
And doing it under cover of darkness suggests that it’s something shameful that needs to be hidden. If you can’t do it proudly, by daylight, you’re not ready to do it.
Social justice warrior pretend to hate confederates. Well there are 482 former confederates entombed in Arlington National Cemetery [3]. Are these social justice cowards going to come for these Americans and well?
If honoring an vowed and unapologetic racist is now a mortal since, take down with the structure, or rename, every single thing named for Bobby “Sheets” Byrd which was paid for with public tax dollar, a very partial list from Wikipedia [4]:
Robert C. Byrd Appalachian Highway System, Appalachian Development Highway System in West Virginia[9][10][19]
Robert C. Byrd Bridge, crosses the Ohio River between Huntington, West Virginia and Chesapeake, Ohio[6][9][10][19]
Robert C. Byrd Bridge, Ohio County, West Virginia[19]
Robert C. Byrd Drive, West Virginia Routes 16 and 97 between Beckley and Sophia, West Virginia[6][10]
Robert C. Byrd Expressway, United States Route 22 near Weirton, West Virginia[6][9][10]
Robert C. Byrd Freeway, United States Route 119 between Williamson and Charleston, West Virginia (also known as Corridor G)[6][9]
Robert C. Byrd Highway, United States Route 48 between Weston, West Virginia and the Virginia state line near Wardensville, West Virginia (also known as Corridor H)[6][19]
Robert C. Byrd Interchange on Interstate 77[9]
Robert C. Byrd Interchange on United States Route 19, Birch River, West Virginia[9][19]
Robert C. Byrd Intermodal Transportation Center, Wheeling, West Virginia[9][10]
Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam, Ohio River in Gallipolis Ferry, West Virginia
These only the transportation projected named for Sheets Byrd.