Well, howdy there internet people, it's Bow again. So today we are going to talk about statues

and discuss yet another statue being removed, one that is leaving the capital. It's a statue of Roger Brooke Tani.

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 Dread Scott decision.

If you're not familiar with this... the Dread 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. It 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.

Tawny Tani 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 Tani.

Tani.

Tani, 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

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