text: I thought the Baltimore Mayor and City Council believed that by pulling down statues of 19th century figures, all the homicides, rapes, aggravated assaults, robberies, homelessness, drug addiction, drug trafficking, illiteracy, etc. would cease?  Their public "exorcism" of reviled historical figures is just revisionist history. Particularly, Taney who was a Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Taney was the first Catholic appointed to SCOTUS. He was a Democrat. He'd also been the U.S. Attorney General under Andrew Jackson. The same Jackson who famously built the modern day Democratic party but is today dismissed as just another "racist POTUS" by the same Democratic Party. 
  
  So much history to revise, so many books to burn, so many statues and artwork to plunder....so little time.