STATUES OF THE STATUS QUO: by Eric D. Graham
After protests turned violent in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday, as white supremacists clashed with counter-demonstrators, which a car ploughed into the crowd of anti-racist and anti-fascist protesters, Mayor Catherine Pugh of Baltimore, Maryland, in an overnight operation, removed Baltimore's high-profile statues linked to the Confederacy, using cranes and trucks to haul away monuments that honored Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Roger ...B. Taney, author of the Supreme Court's Dred Scott opinion.
But the question remains, should Ray Lewis's statue, which stands outside the M&T Bank Stadium be taken down as well?
Especially, after the iconic middle linebacker, who led the Ravens to two Super Bowls and also agreed to a plea bargain stemming from a 2000 stabbing that left two dead, last appearance on Undisputed with Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe, in which he didn't defend Colin Kapernick on his stance against police brutality-Bobbee Bee "The Hater"
