{"id":352041,"date":"2021-03-30T17:01:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T21:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=352041"},"modified":"2021-03-30T17:01:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T21:01:14","slug":"maryland-legislature-votes-to-repeal-state-song-over-ties-to-confederacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maryland-legislature-votes-to-repeal-state-song-over-ties-to-confederacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Legislature Votes To Repeal State Song Over Ties To Confederacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmaryland-legislature-votes-to-repeal-state-song-over-ties-to-confederacy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=352041&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4607.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Maryland legislature voted on Monday to repeal the state\u2019s fight song over its connections to the Confederacy.<\/p>\n<p>The song, titled \u201cMaryland, My Maryland,\u201d is adapted from an 1861 poem by James Ryder Randall, a Confederate sympathizer. The song is a call to arms against the Union, refers to the Union states as \u201cNorthern scum\u201d and derides former President Abraham Lincoln as a despot.<\/p>\n<p>State lawmakers have been pushing to repeal the Civil War era ballad since 1974. The Senate passed a motion repealing the song in a 45-0 vote, and the House took up the measure and passed it on Monday 95-38, sending it to GOP Gov. Larrry Hogan\u2019s desk, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/30\/us\/maryland-state-song.html\">The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hogan has not yet said whether he intends to sign the bill or not, though he has said that he does not like the song.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see any problem with it,\u201d Hogan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/md-politics\/maryland-state-song-repealed\/2021\/03\/22\/7a88fda4-89e8-11eb-bfdf-4d36dab83a6d_story.html\">said<\/a> when asked about the bill earlier this month. \u201cAnd I never liked the song in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The effort to repeal the state song gained enough support to pass the legislature in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s death in Minneapolis in May of last year, and the national protests and riots that followed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has stained the pages of our law for too long,\u201d Democratic House Speaker Pro Tempore Sharee Sample-Hughes said earlier this month. \u201cThe passage of this legislation is one more way that we can, as a state, take a stand on racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Sen. Cheryl C. Kagan said that resistance from the previous Senate president, Democrat Thomas V. Mike Miller Jr., was why the song had not been repealed earlier. Miller was the longest serving state Senate president in U.S. history. He resigned his post in early 2020 and died in January.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been a long battle between those who are offended by the lyrics and those who perceive it as an important aspect of preserving history,\u201d Kagan said. \u201cPresident Miller fell on the history side. He was an avid historian and it was a challenge to get it past him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Floyd died in police custody after one of the arresting officers kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes. The chief medical examiner for Hennepin County found potentially lethal amounts of drugs, fentanyl and methamphetamines, in Floyd\u2019s body during an autopsy. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/medical-examiner-concluded-george-floyd-likely-died-of-fentanyl-overdose-court-docs-reveal\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"24.765135699374\">\n<p><em>New court documents have uncovered two memorandums, dated May 26 and June 1, that suggest Chief Hennepin County Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker concluded George Floyd likely died from a fentanyl overdose and found \u201cno physical evidence suggesting\u201d that he died of asphyxiation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAB (Andrew Baker) said that if Mr. Floyd had been found dead in his home (or anywhere else) and there were no other contributing factors he would conclude that it was an overdose death,\u201d says a memo dated June 1, outlining a May 31 virtual with Dr. Baker.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The memos seemingly run contrary to the&nbsp;Armed Forces medical examiner and Hennepin County medical examiner\u2019s final conclusion that Floyd\u2019s death was a homicide.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHis death was caused by the police subdual and restraint in the setting of severe hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, and methamphetamine and fentanyl intoxication,\u201d the Armed Forces medical examiner found,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/court-filings-medical-examiner-thought-george-floyd-had-fatal-level-of-fentanyl-in-system\">according<\/a>&nbsp;to FOX 9.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-charges-facing-derek-chauvin-and-what-it-will-take-to-convict-him\">The Charges Facing Derek Chauvin, And What It Will Take To Convict Him<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maryland legislature voted on Monday to repeal the state\u2019s fight song over its connections to the Confederacy.The song, titled \u201cMaryland, My Maryland,\u201d is adapted from an 1861 poem by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311409,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4607.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Maryland Legislature Votes To Repeal State Song Over Ties To Confederacy","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-4607.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Maryland Legislature Votes To Repeal State Song Over Ties To Confederacy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}