Michael Pullen who has announced his candidacy for Maryland’s First Congressional District is calling for the removal of the confederate statue on the Talbot County Courthouse lawn.
The Eastern Shore Democrat said that it was time given the events in Charlottesville where a violent white nationalist rally left one dead and many others injured.
The Salisbury Daily Times reports that Pullen says that the Confederate statues represent men who divided the nation in the name of maintaining slavery.
The County Council voted to keep the statue known as “The Talbot Boys” despite pressure to have it removed.
Council President Corey Pack believes that the statue does not promote slavery but rather the values of the Confederacy.
