Posted on 08/21/2017 8:57:19 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s father, the late former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., once lauded Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson at a monument dedication ceremony in his city over half a century ago.
The statues were torn down by Baltimore authorities last Tuesday after the violent events surrounding the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, Va. last week.
According to The Baltimore Sun, the statue, first erected in 1948, included a dedication ceremony of prominent city politicians like Pelosi’s father who led the municipality at the time.
At the dedication, D’Alesandro said of the monument, “Today, with our nation beset by subversive groups and propaganda which seeks to destroy our national unity, we can look for inspiration to the lives of Lee and Jackson to remind us to be resolute and determined in preserving our sacred institutions.”
D’Alesandro was joined by fellow Baltimore resident J. Henry Ferguson, who donated the funds to build the monument and whose father was an ally of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
“They were great generals and great Christian soldiers,” Ferguson said during the ceremony.
More recently, Pelosi herself called for the removal of all confederate statues in the nations’ capitol.
“The Confederate statues in the halls of Congress have always been reprehensible,” Pelosi said in a statement. “If Republicans are serious about rejecting white supremacy, I call upon Speaker Ryan to join Democrats to remove the Confederate statues from the Capitol immediately.”
The Washington Post notes there are 12 Confederate statues in the Capitol and it is the decision of each state as to whether to replace the statue that is representing their state.
Impeach that loon STAT!
Well recall at least.
Well well well
Pelosi needs to have her white privilege checked.
Guilt by association.
Calls for her resignation in 3..2..1...
OMG - not only were they white, they were Christian !!!!
Also on tape: Bill Clinton going on and on about what a great guy Byrd was, he is to be "admired", etc.
Sean Hannity plays these videos very often on his FNC show...
That is back in the old days when the Democrats were using Confederate symbols to rally their white Southern base. Now that they’ve done a 180 on that issue, they want to erase their part in constructing these monuments.
I wonder if liberals stand for anything that is not the issues du jour...it’s good, no it’s bad, we need to take it down, what’ll happens next? Oh it’s great we need to honor Robert E. Lee, he was a great American...the symbol of Liberals should be a weathervane...
I don’t understand why on earth trump and the republicans aren’t calling the democrats out on their racist history and the founding of the kkk in serious way.
I remember seeing a Clinton lapel button with the rebel battle flag behind him. He was running for Governor at the time.
But that’s ok, he is a demonrat.
..and of course no one among the BLM crowd remembers Robert “Sheets” Byrd.
But we can not give her treachery a pass, just because her father knew right from wrong.
Mrs. Pelosi marches to a different drummer than most Americans. Compulsion For Uniformity
When will the pro Antifa Libs in Congress and the Media deep six this bs and move to some other acts of sedition against our president and his voters, us?
Their Russia/Russia bs seems to be slowly disappearing.
Too rich !!!
LOL
-PJ
But not before her father repudiated her by saying prophetically:
“Today, with our nation beset by subversive groups and propaganda which seeks to destroy our national unity, we can look for inspiration to the lives of Lee and Jackson to remind us to be resolute and determined in preserving our sacred institutions.”
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