well if people want these statues start some petition and raise some money. Jeez...no one is stopping you
Where is the statue of the first person to legally own slaves in the Americas????
FYI - it was a black man.
Sorry to take over the job from others but this poster is a 100%, dyed in the wool, Blog Pimp.
This jerk joined in 2014 and has posted hundreds of topics that are never more than two sentences and a link to the same blog.
As the mayor of Baltimore, Nancy Pelosi’s father helped dedicate Confederate War memorials and monuments.
If the left wants to tear down all the Confederacy-related statues may bite them back now people can say there never was a civil war and slavery never happened.
On the back forty...where they belong /s
Let’s get this all over. Tear down DC and be down with it.
The article is well written, informative and succinct. Thanks.
Republicans’ claim to fame is a near comical inability to leverage a beneficial situation.
Here we are with the news, leftists, Dems all calling to hang some statues. This is not a problem, it is an opportunity.
What could be more appropriate to replace some of the statues than new ones made for the first black US Senator and first bunch of black US House members from shortly after defeating the South?
Destroying the confederate statues would be asinine. But some of them could be swapped - with great fanfare and historical notes - with these brave black Republicans.
According to the House of Representatives website, the first African Americans to serve in Congress were, in 1870, Senator Hiram Revels of Mississippi and Representative Joseph Rainey of South Carolina.
Of course today’s Democratic Party would consider them to be white racist Nazis because both were members of the Republican Party.
See: http://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/BAIC/Black-Americans-in-Congress/
Where’s the statue for Florence Prag Kahn, First Jewish female member of the U.S. Congress/U.S. House of Representatives?
Great question?
Nancy, you should blame the KKK and the Demoncrapic Party for the disparity.
FTA: where are the statues of prominent black Republican pioneers like Joseph Rainey or Hiram Revels?
The democtat/kkk party either tore them down or made sure none were erected. Meanwhile Robert Byrd - KKK recruiter and personal friend of Pelosi was made Majority leader in the senate by the democrat/kkk party.
Wiki: serving as Senate majority leader from 1977 to 1981 and again from 1987 to 1989.
Every black elected was a Republican, which is probably why you don’t see monuments to them in the formerly Democratic Solid South or in the nation’s Capitol building, where many statues were erected while Democrats controlled Congress.
Sounds like the same reason there are no statues of Clarence Thomas.