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Posted on 06/10/2020 7:35:47 PM PDT by bitt
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called for the removal of nearly a dozen Confederate statues of soldiers and officers, from the U.S. Capitol building Wednesday, following the death of George Floyd and dayslong protests against racial injustice nationwide.
In a letter to Joint Committee on the Library Chairman Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Vice Chair Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., Pelosi wrote, “The halls of Congress are the very heart of our democracy. The statues in the Capitol should embody our highest ideals as Americans, expressing who we are and who we aspire to be as a nation.”
Pelosi pointed out that two of the statues currently in National Statuary Hall, a landmark in the Capitol housing various historical members, are the statues of the president and vice president of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens – both of whom were charged with treason against the United States.
The speaker also noted Stephens infamous speech on the Confederacy, in which he stated, “Our new government is founded upon … the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition.”
“Monuments to men who advocated cruelty and barbarism to achieve such a plainly racist end are a grotesque affront to these ideals,” Pelosi wrote Thursday. “Their statues pay homage to hate, not heritage. They must be removed.”
Vice Chair Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., told Fox News, "I agree that the Joint Committee and Architect of the Capitol should expediently remove these symbols of cruelty and bigotry from the halls of the Capitol.
"I stand ready, and call on the Chair of the Joint Committee to swiftly approve the removal of these statues," Lofgren added.
Pelosi attempted to have the Confederate statues removed in 2017, appealing
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
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Nancy is invoking her USSR meme. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it
The vile, demonic Botoxian does everything it can to hurt the USA, its people, its economy, its history, its heritage, etc.
The day the Reaper sends this evil, nasty-azz thing back home to its Big Daddy in hell will be a great day for America.
Each state gets to choose the statues that are in Statutory Hall. States have changed the statues they want, but Congress, as a body, doesn’t get to choose.
WWRBD
What
Would
Robert
Byrd
Do
Remive Nancy Pelosi , by any means necessary .
Mighty nice place she has up there in Napa
This is all about keeping this country in turmoil. Real or imagined turmoil doesn’t matter, as long as we are all kept on the edge through the presidential election.
Pelosi urges Congress to remove Confederate statues in a letter
They must be very small statues.
Liberal historians & educators must be really proud of this Taliban jackass.
FUB!
>> Remive Nancy Pelosi , by any means necessary .
Titally agree
“The statues in the Capitol should embody our highest ideals as Americans, expressing who we are and who we aspire to be as a nation.”
Says a card-carrying member of the Slavery Party.
Let's use the systems the Constitution gave us... the ballot box is a good start.
Street thugs having public tantrums is the worst way
Found this. Reminds me of this old old song.
http://www.naacp.org/press/entry/naacp-mourns-the-passing-of-u.s.-senator-robert-byrd/
Round de meadows am a ringing
De darkeys’ mournful song,
While de mocking-bird am singing,
Happy as de day am long.
Where de ivy am a-creeping
O’er de grassy mound,
Dare old massa am a-sleeping,
Sleeping in de cold, cold ground.
Chorus:
Down in de cornfield
Hear dat mournful sound:
All de darkeys am a weeping
Massa’s in de cold, cold ground.
I want to see her in Carol Burnett’s GWTW costume, hand held high in the air, demanding the statues come down. While While Rhett Nadler looks at her and the Shoo Fly Pie longingly. As Prissy Waters drowns the solemn moment crying “I don’t know nothin’ ‘bout earnin’ wages!!!”
It could be EPIC...
They are coming to kill the America of History. They will not stop until every Founding Father is hated and removed from the face of the earth. Then they will come for your children and kill their souls. They will not stop until they have destroyed the world. Because Humanism, which makes man the center of all things and the source of all values, cannot and will not tolerate any notion of God. Humanism has a death wish. So they are in the process of destroying the greatest civilization the world has ever known, with the greatest prosperity, freedom and happiness, “Even though they have NOTHING to put in its place.” It’s suicide on a global scale this is the Event Horizon of the Soul. We are witnessing a new and terrifying Pall of Darkness descend on mankind.There will be Blood. And Fire. And Pillars of Smoke.
;^)
If that guy in Portsmouth, Va dies, Pelosi becomes an accessory to murder.
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