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Pelosi orders removal of portraits of ex-House speakers who served in Confederacy
Fox News ^ | June 18, 2020 | Marisa Schultz

Posted on 06/18/2020 9:59:30 AM PDT by jazusamo

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday ordered the removal of portraits in the Capitol of previous House speakers who served in the Confederacy as part of an effort to "appropriately observe Juneteenth" on Friday.

Pelosi said she discovered the four portraits as she was taking inventory in the Capitol of Confederate statues, which she is also trying to remove but can't do unilaterally.

"Tomorrow, Juneteenth, the clerk will oversee the removal of those Confederate speakers from the House," Pelosi announced at a press conference at the Capitol. "There's no room in the hallowed halls of this democracy, this temple of democracy, to memorialize people who embody violent bigotry and grotesque racism of the Confederacy."

Pelosi sent a letter to the House Clerk Cheryl Johnson requesting the removal of four previous House Speakers to honor Juneteenth, which is observed June 19 and commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States.

“To appropriately observe Juneteenth this year, I write today to request the immediate removal of the portraits in the U.S. Capitol of four previous Speakers who served in the Confederacy: Robert Hunter of Virginia (1839-1841), Howell Cobb of Georgia (1849-1851), James Orr of South Carolina (1857-1859), and Charles Crisp of Georgia (1891-1895),"...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: botox; charlescrisp; confederacy; confederatedemocrats; housespeakers; howellcobb; jamesorr; juneteenth; nancypelosi; pelosi; portraits; removeportraits; roberthunter; sanfrancisco; sanfrannan
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To: jazusamo

We’re going to tear down her portrait in the Capitol the first chance we get...


61 posted on 06/18/2020 10:51:34 AM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: jazusamo

3 of the 4 were Democrats. One was a Whig.


62 posted on 06/18/2020 10:56:32 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: mrsmel

I would sort of think I included him in

ANY & ALL who were in Congress/Senate that had ties to KKK or such


63 posted on 06/18/2020 10:57:12 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: jazusamo

I hope one of the statues falls over on her. She’s a despicable, race-baiting, vile woman.


64 posted on 06/18/2020 11:01:17 AM PDT by bluerose
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To: LoveMyFreedom

She is also a class A female dog!!


65 posted on 06/18/2020 11:03:35 AM PDT by MagUSNRET
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To: jazusamo

She couldn’t get the statues on her own as much as the little wannabe dictator wishes she could, so she had to settle for this pathetic pander.


66 posted on 06/18/2020 11:04:58 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: jazusamo

Pelousy is obviously suffering the effects of being dropped on her head. She gets more and more bizarre every day. I am still laughing at the kente cloth virtue signalling stunt. How asinine, to see a bunch of mostly white scumbag politicians kneeling and wearing African cloth. The native-born American blacks have no real connection to Africa either, so seeing them with those stupid scarves was immediately filed under, “Can you believe that?” The whole thing was just a stupid stunt.


67 posted on 06/18/2020 11:05:22 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: jazusamo

The Botox has done rotted her brain.

Or the alcohol...?

5.56mm


68 posted on 06/18/2020 11:07:54 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! Finish THE WALL!)
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To: jazusamo

I thought we gave everyone but Davis a pardon?

Reconciliation clearly is not on her mind.


69 posted on 06/18/2020 11:10:30 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: jazusamo

Let me guess, what party did these speakers belong to?


70 posted on 06/18/2020 11:13:59 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Vermont Lt

I think I remember Davis getting a posthumous pardon during the Carter administration.


71 posted on 06/18/2020 11:15:55 AM PDT by Reily
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To: jazusamo

Maybe the capitol building should be torn down since no one there represents the people. They just steal our tax dollars.


72 posted on 06/18/2020 11:18:02 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: Political Junkie Too

The Court will say you don’t have standing to bring the suit.


73 posted on 06/18/2020 11:20:05 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: ptsal

Hey, I’m all for Texas going back to being a republic.


74 posted on 06/18/2020 11:22:26 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: jazusamo

While we are at it let’s ban the DNC for their involvement with the Confederacy


75 posted on 06/18/2020 11:23:29 AM PDT by vigilante2 (Make liberals cry again)
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To: jazusamo

When did we start observing Juneteenth?

I’ve heard of it but it was never a “thing”


76 posted on 06/18/2020 11:40:15 AM PDT by hattend
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To: hattend

Beats me, I had to look it up a few days ago to see what it was and now it’s supposedly a big thing.


77 posted on 06/18/2020 11:44:27 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: mrsmel
"What about Robert Byrd?"


78 posted on 06/18/2020 11:44:50 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: jazusamo

The Democrats suppressing knowledge of their own history. Later they will claim all these people were Republicans.


79 posted on 06/18/2020 1:01:13 PM PDT by Salman (The DNC are outsourcing secret police functions to private contractors.)
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To: jazusamo

Pelosi might as well remove the portrait of EVERY house speaker prior to the emancipation.

Please remember the Civil was not fought (initially) over slaves.

ALL Union states were slaving states.

That is why the underground railroad bringing escaped slaves to freedom went to Canada, because any escaped slave caught in Union states would be re-enslaved.

It is only when the war dragged on, and given the larger population of slaves in the Confederacy, that the Union attempted to cause them to rebel in several southern states by offering black slaves their freedom.

So the FIRST emancipated states were Confederacy states, not Union states.

What is all the BS and history re-writing that says that the Union and the North were not slavers?

In fact the Union states were even worse, they were the slave traders that bought and brought the slaves in ships from overseas, many slaves dying in the process.

We must thank god, that perceptions changed over the war and for the genius of President Lincoln. Grudgingly the Union as a whole came to accept the freedom of slaves and that dark page in our history was over.


80 posted on 06/18/2020 1:50:37 PM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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