Posted on 06/18/2020 8:45:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
On Thursday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi ordered the removal from the Capitol Building of four portraits of former Democratic House speakers who had ties to the Confederacy. Robert Hunter of Virginia, James Orr of South Carolina, Howell Cobb and Charles Crisp of Georgia. The removal of the portraits is the latest meaningless gesture from the speaker and Democrats following the death of George Floyd.
Pelosi sent a letter to House Clerk Cheryl Johnson ordering the removal of the four portraits in observance of Juneteenth, an unofficial holiday commemorating the Republican's emancipation of the last slaves in the Confederacy.
"There is no room in the hallowed halls of Congress or in any place of honor for memorializing men who embody the violent bigotry and grotesque racism of the Confederacy," Pelosi proclaimed.
Just hours after Pelosi's letter to the House clerk, the portraits were taken down and carried away.
Pelosi claims she didn't know the former speakers had ties to the Confederacy until it was pointed out to her by a Capitol curator, ABC News reported. Wait until she learns the history of her own political party.
When exactly will the Democratic Party -- which defended slavery, the Confederacy, and, most recently, segregation -- be removing itself from the Capitol?
The Capitol has a lot of other portraits and symbols in its halls that surely the left finds problematic. Former generations will never be as woke as today's radicals. Historic symbols don't tell us where our nation is headed. They tell us where it's been.
Widespread outrage following the death of George Floyd has been politically weaponized into amorphous accusations of so-called systemic racism, white privilege, and white supremacy. We still don't know what motivated former officer Derek Chauvin to treat George Floyd the way he did. Maybe there was personal animosity between the two from when they worked together at a nightclub.
Tearing down statues and erasing our history accomplishes nothing other than making people like Nancy Pelosi even more ignorant about their nation's history than they already were.
there is no room in the hallowed halls of Congress or in any place of honor....
What a joke. There’s more “honor” in a two dollar whorehouse than there is in the “hallowed halls” of congress.
No doubt! Maybe his obscurity, and their ignorance, will work in his favor.
She’d do better getting rid of some of the live Democrats sitting in Congress today.
I don’t know how she can lie the way she does. It is very disheartening when you were taught to be honest and good and the leaders and role models we have today are such trash.
It makes me sad whats the point anymore to be good?
Good - Democrats were responsible for Jim Crow, Democrats were the original segregationists, Democrats were the ones who had the KKK show up for their nominating convention back in the day - the next Republican speaker will have a good precedent to remove the portraits of *all* of the Democrat speakers.
If we’re going to have collective legacy guilt there’s no point in going half-way with it.
Yup.
You’re preaching to the choir(me, that is.). Try making your point to all the Confederates here.
Well I guess that makes any law passed by a Congress they headed up is null & void.
The Minority should tell the Taliban bitch to go FO.
This goofy ditzy excuse for a woman is doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for the American people.
She's feigning that REMOVAL of these portraits is doing something supposedly beneficial.
She may as well be removing old shoelaces from old shoes.
We have plenty Freepers not one what different from Nancy Pelosi
Strangely silent now
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Will it be ‘slow walked’ and not happen for a MONTH ???
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Pelosi is Stalin air brushing the inconvenient out of the Democrat picture of reality.
I noticed the portraits were removed swith care. Shouldn’t these symbols of oppression be destroyed?
There must be a way to teach "not naive," but people tend to learn that lesson the hard way.
Our government is fundamentally dishonest and corrupt.
How can she erase the history of voting against the black communities on civil rights laws. She is going to try hiding more than Biden.
In 1793, Mrs. Pelosi would have been in the stands knitting as the blade dispatched young women, unfortunate to have been born into families once significant in French history.
See my #38
Nancy Pelosi Orders Confederate Portraits – All Democrats – Removed from U.S. Capitol
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