Posted on 08/22/2017 5:19:46 AM PDT by SJackson
For California Democrats, some statues are more unequal than others.
“If Republicans are serious about rejecting white supremacy,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a statement last week, “I call upon Speaker Ryan to join Democrats to remove the Confederate statues from the Capitol immediately.”
The 10 statues include Confederate General Robert E. Lee, Confederate States of America president Jefferson Davis, and vice president Alexander Hamilton Stephens. As the Washington Post noted, the Robert E. Lee statue dates from 1909 and the others arrived during the following 20 years, with Jefferson Davis and Confederate colonel James George joining their fellow rebels in 1931.
Southern Democrats played a major role in placement of these statues, which never drew protests from prominent Democrats such as Sen. Robert Byrd, a former Ku Klucker who became a mentor to Hillary Clinton. Tilting at statues is a new cause for contemporary Democrats, but California got something of a head start.
In 2014, governor Jerry Brown signed legislation that outlawed the sale or display of the Confederate flag on state property. In 2015, state senator Steve Glazer, Orinda Democrat, authored a bill to remove the names of Confederate political leaders and senior military officers from public schools, buildings, parks, roads and so forth.
As it turned out, Glazer’s bill would affect only two southern California schools. For Ben Boychuk, it amounted to “an attack on history itself,” but the conservative writer wondered why Glazer was not more inclusive.
For example, Henry Haight, California’s 10th governor, “was an unabashed racist and opponent of the post-Civil War reconstruction.” Even so, Haight has a school named after him and San Francisco’s Haight Street is named for the 10th governor and/or his banker uncle.
California’s purge-happy Democrats can also find fertile ground in Spanish colonialism, and on that theme the timing is good.
The same day South Carolina lowered the Confederate battle flag, Pope Francis apologized for “many serious sins against the native peoples,” of the Americas committed during European colonization. The Pope has a strong case for repentance because Spanish colonialism was built on enslavement of the native peoples they conquered.
Under the encomienda system, native peoples were part of the land grants the conquistadores gave to Spanish settlers. The native peoples were required to work for the encomenderos, who considered them property. The white Spanish imperialists were also unabashed racists who exploited slaves from western Africa for mining and agriculture.
The Spanish imperialists regarded all native peoples as heathen savages and sought to convert them to Roman Catholicism by any means necessary. The 1513 El Requerimiento drafted for King Ferdinand declares that the Pope rules all people. So convert or else the Spanish, with the help of God, will use force against you, “declaring war” by all possible means, and “enslave your persons, wives, and sons,” as the King sees fit.
Not much room there for negotiation, diversity, or democracy. And no separation of church and state.
California’s chain of religious missions is the direct legacy of Spanish colonialism. So are city names such as San Diego, Santa Ana, Santa Barbara and many others. Father Juan Crespi came up with El Rio de Nuestra Señora la Reyna de Los Angeles de Porciúncula, more commonly known as Los Angeles.
By the standards of the historical purge crew, these names are long overdue for fundamental change. Los Angeles could become Mickey Mouse City and San Diego the Navy Base City. San Francisco could opt for Sanctuary City and the state capital of Sacramento could be Politicianburg.
The change could start with Franciscan Father Junípero Serra, still hailed as the “founder of California.” The Golden State boasts scores of Serra statues, including one erected in 1976 at a rest stop on Interstate 280, also known as the Junípero Serra Freeway.
Those statues recall a legacy of imperialism, racism and slavery, and by the standards of Pelosi’s crew they should all come down. On the other hand, the statue of Harry Lundeberg should be left standing outside the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific in San Francisco.
Lundeberg was an “uncompromising foe of communism in labor” who battled it out with the Communist Party USA and Soviet agent Harry Bridges. One of Bridges’ biggest fans, as it turns out, is Nancy Pelosi.
In 2001, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, Pelosi wrote in the Congressional Record: “Harry Bridges was arguably the most significant labor leader of the twentieth century,” a man “beloved by the workers of this nation, and recognized as one of the most important labor leaders in the world.”
For the San Francisco Democrat, Bridges’ International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen's Union was “the most progressive union of the time.” The House Minority Leader never had second thoughts about celebrating her “favorite Stalinist,” as Joshua Muravchik put it. The Democrats have no problem with that, and faithfully keep Pelosi, 77, in a leadership role.
Robert E. Lee, meanwhile, commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant on April 8, 1965, and died on October 12, 1870. Lee also shows up in “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” by The Band. Maybe Nancy Pelosi’s Democrat purge squad will target that tune, even the version by Joan Baez.
“In 2015, state senator Steve Glazer, Orinda Democrat, authored a bill to remove the names of Confederate political leaders and senior military officers from public schools, buildings, parks, roads and so forth.”
This a$$hole is my State Senator. He was “supported” by the CAGOP who didn’t field a candidate. The CAGOP said he was a “conservative Democrat.” He ran against a female union representative. As is usually the case with RAT politicians, this feckless turd has a beard, is bald and wears round glasses. Hand him a banana and he his face looks like a baboon taking a crap. He’s really been big on gun control too. So much for his “conservative” credentials.. BTW, Orinda is over the hill from Berzerkley, and is “home” to many of the UC Berkeley “professors,”
“In 2001, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, Pelosi wrote in the Congressional Record: “Harry Bridges was arguably the most significant labor leader of the twentieth century,” a man “beloved by the workers of this nation, and recognized as one of the most important labor leaders in the world.”
For the San Francisco Democrat, Bridges’ International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union was “the most progressive union of the time.” The House Minority Leader never had second thoughts about celebrating her “favorite Stalinist,” as Joshua Muravchik put it. The Democrats have no problem with that, and faithfully keep Pelosi, 77, in a leadership role.”
Harry Bridges was an Australian Communist who lead bloody union riots in San Francisco right after the end of WWII. Most of the shipping has left SF, so the ILWU isn’t the troublemaker that it was back when Harry was it’s president.
Deport Pelosi as an undesirable.
Serious?
We fought and won a civil war against you. We opposed every bit of democRAT segregation and all your "Jim Crow" laws. We suffered under, opposed and defeated the KlanRATs.
You democRATs are responsible for every bit of suffering and misery of the American blacks from slavery to discrimination to the destruction of their family structure, to the murderous black-on-black crime rampant today.
Yeah...I'd say we're serious about rejecting the "white supremacy" that you perpetually and arrogantly blame on us. If blacks have a legitimate beef with anybody,it's the historic legacy of White-RATs.
No wonder you have such "white guilt".
Someone should remove a hand..to send a message...isn’t that how things are done these days?
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Democrat senator Chuckie Schumer's office space is named the "Robert C. Byrd Rooms" to honor the former democrat Ku Klux Klan member.
Did Pelosi demand that Schumer's offices be renamed?
Not yet.
Did anyone hear Pelosi demand the removal of all the Robert C. Byrd statues?
No - Not yet.
Robert Byrd Statue In The US Capitol
There are many, many buildings, highways and parks named after the Ku Klux Klan Keagle.
More than 50 buildings built with funds from US taxpayers are named for either Robert Byrd or his wife, Erma Byrd.
Will Pelosi be demanding that his name be removed from all of them?
List Of Places Named After Robert Byrd
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_after_Robert_Byrd
Anyone who wants to name everything after himself is immediately suspicious in my mind.
I don;t even like to donate to charities under my own name. I prefer to remain anonymous
Slashing humor combined with reality like this:
The Spanish imperialists regarded all native peoples as heathen savages and sought to convert them to Roman Catholicism by any means necessary. The 1513 El Requerimiento drafted for King Ferdinand declares that the Pope rules all people. So convert or else the Spanish, with the help of God, will use force against you, “declaring war” by all possible means, and “enslave your persons, wives, and sons,” as the King sees fit.
Not much room there for negotiation, diversity, or democracy. And no separation of church and state.
California’s chain of religious missions is the direct legacy of Spanish colonialism. So are city names such as San Diego, Santa Ana, Santa Barbara and many others. Father Juan Crespi came up with El Rio de Nuestra Señora la Reyna de Los Angeles de Porciúncula, more commonly known as Los Angeles.
By the standards of the historical purge crew, these names are long overdue for fundamental change. Los Angeles could become Mickey Mouse City and San Diego the Navy Base City. San Francisco could opt for Sanctuary City and the state capital of Sacramento could be Politicianburg.
They started it... let us finish it! Anyone for Los Angeles becoming Los Aliens ! Maybe San Francisco San Freakshow !!
“They started it... let us finish it!”
They have opened up a can of flesh eating worms with this slave bs. History can finish them, it they don’t drop this.
The following is copied from a post by Freeper 'native texan'
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Confederate soldiers, sailors, and Marines that fought in the Civil war were made U.S. Veterans by an act of Congress in in 1957, U.S. Public Law 85-425, Sec 410, Approved 23 May, 1958. This made all Confederate Army/ Navy/ Marine Veterans equal to U.S. Veterans.
Additionally, under U.S. Public Law 810, Approved by the 17th Congress on 26 Feb 1929 the War Department was directed to erect headstones and recognize Confederate grave sites as U.S. War dead grave sites. Just for the record the last Confederate veteran died in 1958. When you remove a Confederate statue, monument or headstone, you are in fact, removing a statue, monument or head stone of a U.S. VETERAN.
18 U.S. Code § 1369 - Destruction of veterans’ memorials
(a) Whoever, in a circumstance described in subsection (b), willfully injures or destroys, or attempts to injure or destroy, any structure, plaque, statue, or other monument on public property commemorating the service of any person or persons in the armed forces of the United States shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
(b) A circumstance described in this subsection is that—
(1) in committing the offense described in subsection (a), the defendant travels or causes another to travel in interstate or foreign commerce, or uses the mail or an instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce; or
(2) the structure, plaque, statue, or other monument described in subsection (a) is located on property owned by, or under the jurisdiction of, the Federal Government.
BFL
American Indian Tribes owned Slaves.
Time to close down every Indian Casino.
Especially politicians who brag about what they have accomplished by spending taxpayer money.
I think there should be a ban on the government naming anything after a politician - particularly when they are still alive.
Maybe allow some discussion of it after they are dead 50 years.
That would ensure that enough time has passed to give some historical perspective to their supposed 'contributions' (if any).
And just serving in elective office or spending taxpayer money do not qualify as worthy contributions!
And ENSLAVED them. Thus they're exempt from accusations of slavery. As are the Portugese in Brazil. And, of course, the Brits, who established slavery in their possessions, what is now the United States and throughout the Carribean. Lots of harm, no foul. The only evil is the period from 1776 (or 83) to 1865. 1619 to 1776 doesn't count when assessing "evil".
Not surprised Pelosi adores him. Does he have many statues?
Maybe they can pay reparations. Expulsion of natives and the reservation system began under Jackson. The first Democrat President. As the party of slavery, persecution of natives, and imprisonment of Japanese Americans, some Italian and German too, maybe Democrats should pay reparations.
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