Posted on 07/24/2020 12:55:21 AM PDT by knighthawk
House Democrats have passed legislation to remove 15 statues because of their connection to the Confederacy, slavery, or white supremacy, 13 of whom were Democrats.
“It’s time to sweep away the last vestiges of Jim Crow and the dehumanizing of individuals because of the color of their skin that intruded for too long on the sacred spaces of our democracy,” Steny Hoyer (D-MD), House Majority Leader, said in a Roll Call report on the legislation.
“The American people know, these names have to go. These names are white supremacists that said terrible things about our country,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said in a Just the News report.
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Who were the non-Democrats?
Democrats are trying to disappear their racist history.
Coincidence, just coincidence.
Zactly
There’s a reason all the bases they want to rename are in the South but don’t waste the electrons on idiots.
Robert E Lee and Edmund Kirby Smith, who had no known party affiliation. None of the statues were of Republicans. The very idea of the Republican Party was antithetical to the Confederacy.
When will the purification squad go after Robert “Kleagle” Byrd (D-KKK)?
I hate it when they pull the “but the parties switched places” crap. Like they want to claim credit for Republican Abraham Lincoln, and stick us with Democrat Robert Byrd (and all the others) because, you know, the parties switched places, so black is white and ignorance is strength.
“Who were the non-Democrats?”
Probably just more reliable Democrat votes, who registered as Independents or something, due to quirks in their districts, or their personalities.
Like Bernie Sanders.
“The bill calls for $5 million to be appropriated for the removal.” The Antifa method may be more econonmically efficient.
It is no longer about racism, statues and BLM its about the killing of our country, WE BETTER GET A HANDLE ON THIS QUICK
The Democrat party is the slave party and should be disbanded.
The irony is that the Dems are doing now what they did 100, 150 years ago. Stirring up race hatred to win votes. In the 1800s and early 1900s (all the way up to about 1970), they stirred up white hatred of blacks. Then they switched around and are stirring up black hatred of whites. The Dems put up those statues as political symbols as part of that strategy. Now they want to tear them down as part of the strategy. The Democrats always have been and always will be the Party of Race Hatred.
I suppose it isn’t really about Party, it’s about removing history, erasing the good things the status stood for.
And they all voted in every election.
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