Proud of our representative
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is marking this Juneteenth, and the weeks of protest that have preceded it, by requesting the “immediate removal” from the U.S. Capitol of portraits of some very significant Confederate traitors—four of whom, in addition to serving in the Confederacy, were also speakers of the U.S. House.
Calling Juneteenth “a beautiful and proud celebration of freedom for African Americans” and noting that “this day comes during a moment of extraordinary national anguish, as we grieve for the hundreds of Black Americans killed by racial injustice and police brutality, including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and so many others,” Pelosi set down a marker.
“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 wrote in her letter to the clerk of the House...
Rob's comment:
Once again---and as always---proud to be represented in the People's House by Nancy Pelosi.
See also Columbus statue finally removed from Coit Tower.
Labels: Democratic Party, History, Nancy Pelosi, Neighborhoods, Racism
posted by Rob Anderson @ 12:35 PM
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By any chance were any of the removed portraits Democrats?
The reconciliation period between the north and south must now be officially over. We'll find out in November.
After Lincoln's administration the Republican Party was of course toxic in the racist South. Those portraits were of Democrats or proto-Democrats, the political party that dominated in the South until LBJ signed the Civil Rights bill in 1964, which, as he predicted at the time, allowed the Repugnant Party to become the dominant party in that part of the country, enabling Trump and that vile party to win the 2016 election, with the help of the Russians, of course.
My hope is that the vile, racist Repugnant Party is buried in a landslide in November, thus becoming just another minor neo-fascist political splinter group like the American Independent Party after George Wallace.
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