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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I’m ASSUMING the cumb dunt didn’t have a Bonfire of the Vanities on the steps of the Capital, however...
Nan there is no place for traitors like you.
How odd - all these speakers were Democrats. lol...
“Capitol”
American Taliban
Juneteenth ... because let’s just celebrate collective stupidity. Why not go all in and call it “Juneteemf”?
She doesn't realize that the torpedo she has fired will eventually seek her out and sink her vessel, the demonicRAT Party. Just like that Russian submarine captain in Hunt for Red October.
Charles Crisp was around 16 years old when the Civil War broke out. For signing up as a teenager he becomes an Unperson.
Isn’t that something like the people’s house too what are we going to put in its place Robert Byrd
>>>I think that means “out-of-touch”...and maybe she just lost the ‘south’ on election day<<<
Hate to break the News to you, but there are plenty of Democrat Voters in the South. The only difference between them and the Pelosi Liberals is that Southern Liberals are Polite.
If Heels up Harris is Biden’s VP Choice, they will get 99% of Black Viters in the South. If not, it will only be 95%.
Don’t doubt me...
Entirely consistent, when you see that the decoration in the House of two enormous fascses book-ending the Speaker’s seat!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces
She is actually THE fascist leader, as represented by her office of decoration.
Every dem speaker from the last 50 years that supported abortion’s racist agenda against blacks......Annnnd yes Nancy,that would include you....
Had to fix that for Fox
She’s probably going to probably take them home with her since they were all probably democrats. Maybe she can have some refrigerator magnets made up with them.
Maybe they should rename “The Peoples House” to “Pelosi’s House”.
Why not tear down the large portions of the U.S. Capitol designed by Jefferson Davis?
With media backing, Pelosi now has the power to complete the mission of the fourth 9/11 airplane.
She didn’t think this through because I’d bet the majority were racist Democrats. Old Sam Rayburn was a real piece of work. LBJ loved that POS.
Along those lines ANTIFA is the modern day KKK.
Well-I’m thinking of all the people I have ever met from the south and who (politics aside) positively revere their Civil War heroes.
Almost a religion with those guys
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