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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We need to remove Democrats since they were the party of slavery!
Why doesn’t Nancy tell us about how her family has enslaved California?
She had lost it! Insanity!
I bet she isnt removing Robert Byrd
This, THIS, is Bullsh**t!
Why doesn’t Nancy tell us about how her family has enslaved California?
Any word about Byrd there, Pelousy? Your KKK mentor?
Robert Byrd?
Is she gonna get rid of the portrait of her Confederate loving Daddy, or is that one off limits..cant have it both ways Botox Queen
Yep, when I saw the title of this article the first thing I thought of was Robert Byrd.
“...violent bigotry and grotesque racism of the Confederacy.”
Huh? Slavery wasn’t the ONLY issue then and there honey.
-PJ
Can we remove the ones of those who shot themselves up with botulism poison?
Democrats all.
WRONG... on ALL levels. ZERO political acumen.
In her own right she’s a zero
She only exists in terms of what she HATES... then she has an identity-otherwise she’s a non-persona.
I think that means “out-of-touch”...and maybe she just lost the ‘south’ on election day.
Some serious PATHOLOGY goi’n on there
Is she trying to out-Stalin Stalin? Maybe she will start paint shopping some of the other portraits to fit her personal view of History.
JUST like Islam. They can't stand their own history so they burn it. Ignore their problems and drink do drugs (heroin and opium) heavily
Pelosi is a looney tune.
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merry melodies keep running through her gourd.
I guess she will next require ANY & ALL who were in Congress/Senate that had ties to KKK or such will have their pictures/plaques/names etal removed from the ‘permanent record’?
Next she can go after ANY & ALL who have been accused of sexual harassment since we all ‘know’ that ANY woman that accuses a man is to be believed unequivocally.
Still waiting for the list of ‘trusted public officials’ that used the ‘slush fund’ to pay off ‘victims’ of sexual abuse etc.
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