Posted on 07/22/2020 8:50:19 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The House voted Wednesday to approve legislation to remove statues in the Capitol of people who served the Confederacy or otherwise worked to defend slavery, a moment sparked by the demonstrations for racial justice across the country.
The legislation was approved in a 305-113 vote. All of the "no" votes came from GOP lawmakers, while 72 Republicans voted to remove the statues.
“Just imagine what it feels like as an African American to know that my ancestors built the Capitol, but yet there are monuments to the very people that enslaved my ancestors,” Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), the leader of the Congressional Black Caucus, said ahead of the vote.
She also noted the fact that the legislation was being approved less than a week after the death of Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the civil rights legend who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington and suffered a skull fracture from state police at another march in Selma, Ala.
“I think it’s so appropriate that we do this also in honor of Mr. Lewis. The main honor for Mr. Lewis, to me, is to get a signature on the Voting Rights Act. But this is also a way to honor his legacy because what he fought for every day is the exact opposite of these symbols,” Bass said.
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Such virtue signalling from slimewads who lack the slightest bit of virtue!
So the Lincoln Memorial has to go?
Wow they’re so good at getting nothing accomplished....so remove some statues!!! Wow...what a congress we have!
Wow...what a congress we have!
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If PRO gress
is moving ahead
What does that make
CON gress?
All the Confederate statues are DIMOCRATs! LOL!!!
All this posturing and peacocking means nothing to any of them except a further consolidation of wealth and power.
Simply to put Republicans on record to show they don’t care about blacks and slavery.
Period.
Who are those 72 traitors?
Disgusting.
Her ancestors didn’t build the capitol.
I believe his legacy will be safe as long as no one actively reminds Senator Leahy of his participation in Byrd’s bill to restore citizenship to Robert E. Lee.
After Senator Leahy leaves Byrd may be a goner too.
“72 Republicans voted to remove the statues.”
Pathetic.
Taliban scumbags.
Not Senate-proof.
Nope.
Maybe they can expel all those Confederate states from the union as well.
I suppose that statue of Byrd could be seen as commemorating his 14-hour filibuster of the Civil Rights legislation, hmm?
These people are to ignorant to understand that the gray was husbands, fathers, brothers and sons too. In many cases they were kin.
They are also unknowledgeable in the understanding that only the army of Northern Virginia surrendered at Appomattox and with several other Confederate armies still in the fight, the leaders decided not to continue the war, their last orders, thus not giving us our own Vietnam here in the US circa 1865. If that had happened, chances are we would not have been in WW1 or WW2; so what do the current political geniuses think about that?
You mean "AXIN"? Get with it!
72 feckless Republicans
They are worse than the democrats
The very men who fought to stop southern secession had no truck honoring them but the cowards today stand for nothing
Same worthless GOPe as 1866 Sumner and Stevens
And democrats have completely and utterly lost their minds
We really need a new party
Would that Trump was 60
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