'Homage To Hate': Pelosi Calls For Confederate Statues To Be Removed From U.S. Capitol

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Source: NPR

By Alana Wise, 6:35 PM ET, June 10, 2020.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday called for the removal of statues of Confederate soldiers and officials from the U.S. Capitol as reignited conversations about the nation's treatment of racial minorities have once again brought the monuments' history into question.

In an open letter to the Joint Committee on the Library, Pelosi asked Congress to "lead by example" and remove 11 Confederate statues from the Capitol.

"The statues in the Capitol should embody our highest ideals as Americans, expressing who we are and who we aspire to be as a nation. Monuments to men who advocated cruelty and barbarism to achieve such a plainly racist end are a grotesque affront to these ideals. Their statues pay homage to hate, not heritage. They must be removed," Pelosi wrote in the letter addressed to committee Chair Roy Blunt and Vice Chair Zoe Lofgren.

The Confederate States of America, its military and its flag remain controversial in the United States. The uprising launched by the Confederacy in defense of slave ownership led to more than 618,000 deaths, and many view the continued reverence of its symbols as a painful reminder of the nation's racist inception.

Others, however, defend the Confederacy and its memorials as a tribute to the U.S. South and its former leaders...

Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/06/10/874417376/homage-to-hate-pelosi-calls-for-confederate-statues-removed-from-u-s-capitol

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- A statue of Robert E. Lee seen in the U.S. Capitol, in 2019.

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1. Remove and re-site at Confederate Cemeteries.

Where they can face the countless thousands that they led to their premature deaths in defense of Slavery.

[ArizonaLib]

2. The first one to go should be John C. Calhoun

South Carolinian and VP to Andrew 'trail of tears' Jackson.

Secessionist and remember - South Carolina the first state to secede and cited the slavery issue in it secession declaration.

[brer cat]

3. I'm a southerner and I agree with Nancy.

It's time all of the monuments come down.

[Dave Starsky]

4. Good Lord, are these things EVERYWHERE?

These fuckers rebelled against the United States, for crying out loud. I would no more expect to see a Lee monument in the US Capitol than I would expect to see a statue of Albert Speer in downtown Warsaw.

I'm afraid I'll go down into the basement of my home and find a long forgotten statue of Jeff Davis down there.

[left-of-center2012]

5. duplicate ?

Pelosi calls for removing Confederate statues from Capitol
Wed Jun 10, 2020, 05:27 PM

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142511917

[JudyM]

6. Locking

Dupe of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142511917
Please continue discussion in that thread.