Pelosi calls for removing Confederate statues from Capitol

[riversedge]

Source: AP


By ANDREW TAYLOR 35 minutes ago


WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is demanding that statues of Confederate figures such as Jefferson Davis be removed from the U.S. Capitol.

In a letter, Pelosi told a House-Senate committee with jurisdiction over the controversial topic that Confederate statues “pay homage to hate, not heritage. They must be removed.”

The California Democrat made the announcement on the very day President Donald Trump vowed on Twitter that he would not rename military bases honoring Confederate generals. Only a short time before Pelosi’s statement, NASCAR announced it would ban displays of the Confederate flag at its races.

Confederate monuments have reemerged as a national flash point since the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white Minneapolis officer pressed his knee into his neck for several minutes. Protesters decrying racism have targeted Confederate monuments in multiple cities, and some state officials are considering taking them down.....................................


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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I wish I could go there and remove them with the help of patriots.

[caraher]

2. There's a Jefferson Davis statue there?

Absolutely inappropriate. How the heck did that ever happen?

[DURHAM D]

5. Good question. Had no idea.

They need to remove ALL treasonous bastards.

[caraher]

9. Turns out states submit their own statues

Per Wikipedia:

The National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol is composed of statues donated by individual states to honor persons notable in their history. Limited to two statues per state, the collection was originally set up in the old Hall of the House of Representatives, which was then renamed National Statuary Hall. The expanding collection has since been spread throughout the Capitol and its Visitor's Center.

The collection contains several statues of leaders of the Confederate States of America.[21] These include CSA President Jefferson Davis and Vice President Alexander Stephens and Confederate soldiers, most in Confederate Army uniforms: Generals Robert E. Lee, Joseph Wheeler, James Z. George, Wade Hampton III, and Edmund Kirby Smith, as well as Colonel Zebulon Baird Vance and former enlisted soldiers John E. Kenna and Edward Douglass White.[21] The collection also includes a statue of Uriah M. Rose, "an attorney who sided with the Confederacy,"[22] who was the chancellor of Pulaski County, Arkansas while Arkansas was part of the Confederacy; his statue is scheduled for replacement.[10][22][21]

[Action_Patrol]

7. The state legislatures pick

They decide which two people represent their states. Many states have swapped statues out over the years.

[paleotn]

10. My thought exactly.

Must be next to the statues of Benedict Arnold.

[lagomorph777]

16. WTF I had no idea this filth was in there.

Obviously plenty of live filth, but I didn't realize this building (built by slaves) had statues of the people who fought to keep them enslaved.

Melt the damned things down and make statues of Harriet Tubman, Sacagawea, MLK...

[Evolve Dammit]

3. Sing it Sister! Turn the page after 155 years.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. LOL Trump today refusing to consider renaming Army bases named for Confederate Generals

She's got Trump blanketed.

[truthisfreedom]

6. I can't wait to see his tweets regarding this new idea.

He'll be apoplectic.

[machoneman]

8. Wow, now she's just doxxing him to pieces! Love it!

[lagomorph777]

17. doxxing him?

Did she reveal his social security number? We already know his address (Mar-A-Lardo).

[rurallib]

11. Pelosi the Patriot; Trump the Traitor

[hughee99]

12. How long have those statues been there? I wasn't able to find that anywhere in the story. nt

[caraher]

13. For many decades, depending on the statue

They're part of the National Statuary Hall Collection

Jefferson Davis' stature has been there since 1931

[Turbineguy]

14. The RWNJ's have made everything about "the South" toxic.

We used to talk about "Southern Cookin'", "Southern Hospitality", "Southern Charm" and the Confederacy was a part of American history like a lot of other things.

[ancianita]

15. I love the South's heritage. Feeling martyred about its confederate history needn't be part of it.

Not saying that Confederate history isn't American history. It is. And there's still a lot that can be done to remember it in schools and museums.

[greytdemocrat]

18. Aaaaah...

Isn't this what the Taliban did??? Good lord.

[JonLP24]

19. The Taliban does it to prevent idolatry

The wahhabi's take no idolatry to mean prevent idolatry.

These statues were put up during racist times so there is no need for them.

How the US Got So Many Confederate Monuments

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Most of these monuments did not go up immediately after the war’s end in 1865. During that time, commemorative markers of the Civil War tended to be memorials that mourned soldiers who had died, says Mark Elliott, a history professor at University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

“Eventually they started to build [Confederate] monuments,” he says. “The vast majority of them were built between the 1890s and 1950s, which matches up exactly with the era of Jim Crow segregation.” According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s research, the biggest spike was between 1900 and the 1920s.

In contrast to the earlier memorials that mourned dead soldiers, these monuments tended to glorify leaders of the Confederacy like General Robert E. Lee, former President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis and General “Thomas Stonewall” Jackson.

“All of those monuments were there to teach values to people,” Elliott says. “That’s why they put them in the city squares. That’s why they put them in front of state buildings.” Many earlier memorials had instead been placed in cemeteries.

The values these monuments stood for, he says, included a “glorification of the cause of the Civil War.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/news/how-the-u-s-got-so-many-confederate-monuments

It is weird to compare this to an ideology of a far right sect. Ironically even though they do this to prevent idolatry there is a statue of al-Wahhab in Qatar.