Interesting Facts About Our History
STATUARY HALL IN U.S. CAPITOL
The Capitol houses nine statues commemorating Confederate figures, including Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and John C. Calhoun. The Congressional Black Caucus also proposed removing the statues from the Capitol building, with chairman and Rep. Cedric Richmond saying: “We will never solve America’s race problem if we continue to honor traitors who fought against the United States in order to keep African Americans in chains. By the way, thank god, they lost.”
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi also called for the statues’ removal on Thursday, asking House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republicans to support the effort. “The Confederate statues in the halls of Congress have always been reprehensible,” Pelosi said in a statement posted on Twitter. “If Republicans are serious about rejecting white supremacy, I call upon Speaker Ryan to join Democrats to remove the Confederate statues from the Capitol immediately.”
THE IRONY OF THE ABOVE ARTICLE
NANCY PELOSI’S FATHER HELPED DEDICATE CONFEDERATE MONUMENT
By Brooke Singman, Published August 24, 2017
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has ramped up calls to remove “reprehensible” Confederate statues from the halls of Congress — but left unsaid in her public denunciations is that her father helped dedicate such a statue decade ago while mayor of Baltimore.
It was May 2, 1948, when, according to a Baltimore Sun article from that day, “3,000” looked on as then- Governor William Preston Lane Jr. and Pelosi’s father, the late Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., spoke at the dedication of a monument to honor Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
The article said Lane delivered a speech, and Mayor D’Alesandro “accepted” the memorial.
“Today, with our nation beset by subversive groups and propaganda which seeks to destroy our national unity, we can look for inspiration to the lives of Lee and Jackson to remind us to be resolute and determined in preserving our sacred institutions,” D’Alesandro said in his dedication. “We must remain steadfast in our determination to preserve freedom, not only for ourselves, but for the other liberty-loving nations who are striving to preserve their national unity as free nations.”
He added: “In these days of uncertainty and turmoil, Americans must emulate Jackson’s example and stand like a stone wall against aggression in any form that would seek to destroy the liberty of the world.”
With President Trump cautioning that the drive to purge Confederate statues could represent a slippery slope, the White House has flagged Pelosi’s family history as she fuels the statue opposition.
Counselor Kellyanne Conway tweeted an earlier article from RedAlertPolitics noting Pelosi’s father’s role.
“That’s rich,” she wrote.
(Jefferson Davis’ statue in Statuary Hall)
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/24/nancy-pelosis- father-helped-dedicate-confederate-monument.html
(Article courtesy of The Southern Comfort, Private Samuel A. Hughey Camp 1452, Sons of Confederate Veterans, vol. 42, issue no. 8, August 2018 ed.)
J.D.R. Hawkins 
Those most beset by the effects of the war were, of course, the ones who fought it, and those who suffered its incredible rage and national pain. And yet, it was that very generation that opened hands across the battlements and received the Southland back into the national fabric. How is it that succeeding generations, far removed, now close their fists and arrogantly contend that the very ones our government ensured a place at the national table are now to be rudely excluded and shamed? This does nothing to denigrate the Confederate figures, but it speaks loudly to the tiny minds and arrogant hearts of those who now seek to redraw the lines of old partisanships.
I completely agree. It seems there is an underlying movement, from what I’ve read, to unravel the fabric of which you refer. The BLM and other organizations are merely tools being used to accomplish this feat. It is a very complicated situation, but attacking Confederate monuments, flags, etc. is only the start.