Pelosi Secretes Her Party’s Pro-Slavery Past
Madam Speaker would not hear the rattling of rusty Democratic chains in the halls of Congress.
by David Catron
June 22, 2020, 12:18 AM
Late Thursday, Nancy Pelosi had four of her predecessors removed from a Portrait Collection that adorns the Speaker’s Lobby in Congress. These Democratic Speakers were ostensibly banished from the halls of Congress pursuant to their Confederate ties. Madam Speaker insisted in a news conference that she was unaware of the portraits or their unsavory provenance until recently, despite their conspicuous location just outside the House chamber where she has worked for the last 33 years. Having finally learned of the offensive paintings, Pelosi ordered them taken down. Oddly, she neglects to note in her letter ordering the removal that all had been Democrats:
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).… There is no room in the hallowed halls of Congress or in any place of honor for memorializing men who embody the violent bigotry and grotesque racism of the Confederacy.
This exercise in virtue signaling is of a piece with the destruction of statues and other monuments that has become all the rage with our friends on the left. In this case, however, it isn’t merely a random example of virtue signaling. It is part of an ongoing effort to whitewash the sordid racism that has defined the history of the Democratic Party from its founding to this day. Before we get to the more subtle racism currently practiced by Speaker Pelosi and her accomplices, a brief history of the four men whose likenesses have disappeared from the Portrait Collection is in order. First, it should be noted that the Democratic commitment to slavery was such that they elected each of these people Speaker of the House.
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