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WASHINGTON —
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she is ordering the removal from the Capitol of portraits honoring four previous House speakers who served in the Confederacy.


In a letter to the House clerk, Pelosi directed the immediate removal of portraits depicting the former speakers: Robert Hunter of Virginia, James Orr of South Carolina and Howell Cobb and Charles Crisp, both of Georgia. The portraits were to be removed later Thursday.Calling the halls of Congress “the very heart of our democracy,″ Pelosi said, “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.″

Pelosi noted that Friday is Juneteenth, honoring the day in 1865 when many African Americans learned of the end of slavery after the Civil War. She called Juneteenth “a beautiful and proud celebration of freedom for African Americans” and noted that this year’s celebration comes "during a moment of extraordinary national anguish, as we grieve for the hundreds of Black Americans killed by racial injustice and police brutality, including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and so many others.”Orr, who served as speaker from 1857-59, swore on the House floor to “preserve and perpetuate” slavery in order to “enjoy our property in peace, quiet and security,” Pelosi said in her letter. Hunter, who served at nearly every level of the Confederacy, including as Confederate secretary of state, served as speaker from 1839-41.Cobb served as speaker from 1849-51, while Crisp served after the Civil War, from 1891-95.Earlier this month, Pelosi urged the removal of Confederate statues from the Capitol and the renaming of U.S. military bases that honor Confederate Army officers.


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 18, 2020.

Casey Burgat, director of a legislative affairs program at George Washington University, said Pelosi's action was a clear response to the Black Lives Matters movement and protests regarding racial injustice. Removal of the portraits "is one of the few immediate and unilateral actions she can take to illustrate her stance that former Confederates do not deserve to be memorialized within the halls of Congress,'' Burgat said.In the Senate, Democrat Cory Booker of New Jersey, one of three black senators, unsuccessfully pressed for immediate passage of a bill to remove statues of Confederate notables such as Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, president of the Confederate States of America, from display in the Capitol.“The continued presence of these statues in the halls is an affront to African Americans and the ideals of our nation,” Booker said.The chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said he is open to holding a hearing on the bill, but he opposed immediate action because it would upend a process set in law governing the display of state-sponsored statues in the Capitol.Blunt, a member of the GOP leadership team, said he is heartened by states such as Arkansas that are replacing Confederate statues on their own.

You could tell her that the Capitol belongs to the people. And that the portraits were part of bringing people together after a war. But you might as well be talking to a wall.

Nan, GFY.

And every one of the portraits was of a Democrat. Imagine that.

This is the sort of things that make me tolerate blacks less and less. Sooner or later another civil war is going.to happen. I'm locked and.loaded. Almost all my friends and family are also. They need to stop this sort of nonsense or its going to happen sooner than later.

Those in the Kremlin graveyard are smiling up from #ell.

Lawsey, Miss Nancy, dat sho nuff gwinna make us ole Darkies feel good

Why don't we have Obama removed from the list of presidents. He gave a bad name to all the other half-black homo crackheads

I’m with ya. This crap is starting to get old. Reminds me of the joke that went around during the 1964 election. What’s the shiniest thing in the world? A negroes azz, washed in Goldwater and shined with Johnson’s Wax.

Time for Pelosi to be removed! She’s a brain dead, drug & alcohol addled Libertard Commie Traitorous POS.
She needs to be charged with Treason for an attempted coup on a sitting POTUS. And various other crimes against the American people and the USA.

Time to charged, arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and hanged by the neck until she can no longer committ crimes against America. 😡

I never heard that before James. Its hilarious! I am Texas proud but am ashamed of Johnson. He is like a boil on your right butt cheek, he's dead and gone but we're still dealing with his stupid decisions.

I dont want her prosecuted I want to see her executed.

And I ask it again.

What does this solve?

Nothing is ever good enough for them and by her own words it follows that removing presidents off of our money is coming. When they’re all done nothing about this land will look like our country. Washington will be removed from the dollar bill and replaced with MLK or Malcom X.

They have to prosecute before they can execute.

Two movies come to mind when I think about politicans is "Magnum Force" and "The Star Chamber".
It's what is needed.

Violent bigotry and grotesque racism???

Wow hope she doesn’t read up on Sherman’s take on Black folks.

Or Sheridan’s, as well as the other 99% of the entire US Army officer’s corps feelings for the Native Americans.

Pick and choose, pick and choose my oh my!

If the Republicans had any guts, the next Republican speaker should order the removal of the portraits of all Democrat speakers.

My question is this: are all former speakers of the house memorialized with portraits in the halls of the capital or only certain ones?

Just wait till they rename military bases like they have been saying.
Buncha PC political driven bullschitt.

4 cops and a boot lipped groid started.........
All on vid for the fugging world to see......



JFC.......