Daily Mail: Nancy Pelosi demands Republicans agree to remove 11 Confederate statues from Congress including Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee as Donald Trump refuses to rename Army bases
* House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote a letter Wednesday calling for the removal of the 11 Confederate statues still on display throughout the Capitol complex
* She sent out a copy of the letter on the heels of President Trump announcing he would not rename military bases that are named after Confederate leaders
* She said the statues, including Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, 'pay homage to hate, not heritage,' and demanded that they be removed
Hours after President Trump said he wouldn't be renaming military bases named for Confederate leaders, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi flaunted her opposition by highlighting her work to get Confederate statues in the U.S. Capitol removed.
Pelosi sent out a copy of a letter she had addressed to the chairs of the Joint Committee on the Library, which manages the National Statuary Hall collection - the 100 statues contributed by states that are on display in Statuary Hall and other places around the U.S. Capitol complex.
Each U.S. state gets to contribute two statues and there are currently 11 Confederate figures on display. Pelosi called for their removal.
Pelosi's demand comes amid a wave of anti-racism protests raging across America and the world, in which several statues that symbolize racial oppression have already been torn down.
Donald Trump last night rejected demands to rename a series of military bases named after leaders of the Confederacy, calling them 'hallowed grounds'.
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WNU Editor: Where will this stop? Abraham Lincoln's position on black people, not uncommon in its time and before he was President, was in alignment with Alexander Stephens. If Confederate statues must go, then so must Lincoln and Washington and Jefferson, and many more.
Arlington Cemetery is built on Robert E Lee's land and the columned house on the property was Robert E Lee's house. Do we have to move the graves at Arlington to somewhere else to accommodate Pelosi's view of history.
Bottom line. History cannot be removed. But it is clear that many are trying to do just that.
Update: I have personally gone through a revision of my thinking on Lenin's tomb in Red Square. As a Russian I have always supported its removal. Read my commentary from here 4 years ago .... A Look Back At The Chinese Cultural Revolution 50 Years Later (May 7, 2016). I now favour something else. Build a museum beside it that is dedicated to the millions who perished because of him and his supporters.
