Nancy Pelosi’s father dedicated Baltimore Confederate monuments

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wants House Speaker Paul Ryan to dismantle Confederate monuments at the Capitol, despite her own family’s involvement in dedicating similar statues.

“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.”

Of course, Pelosi had the power to do exactly that during her term as Speaker of the House just a few short years ago and failed to take action.

Pelosi’s call to action also came just two days after Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh ordered city workers to remove and alter Confederate-linked monuments in the city in the wake of the violence in Charlottesville. The move, executed under the cover of night, was designed to pre-empt activists threatening to tear down the city’s statues themselves.

“They needed to come down,” Pugh told The Baltimore Sun. “My concern is for the safety and security of our people.”

The Sun exposed exactly how the city’s Confederate monuments came to be, with Pelosi’s father, former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro Jr. playing a key role in the erection of a monument honoring Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.

At a 1948 dedication ceremony that drew 3,000 people, D’Alesandro encouraged local residents to look up to Lee and Jackson.

http://www.theamericanmirror.com/report-nancy-pelosis-father-dedicated-baltimore-confederate-monuments/

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I see Miss Nancy would have been age 7 or 8 when that dedication ceremony was held. I wonder if Miss Nancy was in any pictures of the event.

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Nancy Pelosi's father helped dedicate Confederate monument



“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.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/24/nancy-pelosis-father-helped-dedicate-confederate-monument.html

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In this photo from 1943, then-Rep. Thomas D’Alesandro Jr. of Maryland is seen at left; at right, is then- Rep. Samuel Weiss of Pennsylvania.  (Library of Congress)