The House on Tuesday again will vote on legislation to remove Confederate statues from the Capitol, after the measure failed to gain traction in the then-GOP-controlled Senate last year after it passed in the lower chamber.
This should have been done years ago. Confederates were traitors to Democracy and should have zero representation in Federal buildings or on Federal property. Just do it!
Iām hopeful it will pass both chambers; I do hope, though, that if any GOPer votes against it, someone will engage them in a discussion of Critical Race Theory and whether their vote is not an implicit affirmation of that theoryās premise.
Whatās the over/under on republican senators voting to allow debate? Iām going with 4. But that might be optimistic.
(Then again, Juneteenth, so maybe the optics of openly voting for racism arenāt as good as they used to be.)
I believe the GOP is willing to swap Lee for Jim Crow.
I donāt think they can do that. Only the senate can remove McConnell.
Although Democrats control both chambers of Congress, and are expected to take it up for a vote in the Senate, it is unclear whether Republican senators would give the 60 votes needed to advance the measure in a 50-50 Senate.
Called me confused.
The GOP has their hair on fire 
over the teaching the facts of United States History (critical race theory). Yet, continue to pay homage to the Confederacy. The statues ARE a part of our history and belong in a museum that tells the true story of the Civil War. Learning the truths of our past is a worthy endeavor.
Canāt be said often enough.
Only in America. Swear to god.
Does Britain have statues of Guy Fawkes? Only on Guy Fawkes Day when they burn him in effigy.
There is no goddamn reason to have statues of Confederates in the Congress that they revolted against.
No, but they do have their own complicated bits of historical legacy.
Iām surprised that a statue of Cromwell hasnāt already been torn down years and years ago.
Itās rather like the statue on the highway here of OƱate. A Pueblo native did take one of his feet but they should have just fashioned an arrow so it looked like heād been shot in the head.
āWhen the school is on the reserve, the child lives with its parents, who are savages, and though he may learn to read and write, his habits and training mode of thought are Indian. He is simply a savage who can read and write. It has been strongly impressed upon myself, as head of the Department, that Indian children should be withdrawn as much as possible from the parental influence, and the only way to do that would be to put them in central training industrial schools where they will acquire the habits and modes of thought of white men."
1879 - Sir John A. Macdonald
Canadaās first Prime Minister
The head of Sir J. decapitated after his statue was pulled down during recent protests in support of Indigenous rights.
āThe US will search old federal boarding schools for the unmarked graves of Native American children,ā Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland said Tuesday, a project that will officially acknowledge the loss of life that has haunted tribal communities for more than 100 years.
āAlthough Democrats control both chambers of Congress, and are expected to take it up for a vote in the Senate, it is unclear whether Republican senators would give the 60 votes needed to advance the measure in a 50-50 Senate.ā
Are there ten GOP Senators that donāt fear being publicly pilloried and then primaried at Trumpās instigation?
as Americans we do not celebrate those who seek to divide us.
Can we use that argument to shit can the official portrait of TMFWWNBN?
The Confederate statues donāt have much to do with the Slavery War, aka The White Supremacy War, aka the Civil War, per se and everything to do with the postbellum hijacking of the narrative ā āLost Causeā ā in service of white supremacy. Insofar as these statues should be preserved, it should be like how the Germans handle Nazi paraphernalia in museums: the discussion first and foremost centers on the evil and lies of the Confederates and all their supporters ā which in the end included most of the country. See David Blight āRace and Reunionā, and Heather Cox Richardson āHow The South Won The Civil Warā.
Learning the truths of our past is a worthy endeavor.
Absolutely.
Though it seems like the Juneteenth vote snuck up on them out of nowhere. Without clear direction from the Party apparatus, they didnāt know whether to support or sink it and they ended up just letting it go through because there wasnāt enough time for someone to make a stink about it (Sen. Rand Paul excepted). Since there are a lot more ātalking pointsā already floating around and the Party already has a āstance,ā chances are resistance will be more coordinated and stalwart regarding Confederate statues.
Sure let them take a stand on the Lost Cause of the past and put up a fight for a bunch of irrelevant crap.
LIBTARD CANCEL CULTURE IS CANCELING OUR HERITAGE. THIS MusT sTop. THIS IS JUST MORE CRITICAL RACE THEORY BEING STUFFED DOWN OUR THROATS TO REVISE HISTORY. THERE WAS GOOD THINGS TO SLAVERY - 100% FULL EMPLOYMENT WITH BENEFITS (HOUSING, FOOD, CLOTHING). WOKENESS WILL DOOM OUR CULTURE. WHAT IS WHITE RAGE ANYWAY? BLM IS KILLING REAL AMERICAN PATRIOTS!