House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Wednesday urged the removal of 11 statues representing Confederate figures from the U.S. Capitol as efforts to take down monuments linked to racism grow in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
Q: Why are 11 Confederate statues in the Capitol?
Strike while the iron is hot, Madame Speaker.
That it also trolls Trump is just a bonus.
“Their statues pay homage to hate, not heritage. They must be removed,” Pelosi wrote.
It’s a thing of beauty to behold.
Not only does she manage to do the right thing – because it’s the right thing – she also manages to hoist the GOP by their own wedge-issue petard.
Make them defend hate, Madam Speaker! Make them defend treason! Make them defend slavery!
Make them own it all!
Truly masterful.
My triple great grandfather was Joshua John Ward who owned the most slaves of all the slave owners. I fully support this decision!
Can we all agree that there should not me a single monument to any traitors to America? Is there a statue to the Rosenbergs anywhere? Benedict Arnold? Have we named any battleships after such traitors? If not, why do we permit monuments to civil war traitors?
Because during the Jim Crow era, “Southern heritage” became a code term for “racist” and statues of “Southern heroes” became symbols of support for segregation.
While we’re asking, why is the Russell Senate office building still named after a notorious racist?
The “Party of Lincoln” seems pretty intent on fighting to the death to pay tribute to Lincoln’s enemies. This is a charming sort of unforced error, reminiscent of the inimitable “Get a brain Morans!”
OH. My. God. NASCAR’s taking a knee.
ETA: This is what happens when you turn your back at the cocktail hour.
Bunch of losers. Get em out of there.
US History for $200
Alex Trebek “A: Because we haven’t dropped them in the river yet.”
kind of a reverse Jeopardy thing goin’ on
I love it when the right thing is good politics too. 
What the hell? Hey haven’t even finished swallowing the removal of flags from Nascar and now they want to ban confederate status from the Capitol? I oppose this move at this time, they should wait a week or so.
Roy Blunt will rebelsplain to us that the men of the Confederacy were merely exercising their 1st Amendment right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances and their 2nd Amendment right not merely to keep and bear arms but to do so under the province of a well regulated Militia that is necessary to the security of a free State. True Americans, those men of the South.
To paraphrase the NRA, now is not the time to talk about statue removal.
Mark my words, heads will explode.
This is brilliant, she’s going to get every elected member of the GOP that works in the building on record publicly defending racism because that’s what theses monuments mean finally
It’s a good thing to remove these Confederate statues and rename places, but there’s a lot of heroic and monumental statuary and place names dedicated to persons who upon closer historical examination turn out to not be very nice people. I don’t see how this culture strife really helps us progress toward replacing prejudicial warrior policing with egalitarian community guardianship.
But in the short run, any provocation that makes Trump stroke out is fine with me.
Each state gets to have two statues in the Hall. Some have been replaced, others obviously not.
Why are the army bases Fort Bragg and Fort Benning still sticking with their names both of which are named after confederate generals. And while we’re at it, let’s take Lee down from the million places his name is on, A West Point graduate who fought for the enemy.
D.C was a malarial swamp, the malaria is gone, but the swamp remains.
I think it’s easy to draw a line for monuments to traitors, those can go, beyond that let local jurisdictions decide what to do.