https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/06/18/Nancy-Pelosi-orders-4-Confederate-portraits-removed-from-Capitol/8241592496993/

Constitutional Minute:

First Amendment freedom of speech includes access to others’ ideas

Suddenly aware that this is the 155th Junteenth since the end of the Civil War, Nancy Pelosi has removed portraits of several past House Speakers from public memory. She could have done this any time during her first stint as House Speaker or suggested it to fellow House Members at any time since she first arrived in Congress back in 1987. Each of those long-dead, past House Speakers had ties to the Confederacy, and the Confederacy dissolved with the end of the Civil War in 1865. So why remove those portraits now?

What Nancy DIDN’T include in her wordy letter is that ALL of the Confederate men in the removed portraits were Democrats. That’s right. Pelosi doesn’t want you to remember that the men she named and shamed in her letter were Democrats. She doesn’t want school children on tours to ask awkward questions about them. She doesn’t want the public to have visible reminders that the Confederacy was a Democrat-led, Democrat-sponsored i**********n. She doesn’t want anyone to recall that the Union wasn’t the only army on the battlefield or that the Democrat-led Confederacy fired the first shot of the Civil War. She doesn’t want anyone to be curious and look up what those pro-Confederacy Democrats said to justify and defend s***ery.

Nobody here agrees with s***ery. It’s indefensible, inexcusable, and responsible for incalculable injury to the black community. People alive today remember elders who had been born into bondage, excluded from education, grudgingly shoved into “separate but equal” schools, and denied opportunities for advancement despite obvious qualifications. W****s-only facilities were still legal when I was a child. Even the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to admit an internationally acclaimed opera singer through the front door. (Eventually the DAR remembered that the Revolutionary War’s first casualty was Crispus Attucks, a black man.) As a nation and as individuals, we’ve made a lot of progress toward living up to the Constitution’s ideal of extending the blessings of liberty to every American and their posterity.

Nancy’s revision of history removes valuable information from public memory. We must be allowed to remember the Confederacy along with the Union because that battlefield did and does have two sides. The Union did not fight an invisible adversary. But Nancy would like to conceal her party’s participation in the Confederacy, the KKK, the s***e code, black code, Jim Crow, segregation, and the separate but "equal" access to facilities, civil rights, and institutions.

Confederate portraits, statues and monuments disturb every American who believes that the Constitution protects every citizen and legal resident. But the culture that created the Confederacy deserves to own its legacy forever. And we can’t hold them accountable if they’re allowed to deface, erase, and replace their sordid past with a fabricated narrative.

Thanks for letting me share a Constitutional Minute with you. God bless you, yours and the United States of America!


I think that it would only be fitting that as soon as Nancy Pelosi is removed from the office of Speaker Of the House, that all former Speakers whose pictures were removed, have then returned to their historical position and all Speakers that would remove that history be barred forever from appearing with the other historical Speakers.
Somehow that is historically Right!!!

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/06/18/Nancy-Pelosi-orders-4-Confederate-portraits-removed-from-Capitol/8241592496993/

Constitutional Minute:

First Amendment freedom of speech includes access to others’ ideas

Suddenly aware that this is the 155th Junteenth since the end of the Civil War, Nancy Pelosi has removed portraits of several past House Speakers from public memory. She could have done this any time during her first stint as House Speaker or suggested it to fellow House Members at any time since she first arrived in Congress back in 1987. Each of those long-dead, past House Speakers had ties to the Confederacy, and the Confederacy dissolved with the end of the Civil War in 1865. So why remove those portraits now?

What Nancy DIDN’T include in her wordy letter is that ALL of the Confederate men in the removed portraits were Democrats. That’s right. Pelosi doesn’t want you to remember that the men she named and shamed in her letter were Democrats. She doesn’t want school children on tours to ask awkward questions about them. She doesn’t want the public to have visible reminders that the Confederacy was a Democrat-led, Democrat-sponsored i**********n. She doesn’t want anyone to recall that the Union wasn’t the only army on the battlefield or that the Democrat-led Confederacy fired the first shot of the Civil War. She doesn’t want anyone to be curious and look up what those pro-Confederacy Democrats said to justify and defend s***ery.

Nobody here agrees with s***ery. It’s indefensible, inexcusable, and responsible for incalculable injury to the black community. People alive today remember elders who had been born into bondage, excluded from education, grudgingly shoved into “separate but equal” schools, and denied opportunities for advancement despite obvious qualifications. W****s-only facilities were still legal when I was a child. Even the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to admit an internationally acclaimed opera singer through the front door. (Eventually the DAR remembered that the Revolutionary War’s first casualty was Crispus Attucks, a black man.) As a nation and as individuals, we’ve made a lot of progress toward living up to the Constitution’s ideal of extending the blessings of liberty to every American and their posterity.

Nancy’s revision of history removes valuable information from public memory. We must be allowed to remember the Confederacy along with the Union because that battlefield did and does have two sides. The Union did not fight an invisible adversary. But Nancy would like to conceal her party’s participation in the Confederacy, the KKK, the s***e code, black code, Jim Crow, segregation, and the separate but "equal" access to facilities, civil rights, and institutions.

Confederate portraits, statues and monuments disturb every American who believes that the Constitution protects every citizen and legal resident. But the culture that created the Confederacy deserves to own its legacy forever. And we can’t hold them accountable if they’re allowed to deface, erase, and replace their sordid past with a fabricated narrative.

Thanks for letting me share a Constitutional Minute with you. God bless you, yours and the United States of America!


I think that it would only be fitting that as soon as Nancy Pelosi is removed from the office of Speaker Of the House, that all former Speakers whose pictures were removed, have then returned to their historical position and all Speakers that would remove that history be barred forever from appearing with the other historical Speakers.
Somehow that is historically Right!!!

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/06/18/Nancy-Pelosi-orders-4-Confederate-portraits-removed-from-Capitol/8241592496993/

Constitutional Minute:

First Amendment freedom of speech includes access to others’ ideas

Suddenly aware that this is the 155th Junteenth since the end of the Civil War, Nancy Pelosi has removed portraits of several past House Speakers from public memory. She could have done this any time during her first stint as House Speaker or suggested it to fellow House Members at any time since she first arrived in Congress back in 1987. Each of those long-dead, past House Speakers had ties to the Confederacy, and the Confederacy dissolved with the end of the Civil War in 1865. So why remove those portraits now?

What Nancy DIDN’T include in her wordy letter is that ALL of the Confederate men in the removed portraits were Democrats. That’s right. Pelosi doesn’t want you to remember that the men she named and shamed in her letter were Democrats. She doesn’t want school children on tours to ask awkward questions about them. She doesn’t want the public to have visible reminders that the Confederacy was a Democrat-led, Democrat-sponsored i**********n. She doesn’t want anyone to recall that the Union wasn’t the only army on the battlefield or that the Democrat-led Confederacy fired the first shot of the Civil War. She doesn’t want anyone to be curious and look up what those pro-Confederacy Democrats said to justify and defend s***ery.

Nobody here agrees with s***ery. It’s indefensible, inexcusable, and responsible for incalculable injury to the black community. People alive today remember elders who had been born into bondage, excluded from education, grudgingly shoved into “separate but equal” schools, and denied opportunities for advancement despite obvious qualifications. W****s-only facilities were still legal when I was a child. Even the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to admit an internationally acclaimed opera singer through the front door. (Eventually the DAR remembered that the Revolutionary War’s first casualty was Crispus Attucks, a black man.) As a nation and as individuals, we’ve made a lot of progress toward living up to the Constitution’s ideal of extending the blessings of liberty to every American and their posterity.

Nancy’s revision of history removes valuable information from public memory. We must be allowed to remember the Confederacy along with the Union because that battlefield did and does have two sides. The Union did not fight an invisible adversary. But Nancy would like to conceal her party’s participation in the Confederacy, the KKK, the s***e code, black code, Jim Crow, segregation, and the separate but "equal" access to facilities, civil rights, and institutions.

Confederate portraits, statues and monuments disturb every American who believes that the Constitution protects every citizen and legal resident. But the culture that created the Confederacy deserves to own its legacy forever. And we can’t hold them accountable if they’re allowed to deface, erase, and replace their sordid past with a fabricated narrative.

Thanks for letting me share a Constitutional Minute with you. God bless you, yours and the United States of America!


I think that it would only be fitting that as soon as Nancy Pelosi is removed from the office of Speaker Of the House, that all former Speakers whose pictures were removed, have then returned to their historical position and all Speakers that would remove that history be barred forever from appearing with the other historical Speakers.
Somehow that is historically Right!!!

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2020/06/18/Nancy-Pelosi-orders-4-Confederate-portraits-removed-from-Capitol/8241592496993/

Constitutional Minute:

First Amendment freedom of speech includes access to others’ ideas

Suddenly aware that this is the 155th Junteenth since the end of the Civil War, Nancy Pelosi has removed portraits of several past House Speakers from public memory. She could have done this any time during her first stint as House Speaker or suggested it to fellow House Members at any time since she first arrived in Congress back in 1987. Each of those long-dead, past House Speakers had ties to the Confederacy, and the Confederacy dissolved with the end of the Civil War in 1865. So why remove those portraits now?

What Nancy DIDN’T include in her wordy letter is that ALL of the Confederate men in the removed portraits were Democrats. That’s right. Pelosi doesn’t want you to remember that the men she named and shamed in her letter were Democrats. She doesn’t want school children on tours to ask awkward questions about them. She doesn’t want the public to have visible reminders that the Confederacy was a Democrat-led, Democrat-sponsored i**********n. She doesn’t want anyone to recall that the Union wasn’t the only army on the battlefield or that the Democrat-led Confederacy fired the first shot of the Civil War. She doesn’t want anyone to be curious and look up what those pro-Confederacy Democrats said to justify and defend s***ery.

Nobody here agrees with s***ery. It’s indefensible, inexcusable, and responsible for incalculable injury to the black community. People alive today remember elders who had been born into bondage, excluded from education, grudgingly shoved into “separate but equal” schools, and denied opportunities for advancement despite obvious qualifications. W****s-only facilities were still legal when I was a child. Even the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to admit an internationally acclaimed opera singer through the front door. (Eventually the DAR remembered that the Revolutionary War’s first casualty was Crispus Attucks, a black man.) As a nation and as individuals, we’ve made a lot of progress toward living up to the Constitution’s ideal of extending the blessings of liberty to every American and their posterity.

Nancy’s revision of history removes valuable information from public memory. We must be allowed to remember the Confederacy along with the Union because that battlefield did and does have two sides. The Union did not fight an invisible adversary. But Nancy would like to conceal her party’s participation in the Confederacy, the KKK, the s***e code, black code, Jim Crow, segregation, and the separate but "equal" access to facilities, civil rights, and institutions.

Confederate portraits, statues and monuments disturb every American who believes that the Constitution protects every citizen and legal resident. But the culture that created the Confederacy deserves to own its legacy forever. And we can’t hold them accountable if they’re allowed to deface, erase, and replace their sordid past with a fabricated narrative.

Thanks for letting me share a Constitutional Minute with you. God bless you, yours and the United States of America!


I think that it would only be fitting that as soon as Nancy Pelosi is removed from the office of Speaker Of the House, that all former Speakers whose pictures were removed, have then returned to their historical position and all Speakers that would remove that history be barred forever from appearing with the other historical Speakers.
Somehow that is historically Right!!!