Pelosi silent on dad’s actions
“If Republicans are serious about rejecting white supremacy,” U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said recently, they should remove all statues inside the U.S. Capitol related to Confederate figures.
Not only did Pelosi not call for the removal of the statues during her time as speaker of the House from 2007 to 2011, but her father as mayor of Baltimore dedicated statues to Confederate heroes Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. Indeed, according to reports, Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., the Democratic mayor of Maryland’s largest city, speaking before a crowd of 3,000 in 1948 as hawkers sold Confederate battle flags, called the causes the Confederate figures were fighting for “sacred institutions.”
“Today, with our nation beset by subversive groups and propaganda which seeks to destroy our national unity,” he said, “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, a Democrat like his daughter, also said, “World Wars I and II found the North and South fighting for a common cause, and the generalship displayed by these two great men in the War Between the States lived on and were applied in the military plans of our nation and the Pacific areas.”