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Pelosi Demands Confederate Statue Removal, but Forgets Her Own F
ather Dedicated One
By: Beelzeboop Date: June 12, 2020, 8:37 pm
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:crying:
She's such a vapid pos. I despise her.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who on Wednesday demanded the
removal of Confederate statues occupying the U.S.
The Capitol however , has remained silent on her father’s role
in overseeing the dedication of the Stonewall Jackson and Robert
E. Lee Monument while serving as Baltimore’s mayor in 1948.
Pelosi this week formally requested the removal of Confederate
statues occupying the U.S. Capitol, dismissing them as
“monuments to men who advocated cruelty and barbarism to achieve
such a plainly racist end.” Her demand comes as angry protesters
across the nation take matters into their own hands, vandalizing
— and in some cases, beheading — statues and monuments
memorializing the Civil War era and beyond.
Quote: "As I have said before, the halls of Congress are the
very heart of our democracy. The statues in the Capitol should
embody our highest ideals as Americans, expressing who we are
and who we aspire to be as a nation,” Pelosi said in her letter
to Committee Chair Roy Blunt (R-MO) and Vice Chair Zoe Lofgren
(D-CA).
“Monuments to men who advocated cruelty and barbarism to achieve
such a plainly racist end are a grotesque affront to these
ideals,” she continued. “Their statues pay homage to hate, not
heritage. They must be removed.”
However, her father, Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr., oversaw the
dedication of such a statue in Baltimore’s Wyman Park — the
Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee Monument — as mayor of the
city in 1948. At the time, the Speaker’s father said people
could look to Jackson’s and Lee’s lives as inspiration and urged
Americans to “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.”
Quite : "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,”
City crews removed the statue in August 2017 under the direction
of the city council
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The rest in the linky...
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Re: Pelosi Demands Confederate Statue Removal, but Forgets Her O
wn Father Dedicated One
By: LunaC Date: June 12, 2020, 8:39 pm
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I understand the history and current events that have soured the
public opinion of these monuments. But I still feel like they
would be better moved to a museum or somewhere where people can
still reflect on the past we come from. Erase it and we won't
have any lessons to look back to.
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Re: Pelosi Demands Confederate Statue Removal, but Forgets Her O
wn Father Dedicated One
By: Beelzeboop Date: June 12, 2020, 8:47 pm
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[quote author=LunaC link=topic=44.msg685#msg685 date=1592012390]
I understand the history and current events that have soured the
public opinion of these monuments. But I still feel like they
would be better moved to a museum or somewhere where people can
still reflect on the past we come from. Erase it and we won't
have any lessons to look back to.
[/quote]
It's history. You can't change it. It's art.
Theyre pathetic with this zealot PC stuff.
HBO reviewing if it should show Gone With The Wind.
Are they kidding?
Hattie McDaniel paved the way for black actors that came after
her.
She's an academy award winner.
Her 2 greatest roles are being forgotten because a bunch of
snowflakes, who have no clue what real oppression was like, are
whining like big babies.
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie_McDaniel
1940 Academy Awards
The Twelfth Academy Awards took place at the Coconut Grove
Restaurant of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It was
preceded by a banquet in the same room. Louella Parsons, an
American gossip columnist, wrote about Oscar night, February 29,
1940:
Hattie McDaniel earned that gold Oscar by her fine performance
of 'Mammy' in Gone with the Wind. If you had seen her face when
she walked up to the platform and took the gold trophy, you
would have had the choke in your voice that all of us had when
Hattie, hair trimmed with gardenias, face alight, and dress up
to the queen's taste, accepted the honor in one of the finest
speeches ever given on the Academy floor.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of
the motion picture industry and honored guests: This is one of
the happiest moments of my life, and I want to thank each one of
you who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards, for
your kindness. It has made me feel very, very humble; and I
shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able
to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit
to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too
full to tell you just how I feel, and may I say thank you and
God bless you.[31][32]
— From McDaniel's acceptance speech, 12th Annual Academy
Awards, February 29, 1940
McDaniel received a plaque-style Oscar, approximately 5.5 inches
(14 cm) by 6 inches (15 cm), the type awarded to all Best
Supporting Actors and Actresses at that time.[33] She and her
escort were required to sit at a segregated table for two at the
far wall of the room; her white agent, William Meiklejohn, sat
at the same table. The hotel had a strict no-blacks policy, but
allowed McDaniel in as a favor.[34][35] The discrimination
continued after the award ceremony as well as her white costars
went to a "no-blacks" club, where McDaniel was also denied
entry. Another black woman did not win an Oscar again for 50
years, with Whoopi Goldberg winning Best Supporting Actress for
her role in Ghost.[36] Weeks prior to McDaniel winning her
Oscar, there was even more controversy. David Selznick, the
producer of Gone With the Wind, omitted the faces of all the
black actors on the posters advertising the movie in the South.
None of the black cast members, including Hattie McDaniel, were
even allowed to attend the premiere for the movie.[37]
Gone with the Wind won eight Academy Awards. It was later named
by the American Film Institute (AFI) as number four among the
top 100 American films of all time in the 1998 ranking and
number six in the 2007 ranking.[38]
West Adams Heights homeowners' covenant case victory
Further information: Historic West Adams § Population changes
McDaniel was the most famous of the black homeowners who helped
to organize the black Historic West Adams neighborhood residents
who saved their homes.[42] Loren Miller, an attorney and the
owner and publisher of the California Eagle newspaper,
represented the minority homeowners in their restrictive
covenant case.[43] In 1944, Miller won the case Fairchild v
Rainers, a decision in favor of a black family in Pasadena,
California, which had bought a nonrestricted lot but was still
sued by white neighbors.
Time magazine, in its issue of December 17, 1945, reported:
Spacious, well-kept West Adams Heights still had the complacent
look of the days when most of Los Angeles' aristocracy lived
there. ...
In 1938, Negroes, willing and able to pay $15,000 and up for
Heights property, had begun moving into the old eclectic
mansions. Many were movie folk — Actresses Louise Beavers,
Hattie McDaniel, Ethel Waters, etc. They improved their
holdings, kept their well-defined ways, quickly won more than
tolerance from most of their white neighbors.
But some whites, refusing to be comforted, had referred to the
original racial restriction covenant that came with the
development of West Adams Heights back in 1902 which restricted
"Non-caucasians" from owning property. For seven years they had
tried to enforce it, but failed. Then they went to court. ...
Superior Judge Thurmond Clarke decided to visit the disputed
ground—popularly known as "Sugar Hill." ... Next morning, ...
Judge Clarke threw the case out of court. His reason: "It is
time that members of the Negro race are accorded, without
reservations or evasions, the full rights guaranteed them under
the 14th Amendment to the Federal Constitution. Judges have been
avoiding the real issue too long."
Said Hattie McDaniel, of West Adams Heights: "Words cannot
express my appreciation."[44]
McDaniel had purchased her white, two-story, seventeen-room
house in 1942. The house included a large living room, dining
room, drawing room, den, butler's pantry, kitchen, service
porch, library, four bedrooms and a basement. McDaniel had a
yearly Hollywood party. Everyone knew that the king of
Hollywood, Clark Gable, could always be found at McDaniel's
parties.[45]
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