The House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday that would remove all statues of former confederate leaders and generals from the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.
As The Hill reports:
The House passed legislation on Tuesday that would remove artwork from the Capitol that honors people with legacies of defending slavery, including by serving the Confederacy.
The 285-120 vote was bipartisan, but it split Republicans. A minority of 67 Republicans joined with all Democrats in support, while 120 voted against it.
“We ought not to forget history. We must learn from history. But we ought not to honor that which defiled the principles for which we think we stand,” said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the bill’s primary author. “It’s time to remove those symbols of slavery, segregation and sedition from these halls.”
The legislation would order the removal of more than half a dozen Confederate statues currently displayed in the Capitol as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. Under the current rules for the collection, a statue can be removed only if the state government that contributed it gives the green light.
These panty wastes should remove all democrats from office for being such kkk, jim crow, racists period. It was the democrats that prolonged racism in America. period.
I second that vote can I get a yea or nea from anyone and everyone
Agree 100%. Remember some of our distant kin fought for the south. That doesn’t make us racist. If war broke out now I wouldn’t be fighting for the Union. That would mean fighting for liberalism which is BS!
yea !
They still are calling everyone else racist. Always the race card
Amen!! This makes me really angry!!! We don’t want our history demolished and erased. How much more of this hypocrisy are we going to have to endure before we patriots stand up and fight for our country and its history! Is it going to take another civil war???😠
Yes I’m afraid we are heading for another civil war or a Revolution! Either way, we need to get our Country back on the right path!
All the statues proposed for removal are of Democrats.
HISTORY IS HISTORY !! WHY NOT JUST TAKE THE STATUE’S OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT FOR THE UNION AS WELL !! MAKE IT FAIR !!!
They will. They are communist. To them, the entire history of America is racist.
HEAR HERE
they only want statues of black american’s who are drug addicts and are killed by a white cop who was only doing his job something the perp never had
I want to know where these extremely expensive works of art go? I’m guessing into someone’s private collection!
Remove all history so the democrats can repeat it.
OH…….THAT’S…….GOOOOOOD! 👍🤜🤛
they never stopped as I said above. poverty rates in Dem controlled cities is higher than R controlled. same with states.
They would only repeat it again, you cannot fix stupid!!! Does the phrase “Deaf, Dumb & Blind” ring any bells??? These Dems are possessed with HATE for anything America. 🥺
Once American history is lost, so is America.
They are one hair away from losing this Country and it saddens me after having such high hopes when coming to this Country in 1966! If I would express exactly what I’m thinking about the Dems they would kick me off SM. Not I would care but I need Fakebook to keep in contact with my overseas family!
Why not dig up the graveyards while they’re rewriting history?
If we forget our past history, a history of standing up for the principles noted in our Declaration of Independence, we will fail to recognize this history in the future. The Confederacy is part of the history of America, slavery was part of our history and America was the first nation to outlaw slavery as a national policy.
Nice job! Seems every single ones of the statues were of and by Democrats in the first place!!
Yeah better get rid of all those racist democrat statues….
Those Socialist/Communist Democrats and RINO’s should be removed from office and this country. They are sick with power. You can’t erase history.
The evil Democrats want to erase the story of how they started the Civil War to preserve their plantation culture, and now wish to become our rulers, as the elites and the bureaucrats, own the people, under communism or socialism. The new civil war is based on racial and class warfare. The poor will defend their overseers as rioting and looting are encouraged. Antifa and BLM play the role that the brown shirts played for Hitler.
When the people have been disarmed, then it is much easier to run them down with tanks to make a point. Such were the actions of the “people’s army” in China.
Racists=Democrats!
Opposed to removing portions of history, I say, ” We The People” remove all the commies from the People’s sacred halls and gov!…..
#Return&RiseOfThe3%’s!…..
There is more than one way to bring their memory back. I rise my fist to you!
Anyone who voted for this bill that are not Democraps by party are RECTUM SUCKING PUPPETS of the Democraps. This has to be one of the MOST WILLFULLY IGNORANT move of Democraps to date.
So this is the important legislation that we pay these “representatives” to do? Just more censoring of American history, warts and all, until they eradicate anything that suggests our history. What a useless lot of morons
Agreed!
“Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.”
Sir William Wallace, 1281
None of us can change the past! History is an important part of America’s culture leave it alone
So…..I should request to have any part of American history that makes me uncomfortable removed…..hmmm
“The House passed legislation on Tuesday that would remove artwork from the Capitol that honors people with legacies of defending slavery”.
Question: Who gets to decide whether someone defended slavery or not? What criteria are they going to use? How do they plan to ensure future generations don’t repeat the mistakes of the past if the only ‘history’ people know is the history those in power want you to know?
So Basically , they are removing what they think NOW is bad Hx what is next.. Hx is what it was , without it we will never learn the paths to correct the next issues. . ripe the pages out of Text books that r Hx. This is might be worse then the fact that we actually overcame this problem in one if not the bloodiest wars of this countries past. For a Reason ( if removed ) we not allow future generations to see the problem/solve it then. The DEMS are really removing their roots.. Name a State that is no controlled by them that has the worse poverty rates.
History is history. These idiots want to sugarcoat everything to make it seem like we got here from rainbows and lollipops. These morons listen to people who are offended by an ant farting.We have crap for brains in government who feel their job is to not govern but to make our country the weakest it has ever been . We have enemies who are getting stronger by the day.Their only goal is to top us and our government is worried about statues that offend the mentally challenged. They are fighting against slavery that has been abolished long ago instead of getting our country stronger so our enemies dont feel bold enough to attack us.
Yeah. That’s right. Remove statues like it’s a memory dump. Let’s pretend it didn’t happen. How silly. Democrats should focus on their job. Not making themselves appear to be busy with all this revisionist garbage. DO YOUR JOB! This isn’t it .
Why do these people not understand that you can tear down statues but it’s not a meaningful thing to do. They can’t eradicate history. And history should never be eradicated. We learn from the stupid things the Democrats do so we don’t repeat their stupidity. Small minds are incapable of understanding. I just answered my own question.
I’m 86 years old and I Love my country. I may not love some of the problems that occurred in the infancy of our nation but I truly believe we have striven to right those wrongs. However, actions of BLM, Antifa, etc. make me wonder if we only created a worse problem. Their behavior is inhumane so obviously they have learned nothing.
The socialist democrats, backed by anti-American propagandists, are destroying our History, as well as our lives and Country. Why is our Congress complicit with this change? Let’s vote the Bums out now!
dems hiding the evidence of their evil ways; won’t keep you from rotting in hell dems; effen fascists
These Marxist infiltrated, corrupt, anti American dimocrats move closer to the year zero we witnessed in Cambodia, under Pol Pot, which included destruction of books, silencing opposition voices, and eradicating history. Communists begin by destroying all the good that unites us, creating fear, banning voices and books, indoctrinating children in schools, restricting access to and the dissemination of information…espe silly inconvenient facts. Sound familiar?
These Marxist infiltrated, corrupt, anti American dimocrats move closer to the year zero we witnessed in Cambodia, under Pol Pot, which included destruction of books, silencing opposition voices, and eradicating history. Communists begin by destroying all the good that unites us, creating fear, banning voices and books, indoctrinating children in schools, restricting access to and the dissemination of information…especially inconvenient facts. Sound familiar?
I suppose they replace the statue with George Floyd, Mr. I can’t breathe drug attic. these people make me sick and I hope the American people stand up and put a stop to the creeps that hate America some day
This action are reminders of what the communist, Taliban and ISIS did to remove history of their nations.
Print the list of those republicans that supported the Dems so we know who to vote out in 22
Our history should not be altered by those who want to distort what actually occurred, even though it may include negative events. History is History – not to be manipulated.
Democrats are always trying to remove the dastardly things they have done in America, but those things should be left in place as a reminder so that Americans can make a better choice than to be a democrat.
Remember the civil war was about much more then slavery. We are a free country. Say anything in public against the government and be a known conservative and see how long you truly stay free! We are no more free then China or Russia!
Aren’t a free country!
What gets me is they take down the statues of men who actually fought for what they thought they were right and helped make America great and they want to put up statues of George Floyd he was a known criminal
These schmucks have too much time on their hands.
THAT’S BULLS@#T!!! YOU CAN’T ERASE HISTORY!!! THE black SUPREMACISTS THINK IF THEY HAVE STATUES AND OTHER MEMORIAL ITEMS REMOVED!!! IT DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!!! IF SO; I WANT EVERY STREET NAME AND STATUE REMOVED FROM malcolm x, I WANT ALL TRIBUTES, PAINTINGS, AND STREET NAMES FOR THE CRIMINAL g. floyd. YOU WANT TO REMOVE HISTORY??? NO FREAKING WAY!!!
THE CONGRESS APPEARS TO BE SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE WHO ARE GUTLESS TO STAND UP TO FREEDOM. WARS ARE FOUGHT AND WON BY KILLING THE ENEMIES. IT IS NOT A PRETTY SIGHT WHEN YOUR BUDDY IS BLOWN HALF INTO. I WILL TELL YOU THAT OUR ENEMIES ARE TRAINING THEIR SOLDIERS TO BE TOUGH AND TO KILL. THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS CUT THE BUDGET AND I GUESS WHEN THE WAR COMES WE WILL NOT HAVE BULLETS TO FIGHT.
WAKE UP AMERICA AND STAND FOR FREEDOM.
MAKE SURE “ALL” THE DEM STATUES ARE REMOVED AS WELL…..DON’T LEAVE ANY OF THEM……EVEN MLK!!!!!!
Bankers then, bankers now…with the added greed of bigpharma. They are so close to being exposed to anyone who can think beyond divide and conquer, they must tear it all down before the people wake up.
We need to keep our history intact and learn from the good as well as the bad. Robert E. Lee was an honorable man despite the fact he fought for the South.
I do agree with this bill; but, they truly have the numbers wrong. The number of Confederate statues in the capitol building should be doubled, and the individual Confederate officers so honored expanded. This is America – not the old Soviet Union.
Well why not remove Arlington National Cemetery while the are doing their foolishness! After all that land belongs to Robert E. Lee. (stolen of course by the government, but still belonging to General Lee.
Stupid
This is ridiculous, that they want to remove statues from the capitol! It’s part of our history! Maybe they should take all of the statues and create a brand new Museum of American history The Good The Bad and The Ugly. List all of the organizations and people involved in creating this beautiful country!
WHY? History is history, and he who forgets history is doomed to repeat it.
We are the best, not because we are perfect, but because we do mostly good things, the bad needs to be recognized and changed. We cannot change the past, and keeping reminders of our imperfection, to remind us to do better, in the future, is a great ideas. SAVE THE REMINDERS, OF IMPERFECTION!
Shouldn’t they remove the live ones first? Like Joe Biden who waltzed with segregationists during his Senate years.
I’m kewl with that so all dems should be removed from office because
1) Dems formewd the KKK
2) dems kept slavery alive for years
3) dems would still have slavery, in it’s old form, if they could as we can see from biden’s and his family racism.
4) welfare from the dems (Johnson) has torn, in particular, the black familys apart and it continues with everything the dems want to give blacks till there is no opposition then the blacks will be back to nothing thanks to the dems. Whites will be with them just as all people will be when there is any form of government that doesn’t involve true freedom.’
5) The obvious lies told, by the dems, about the whites, cops, and white prividlege are so obvious that any color of people that follow this stuff and see the control, the manipulation of people, and the obvious corruption (actually from both parties as the reps, at a min, and we the people, have let this stuff go on for ever.
We would be better off if we got rid of all 538 members of congresss and picked our representatives at random out of a phone book
the dictators in DC have decided that state’s right wasn’t part an parcel to the Constitution
It’s tiypical of these dumboRats trying to erase the southern slavery states, I mean after all they were demonrats controlled states, they fought and lost the civil war this part is for you Obiden for his memory, 750,000 people lost their lives in that war! But President Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation he was a Republican and freed the slaves which enraged the southern and to this day they have them still under their thumbs, hum I wonder when their going to wake up and realize they’ve been had by the dumboRats, blmmarxist, fake news media’s, social media, CRT activists, cancel culture, you let them push the wrong narrative on you, President Lincoln freed you and you gave up! Now they want to destroy their reality and pretend it didn’t happen? Why?