Is Nancy Pelosi a closet white supremacist?

Photo: Reuters

After thirty years self-serving in the House of Representatives, House Minority Leader (ironically, she apparently never met a minority she liked) Nancy Pelosi, has finally had an epiphany. She has called for the removal of "reprehensible" Confederate statues from the halls of Congress. Statues she has walked by, seen, and said nothing about for all those years.

The big question is, however, does she also call for the removal of the statue that her father helped dedicate while he was mayor of Baltimore?

I doubt it--she, like her father before her, loved the Confederacy. 

On May 2, 1948, an article in the Baltimore Sun said that "3,000" looked on as then-Governor William Preston Lane Jr. and Pelosi's father, the late Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. spoke at the dedication of a monument to honor Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

The article said Lane gave the speech and D'Alesandro "accepted" the memorial.

"Today, with our nation beset by subversive groups and propaganda which seeks to destroy our national unity, 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," Nancy Pelosi's father said in the dedication.

Photo: Library of Congress

Pelosi's father went on: "We must remain steadfast in our determination to preserve freedom, not only for ourselves, but for the other liberty-loving nations who are striving to preserve their national unity as free nations."

Then Nancy Pelosi's father added: "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."

If only her daddy could see her now. 

But Nancy Pelosi's mother had to give birth to her first to know what would be in her soul--kind of like signing Obamacare.

Last week the statue Pelosi's father honored, the Lee-Jackson monument, was removed from its post, along with three others in Baltimore.

D'Alesandro might have had something to say about that if he was alive today.

But the entire monument fiasco is a diversion from something much worse to follow.


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