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.”By late evening on Saturday, April 6, 1968, the Baltimore riots were in full swing. Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson.
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has failed to condemn her father for his role in erecting a so-called "racist" Confederate statue as leftists continue to demand the "offensive" monuments are torn down.. On Wednesday, Pelosi demanded the removal of Confederate statues occupying the U.S. Capitol. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who on Wednesday demanded the removal of Confederate statues occupying the U.S. Capitol, has remained silent on her father’s role in overseeing the dedication of the Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee … In Baltimore, Pelosi’s father Thomas D’Alesandro Jr. helped dedicate confederate monument to honor Confederate Gens. 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).Sparked by the April 4 assassination of civil-rights patriarch Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, and fueled by decades of repressed anger and resentment over perceived political, social, and economic injustices, African-American communities erupted in violence in Baltimore and many other U.S. cities—New York, Boston, Detroit, Cincinnati, and Tallahassee—with Chicago and Washington, D.C., suffering the most extensive damage.We are concerned about the increased militarization and lack of clarity that may increase chaos.
The Speaker has also, in recent weeks, criticized President Trump’s response to violent riots. Congress and the American people need to know who is in charge, what is the chain of command, what is the mission, and by what authority is the National Guard from other states operating in the capital.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who on Wednesday demanded the removal of Confederate statues occupying the U.S. Capitol, 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.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. William Preston Lane Jr. and Pelosi’s father, the late Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., spoke at the dedication of a monument to honor Confederate Gens. On the East Side, still-smoldering buildings lined streets and sidewalks that were flecked with shards of broken glass.At 10 p.m., city police admitted their inability to contain the chaos, and Governor Spiro Agnew, at the request of Baltimore Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro III, called in the National Guard, simultaneously issuing an 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew for the city.However, Pelosi’s brother, while serving as Baltimore’s mayor in the 1960s, specifically requested then-Gov. Nancy Pelosi Silent on Own Father Who Oversaw Dedication of Confederate Statue. Nancy Pelosi Silent on Own Father Who Oversaw Dedication of Confederate Statue House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who on Wednesday demanded the removal of Confederate statues occupying the U.S. Capitol, 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. Contact: Speaker’s Press Office, 202-226-7616 Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks on the Floor of the House of Representatives in support of H.R. They must be removed.”“As I have said before, the halls of Congress are the very heart of our democracy. Nancy Pelosi has remained tight-lipped on the confederate statue her father helped put up.