It turns out that confederate-statue-hunter Nancy Pelosi had some racists in her family – at least according to her own standards.
That’s because Fox News discovered that her dad, who had been the mayor of Baltimore, once LOVED confederate statues!!
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has ramped up calls to remove “reprehensible” Confederate statues from the halls of Congress — but left unsaid in her public denunciations is that her father helped dedicate such a statue decades ago while mayor of Baltimore.
It was May 2, 1948, when, according to a Baltimore Sun article from that day, “3,000” looked on as then-Governor William Preston Lane Jr. and Pelosi’s father, the late 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 delivered a speech, and Mayor 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,” D’Alesandro said in his dedication. “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.”
Look, she shouldn’t be judged by what her father did, no one should. BUT would she call her dad a racist because he loved confederate statues? Probably not – she’d probably say he needs to be judged by the standards of his time. Which is exactly what a lot of confederate statue defenders say about confederate fighters, and their statues. BOOOM!!!