{"id":34275,"date":"2019-12-06T09:19:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T13:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/?p=34275"},"modified":"2019-12-06T09:19:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T13:19:21","slug":"pelosis-selective-shaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2019\/12\/06\/pelosis-selective-shaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi\u2019s Selective Shaming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dissing Thomas Jefferson for owning slaves is \u201cthe right thing to do.\u201d<\/a><\/strong> A statue of George Washington is a \u201cslap in the face\u201d<\/a><\/strong> to black Americans and should be torn down because he also owned slaves.<\/p>\n

Comments such as these represent the sort of fanaticism that President Donald Trump spoke out against<\/a> in 2017 \u2013 the destruction of the Founding Fathers\u2019 legitimacy because some of them were slaveowners. He was derided for his comments.<\/p>\n

But Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who sought to remove statues<\/a><\/strong> of Confederate figures in the U.S. Capitol as minority leader (yet has done nothing after becoming Speaker), has decided it\u2019s alright to rehabilitate some slaveowners when it fits her agenda.<\/p>\n

In her announcement<\/a><\/strong> of the intention to have articles of impeachment drafted against President Trump, Pelosi cited George Mason\u2019s comments against political corruption. Yet Mason owned slaves<\/a><\/strong>. Ditto for James Madison<\/a><\/strong>, whom she also cited.<\/p>\n

\"Christopher<\/p>\n

Project 21<\/a><\/strong> member Christopher Arps<\/a><\/strong> finds this odd. He says:<\/p>\n

In her impeachment remarks, Speaker Pelosi mentioned the Founding Fathers several times \u2013 and George Mason, in particular. If her staff would have done their research, they would have learned that George Mason was a slaveholder<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s funny how old, dead white slaveholders are again relevant to liberals when it suits their purposes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the impeachment drive, Christopher adds:<\/p>\n

This is a sad day in America, but not for the reasons Speaker Pelosi cited. It\u2019s sad because naked partisanship is being employed to remove the duly elected president of the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dissing Thomas Jefferson for owning slaves is \u201cthe right thing to do.\u201d A statue of George Washington is a \u201cslap in the face\u201d to black Americans and should be torn down because he also owned slaves. 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