Comments by "Benjamin Allen" (@benjaminallen105) on "Removal of Portraits of Four Previous Speakers who served in the Confederacy" video.

  1. You're absolutely right. The "good ol' days" of discrimination and slavery are gone. Those concepts were overcome long ago. There is no system that rewards Racism in America today. 'Systemic Racism' is a false narrative which only promotes division and hatred. Pelosi is just perpetuating that narrative for political gain.
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  2. Wasn't this a tactic used by ISIS and the Taliban... I believe it was coupled with Censorship and Revisionism.
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  3. They were duely elected House Speakers... just like Nancy Pelosi.
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  4.  @thetraveler264  Forty years ago, in my teens, I met a girl in a bar and took her home for the night. Two days later she came to my house saying she was hungry and wanted a sandwich. I made up some excuse and shunned her. I have often thought about that moment with shame, but I can't deny that my guilt helped shape me into a better person. As a nation we can't deny our past, but more than that, we should honor it as the growth experience it was. Those men held an honorable position in government, and they didn't consider themselves traitors. Neither did the nation that elected them. We are a different country today Because of the experiences of our past. We should honor that.
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  5.  @thetraveler264  I'm sorry you don't see the connection between 'human growth and development', and 'National Evolution'. Nevertheless... I too am a veteran, SFC U.S. Army ret, born and reared in Georgia. Some of my best Brothers in Arms are Black Men. I make that point to emphasize that race is not an issue. I saw quotes from the WHO and the Health Secretary of California that stated, if 'contact tracers' determined a citizen's home to be inadequate for proper quarantine, Covid19 patients should be taken to a state facility. If government representatives were to come to my house expecting to take a family member away, I would take up arms against them... and I am not a traitor. My point is, taking up arms against the government is not necessarily treasonous. Secession was only determined to be illegal after the fact by the victors. In 1860, Civil War was not an act of treason. It was considered a sovereign right under the 10th Amendment.
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  6.  @thetraveler264  I agree totally with your argument, but I believe it supports my conclusion that labeling four previous House Speakers as traitors is revisionism. Again, in 1860 neither slavery or secession was illegal. You can't declare law-abiding citizens to be criminals by changing the law after the fact (as Justice Roberts recently decided in his DACA ruling). Also, one of President Lincoln's first actions after the war was to declare amnesty for all combatants. By every moral standard these House Speakers were wrong, but they were not traitors in 1860 and they should not be declared so today.
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  7.  @thetraveler264  👍 I agree that a 'celebration' for these men is going too far, but that's sort-of what Pelosi is doing. She's celebrating their removal from the Congressional Hall of Fame. If Nancy Pelosi wants to remodel the Capitol Building, that certainly is her privilege as Speaker Of The House, but this action is nothing but Pandering to an unruly mob, and the effect is to perpetuate division for political gain. She is disgusting! We don't need to celebrate the political accomplishments of these past Speakers, but we DO need to recognize their historical contributions toward what we have become. (however unintended)
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  8.  @thetraveler264  It shouldn't have been done at all. An 'on the record' address before Congress would have been much more respected. Ty Cobb was a despicable human being, but I wouldn't want him removed from the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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  9.  @thetraveler264  Or better yet... a posthumous censure vote by the Whole House, and get every member on record.
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