Pelosi refuses to denounce father's complicity in racism

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So now we're all on board for denouncing Confederate monuments and acknowledging racism of the past? Great!

I don't necessarily denounce historical monuments; but I do denounce hypocrisy. More than either of those, I denounce housing discrimination.
 
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Ive heard of the remove confederate monuments movement, which I support. This is the first Ive heard about denouncing the specific civic leaders who put them up. This is a thing?

OF course!!! and pretty soon we'll be required to Denounce people who were FRIENDS of the specific civic leaders who put them up. AND THEN it'll be to denounce people who used to know the specific civic leaders who put them up.
 
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refuses to denounce her late father, former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., for supporting the erection of Confederate monuments in the city and perpetuating systemic racism by not stopping discriminatory practices, including refusing rental housing to Black people in White neighborhoods.

Pelosi refuses to denounce father’s complicity in racism
I truly don't get the validity of expecting politicians to publicly comment upon anything said or done by their family members.

Certainly, Pelosi herself had no sway in her father's beliefs or policies.

This is like when the Nazis wanted you to out anybody in your circle who was not on board with their dictates ...
 
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OF course!!! and pretty soon we'll be required to Denounce people who were FRIENDS of the specific civic leaders who put them up. AND THEN it'll be to denounce people who used to know the specific civic leaders who put them up.
I denounce you, Bob!

(just staying a step ahead of the game)
 
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refuses to denounce her late father, former Baltimore Mayor Thomas D’Alesandro Jr., for supporting the erection of Confederate monuments in the city and perpetuating systemic racism by not stopping discriminatory practices, including refusing rental housing to Black people in White neighborhoods.

Pelosi refuses to denounce father’s complicity in racism
Seems like a political slander piece.

He was a Congressman before he was mayor of Baltimore from 1947 - 1959. Found this out about her father:

Jerusalem Post: Pelosi's Father Bucked FDR and Truman to Aid Jews and Israel

D'Alesandro was one of the congressional supporters of the Bergson Group, a maverick Jewish political action committee that challenged the Roosevelt administration's policies on the Jewish refugee issue during the Holocaust and later lobbied against British control of Palestine.

The Bergson activists used unconventional tactics to draw attention to the plight of Europe's Jews, including staging theatrical pageants, organizing a march by 400 rabbis to the White House and placing more than 200 full-page advertisements in newspapers around the country....

D'Alesandro's involvement with the Bergson Group was remarkable because he was a Democrat who was choosing to support a group that was publicly challenging a Democratic president....

Until late in the Holocaust, the Roosevelt administration's position was that nothing could be done to rescue Jews from the Nazis except to win the war. The Bergson Group was convinced that there were many steps the United States could take to rescue refugees without impeding the war effort.
He advocated for the establishment of Israel after the war.

As mayor of Baltimore, one of the things he did was, along with the governor of Maryland, dedicate a statue to Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee put up to commenorate where the two met prior to a battle. That was in 1948.

Another thing though that happened while he was mayor was that Brown Vs. Board of Education Topeka decision by the Supreme Court. Read this:

Trump's Racist Tweets Evoke Memories of Baltimore's Painful Past - JMORE

Tommy was mayor when the U.S. Supreme Court ordered theracial integration of America’s public schools. The president of the BaltimoreCity school board back then was Walter Sondheim, who openly backed integration.

For his trouble, vandals burned a cross on Sondheim’s front lawn. Go back to your own, they were telling him with their fiery religious symbol. Sondheim stood his ground. On the day of the Supreme Court decision, he went to D’Alesandro. Leaders in the surrounding counties were already indicating they’d drag their feet before integrating their schools.

“What do you want to do with it?” Sondheim askedD’Alesandro.

“The priests tell me it’s the right thing,” Tommy said.That’s all he needed. That, and a whole history of being told he was an outsider, that he should “go home.” He knew what it meant to be marginalized.​

Should she 'denounce him'? I don't think so. She should be able to criticize the decision to put up the monument (instigated by others) , and regret his participation but she should also honor her father and mother like the Bible says. He tried standing up for the Jews in Europe suffering from the Nazis and didn't resist integration of Baltimore schools. He wasn't a perfect man though.
 
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Nancy's brother was the mayor of Baltimore from 1967- 1971.
Thomas D’Alesandro, 90, Ex-Mayor of Baltimore and Pelosi’s Brother, Dies (Published 2019)

Under his leadership as mayor, civil rights laws were enacted in the city, neighborhood centers were opened and a housing and community development department was created, according to a city website.

He was elected mayor at a time when Baltimore’s public housing had deteriorated, crime was on the rise and the middle class was retreating to the suburbs.

During his first four months in office, he appointed more black people to posts than any predecessor had over an entire term, a city biography said....

Robert Embry, who served as Mr. D’Alesandro’s housing commissioner, recalled that just before becoming mayor, at a neighborhood meeting with a conservative civic group in northeast Baltimore in 1967, Mr. D’Alesandro “was the only one in the room” to speak in favor of equal housing.
Seems like the father of this Thomas D'Alesandro and of Nancy Pelosi raised politically progressive children.


 
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