US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the statues pay tribute to hate, not heritage. (File)
Washington:
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday called for the U.S. Capitol’s withdrawal of 11 statues of soldiers or Confederate officials, the last anti-racist effort after the death of a black man in police custody has sparked mass protests.
“The monuments to the men who advocated cruelty and barbarism to achieve such a clearly racist end are a grotesque affront to these ideals” of American democracy and freedom, the top Democrat in Congress wrote to a bipartisan committee.
“Their statues pay homage to hatred, not heritage,” added Pelosi. “They must be deleted.”
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