WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives led by Democrats has issued laws that will remove statues at Hill Capitol who pay homage to historical figures with surviving slavery inheritance, including those who serve the Confederation.
A total of 67 Republicans joined Democrats who supported, while 120 voted on the law on Tuesday, reported the Xinhua news agency.
The last voting was 285-120.
“We should not forget history.
We must learn from history.
But we don’t have to respect what defiled the principles we thought we were standing,” said the majority leader of the house Steny Hoyer, the main sponsor of the bill.
“It’s time to eliminate slavery symbols, separation and incitement from this hall,” Hoyer said.
Legislation will order the removal of more than half a dozen confederation statues currently on display in the Capitol as part of the National Stembe Hall collection.
Under the current rules for collection, the statue can be removed only after obtaining approval from the state government that contributes it.
The statues that will be removed include numbers such as Jefferson Davis, President of Confederation; Alexander Hamilton Stephens, vice president of the Confederation; And Wade Hampton, a South Carolina plantation owner who served as General Confederation during the Civil War.
Also to be abandoned was the statue of the former Head of the Supreme Court Roger Taney, the author of 1857 Dred Scott decided that black people did not have the rights of citizens.
It will be replaced by Bust Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American justice to present in the High Court.
Some Republicans argue that the law will damage the country’s authority, which is not necessary, especially when some southern countries have moved to replace statues.
In December 2020, a statue of Robert E.
Lee, the Commander of the Confederations Army, has been excluded from the Capitol at the request of the leaders of the state of Virginia.
Instead, a statue of Barbara Johns, a civil rights activist who led a walkout student to protest the separation of the school, would be established.
The house controlled by a democracy issued a version of the bill last year in response to protests who advocated the racial justice that swept the nation after the death of George Floyd, a black man killed by former Minneapolis police officer.
At that time, the bill stopped at the Senate controlled by the Republic.