The House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, now wants to tear down all the Confederacy-related statues in the U.S. Capitol, in solidarity with the Antifa movement.  This means yanking out lots of Democrats, a donkey-sized detail the media keeps leaving out.  In fact, all Confederate statues and monuments under assault right now by the left feature...Democrats. So we have to ask: where are the statues of prominent black Republican pioneers like Joseph Rainey and Hiram Revels?        Sen. Hiram Revels (R-Miss.)      Rep. Joseph Rainey (R-S.C.) In 1870, Mr. Revels of Mississippi became the first black U.S. senator.  Mr. Rainey, a South Carolinian and former slave, was the first black man seated in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in totality from 1870 to 1879.  "In all, 16 African Americans served in the U.S. Congress during Reconstruction; more than 600 more were elected to the state legislatures, and...(Read Full Post)