Scarf that congresswoman carried on the day of the insurrection featured voting card of enslaved...

[demmiblue]

Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, a Democrat from Delaware, discussed the significance of the scarf that she carried with her on the day she was sworn in and on Jan. 6, 2021, which features the voting card that belonged to her "great-great-great-grandfather" who was enslaved.

Rochester said that her sister "found a record of the returns of qualified voters and Reconstruction oath." That record was from 1867, Rochester added.

"At the bottom is an 'X.' Our great-great-great-grandfather, who was a slave, marked this 'X; to have the right to vote," Rochester said about the record replicated on the scarf. "I carried it on the day I was sworn in as my proof that we've been through slavery, we've been through Reconstruction, we've been through Jim Crow. And I carry it as my inspiration of what is left to do. We can't give up. We cannot give up. And we will not give up."

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/january-6-capitol-insurrection-anniversary/h_a49a3433a2cf9b61cc6368b311d7f1d9

The CNN special in Statuary Hall last night was well done. The setting was phenomenal... the viewer felt the deep sense of history and importance that permeates that space (as one felt during the speeches made earlier that day by Vice President Harris and President Biden). Speaker Pelosi spoke a little bit about the history of the hall; I especially enjoyed the bit about Clio, muse of history.

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[Walleye]

1. First woman, and first African-American rep in Congress from Delaware. I think she's a rising star