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New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu calls for removal of Lee Circle statue
The Times-Picayune ^ | 6/24/2015 | Robert McClendon

Posted on 06/24/2015 12:39:41 PM PDT by Pelham

Now is the time to talk about replacing the statue of Robert E. Lee, as iconic as it is controversial, from its perch at the center of Lee Circle, Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced Wednesday (June 24) during a gathering held to highlight his racial reconciliation initiative.

"Symbols really do matter," he said. "Symbols should reflect who we really are as a people.

"We have never been a culture, in essence, that revered war rather than peace, division rather than unity."

The slaying last week of nine black people in a historic Charleston, S.C., church at the hands of Dylann Roof, an avowed white supremacist, has sparked heated debate about whether the Confederate battle flag and other symbols associated with the country's racist past ought to be displayed in public places.

Just two days ago, Landrieu was noncommittal when asked whether the Lee statue should be removed, though he called for a larger discussion on it and other Confederate monuments in New Orleans. The 2018 Tricentennial Commission, whose tasks include addressing the city's complex racial history ahead of its 300th anniversary, would also examine the propriety of the monuments continued display on public property, the mayor's office said.

"These symbols say who we were in a particular time, but times change. Yet these symbols -- statues, monuments, street names, and more -- still influence who we are and how we are perceived by the world," a spokesman said in a statement.

"Mayor Landrieu believes it is time to look at the symbols in this city to see if they still have relevance to our future." ...

(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: 1984; generallee; lee; mitchlandrieu; neworleans; newspeak; notenoughlampposts; orwellian; peacemaker; purge; robertelee
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To: Pelham
Replace it with a tribute to Jean Lafitte. Democrats love pirate smugglers and spies. Just ask the Kennedys.

-PJ

81 posted on 06/24/2015 2:08:28 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: colorado tanker
Lee headed off any talk of continued guerrilla warfare after Appomattox.

True.

More important, he worked assiduously after the war to reconcile Southerners and Northerners.

Well, he didn't promote continued hatred between the sections. And he did encourage patience and reconciliation, rather than hot-headed rebellion.

But he did keep his distance from Northerners. That's understandable given all that happened, but it's true that he wasn't any kind of activist working energetically for reconciliation. It's more what he didn't do, than what he did that was important.

82 posted on 06/24/2015 2:11:24 PM PDT by x
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To: sport

Yep!


83 posted on 06/24/2015 2:13:08 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (I'm very sad for my country. Personally, I've never been happier.)
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To: Pelham

As usual with the left and the left in the GOP...symbolism over substance.


84 posted on 06/24/2015 2:16:12 PM PDT by Fledermaus (NO RINO 2016 or I stay home. Shove it FR RINO lovers.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

And the Confederate THEY created.


85 posted on 06/24/2015 2:17:43 PM PDT by Fledermaus (NO RINO 2016 or I stay home. Shove it FR RINO lovers.)
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To: VerySadAmerican
"I believe local authorities will lock up all protestors. And they’ll use deadly force if necessary. The media will say the cops were forced to kill a bunch of redneck racists white extremists."

Very likely and that emphasizes why any movement to oppose the Left, and the government (but I repeat myself) must be on a mass scale. The genus of Obama, as the great divider, is that he has fractionated the American populace and millions would have to come together to stop what he and the Left are doing to the US.

86 posted on 06/24/2015 2:22:03 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Vermont Lt

I know you are pleased with current events.


87 posted on 06/24/2015 2:26:27 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: TexasRepublic

“Inspect your guns, Gentlemen! Another civil war is being thrust upon us.”

Never happen.
The Republicans are leading the charge so it’s bipartisan.
This is the last psychological blow of reconstruction. Meant to isolate white southern males and psychologically geld them.
The southern Republican politicians want this issue to go away so they’re taking the lead.
Remember the GOP is the lesser of two evils.


88 posted on 06/24/2015 2:35:06 PM PDT by snarkybob
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To: Political Junkie Too

I can’t badmouth Jean LaFitte, one of my ancestors sailed with him. Plus they brought the cannons to the Battle of New Orleans!


89 posted on 06/24/2015 3:26:02 PM PDT by Pelham (The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: relictele

I think that’s when the shootin starts


90 posted on 06/24/2015 3:31:45 PM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: VerySadAmerican
Supposing an election will be held in 2016, I do not believe that it will be kind to the Republican Party. The Republican Party, up to now has done nothing to endear it with its base, nor nothing to excite its base. I suppose that at the last minute they may try the old, “If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit." approach. whether it succeeds remains yet to be seen.
91 posted on 06/24/2015 3:47:05 PM PDT by sport
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To: Charles Martel

I went to grade school in Arlington, VA. Every so often we would have a field trip to Arlington cemetery that would include a visit to the Custis-Lee mansion.

My third grade year, must have been 1959, we went there one morning. Back at school that afternoon a few of us were walking back to class and the black janitor, must have been in his 60s, spoke to us: “Did you little kids go to the Custis-Lee house today?” We said “yeah” and he said “My momma worked there when she was a little girl. She helped Mrs Robert E Lee.”

He was proud of his connection to history. I was impressed enough that I still remember it, he was a living connection to the Civil War. This was before the PC gestapo had showed up to spread their bile throughout American life. I’ll bet that old janitor’s family keeps that family story to themselves these days.


92 posted on 06/24/2015 3:47:21 PM PDT by Pelham (The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: Truth29

And I doubt millions will come together. This purging of the South, supposedly over a flag, is the beginning of the end.

Sadly, Obama voters who love the Confederate flag will support what’s being done. Democrats who own guns will support Obama when he signs an EO taking them away.

Which reminds me. Would the Emancipation Proclamation fall under the category of Executive Order?


93 posted on 06/24/2015 7:13:38 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (I'm very sad for my country. Personally, I've never been happier.)
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To: VerySadAmerican

In today’s America, almost anything could be an Obama Executive Action. Who is going to stop him? Not the Potemkin Village opposition which is not even bothering to hide their complicity anymore with tearing down the country.


94 posted on 06/25/2015 2:44:05 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: Truth29

Was the Emancipation Proclamation an executive order?


95 posted on 06/25/2015 7:04:45 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (I'm very sad for my country. Personally, I've never been happier.)
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To: VerySadAmerican

It was a Presidential proclamation and, in essence, an executive order.


96 posted on 06/25/2015 7:54:23 AM PDT by Truth29
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