Posted on 08/16/2015 8:23:37 AM PDT by rktman
As a committee of city government called Thursday for taking down four controversial statues that celebrate Confederate officials and a white supremacist group’s violent fight against a biracial state government during Reconstruction, Gov. Bobby Jindal’s office said it is looking into whether he can use the power of his office to keep the monuments in place.
The monuments, including the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee atop the column at a St. Charles Avenue traffic circle, should be taken down under an ordinance that allows the City Council to remove public statues that celebrate racist ideologies or are likely to be sites of violent protest, the Historic District Landmarks Commission decided after about an hour of sometimes heated testimony.
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New Orleans has been down this road before. Some years ago, they deleted the name of George Washington school, because George Washington owned slaves. The school board decided that schools should not honor slave owners.
The school was renamed after some obscure African king.
No word as to whether the boost to self esteem of the black students, who no longer had to attend a school named after a slave owner, resulted in greater student achievement.
They going to take down the memorials to Huey Long, too?
Wow. And I guess a "racist ideology" is any ideology that the City Council doesn't particularly like. Because any ideology can be deemed racist if you twist and turn it enough.
By why stop there, City Council? I'm sure there are books in your city libraries that also celebrate racist ideologies. A biography of Lee, for example. Burn those books in big bonfires!
Having lived in the area at various times from ‘69-’75 and consistently from ‘75-’87, my guess is——————no improvement due to heightened self esteem.
Prolly. Wasn’t Huey a racist in secret?
Yep, I think you are right.
While New Orleans is making symbolic statements such as this, they have an unfortunate reputation of having some of the worst public schools in the entire country.
"'The Black Book of Communism,'; a scholarly accounting of communism’s crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."
Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
By Jonah Goldberg, August 2008:
Judge any person from the 19th Century or mid-20th Century by today's standards and they're all going to come off as a racist.
Seems it’s everywhere these days. Why address real issues when there’s BS to be dealt with. :>} Iran-——meh. Statue of some Confederate general————OMG! Call the un. Anyone wonder why we are laughed at around the world? Yet, seems everybody wants to come here.
Hey - bulldoze the entire French Quarter. They sold slaves there.
Voodoo High School
That should make some folks happy.
Mrs. rktman has fleur de lis’ things all over the house. Didn’t know she was a racist when I married her. :>}
There are a few schools already named for Barack Obama.
Hard to believe, but true. One is in largely black Prince Georges County, Maryland. I’m sure that officials there thought it would help the self esteem of the black students to attend a school named for our dear leader who shares some of their racial background. As if racial background is the only thing that matters to some people anymore.
None of this has anything to do with the city of New Orleans, which has never flinched at its history, no matter how sordid. Landrieu is trying to make his bones in the national political scene.
Voodoo Economics Tech would be appropriate?
I wonder if that African king sold off his rivals to the slavers back in the day.
Wouldn’t that be rich irony.
If they are intent on moving the memorials, move them to higher ground entirely outside the New Orleans jurisdiction. That will eliminate the reason to do anything when the next storm takes out this particularly corrupt city.
We need to support historical preservation, not tear down our history.
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