Posted on 12/17/2015 9:23:42 PM PST by TigerClaws
Lee Circle and three other New Orleans public spaces will be stripped of monuments related to the Confederacy after a historic City Council vote Thursday (Dec. 17). But the fate of other statues in the city should also be debated in the coming years, Mayor Mitch Landrieu said.
The council's 6-1 vote in favor of removing the four monuments put to bed six months of white-hot rhetoric, but other monument fights may be on the horizon.
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Distraction time.
The only thing that Mitch really worries about is how he can stay in office until he dies. But one day it will all catch up with him as it did his sister.
I was afraid something like this would happen after that woman in South Carolina began attacking the state’s history and tearing down monuments to appease radicalized liberals.
They ought to put up a statue of Buddy D., R.I.P., at Lee’s Circle with a plaque that says “What’s the Point?”.
Six months? six months?? Of rhetoric???
Is that all?
(plural kitty reference pulled by poster)!
You must mean Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley, the import from the Indian subcontinent.
What these historical illiterates do not know is that these monuments were erected at a time when the country wanted to unite in order to face big challenges. Picture Confederate veterans lining the railroad saluting the Rough Riders as they proceeded to the port of Tampa. Or bases named for Confederate generals that were built to train the Doughboys before they headed Over There. These monuments were all part of this. During WWI, Civil War veterans were the same age as Vietnam veterans are today. These monuments to both sides helped unite this country into a world power, in a small way granted, but that was their purpose at the time.
I can understand the removal of the “Battle of Liberty Place” one but the rest I don’t understand. Most of the black folks I know who are native to this area could not give a pooh about these monuments.
The United States of America is attending its own funeral.
The irony is that James Longstreet led some the forces defending the black folks of New Orleans.
But doing this WILL ELIMINATE crime and all of the social ills!
What are there going to rename Lee Circle?
After the war P. G. T. Beauregard did a lot to help Blacks and was instrumental in building schools for black children in New Orleans. Go figure.
trayvon martin circle.
Obama Curve
I don’t trust people, especially politicians who want us to forget history.
The people need to start removing all those monuments to communists who worked in the so-called Civil Rights Movement.
This is kind of like the old days of the Soviet Union following political purges of one to another...now being encouraged by “low information” citizens who are to lazy to know and comprehend the history of this young country but are content with others telling them what it is and should be. Disgusting and also sad.
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