Posted on 05/19/2017 12:12:01 PM PDT by Timpanagos1
The last of four Confederate monuments New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu wants removed from public property, the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, is set to spend just a few more hours looking to the north from its 60-foot column as crews prepare to remove it Friday (May 19).
Barricades were set up in Thursday afternoon, leading most to believe it would be taken down overnight. Monument supporters and opponents gathered anticipating the statue's removal, but the mayor's office announced the removal would happen during the day Friday, starting at 9 a.m. The city expects the process to be finished and to reopen the streets around Lee Circle by 5 p.m. Those streets were closed off just before 4 a.m.
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I hear you.
It might as well be.
“It was about the South seceding. That’s why they were attacked.”
That’s why Fort Sumter was attacked?
Of course it was. Pity the men running the South at the time didn't know that. They all thought it was about slavery.
Being as the Democrat party is the party of slavery, then all references to Democrats should be removed from this country, starting with Mayor Landrieu himself. His father, Moon, has a statue and the Moonwalk erected in his honor. That should also be removed.
“His father, Moon, has a statue and the Moonwalk erected in his honor. That should also be removed.”
The New Orleans City Council has the power to do that.
I was at a convention in New Orleans back in 1996.
Great third-world country.
NOLA is right ‘down the beach’ from here. Go there, occasionally. Not any more...................
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