Posted on 05/24/2016 3:13:23 PM PDT by BBell
NEW ORLEANS (WWL-TV) – The city of New Orleans has cancelled the start of the monument relocation bid process that was scheduled Monday as the matter continues to be stayed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
The decision to remove four monuments that celebrate Confederate era figures or events and the bid process to have them removed has been marked by controversy and court hearings.
The city council voted late last year to have the Robert E. Lee statue at Lee Circle, The P.G.T. Beauregard statue near City Park, the Jefferson Davis Memorial on Jefferson Davis Parkway and the monument to the Battle of Liberty Place tucked away off of Canal Street, declared nuisances.
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The Trayvon Benjamin Martin circle around.
I know.
My opinion is that the left is going to be angry, mad, offended, outraged, etc., no matter what we do or don’t do. Robert E. Lee is too important a man to get erased from our history.
If we could only erase political correctness from our history...
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