Mayor Mitch Landrieu [NOL] yesterday, called for statues honoring the Confederacy to be removed from the city.
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/06/robert_e_lee_statue_removal.html
Let’s just hide history, why don’t we?
That has probably been on the Mayor's Office wish list since Mitch's daddy was mayor.
This is a city, mind you, where a visitor can pay to take a guided tour which will include visits to restored slaves' quarters. Is the city going to order those structures bulldozed, Mitch? It's all part of the same story.
One thing New Orleans has *never* done is flinch at its past - good, bad or sordid. Well, until now.
IIRC, the monument in Lee Circle has been on the National Register of Historic Places since the 1990s. It'll be interesting to see if that still means anything.