Posted on 04/24/2017 10:49:40 AM PDT by yoe
Rest of the headline...'sooner rather than later'. Mayor Mitch Landrieu held a brief news conference Monday morning on the overnight removal of the Liberty Place monument.
He insisted that security concerns justified taking the obelisk down in the early morning hours and without warning, rather than scheduling any kind of public ceremony.
And he said the other three monuments scheduled for removal would be taken down in the same manner, adding only that it would happen "sooner rather than later."
The mayor chose to speak in front of a monument to fallen police officers in front of New Orleans Police Department headquarters. He pointed out that the Liberty Place statue was put up in the first place to honor an uprising that killed members of the city's integrated police force during the Reconstruction era.
Landrieu called the Liberty Place obelisk an "affront" both to the United States and "the humanity of millions of Americans."
(Excerpt) Read more at theadvocate.com ...
Political correctness on parade again....
I know of an obelisk with the names of the fallen Union Soldiers....aka as a tribute to Southern marksmanship!
Well this will certainly boost NO’s rating as a cultured, cosmopolitan city. Haven’t stepped foot in the over-rated rat hole in over 20 years, and I live app 2 hours away.
And with this affront to racial dignity removed, NO’s black schoolchildren will immediately vault to the front ranks in academic achievement ....
It’s tough to justify the existence of the monument at Liberty Place.
It has nothing to do with the Civil War, but instead is a monument to the Democratic White League and their revolt against an integrated government.
All done in the name of greater tolerance, of course.
It’s doublethink, as in 1984— say one thing but mean another. Words lose their meaning...
Generally, I don’t like the removal of politically incorrect historical monuments, but if what he says is true — that this was a monument to a white supremacist riot against an integrated police force (with the white supremacists being Democrats, incidentally) — I don’t really mind this one being removed.
Mixed views on this. The anticipated removal of Confederate monuments is not a good idea. However if I am reading this right the monument they took down glorified a failed white supremacist revolt. That one needed to go and frankly it should have been done a long time ago.
“Generally, I don’t like the removal of politically incorrect historical monuments, but if what he says is true — that this was a monument to a white supremacist riot against an integrated police force (with the white supremacists being Democrats, incidentally) — I don’t really mind this one being removed.”
That’s exactly how I see it, but it seems we are a minority of the posters who have commented on the topic.
LOL. If the left didn’t have meaningless gestures, it wouldn’t have anything. They know theirs are the true “lost causes”, so they have to do a lot of grandstanding to make up for it. They only thing they’re remotely good at is giving other people’s money away, and that is course is self-defeating, in a dozen different ways.
Andrew Jackson, hero of the Battle of New Orleans.
Slave owner.
His statue and the whole of Jackson Square will have to go next.
And what about George Washington? Jefferson? Not sure if they have any monuments or schools in NOLA but they will have to go, too.
There are no secrets in this tech age so someone will find out who the company is doing this midnight work and they will be done as a company. When you have to wear masks, take the tags off your vehicles, hide behind swat teams and plastic, cover your company logos and wear bullet proof vests at 1am on a Monday morning, there might be a problem. There will be a problem when their identity comes out.
Me, too. Been almost 20 years..........................
Louisiana, the state where nepotism never ceases. Mayor Mitch Landrieu is the son of Moon Landrieu, former Mayor of New Orleans and HUD Secretary under Carter, and brother to former US Senator Mary Landrieu of ObamaCare fame (Louisiana Purchase)!
“There are no secrets in this tech age so someone will find out who the company is doing this midnight work and they will be done as a company. When you have to wear masks, take the tags off your vehicles, hide behind swat teams and plastic, cover your company logos and wear bullet proof vests at 1am on a Monday morning, there might be a problem. There will be a problem when their identity comes out.”
What violent groups do you believe will violent oppose the removal of the monument to the White League?
Then is should stand as testament to the dirty lie about who conceived it and as an object that reveals the secrets of its purpose.
Destroying American History one State at a Time. no History no knowledge of what the fallout of what happened, all part of Political Correctness!
It has nothing to do with the Civil War, but instead is a monument to the Democratic White League and their revolt against an integrated government.
Thank you, and I wholeheartedly agree.
This event is nothing to "celebrate". It doesn't symobolize bravery, heroism, or the American spirit...
This particular monument could've vanished years ago and it wouldn't even have merited an article in the local paper. It's only because the Confederate Flag issue was blown up into a big deal by the Community Organizer's commie cabal that this sweep of anti-politically-correct images is proceeding. The fact that Lee Circle is included, despite being on the National Historic Register, shows from where this is being driven.
Does anyone know if the Stone Mountain, Georgia area managed to shut this nonsense down?
As a Republican, I fully support removal of all Confederate monuments.
“Destroying American History one State at a Time. no History no knowledge of what the fallout of what happened, all part of Political Correctness!”
History can be explained in history books, TV documentaries or on the internet.
Tributes are expressed in monuments and for some reason the people of New Orleans wish to no longer pay tribute to the White League and their attempt to overthrow an integrated government.
However, the town where you live is free to erect a monument to the White League.
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