T. Beauregard, who designed the Confederate battle flag that is finally facing retirement in some cities after years of flying in the face of common sense. An obelisk dedicated to the Battle of Liberty Place will also go.
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“The same questions I am asking the Prime Minister (Modi) or the government, I am going to continue asking them”, he said.
“The Confederacy, you see, was on the wrong side of history and humanity”, he said, noting that, if the South had won, “our beloved country would be unrecognizable”. 17, 2015, the City Council is set to vote on an ordinance to remove four monuments. Current Mayor Mitch Landrieu has pointed out his administration is not the first to tackle this issue, and he is correct.
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Fixing historic injustice is “a lot harder work than removing monuments”, she said, even as many in the packed council chambers jeered her.
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“I asked for a compromise multiple times”.
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The lone dissenter on the panel, Councilwoman Stacy Head, said she voted against the measure because it had no limiting principle. “I felt disrespected”, she said.
“I’m going to do everything in my power to take on these people”, Barrow said.
A debate has been simmering across much of the South since June, when a white gunman massacred nine African Americans inside a SC church.
Elsewhere, governments and universities in Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and SC have removed Confederate symbols from prominent public display.
Councilman James Gray said he is the grandson of slaves and the great-grandson of slaves, and is insulted by those who have said he’s only voting for the ordinance because Landrieu told him to.
“It’s a generational thing”, he said. Both Davis and Beauregard attended the monument’s dedication.
In July, the city called for 60 days of public meetings to review the proposed ordinance.
Head also had a terse exchange with Landrieu, noting other statues, like one of Andrew Jackson, that could have an uncertain fate in light of Thursday’s vote.
But objectors to the plan steered away from any racial argument. Some residents screamed to keep them.
Specifically, the New Orleans City Council evaluated all four monuments on the basis of whether they constituted a nuisance.
People demonstrate for and against the Confederate monuments in front of City Hall this month. But Lee Circle could soon be history. It was originally called Tivoli Circle and bears that name again today. Most Mardi Gras parades snake right past it.
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The four statues were erected in between 1884 and 1915. He was one of dozens of pastors from a cross-section of faiths that demanded the removal of the monuments in August. While three depict figures deeply influential within the Confederacy, the fourth, the Battle of Liberty Place, honors an 1874 insurrection of mostly Confederate veterans who battled against the city’s police and state militia. Opponents of removing the monuments included Gov. Bobby Jindal. That park, he said, would be a place where “history can be remembered and not revered”.
