(CNN) – Just hours after a vote to remove Confederate monuments in New Orleans, a federal lawsuit sought to stop the action.
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With such a finding, the administration would be able to remove the statues of Gen. Robert E. Lee in Lee Circle, Confederate President Jefferson Davis on Jefferson Davis Parkway and Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard at the entrance to City Park. “The idea is that New Orleans is an historic city and if you tear down history you might as well tear down New Orleans”.
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The members of the council, who then had time to speak, were passionate in their addresses and left little question as to which way they would vote.
But the statues didn’t go quietly.
Others have arguedthat taking down the monuments won’t change city problems like poverty, violence, and racism.
The tipping point for Mayor Mitch Landrieu was Charleston, South Carolina.
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“I don’t need Mitch Landrieu to remind me who I am”, Gray said, adding that he is gratified that Landrieu proposed the ordinance. In New Orleans, the presence of the Liberty Place monument serves as a constant reminder of the city’s divisive racial past and the challenges it faces moving forward. “The ties that bind us together as a city are stronger than what keeps us apart”, he said, according to a City Hall news release. Thank you to all citizens who have participated and made your voices heard during this process. The group also suggested alternatives instead of removal, which included new monuments to contrast the ones in place and plaques to describe the history behind the Confederate monuments. This monument was briefly stored away from public view, but was restored as an open city marker thanks to a campaign led by Klan leader David Duke.
“This discussion is about whether these monuments, built to reinforce the false valor of a war fought over slavery, ever really belonged in a city as great as New Orleans, whose lifeblood flows from our diversity and inclusiveness”, Landrieu told the city council.
The defenders of the monuments have emerged to dash all our hopes of a new and transformed New Orleans. “If anybody wins here, it will be the South, “cause it is finally rising”, Williams, who’s African-American, stated”.
Lee, P.G.T. Beauregard and Jefferson Davis; your continued presence is a “nuisance”, the mayor of New Orleans says.
It also argues that removing the statues of Lee, Beauregard and Davis violates the Veterans Memorial Preservation and Recognition Act.
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But Lee Circle could soon be history.
