New Orleans has statues honoring Confederate generals Robert E. Lee, P.G.T. Beauregard and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy.
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Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who initiated the ordinance to take them down, said they will be stored until a museum or park is conceived for their new home. “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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Council member at-large Stacy Head was the only member to vote against the proposal, asking instead for a resolution that would leave the statues of Lee and Beauregard in place, but add explanatory placards to the monuments.
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According to Daily Mail, Democrat City Council President Jason Williams suggested the removal of the statues would represent “severing an “umbilical cord” which ties New Orleans to old Democrat policies like slavery and Jim Crow. Perhaps the public spaces opened up can be used to connect its residents to a past that more accurately reflects the city’s shared values and points to a more promising future. “When I saw “Whites Only” signs when I was younger, I didn’t see any of these people wanting to put up and keep those monuments come to my defense and say ‘Let this boy eat'”.
The monuments include statues of Robert E. Lee, P.G.T. Beauregard and Jefferson Davis. The monuments would be moved to less prominent display or to storage.
Landrieu, meanwhile, testified before the council, explaining why he chose to use his mayoral bully pulpit to champion for the monuments’ removal.
The Andrew Jackson monument in New Orleans.
There is now no word on when the monuments will be taken down or what will replace them.
According to a City Hall press release, Landrieu said before the meeting: “As we approach the Tricentennial, New Orleanians have the power and the right to correct historical wrongs and move the City forward”.
“The city will begin the legal process necessary to remove the Liberty Place monument, which is now subject to a federal court order”, said a statement from the mayor’s office.
Keeping the figures of the Confederacy was not about preserving racial injustice, they say, but about honoring figures who fought to protect the city.
An anonymous donor will pay to have the monuments taken down.
He says the monuments were erected to reinforce the Confederate ideology of slavery.
Thursday morning’s vote is expected to draw protesters from both sides and security has been increased.
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Mitch Landrieu’s new ordinance does not specify what will happen to the monuments. The following year on September 14, 1874, over 5,000 members of the White League-including former Confederates who served in the local Washington Artillery-battled 3,600 black and white members of the New Orleans Metropolitan Police, and state militia for control of the state government.
