“We can not hit a delete button on the messy parts of our history”, said one pro monument speaker, who suggested that new monuments be added, that are more inclusive.
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The vote came after hours of emotional pleas from both pro- and anti-monument groups and an impassioned address by Mayor Mitch Landrieu that the monuments represent the “wrong side of history” and should be relocated to a Civil War museum after removal from public places.
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Another City Council member, James Gray, says the monuments do not reflect the true history of New Orleans, a city he says was mostly on the side of the Union and not the Confederacy.
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Former mayors, including Landrieu’s father, Moon Landrieu, have attempted to have this monument removed or altered.
Councilwoman Stacy Head, the only member to vote against the removal, said she was hoping for a compromise instead. “I felt disrespected”, she said.
Landrieu says a commission should be established to consider creating a park where the city’s history – and the removed monuments – can be explained.
The tipping point for Mayor Mitch Landrieu was Charleston, South Carolina. The Confederate battle flag has been widely used by white supremacy groups, and the man charged with the shooting previously had posed for photographs with the battle flag.
A week later, he announced the planned ordinance.
Lee Monument in Lee Circle in New Orleans, shown on September 2, is one of four prominent Confederate monuments the City Council has voted to remove.
Popular culture, Alderman said, is trying to establish how to rewrite “American and Southern public memory in a way that makes room for both perspectives on heritage, and at the same time is fair and just to African-American perspectives that historically have not been recognized”.
Landrieu said Thursday that for New Orleans to move forward, “we must reckon with our past”.
The lengthy occupation of New Orleans during the war fueled resentment among its white citizens and led to numerous economic problems that plagued the city’s transition from slavery to freedom.
Following the Emmanuel AME Church shooting, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called on the state legislature to remove the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds. The council will first need to pass an ordinance declaring the monuments a public nuisance. Landrieu requested the vote to banish specters of racism.
But opponents of the plan steered away from any racial argument.
In some sense, the Civil War ended in New Orleans in 1891.
One prominent artist who wanted the figures gone also skirted the issue of race.
“If anybody wins here, it will be the South, because it is finally rising”, Williams, who is African-American, said.
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According to the suit, “The Lee Monument, the Beauregard equestrian monument, the Jefferson Davis monument and the Liberty Monument were explicitly erected to preserve, foster and promote the historic and cultural origins of the citizens of New Orleans and the residents of Louisiana”.
