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New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures

posted by on Wednesday May 03 2017, @09:14PM   
from the to-be-replaced-by-piles-of-beignets dept.

butthurt writes:

A 2015 New Orleans Times-Picayune article tells how New Orléans' Vieux Carré Commission recommended that four monuments be removed. Three of them honour

[...] Confederate generals P.G.T. Beauregard and Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy [...]

The other monument

[...] was erected in 1891 to honor the 16 members of the White League who died during an insurrection against the integrated Reconstructionist government in Louisiana, which was based in New Orleans at the time.

Various news outlets are reporting that the latter monument, an obelisk, has been dismantled at the behest of the city government, and that the others are also set to be dismantled.

coverage:

• Washington Post
• The New Orleans Advocate
• WWL-TV (has statement from city government)
• ABC
• New York Magazine
• Newsweek
• The New Orleans Advocate
• Chicago Tribune
• Los Angeles Times
• Times-Picayune
• Reuters

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Original Submission

• Re:Easy save (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @02:11AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @02:11AM (#504113)

  Somebody doesn't like a part of history, so they want to destroy monuments?

  No, they want to stop holding them up in reverence.
  The fact that the form of reverence is monuments is immaterial.

  The confederate flag wasn't a monument, it was also removed from a place of reverence.

  Had just about anyone asked Trump to have those monuments destroyed, every liberal in the country would have switched sides, and gone to court to prevent Trump destroying the monuments.

  (a) He would never have done it, overt drunk-uncle racism is the only way he differs from the worst of the regular republicans. The guy hired jeff sessions after all.
  (b) That's just your projecting your own lack of principles onto people you don't like.

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