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New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures

posted by on Wednesday May 03 2017, @09:14PM   Printer-friendly
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.

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  • (Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @09:41PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @09:41PM (#503984)

    Davis and The South were losers. Trump doesn't like losers.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday May 03 2017, @10:42PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Wednesday May 03 2017, @10:42PM (#504015) Journal

    Parent AC has a point.

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    • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday May 03 2017, @10:54PM (1 child)

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday May 03 2017, @10:54PM (#504024) Homepage

      They were worthy opponents. Hell, I'd carpetbag my Yankee ass down to Dixieland 'n' buy some folk some Bourbon shots.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @03:15AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @03:15AM (#504140)

        They were worthy opponents.

        Only in the same sense that the nazis were worthy opponents.
        Both fought for the right to subjugate people they believed weren't really people.