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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:White Terror (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @11:35PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @11:35PM (#504052)

  Then we can track everything you do at every moment in time and throw your ass in prison when you buy a confederate flag and mount it under the hood of your car.

  Such conflicts of interest! Don't want surveillance police state, would love bigoted shitheads to go away.... hrmmmm. Fiiiine, freedom is beettterrrrrrr.

  Seriously amusing for people to be getting bent out of shape about the removal of statues like it is an assault on history. You're free to keep your own history books, and I didn't hear a word about expunging records of the confederacy from any history books.

  *GRUNT PISS MOAN* people don't want to celebrate our backwater wayyyys! *depressed whining*

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