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

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: 2) by Bot on Thursday May 04 2017, @06:28AM (2 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Thursday May 04 2017, @06:28AM (#504218) Journal

    when did modern money cease to be debt?
    Because, if money is still created as debt, then slavery has not ended and all of this taking down old school slave masters icons is an act of mere propaganda.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @02:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @02:55PM (#504338)

    Your point is lost on the vast majority of people here. They're minds just cannot comprehend what you're trying to say.

  • (Score: 1) by GmanTerry on Thursday May 04 2017, @11:55PM

    by GmanTerry (829) on Thursday May 04 2017, @11:55PM (#504595)

    I think that erasing our past is not useful. As an example, the first movie I ever took my son to see when he was young was Disney's "Song of the South". It was an interesting film as it was the first major film which mixed cartoon characters like Brer Rabbit with real actors like Uncle Remus. It was a period piece and it depicted life as it was after the civil war and before the Civil Rights laws were passed. Because it offended some folks Disney has removed it forever. How can our children understand how life evolved if we hide our history from them? History is important and removing all reminders of history doesn't help us move ahead into the future. The Civil War happened. For people to understand the past we must not erase the reminders of the past.It's just rewriting history to hide the things we are now ashamed of.

    More political correctness.

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