The New Orleans mayor's proposal is bold as it takes aim against some well-known landmarks that have stood where they are for a century or more. They are the monuments honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Generals Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard (a native Louisianan) and the Crescent City White League who were a group of white supremacists who sought to topple the biracial government after the Civil War ended. (It would be ok with me if the last one was removed.)
Earlier this week, a volunteer group that looks after monuments said it had collected the signatures ofabout 31,000 people opposed to the statue removals.
Pierre McGraw, president of the Monumental Task Committee, says, "It looks like we are sanitizing history. Where does it end?"
The City Council will hear what citizens have to say and are supposed to vote on it December 17th.
Like I said, there is no way they will vote to keep the statues where they are.
This Will Be Great Shame on the City of New Orleans. --Old Secesh
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