re: Thoughts on Mayor Landrieu's speech before the removal of the monuments?

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But there are also other truths about our city that we must confront. New Orleans was America’s largest slave market: a port where hundreds of thousands of souls were brought, sold and shipped up the Mississippi River to lives of forced labor of misery of rape, of torture.

America was the place where nearly 4,000 of our fellow citizens were lynched, 540 alone in Louisiana; where the courts enshrined ‘separate but equal’; where Freedom riders coming to New Orleans were beaten to a bloody pulp.

So when people say to me that the monuments in question are history, well what I just described is real history as well, and it is the searing truth.

And it immediately begs the questions: why there are no slave ship monuments, no prominent markers on public land to remember the lynchings or the slave blocks; nothing to remember this long chapter of our lives; the pain, the sacrifice, the shame … all of it happening on the soil of New Orleans.

So for those self-appointed defenders of history and the monuments, they are eerily silent on what amounts to this historical malfeasance, a lie by omission.

There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it. For America and New Orleans, it has been a long, winding road, marked by great tragedy and great triumph. But we cannot be afraid of our truth

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Pretty decent points. I'm not all that big a fan of any government funded statues, but if the Mayor is that concerned about statues that represent the darker parts of NOLA history, maybe he could hold some fundraisers and get some put up. I seriously doubt there could be any serious controversy over privately funded statues on private land.

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That's the great irony here. Mitch spent untold government funds to remove, relocate, and store statues that were erected with private donations.

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Well ain't that a fricking waste.

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Board suddenly cares a ton about "history". Super offended that we take down statues of men who fought to keep people enslaved. Board gets pissed off when they get accused of being racist. Board is a bunch of ignorant pieces of shite. Wash, rinse, repeat.

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Try again.