re: Residents Blast Mitch Landrieu today in special meeting

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I guess the Council can apply to remove this now: 

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History never stops being written and New Orleans isn't done yet.

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Robert E Lee: This is such a sad time in New Orleans history. Robert E Lee was married to George Washington's grand-daughter. He worked with Ulysses Grant during the Mexican American War and became a decorated War hero defending our country. General Lee spent several months at Jackson Barracks to prevent the war from spreading to the City. He protected us and worked hard to keep our city safe. When Robert E Lee passed away in 1870, a former slave of his family did his eulogy. He said "I've never met a more noble man as Robert E. Lee, who released all his slaves more than eight years before the War of the States." Shortly after his death in 1870, New Orleans concerned citizens formed the Robert E. Lee Monumental Foundation to honor his all earlier accomplishments. The Robert E. Lee Monumental Foundation leader, Charles E. Fenner, appointed PGT Beauregard as its First Vice President. It took more than 14 years for the Robt E. Lee Monumental Foundation to raise $39,000 of the $40,000 needed to erect the monument. In January 1884, during a time of Yellow Fever outbreaks, reconstruction, starvation and depression, the 17 foot statue of Robert E Lee was completed and sent from New York to New Orleans by Alexander Doyle, same sculptor of the PGT Beauregard statue. It was unveiled on February 22, 1884 and became one of the new headline tourist attractions of the 1884-1885 Cotton Centennial Worlds Fair in pre-Audubon Park. During his life, Robert E. Lee believed slavery was the great evil of the country and his wife broke the law by teaching slaves to read and write. After the Civil War, Robert E. Lee worked with President Andrew Johnson's program of reconstruction. The Northern States and Barracks at West Point honored him in 1962. Sadly, in the world today many of the middle east history and statues are being destroyed by Isis in the name of progress same as in our country. Make no mistake, Robert E. Lee was a decorated American hero, not a dictator like Saddam Hussein or Adolf Hitler. The final result of removing almost 500 years of combined history of these monuments taken down, has left the outlook of Mitch own Tricentennial celebration bleak and weary. The mayor of New Orleans has divided many people who were working for unity since the ending of Jim Crow in New Orleans. Many of these early Mardi Gras krewe members of Comus, Rex, Proteus, and others were major contributors of those Confederate Monuments erected in New Orleans. Don't be surprised if Rex and Proteus and maybe even Comus reuniting their Mardi Gras Parade celebrations in Metairie or somewhere else. Maybe even Bacchus and Endymion may move out of the city too. Mitch's desire to create a racial division has hurt all of us. New Orleans' deep and rich history has taken a severe blow. Hopefully New Orleans and the entire South will rise again. Goodnight Robert E. Lee thanks for looking over our city for 133 Years. Copied & Pasted

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they got there and found safe places with good schools, jobs and no Landrieus fricking it all up,

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“The cultural and economic and the spiritual loss to this city for having those statues up that have run people out of the city,” Landrieu claimed. “The great migration that sent some of our best and brightest to places across the country that we don’t have the benefit of has been incredible.”

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eroes
Landrieu blasted today by Stewart with full page ad on page 4 of advocate

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