re: Lawrence Jones: New Orleans becoming America's new murder capital is an 'absolute tragedy'

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New Orleans is the closest thing to Haiti that we have.

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Coincidentally we once had a street named Robert E. Lee Blvd. that's been changed to "Allen Toussaint Blvd."

But considering the big picture and where this experiment in futility is heading, they picked the wrong Toussaint.

More appropriately it should be Toussaint L'Ouverture Blvd.

But the cleansing isn't as yet complete, and shows how contradictory and inconsistent is that mentality.

Or is it just a plain lack of attention to detail.

What was formerly Robert E. Lee is still intersected by Beauregard Avenue in Lake Vista.

They went through a big, pretentious, smug "ceremony" to tear down the Beauregard statue at the entrance to the Art Museum, but somehow overlooked the Avenue of that same name on the Lakefront.

Am sure they'll eventually correct that "oversight."

But we'll know the transformation is complete when that statue of Andrew Jackson is pulled down and thrown in the River.