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Bye Bye! Confederate Monuments in New Orleans Early this morning, with a large number of New Orleans Police Department officers standing watch, city contractors wearing bulletproof vests and masks to hide their identities dismantled the first of four Confederate monuments slated for relocation in New Orleans. The monument to the Battle of Liberty Place, an obelisk first erected near the foot of Canal Street in 1891, commemorates the members of the Crescent City White League — all-white; mostly Confederate veterans — who died during an 1874 uprising against the integrated metropolitan police force and the Louisiana state militia. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu described it as “the most offensive of the four” monuments slated for removal, adding that it was erected to “revere white supremacy,” according to the Guardian. Though the monument has been relocated and amended several times, its public display remained hotly contested in recent decades, and it was often vandalized with anti–white supremacy graffiti. Most of my ancestors bravely fought for the Confederacy but it was a bad cause. States rights to maintain an economy based on forced labor where human beings are regarded as property. A monument declaring White Supremacy doesn't belong in a public park where a large percentage of the population is non-white. History can't be white washed but that monument belongs in a museum.   Abracadabra  |
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