“Instead of revering a four-year brief historical aberration that was called the Confederacy we can celebrate all 300 years of our rich, diverse history as a place named New Orleans and set the tone for the next 300 years.” DiversityNew OrleansConfederate States Of America Author:Mitch Landrieu
“These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, and the terror that it actually stood for.” Civil WarNew OrleansHistory Of The United StatesConfederate States Of America Author:Mitch Landrieu
