New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu gives a great speech about the removal of Confederate memorials:
The Confederacy was on the wrong side of history and humanity. It sought to tear apart our nation and subjugate our fellow Americans to slavery. This is the history we should never forget and one that we should never again put on a pedestal to be revered.
As a community, we must recognize the significance of removing New Orleans’ Confederate monuments. It is our acknowledgment that now is the time to take stock of, and then move past, a painful part of our history. Anything less would render generations of courageous struggle and soul-searching a truly lost cause.
Lincoln should have crushed the South after the war. Maybe they’d think twice about their un-American nonsense.
Susie – I love you but….the South WAS crushed after the war. There were whole towns with no men left alive. The war was fought in the South.
Had Lincoln “crushed” the South further I might not be here.
And Jeff Davis was a real failure as a President, not to mention his cretin of a VP. Even by southern standards. I am pretty sure nobody in the South really respected Davis in the end. As for Lee, he repudiated the ‘lost cause’ I think his monument might have stayed, with an explanatory essay.
I mean politically. Of course we all want you here!