The Times-Picayune reports a story which will make the Chocolate City a better place to live, raise children, and follow a peaceful, carefree life.
Mayor Mitch Landrieu has formally asked the city council to begin the legal process required to have four public monuments, including the statue of Robert E. Lee in Lee Circle, declared public "nuisances" and taken down.
In a letter addressed to City Council President Jason Williams, Landrieu asks the council to hold a hearing to determine whether the following monuments should be removed: Lee's statue, the statue of Jefferson Davis on Jefferson Davis Parkway, the PGT Beauregard equestrian statue at the entrance to City Park and the Battle of Liberty Place monument on Iberville Street near the riverfront.
Landrieu is scheduled to address the council on the subject at noon Thursday (July 9) during its business meeting.
All four monuments named by Landrieu are dedicated to people or events associated with the Confederacy. Lee and Beauregard were both southern Civil War generals. Davis was the president of the breakaway nation, and the Battle of Liberty Place commemorates a failed 1874 coup against the state's racially integrated Reconstruction government at the hands of a paramilitary band of ex-Confederates called the White League.
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/07/mitch_landrieu_confederate_rem.htmlMeanwhile the same newspaper reports on other events in this obviously righteous community.
100: New Orleans hits triple digits in murders 55 days sooner than last year
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2015/07/100_new_orleans_hits_triple_di.htmlGranted the murder rate is a wee bit of a problem, but the real societal ill is the presence of those statues and monuments. Besides once they are removed such a feeling of brotherly love shall inundate the city, the residents thereof may stop killing one another.
