Four Confederate statues in New Orleans recommended for removal, but Jindal trying to block move

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: New Orleans Advocate


As a committee of city government called Thursday for taking down four controversial statues that celebrate Confederate officials and a white supremacist group’s violent fight against a biracial state government during Reconstruction, Gov. Bobby Jindal’s office said it is looking into whether he can use the power of his office to keep the monuments in place.

The monuments, including the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee atop the column at a St. Charles Avenue traffic circle, should be taken down under an ordinance that allows the City Council to remove public statues that celebrate racist ideologies or are likely to be sites of violent protest, the Historic District Landmarks Commission decided after about an hour of sometimes heated testimony.

The HDLC’s recommendation, approved by an 11-1 vote, now heads to the City Council. Later Thursday, the Human Relations Commission held a similar hearing on the fate of the monuments and was expected to issue its own recommendation.

In addition to the statue of Lee, the commission recommended removing the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from the street that bears his name and the statue of P.G.T. Beauregard, a Confederate general, from City Park’s entrance.

Read more: http://www.theneworleansadvocate.com/news/13169766-123/live-updates-new-orleans-officials

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Piyush is still sadly trying to win over the rightwing racists and hoping they don't notice a certain something about him.

[tblue]

1. Another portrait

[roguevalley]

12. his ancestors were enslaved by Britain and still he sucks up to the white surpremacists. Amazing.

[cstanleytech]

2. Jindal really should imo stfu and just let them remove the statues

and if the citizens of the city are truly unhappy over it then they can express that during the next election by voting in someone to restore them.

[Demeter]

3. And yet, this is the kind of politician Americans vote in, more often than not

and not just South of the Mason-Dixon line, either.

Something is rotten in America, and it's got to be composted.

[tabasco]

18. Mind boggling

isn't it?

[cosmicone]

4. Hey hey .. it is Piyush's heritage that he is protecting

[AlbertCat]

5. So....

..... now we're gong to pretend the civil war didn't happen?

[ancianita]

6. My friend Chuck Perkins, veteran Marine and owner of Cafe Istanbul in NO, heatedly endorsed

the statues' removals, though he's not in this taped segment.

But racist political strategies of white supremacists can play at public hearings. I wouldn't be surprised to see different "special" meetings and hearing entities keep conducting public hearings and votes until they get the vote Jindal wants. Or Jindal will "find" some technical loophole that allows him to override local commission decisions. At which point it will probably hit the courts.

[Roy Rolling]

7. David Vitter, too

Vitter taped a campaign missive urging people to attend the hearing and oppose any changes. His campaign phoned everyone in the area surrounding New Orleans urging them to go to New Orleans and protest. He is pandering to the racist voter in the Louisiana governor's race in October.

[erronis]

8. Vitter's still stinking up the place? I thought he was caught with his tail stuck between some legs

and got nice and quiet. Apparently he's already paid his penance to the RLC (leadership inserted laughingly.)

What is in the water down there in NO/LA? I would have thought that Jindal would be pleased to be tanner than most and representing that fine state. Instead he asks for more attention and ridicule almost every day.

[Sgent]

9. Vitter is the

front runner for governor after Jindal leaves offices (he's already announced).

[truthisfreedom]

10. Put 'em in a museum

Where they belong.

[Angry Dragon]

11. I say let the statues stay where they are

[roguevalley]

13. I don't live there so I have no opinion that trumps others. If the most want them gone good. My

ancestors fled the south after the war. They never looked back. I think we need to get rid of them all.

[Angry Dragon]

14. If that is the case then we need to get rid of all the slave owner statues

[roguevalley]

15. true. come are on the capital domes of states

[Angry Dragon]

16. change a lot of town names, school names, and dc to reaganville

[bluestateguy]

17. Got to get that white male conservative good ole boy vote

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