On December 17th, the New Orleans City Council voted 6-1 to remove four Confederate Monuments (including statues that honor Robert E. Lee, P.T. Beauregard, and Jefferson Davis) from city streets. The monuments have long been a source of anger, bitterness, and division in the community as they "represent the very worst part of the history" of New Orleans.
Those opposing (IMO...mostly Confederate/ Southern "Heritage" Apologists) the removal have said that "we can't hit the delete button" on history and have been granted a hearing with a federal judge this week to stop the removal of the monuments.
As readers of this blog may know, I have written in the past about my views on Confederate and American monuments/ statues in relation to historical memory.
Click here to read "Destroy Confederate Statues and Yankee Amnesia"...
I applaud the City Council for their decision and hope that like post- Nazi Germany we will dismantle our homage to traitors.
I would suggest these statues be placed in a non-commercialized "Museum of Truth" (similar to German Holocaust Museums and former concentration camps) where we might really begin to build a proper memory of America's past in order to create a better future.
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