Opponents of the proposed removal of Confederate memorials in New Orleans are using social media to organize the fight to keep them where they stand. What started out as an effort to keep the statue of Robert E. Lee atop his column in Lee Circle, has expanded its mission to include defending all of the statues and monuments dedicated to the Confederacy.
The City Council, at Mayor Mitch Landrieu's request, has begun a formal hearing process that could result in the removal of Lee and monuments dedicated to P.G.T. Beauregard, another Confederate general; Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy; and the Battle of Liberty Place, a bloody confrontation instigated by ex-Confederates who launched a failed coup against Louisiana's Reconstruction government.
Led by Tim Shea Carroll, the "Save our Circle" movement has collected nearly 15,000 signatures on a change.org petition opposing the removals and united 3,465 users in a Facebook group dedicated to the same cause.
More @ NOLA
Here's the problem I see already happening; you fight (the good fight) to preserve monuments to history -well and good.
ReplyDeleteSo you win; and ten minutes later the monument is criminally vandalized. The police et al (particularly in "Chocolate City") "investigate" the crime and... nothing. This becomes a holding or rear-guard action with the good guys in constant incremental retreat; touch-up paint concealing a rust-rotten rocker panel.
On the other hand, if they decide to go full Stalin and remove history -and the SCV or someone agrees to move the monuments to someplace where they can and will be appreciated, you end up ceding NOLA to the proglodytes. This will only validate their tactics and further concessions are demanded. Give 'em an inch and they think they're a ruler.
Couldn't be better stated.
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