Removal of Confederate Monuments

[davg2000]

I can see why African-Americans in New Orleans do not want to drive by any statue which commemorates or celebrates the Confederacy. These four statues are offensive to them because the statues represent to them the racist past of New Orleans and the South. Of course the other view is that the statues are part of the history of New Orleans and the South and are in themselves artifacts. The problem is that however we may wish it otherwise, the two points of view are inseparable. So, isn't a reasonable solution to the problem not to destroy them but to remove the statues and relocate them to a museum or other similar place? That's what Mayor Landrieu says he wants to do. For example, the statue of General Lee in Lee Circle is not far from the Confederate Museum, so maybe that's a fit.

But I do think it is silly of the mayor to say that the monuments are an "aberration of our history" and merely represent a "four-year period in our 1000-year march to where we are today." No, Mr. Mayor, they are part of your history, for much more than four years.