The Confederate Monument to Robert E. Lee is removed from its perch. [Photo: Wiki CC]
General Robert E. Lee, New Orleans, Louisiana
Once considered one of New Orleans’ 11 important statues, the statue of Robert E Lee was removed in May 2017. It was one of the four monuments of the Confederacy that New Orleans removed. Others are Liberty Place monument, Confederate Jefferson Davis and Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard.
About the removal Mayor Mitch Landrieu said:
In a city that I represent that’s 67 percent African American, to have a young African-American girl pass by that statue and look at it every day, I ask myself, ‘Am I really preparing her for a really good future? Is she feeling like she’s getting lifted up by the government, or is she being put down?’
Landrieu was speaking to Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes show.
