Mayor Mitch Landrieu (D) delivered a powerful speech on race that has the trappings of Lincoln, King and Caesar Chavez.
“These statues are not just stone and metal,” Landrieu told a crowd at Gallier Hall. “They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy, ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement and the terror that it actually stood for.”