James Gill: Robert E. Lee isn't welcome in New Orleans, but what about Ascension Parish? - The Advocate
Apr 28, 2019A pair of men who opposed the toppling of Gen. Robert E. Lee's statue from Lee Circle want New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell to replace the Co… So long as they sit in limbo — aka a New Orleans East warehouse — half the city, having opposed their removal two years ago, will feel betrayed. The other half will fear Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard will one day be restored to prominence.The fourth casualty of the ordinance allowing the removal of memorials deemed a “nuisance” will clearly never see the light of day again, however. The Liberty Monument, a granite obelisk erected in 1891 to honor the White League's 1874 uprising against the Reconstruction government, has no defenders in polite society, having long served as the rallying point for white supremacists. A splash in the river one night, and no questions asked might be the ideal solution. If politics is the art of compromise, Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser could hardly wish for a sterner test of his talents. As for the statues, their fate has been mulled by Mayor LaToya Cantrell's Monument Relocation Committee, which, had it been given its druthers, would never have disturbed them in the first place. Its most prominent...
