New Orleans votes to remove Robert E. Lee

New Orleans voted to remove the Robert E. Lee monument from public property, as well as three other Confederacy-tied structures.

New Orleans City Council members voted 6-1 to remove several monuments tied to the Confederacy and Civil War days, including one of one of America’s greatest military generals, Robert E. Lee.

The other monuments that are set to be removed from public property: Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, Gen. Jefferson Davis, who presided over the Confederacy and one that is dedicated to the Battle of Liberty Place.

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Critics call the move an outrageous revision of history. But supporters, including most the council members and several historical societies in the city, say it’s a time whose idea has come.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu, for instance, said the action is a “courageous decision to turn a page on our divisive past and chart the course for a more inclusive future,” CNN reported.

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Council member Nadine Ramsey said it’s high time New Orleans stopped living “underneath the shadows” of monuments of those who supported slavery.

“We need not honor these individuals and moments from the past that do not meet our standards of decency, equality and nondiscrimination,” she said, CNN reported.

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But council member Stacy Head, the lone member to vote against the proposal, said: “It will not improve the socioeconomic balance of the city. If it would make the city more color blind, if it would create more balance, I would sacrifice almost any physical object to get us to that point.”

Landrieu said he’d thought about taking action against the monuments for two-plus years, but the recent slayings at the church in Charleston, South Carolina, prompted him to act. That incident, at the hands of shooter Dylann Roof against Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church-goers, also led to the state’s call to remove the Confederate battle flag from Capitol grounds.

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