Mayor Landrieu Of New Orleans For Removing Confederate Statues

In his recent work, John Daniel Davidson have offered harsh critiques of Mayor Landrieu of New Orleans for removing statues of Confederate statues. In his article “New Orleans is Wrong to Remove its Confederate Monuments” Davidson talks about how New Orleans cowardly removed its statues. That removing its statutes did not help with showing the diversity and the tolerance of the city. The article mention that the removing of confederate statues has gained attention since the racially motivated shooting in a church of Charleston in 2015. The governor of South Carolina made the decision to remove the confederate flag from the statehouse in Columbia. Were it had been place in memorial of Confederate War in 2000. Before it being placed in the statehouse …show more content…
Mayor Landrieu is thinking about everyone who lives in that city and how it can affect someone. In making this comment Landrieu (2017) urges us to put ourselves in the shoes of a“ African American mother or father trying to explain to their fifth grade daughter who Robert E. Lee is and why her stands atop of our beautiful city. Can you?” (pg.6) He understands that his duty as a Mayor requires him to do what is best for everyone and the community. If we think what is more important “preserving history” or “avoiding a child a heartache every time they see those statues.” History is not going anywhere, it can't be changed and it can't be erased we will always know what happened, now if we think about it: in our life when something bad happens we try to not bring it up as much or we try to minimize the focus on it; could we do the same thing for these statues? We could take them down and not focus on them but the history will still be known because it was something that shaped our country. Landrieu want to show the world that as a city they can choose to do the right thing on what was wrong. He believes that “putting the confederacy on a pedestal in our most prominent places of how honor is an inaccurate recitation of our full past, it is an affront to our present and it is a bad prescription of our future.” (pg.6) I agree with Landrieu, society evolutionists and some things are looked at from what they were year ago to 50 years ago. It is our job as upcoming adults to not let bad history repeat itself, everyday we see much more racism and racist violent acts like we saw during the civil war. Landrieu does not want to create a barrier between those who are against and for the taking down of the statues he makes a very powerful statement showing he