Bread and circuses are often enough to distract the masses from the more serious shortcomings of government. And so it is that the pandering to Black Lives Matter and politically correct college student demonstrators serve to help them forget that they are poorly educated, poorly served and just plain poor.
In the city of New Orleans, with so many other more important issues, the city council has voted to remove statues of Confederate civil war heroes in order to placate loud mouthed whiners who are “offended” by the statues, rather than deal with the real problems the city faces.
The monuments are of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, P.G.T. Beauregard, and the Battle of Liberty Place. They mark historical figures and events that cannot be erased. The city council voted 6 – 1 for their removal, and declared them public nuisances.
It is estimated that removal will cost $170,000, and all of the arguments made by groups hoping to keep the monuments in place were judged by the city council to be “frivolous,” “entirely without merit,” or “made no sense.” One wonders about other moments in history that various segments of society will find offensive and move to have them erased.
Who is paying for monument removal, page 2:
WTH. Get the guns guys.that’s just wrong
Good history, bad history, its all history. Removing monuments doesn’t change it
So.. sue their asses off..
Stop this madness. This is parts of our history. They aren’t responsible for anything.
Remember, these are the same people who elected and re elected Ray Nagin, the mayor during Katrina and whose greatest accomplishment was getting 250,000 poor blacks to leave and not come back. He’s now in prison.
New Orleans has been off my vacation list since Katrina.
Louisanna elected a liberal damnocrap governor so what would you expect. They$#%&!@*and moan about what’s done in Asia with historic sites but it’s okay to ruin our history.
Liberal crazies
Stop this$#%&!@* Z disgrace
Lawless