New Orleans’ Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s Address on the Removal of Four Confederate Statues New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu gave a speech on Friday, May 19, 2017, as a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was to be taken down. Most in New Orleans agree that, of the four statues in Landrieu’s crosshairs, the Liberty Place monument is the least useful to defend. Statue removal became something of a military operation. Towns across the American south are reckoning with whether or not to tear down Confederate statues in public spaces. Mitch Landrieu Founder & President. A book every white southerner must review. Beauregard, and the White League. He served as the 61st Mayor of New Orleans (2010-2018). Mitch Landrieu: No more waiting. If we take down these statues and don’t change to become a more open and inclusive society, then all of this would have been in vain. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/george-floyd-protest-racism.html Mayor Mitch Landrieu asked the City Council to consider relocating four prominent Confederate monuments in New Orleans and to rename Jefferson Davis Parkway on Thursday. Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s Address on Removal of Four Confederate Statues Mayor Mitch Landrieu delivers a passionate address about the City's effort to remove Confederate monuments. Mitch Landrieu aims to rid city of statues of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and other Confederate figures while he calls for the renaming of a major parkway Mark Guarino in … In a field of six candidates, Landrieu garnered 53 percent of the vote and won outright in the Louisiana open primary, thus avoiding a general election. In The Shadow of Statues (2018), he confesses to having lived in the presence of these monuments without giving them much thought. Death threats were part of Moon’s life, though they were not too visible to Mitch and the other kids. The 2021 Winter Buzz Breakfast series, hosted by Leadership Asheville and the Asheville Area Arts Council, begins at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 27, with a look at the removal of Confederate monuments from special guest Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans, and author of In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History. Mitch Landrieu's 2003 campaign for Lieutenant Governor was his first bid for statewide office in Louisiana. Such was the violence and intimidation that it was a big problem even getting contractors to do the work. by Mitch Landrieu via YouTube on May 19, 2017 https://time.com/5203614/mitch-landrieu-in-the-shadow-of-statues Mitch’s father, Moon Landrieu, was a reform mayor of the city who supported integration in the 1960s. A Tale of Two Surprises. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. Mitch Landrieu. This is about attitudes and it’s about behaviors as well. Mitch Landrieu was mayor of New Orleans, 2010-18. delivered 19 May 2017, Gallier Hall, New Orleans, Louisiana On May 19, 2017, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu delivered an address explaining the decision of his administration to remove four Confederate statues from city property. New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu addressed the situation more clearly and with more moral authority than many better-known politicians. Thoughts after reading Mitch Landrieu’s, In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History, Viking, 2018. by Peter Slade Mitch Landrieu’s book, In the Shadow of Statues, is the backstory of the speech he gave as mayor of New Orleans on May 19, 2017, following his removal of three Confederate statues—Lee, Davis, and Beauregard—from the city. This is not just about statues. Mitch Landrieu is one of those uncommon political leaders in the American South who has discovered the facts of our usually blood-drenched racial history as well as who agrees to encounter those unpleasant realities. Mitch Landrieu is the mayor of New Orleans An excerpt from In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History by Mitch Landrieu, published by … They became part of Mitch’s life when, as mayor, he decided to remove four statues providing a one-sided history of the city. Mitch Landrieu – In the Shadow of Statues Audio Book Download. On the Removal of Four Confederate Monuments in New Orleans. Mitch Landrieu. Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans, has written an account of his growing awareness of the symbolism of four major monuments in New Orleans. The four statues were of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, P.G.T. Landrieu expected opposition, but its ferocity surprised him. Just hours before workers removed a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee — the fourth Confederate monument to be dismantled in New Orleans in recent weeks — Mayor Mitch Landrieu gave a special address at historic Gallier Hall.. Here’s a full transcript of Landrieu’s remarks: Thank you for coming. Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu led his city's effort in which four Confederate monuments were removed over the course of 25 days in 2017.File/Staff Subscribe today for $2.29 / week Removing Confederate statues has become a pretext for white supremacist and neo-Nazi activity, most memorably in Charlottesville, Virginia, a couple of weeks ago. Last year the Democrat removed statues … Between the introduction and the final chapter, In the Shadow of Statues is definitely not about statues. On May 19, 2017, Landrieu oversaw the removal of Lee's statue from its column in downtown New Orleans. When he took office, the city was still recovering from Hurricane Katrina and … “These monuments celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy,” he said in a speech that day. When Mitch Landrieu addressed the people of New Orleans in May 2017 about his decision to take down four Confederate monuments, including the statue of Robert E. Lee, he struck a nerve nationally, and his speech has now been heard or seen by millions across the country. Mitch Landrieu is an American politician, lawyer, author, speaker, nonprofit leader, and CNN political commentator. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu is opening up about his decision to remove four Confederate monuments from prominent places in his city. 26 quotes from Mitch Landrieu: 'These statues are not just stone and metal. In 2015 he started the process of removing Confederate monuments. (AP Photo/Scott Threlkeld) By Mitch Landrieu Landrieu recognized the city's racial and social tensions during his childhood in the 1960s and 1970s. After 16 years in the State House, Landrieu was elected Lieutenant Governor in 2003. Hours after a crane lifted a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from its pedestal in New Orleans’ Lee Circle on Friday ― where it had loomed over the black-majority city for 133 years ― Mayor Mitch Landrieu (D) delivered a speech on race that many are already hailing as historic. Landrieu, in his final year as mayor of New Orleans, has written a personal and political memoir focusing largely on his developing awareness of racial issues that eventually led to his involvement in removing four controversial public statues. A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is lowered to a truck for removal Friday, May 19, 2017, from Lee Circle in New Orleans.