Good job, Mayor Mitch Landrieu! It's about time --  wa-a-a-a-y past time actually, to stop glorifying Confederate 'heroes' and take down those ridiculous monuments to the 'Southern way of life' -- i.e. holding people against their will, forcing them to work for you for zero wages, whipping them to exhaustion for the slightest infraction, and sending the dogs after them if them tried to escape. Oh, and I did I mention white slave owners raping black women at will? And last but not least, selling black family members, including children, to other plantation owners . . .  in some cases never to be seen again by their parents. This is the Confederacy that these Southerners have been implicitly 'honoring' all these years. This is what they want to 'preserve' by keeping these abominable statues on display in the public square. SHAME on you!
God bless Mayor Landrieu!