(WDSU) After a meeting that included a speech from Mayor Mitch Landrieu and public discussion from residents Thursday, the New Orleans City Council voted to approve the removal of four Confederate monuments.
At issue: Whether the four monuments are nuisances. After months of meetings and discussion, members of the City Council voted the statues do meet that requirement.
The Rev. Shawn Anglim, a Methodist pastor, is among clergy who have spoken out in favor of taking down the monuments. Anglim told those gathered at Thursday’s meeting to “Do the right thing. Do it for our children, and our children’s children.”
Opponents of the removal plan wanted the council to consider alternatives, including erecting other monuments to tell a wider narrative about the Civil War.
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