“These statues are not just stone and metal. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, and the terror that it actually stood for.”

About Mitch Landrieu

Politician • American

Mitch Landrieu is an American politician and attorney who served as the 61st Mayor of New Orleans from 2010 to 2018. Prior to his mayoralty, he served as Louisiana's Lieutenant Governor from 2004 to 2010. He gained...