Committee appointed by new NOLA African America mayor reccomends Confederate monument reinstatement

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http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/05/confederate_monuments_latoya_c_2.html

A committee Mayor LaToya Cantrell appointed to decide where three Confederate monuments removed last year should be relocated is advising her to place two on private property in New Orleans. But they would also be back on public display, which directly conflicts with a directive from former Mayor Mitch Landrieu.

The seven-person Monument Relocation Committee recommends the Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard statues be placed in Greenwood Cemetery, near City Park Avenue and Interstate 10. The third statue, Jefferson Davis, would be moved to Beauvoir, his former estate in Biloxi, Miss., that is now a presidential library and museum.

After the three statues were removed last spring, Landrieu said that anyone who receives them would be barred from displaying them outdoors in Orleans Parish and would be required to place them in "their proper historical context from a dark period of American history."

NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune obtained the recommendations and Monument Relocation Committee meeting minutes Friday (May 11) through a public records request. The records list the committee members: Frank Stewart, Geary Mason, Mimi Owens, Richard Marksbury, Charles Marsala, Pierre McGraw and Sally Reeves. The minutes indicate they met four times from April 6 to May 2 ahead of delivering their recommendations to Cantrell on Monday -- her first day in office.

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Them:
"I think LaToya's trying to find a compromise here," said Marsala, one of the members of the task force.

Us:
THERE IS NO COMPROMISING WITH WHITE SUPREMACY.