It appears ISIS has won. They are tearing down historical monuments
in New Orleans now too. It must end. Despicable!—Corey Stewart
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here is no parallel at all between the destruction of
priceless repositories of information such as the libraries and archaeological
sites that the so-called Islamic State has destroyed and the relocating of
worthless modern historical markers. If
those markers were our only source of information about the events of the Civil
War and Reconstruction then they would have some value, but that is far from
the case. There is a mass of documentation about the aftermath of the election
in which Grant-backed William Pitt Kellogg defeated white supremacist John
McEnery for governor of Louisiana. Both claimed victory, both held
inaugurations, and both attempted to govern. The whole business culminated in
the riot known as “The Battle of Liberty Place” in which white supporters of
McEnery overpowered the police and drove Kellogg briefly out of office until
order could be restored by Federal troops. This is the event commemorated by
the obelisk just removed.
This 1891 monument with its 1932 inscription in support of
white supremacy ought to be preserved somewhere as a shameful and hideous
record of American racism, but you'd think decent people would prefer to hide
it away somewhere out of sight.
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