Esquire -- Read New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu's Remarkable Speech About Removing Confederate Monuments

A politician actually takes a stand! And a controversial one at that. Please take a minute to read the speech delivered by New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu on why the city removed the last of its Confederate monuments. Yes, in 2017 there are still defenders of the "old south" and the mayor let them have it with both barrels. It's a speech that should be required reading in every high school in America, - News And Guts 

Read New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu's Remarkable Speech About Removing Confederate Monuments

BY JACK HOLMES