Another friend asked me to consider these four monuments from the perspectiveof an African American mother or father trying to explain to their fifth gradedaughter who Robert E. Lee is and why he stands atop of our beautiful city.
I also say that this type of stuff should be presented to kids in school (Social Studies) so they can understand the real true history of the confederacy and the Statuses in the south.
This ‘cult’ had one goal - through monuments and through other means – torewrite history to hide the truth, which is that the Confederacy was on the wrongside of humanity.
As someone who was born, raised and still living in Mississippi, there are many statuses like Robert E. Lee that have been deemed inappropriate to most, but some politicians still don't see it to this day and our former state flag contained the Confederate symbol, which we voted to change in 2020 to the current magnolia state flag.
“A great nation does not hide itshistory. It faces its flaws and corrects them.”
I agree with the statement that he said. For the country as a whole to move on, you have to be able to address the problem and find a solution to the problem and move on. This is one of the major struggles we have in the country which is why we struggle to get ahead.
On August 26, tracks which had previously indicated the hurricane was heading towards the Florida Panhandle shifted 150 miles (240 km) westward, initially centering on Gulfport/Biloxi, Mississippi and later shifted further westward to the Mississippi/Louisiana state line. The city became aware that a major hurricane hit was possible and issued voluntary evacuations on Saturday, August 27. Interstate 10 in New Orleans East and Jefferson and St. Charles parishes was converted to all-outbound lanes heading out of the city as well as Interstates 55 and 59 in the surrounding area, a maneuver known as "contraflow."
All the lanes on I-10 and I-55 were going out of the city and into Jackson and Baton Rouge.
In 1849 Baton Rouge replaced New Orleans as the capital of the state.
Baton Rouge is the current capital of Louisiana and the State Capitol building is one of the four highrise capitol buildings in the country. The other three states that have highrise State Capitol Buildings are: Florida, Nebraska, and North Dakota. I still say that the LA State Capitol looks like a normal historic office tower.
Two large lakes (in reality estuaries) in the vicinity, Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas, commemorate respectively Louis Phelypeaux, Count Pontchartrain, minister and chancellor of France, and Jean Frederic Phelypeaux, Count Maurepas, minister and secretary of state.
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the longest 24-mile bridge in the country.
Throughout the 19th century, New Orleans was the largest port in the Southern United States, exporting most of the nation's cotton output and other products to Western Europe and New England.
I still say that today, the port of New Orleans still remains the largest in the US along with the ports of Corpus Christi, Mobile, and Miami.
The last significant snowfall in New Orleans was on the morning of December 11, 2008.
Didn't know this, because New Orleans is in the sub-tropics and it always stays hot and humid, especially during the fall season.
Another notable example is the street plan and architecture still distinguishing New Orleans today. French Louisiana had early architects in the province who were trained as military engineers and were now assigned to design government buildings.
Unlike my home state of Mississippi and the rest of the Southern States, New Orleans still has that french culture and the unique architectural designs on some buildings.
Serving as a major port, New Orleans is considered an economic and commercial hub for the broader Gulf Coast region of the United States.
The Port of New Orleans is one of the most international container ports in the country next to the Port of Miami.
New Orleans is world-renowned for its distinctive music, Creole cuisine, unique dialects, and its annual celebrations and festivals, most notably Mardi Gras.
I have a side job where I do African Drumming on Sundays in Congo Square and I was looking forward to in the future, move to New Orleans to be in the music industry.
The city has historically been very vulnerable to flooding, due to its high rainfall, low lying elevation, poor natural drainage, and proximity to multiple bodies of water.
Hence why every time it rains, there would be large puddles of water in the streets, so to solve this problem, after hurricane Katrina, they have been installing more drainage systems so the water won't stand.