General BOOregard!
This is the Monument to Gen. Beauregard. He is interred nearby in Metairie Cemetery.
2016 Update: I guess we have to talk about this
This Monument is now classified by Mayor Landrieu as a symbol of White Supremacy. I was under the impression that it was a symbol of State Sovereignty and Federalism (trigger warning: WORDS!), not that anyone who went to public school knows what that means. But I bet they know what “cultural appropriation” is. Thus goes the Oberlinification of the world.
See its ravages:
Question to Adults: Who won the American Civil War?
I bet that all of these kids have strong opinions about those nasty statues over in New Orleans.
My personal opinions is that…
That, my friends, is a chicken big enough to feed an army!
Originally posted March 2009
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