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Over the past few years, dozens of statues commemorating Confederate War soldiers have been removed from town squares around the country. Some see these as monuments to slavery and glorifying a time when African-Americans were routinely lynched and treated as second-class citizens. Others argue that these memorials are "about heritage not hate," and that these memorials merely reflect a Southern culture. Heritage or hate-which is it? Mayor Landrieu, a Southerner himself, casts this discussion within the context of Southern history why those particular monuments were chosen to represent Southern culture.