MAYOR SEEKS REMOVED CONFEDERATE STATUES

An Alabama mayor is offering to take Confederate-related monuments recently disassembled in New Orleans. Hanceville Mayor Kenneth Nail wrote to New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, asking him to consider donating the monuments for display in a veterans park in his town, about 65 km north of Birmingham. The monuments included a stone obelisk heralding white supremacy and three statues of Confederate stalwarts: Gen. Robert E. Lee, the Confederacy’s president, Jefferson Davis, and Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard. Nail told The Cullman Times he’s had nothing but positive feedback on the idea from Hanceville residents. “My view is that it’s an opportunity, a great teaching tool that we could have in our city,” the mayor said.