Removal of Confederate Symbols Turns Nasty in New Orleans

[struggle4progress]

By CAIN BURDEAU, ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS — Mar 25, 2016, 9:47 AM ET

Backlash against a plan to remove prominent Confederate monuments in New Orleans has been tinged by death threats, intimidation and even what may have been the intentional torching of a contractor's Lamborghini.

... things have gotten so nasty the city hasn't found a contractor willing to bear the risk of tearing down the monuments. The city doesn't have its own equipment to move them and is now in talks to find a company, even discussing doing the work at night to avoid further tumult ...

The South has seen such resistance before, during fights over school integration and efforts in the early 1990s to racially integrate Carnival parades in New Orleans.

"Fighting in the courts, fighting in the legislature, anonymous intimidation," Quigley said. "These are from the same deck of cards that are used to stop all social change" ...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/removal-confederate-symbols-turns-nasty-orleans-37925049

[NV Whino]

1. One might ask why a contractor was driving a Lamborghini.

[ChazInAz]

2. Since they've always been so ugly about losing their war:

Perhaps a little Citizen's Justice. The South has always supported that sort of thing. In this case, judicious late-night applications of detcord or thermite would do the trick.