New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu gave a speech on the removal of Confederate Monuments from his city, and it (or, at least, excerpts from it) will be a “must-read” piece in IB Theory of Knowledge and History classes around the country.

Here are two places to read the transcript: at The Pulse and at The Atlantic.

Here’s the video:

Here’s a New York Times column on the speech: Mitch Landrieu Reminds Us That Eloquence Still Exists

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