Interviews with political figures. Man, on the first day of law school whose name was norman francis. Norman was better looking, faster, smarter than everybody else. I asked my father. Well he informed me. Taught what it was look to walk in somebody elses shoes. He said i Wasnt Just Fighting for norman. I was fighting for my right to be with my friend. And weep just kind of group in that ethos. I scant remember, i had written in the book. A number of examples throughout our life. White people have been very angry at us you experienced that as a kid. No, i did. When i was 13 years old. Back then it was white people in the council chamber, really, trying to get after the City Of New Orleans. The city was becoming majority. Africanamerican. Way on its way to it. And there were, rabid people. You know, in the streets. Yelling and screaming about integration. The story its that, that one afternoon. At 8th period. Father harry thompson. The same priest that helped start this facility with th
the flag. i said, you know. confepd rat flag. confederate flag. number one, time to take the monuments down. secondly everybody is going to guilt. and everybody didn t get it. it was much too hard a fight. to have in the year that we had it. than we should have. in fact your, you got elected with overwhelm sag part and re-elected with overwhelming support of both white and black residents of the city. your support among whites in new orleans, drops by half. the stimty was racially united when i came. when i got re-elected it was for the most part. the same. when i took those monuments down though, it, it, it really really, really touched people in a much deeper way. i didn t lose all of my white support. i lost half of all it. in a way that, will never come back to me. and what was curious to me as a politician, i have been involved as you know for 30 years. a legislator for 16 years.