These statues are not just metal, not just innocent remembrances from a benign history. These monuments celebrate a fictionalized confederacy, ignoring the deaths, ignoring the enslavement, ignoring the terror that actually stood for. We cannot be afraid of the truth. Jonathan good afternoon. I am jonathan capehart, with the washington post, and youre in for a fun and provocative conversation on race with two outspoken men i have interviewed on the subject before. Of 51st Lieutenant Governor louisiana, the 61st mayor of new orleans, the founder of e pluribus unum, an organization bringing people together across the south around matters of opportunity and violence, mitch marsalis and wynton with grammys and the Pulitzer Prize for music, which was the first for music. Great to see you both. Great to see you. Thought you were going to dress up, so i do not want to be behind you, so i thought i would get in front of you. I am happy to be here. I am so happy to see you. I wish i could reach
Candidacy but havent release books. Next up a Panel Discussion on new orleans, ten years after hurricane katrina. Thank you all everyone for coming this evening. Its my pleasure to welcome you to this wonderful public launch of robertas new new book. It is how the people of new orleans rebuilt the city. On behalf of the new school and nation books, its my pleasure to welcome everyone. Before we get started i just wanted to say a couple things about some people would have helped helped make the series possible. They are mary watson and pamela tellis from the executive deans office and they are wonderful partners. I also want to think cspan. Its so great that you are here filming us and the cspan audience. Thank you. It is such a pleasure to get to publicly introduce roberta gratz, someone who has been a hero has been a hero of mine for a long time. She is an amazing writer and thinker. She is an acclaimed urbanist and has published for previous book including the battle for gotham. Her