Share This Article Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu compared Confederate War memorials to black face and voter suppression. Landrieu, a Democrat, was a guest on The Marybeth Conley Podcast on The Mighty 990. “The monuments, like blackface and like voter suppression, they’re all just different fruits of the same poisonous tree,” he said. Landrieu … Continue reading Former New Orleans Mayor Compares Confederate Statues to Blackface