NEW ORLEANS — When New Orleans removed four Confederate monuments last year, Mayor Mitch Landrieu became a national voice on race in America, a subject he explores in a new book. The book, subtitled “A White Southerner Confronts History,” flashes back to his childhood, including death threats called into his family home and school. “I cannot remember a time when the issue of race was not part of my life or our family’s,” Landrieu writes. Landrieu’s belief that the nation, and the South, still must confront the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow permeate the book. “We saw it all coming in Louisiana years ago,” writes Landrieu, a state lawmaker when Duke served briefly in the Legislature.

Source: National Post March 20, 2018 15:45 UTC