Hey everyone it's Jonathan Kapart and welcome to Cape Up. Ever since he delivered

a speech on the removal of Confederate statues and monuments from his city in 2017,

former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu has been seen as a no-nonsense leader who should run for president.

So I asked him about that, his new memoir,

Trump and Race, and the future of the Democratic Party. This conversation was

originally recorded for our K-P-Up live event at the Third Way Opportunity 2020 conference in Columbus, Ohio

on July 20th, and you very much for being here.

Welcome to the podcast again.

This is your second time.

And welcome to Columbus.

Thanks great to be here.

So here's the text message I sent you on June 13th

as I was reading your book, here it is,

in the shadows of statues, a white southerner confronts

history.

I wrote to you, Mitch, it's K-part, just in case you didn't realize me.

It's K-part.

When I read books, I write notes in the margins and underline key or beautiful

passages. I'm only on page 11 of your book and I've already underlined the hell out of it.

Your response, I didn't time how long it took you but it took a while and you wrote back

thanks glad you like it. So your book. Thank you so much.

It was so lovely of you.

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