The Atlantic Interview: Mitch Landrieu

The Atlantic Interview

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Society & Culture, Politics, News

4.4 • 977 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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"There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it," said New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu in his now-famous speech in May of 2017. As Landrieu said those words, city workers a few blocks away uprooted an enormous statue of Robert E. Lee – the last of four Confederate monuments the mayor removed from the city after a years-long process. In a conversation with The Atlantic's editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, Landrieu discusses the politics of race in the south, his grappling with history as a white southerner, and his own family’s connection to the story of civil rights in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.4	I'm Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, and welcome to the Atlantic interview.
0:38.1	This week, I'm speaking with Mitch Landrieu, the current Democratic mayor of New Orleans,
0:42.6	although I learned in our interview that I'm not supposed to say it that way.
0:46.1	It's not New Orleans.
0:47.5	It's everything other than New Orleans.
0:49.3	Okay.
0:49.6	I say New Orleans.
0:50.6	Most people say New Orleans.
0:51.6	However you pronounce it, he's the mayor of the city for a
0:54.4	short time longer. You may know Langer as one of the many names being banded about as a potential
0:59.2	2020 challenger to President Trump. You may also remember that he was the mayor who took down
1:04.9	all those Confederate monuments in his city to a great deal of controversy and some backlash. He gave a moving speech about why he decided
1:13.4	to take those statues down. And I recommend you, you watch it or read it if you haven't. He has a
1:18.2	deep personal connection to the city's civil rights history that he'll talk about in our
1:22.1	interview. It was a great conversation. And so here's Mayor Mitch Landrieu of New Orleans.
1:31.0	Mayor Mitch Landrieu of New Orleans. Mayor Mitch Landrieu, thank you very much for joining us on the Atlantic interview.
1:35.0	Great to be with you.
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