Mitch Landrieu's book: "A white Southerner confronts history"

• "The misuse of history is inflamed by the anger burning through demonstrations today, anger fueled by white supremacists and neo-Nazis who have stolen the meaning of Southern heritage from many whites who abhor their ideology but still hold hard to a rose-colored nostalgia for the past."
• "[H]ate is a learned behavior, passed down from parents to children."
• "Race is America's most traumatic issue. ... Here is what I have learned about race: You can’t go over it. You can’t go under it. You can’t go around it. You have to go through it."
• "We need to tell the truth about the past and understand that there is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence for it."

See the video of the speech.