New Orleans mayor to get Profile in Courage Award for removing Confederate monuments

New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu will receive the 2018 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for his role in removing four Confederate monuments.

“Mayor Landrieu turned a difficult and divisive issue into an opportunity to reflect on our nation’s history and to recommit ourselves to our founding principles of equality and justice,” Jack Schlossberg, Kennedy’s grandson, said in a statement.

{mosads}“The Mayor explained what the monuments represent — a dark chapter in our history that should neither be forgotten, misunderstood nor glorified.”

Schlossberg said that Landrieu’s courage stood out brightly during a year marked by “continued racial injustice” and a “moment of misguided national leadership.”

“President Kennedy believed that at its best, politics was a noble profession — Mayor Landrieu is living proof of that bold proposition,” he said.