Posted on 09/16/2016 7:04:51 PM PDT by brucedickinson
A New Orleans activist group is threatening to pull down the city's most recognizable statue in response to what members claim are unreasonable delays in removing four other monuments honoring Confederate leaders and a 19th century white supremacist militia.
Take 'Em Down NOLA says it will attempt to topple the statue of Andrew Jackson during a protest later this month in Jackson Square. Legal delays have kept the other statues -- honoring Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard, and a militia known as the White League -- standing nine months after the City Council authorized their removal.
"We're going to go to Jackson Square. We're going to put ropes around Andrew Jackson and we're going to take him down off his pedestal," Take 'Em Down organizer and longtime civil rights activist Malcolm Suber said during a forum the group held Thursday.
The demonstration, scheduled for Sept. 24, will come a few days before judges on the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals are scheduled to hear arguments
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"... said after the meeting that the effort would succeed "if we've got enough people and we've got enough rope."
I agree with these guys that lots of problems can be solved with rope, but I hate to tell them Andrew Jackson wasn't a Confederate anything, and in fact died 15 years there was a Confederate anything. I guess they didn't learn that in school?
That was a joke. They didn't go to school, they are morons. But rope is good, though.
Idiots.
The British would have burned New Orleans to the ground if not for Jackson.
History is not the strong suit of these agitator activist types. So they have no clue about Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans.
They’re bringing their own ropes...excellent.
Shoot them down like the savages they are.
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Are they still available for the job?
So he made one mistake.
Never been to NO. But if it was my home i would meet these ####s head on.
IF ONE OR FIFTY OF OBAMA’S SONS AND DAUGHTERS tried to take down a testament to Columbus or Vespucci here, they better have some GREAT mother ####ing health insurance!!
They’d need it.
When are these groups going to Africa and take down the tribal leaders of the tribes that sold their ancestors to the slave traders?????
Good question. We should all know our history, and this is important. Black Africans sold other black Africans into slavery. Facts are stubborn things. Facts can interfere with the half baked narratives which agitators and activists spew out.
It would be hard to use rope in this particular situation, as it has a wide base and looks really heavy.
You may not like your history, but it IS your history and pulling down statues won’t change it.
Yep...the most divisive and worst president in the history of this Republic.
If ALL the signs of slavery and the Civil War were eliminated and gone, would y’all shut the hell up and get jobs??????
And I am sure their lives will improve as soon as this is done.
They dont care about history. They’ve been bought by Soros dollars and history is racist. And going back to history, I agree that Jackson in command was incredible.
The must have been inspired by ISIS, the Taliban, and the communists.
No, they wouldn’t get jobs—destruction is their job.
This makes me so angry.
I’ve picnicked beside Ol’ Andy in the Square many times.
And sung Christmas carols with thousands of New Orleanians around that statue.
And attended midnight Christmas Mass in the cathedral there.
And visited the Cabildo to look at Napoleon’s death mask.
And admired the architecture and ornate wrought iron balustrades that were created by FREED LOUISIANA SLAVES WHO OWNED SLAVES THEMSELVES AND LIVED THERE IN THE FRENCH QUARTER around that statue.
No, these fools won’t get a job even after they destroy every last vestige of American history. Why would they? They don’t even take time to READ American history.
You are exactly right...My comment was more rhetorical than anything else...
Thy would just find some other topic to protest and riot about....
Even if they did know I doubt that they would care.
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