Posted on 09/23/2016 1:31:11 PM PDT by BBell
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Community activist Malcolm Suber believes tearing down the Andrew Jackson statue in the heart of Jackson Square and the French Quarter is an act of civil rights.
“We want every white supremacy monument in this city taken down,” he says.
Suber is a coordinator of the group Take Em Down NOLA, which is planning a march this Saturday (September 24). It will start in Congo Square and end in Jackson Square, possibly with marchers using ropes to remove the statue dedicated to the seventh U.S. President and the hero of the Battle of New Orleans.
“We think that this is the will of the people,” says Suber. “And if there are thousands of people out there with us, thousands of hands on those ropes, we will actually take it down.”
If Suber and the Take Em Down NOLA marchers succeed in removing the Andrew Jackson statue, they will be one step and several months ahead of the City of New Orleans. Mayor Mitch Landrieu signed an ordinance in December of last year (2015) calling for the “relocation” of four monuments dedicated to Confederate heroes. Presently, all four of those monuments are still standing, thanks to an order by the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Also, I bet most of these so called "protesters" are not from this area. Just the usual outside agitators.
Soros funded DNC backed
Malcolm Suber is trying to erase part of a country’s history, and then rewrite it.
I’VE seen that somewhere before...Oh!
The Soviet Union.
5.56mm
I doubt that even David Crockett would countenance this.
It’s our history .. there is no need to tear it down.
I believe Andrew Jackson was a former President .. and therefore, he deserves to have his statute.
GET OVER IT.
NO! HELL NO!! Those are US Military veterans.
Short answer: “NO”!
I’m well beyond the point of being simply fed up with this.
Tear down the iconic statue in Jackson Square? That’s like tearing down the Empire State building or local to me) Seattle’s Space Needle.
Tell the agitators to F off!
Everyone named Jackson should have their surnames legally changed.
The real reason they want it taken down?
It reveals how much progress has been made.
They want to destroy anything that can reveal how bad the past was, and how things are night and day different now.
They want to be able to say nothing has changed, and not be caught in that lie.
Leave it up. Shove it in their faces...
Take Em Down NOLA ought to give me all their $20 bills.
Supremacy is a matter of behavior, not color.
Behavior is a choice.
And tearing down statues is not constructive behavior.
Actually, it's not. And who appointed you supreme authority, Suber?
Their rights?
Ain’t that cultural theft?
Google Malcolm Suber.
He jumped on the Katrina gravy train and has been riding it ever since. He’s a “community activist” in literally dozens of do-nothing non-profits; most of which probably have only one or two members, making it appear there’s more leftist activism in N.O. than there really is.
IOW, yep-—it’s Soros.
That’s no reason to underestimate the havoc these trained agitators can wreak, however.
I hope y’all down in N.O. will come out and counter demonstrate.
Andrew Jackson died in 1845 TEN YEARS before the war even started!
And he was a DEMOCRAT President of the US!
Why on earth do they want to tear down his statue?.................
So is the mobile phone, the automobile, A/C, modern medicine, and almost every modern convenience and necessity anyone can name, a symbol of “white supremacy”. He needs to give those up too, but he won’t because he’s the usual leftist/black hypocrite.
In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississippi
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans
We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin’
There wasn’t nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they began to runnin’
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico
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