New Orleans: Call to Action to Tear Down Andrew Jackson’s Statue On Saturday, September 23, an attem

New Orleans: Call to Action to Tear Down Andrew Jackson’s Statue On Saturday, September 23, an attempt will be made by the people of New Orleans to tear down the city’s most well-known and iconic statue, Andrew Jackson, the center-piece of Jackson Square. Released by the Take em Down NOLA Coalition, this call to action follows nearly a year of legal wrangling with the courts and broken promises by the city to remove four other well-known monuments to racism.This is not a bluff.Located in the heart of the French Quarter, New Orleans’ most historic neighborhood, Andrew Jackson is one of many monoliths acting as a daily reminder of the looming racist menace this city lives under. Another four statues—that the city has been unable to fulfill its promise to remove—all commemorate the Confederacy.Having exhausted all other legal channels to remove the monuments, this call to action is the logical, albeit daring, next step. We repeat: it is not a bluff. Success on Saturday demands autonomous commitment on the part of everyone who wishes to take the fight against white supremacy one big step forward. Lets remove the shadows of racism from New Orleans. Let’s #TakeEmDown.We ready. We comin’. Take em down.Event HereA little background on the other four Confederate monuments (pictured above) under legal contestation:General Robert E. Lee: Standing fifty feet up with his arms crossed Lee defiantly faces what was once the Reconstruction government’s seat of power. Demarcating the line between the confederate neighborhoods uptown and their sworn-enemies downtown, Lee is the most visible and monolithic of the statues, a constant reminder of the horrors of slavery as well as the Reconstruction era.General P.T. Beauregard: “Beau-regard” is French for “good-looking”. We think some reconstructive face-surgery with a sledgehammer would be an improvement.Liberty Monument: A monument to the White League paramilitary-led insurrection, which in 1873 briefly overthrew the Reconstruction government. Since it was built the monument has been a rallying point for white supremacists.Jefferson Davis: President of the Confederate States of America. Nuff said. -- source link

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