Jackson Statue: Racist Insult to Black and Native People

Photo courtesy: @fotografi.ando

On November 24, Take Em Down NOLA marched from Congo Square to Jackson Square to demand that any statue or monument that honors mass murderer and slaver Andrew Jackson be removed from public land. Jackson led attempted wars of extermination against the Native peoples. In 1830 he enacted the “Indian Removal Act” to seize the homelands of Native Americans for the sole benefit of his fellow white slaveholders.

With righteous outrage and determination, indigenous members of the community marched alongside Black leaders, and lent their voices in the chant “We won’t get no satisfaction until we take down Andrew Jackson!

Photo courtesy: @fotografi.ando