Have I said yet that this is getting out of hand? And when Trump mentions the future and them possibly doing so, he was scoffed at. And now it's way more even than just Washington or Lincoln. This is quite sad to keep watching. The rewriting of history before our very eyes. And yes, it IS history, even the monuments themselves. At least they WERE a part of history in many locations.

And seems like the more they come down, the more emboldened folks get, and then other idiots jump the bandwagon as if they have to for some reason.

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Mississippi Capital to Take Down Andrew Jackson Monument

The Jackson, Mississippi, city council voted Tuesday to take down a City Hall monument of its namesake — Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States — by a vote of 5-to-1.

After the vote was tallied, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba (D) asserted that the time had come for a “divorce” between the state’s capital and the “legacy of a brutal owner of enslaved people who was instrumental in initiating the Trail of Tears against indigenous people.”



“While removing a statue does little to change our condition as oppressed people, we should not have to constantly encounter the likeness of those who profited off of the blood, sweat, and despair of our ancestors or see them immortalized as honorable,” Lumumba added.

Ward 1 Councilman Ashby Foote (R) voted to keep the statue in place.

“I’m a big history buff. The whole idea of tearing down historical statues and monuments is generally a bad idea. We need to understand our history, not tear it down,” Foote stated.

Rest - https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...kson-monument/