Mississippi's capital city votes to remove statue of President Andrew Jackson

Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was a slave owner who ordered the Trail of Tears under the Indian Removal Act. Thousands of Indigenous people, expelled from their ancestral land in the Southeast, died on a treacherous journey to land to which they were forcibly relocated west of the Mississippi.

President Donald Trump has expressed admiration for Jackson, who was a populist, including during a 2017 visit to the Hermitage, Jackson's plantation near Nashville, Tennessee. Jackson owned about 150 slaves at the time of his death, according to his former plantation's website.as they tried to topple it.

Five days later, the Justice Department announced it was charging four men in federal court for attempting to take down the statue. "The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia will not stand idly by and allow our national monuments to be vandalized and destroyed," Acting U.S. Attorney Michael R. Sherwin said in a statement.

Good. Take that realDonaldTrump

There shall be a new America born from the ashes of poverty & hate, built by the struggles & hardships of those refusing to stay silent. An America that not just speaks of freedom, but lives it everyday in its actions & thoughts! There is no turning back now. This is our destiny!

And the whole confederate history thing.... shhh if the confederates want to preserve their history, just build a museum like the one in Greenville, sc

Wonderful news!

Since people are bringing down statues on their own, their is one statue that will never be brought down by human hands: The Andrew Jackson statue outside of the White House. If you think that it can be brought down, think again. Machinery is the the only way it's coming down.

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Destroy America's heros to be replaced with America's enemies.

Insurrectionists,,, Pass it on.

Me looking at the Confederates about to lose it today

I’ll be accepting anyone’s $20 bill if you’re offended of them!

Good! The man was responsible for the murder of thousands of Native American People! He was a horrible man!

You can take down those statues but when they we're in control there was no crazy tramp or a crazy eyed black men looting and burning and killing and you can eliminate the will of God and all you going to do is bring down the 9 plagues on America.

GREAT NEWS!!!!

While I stand firmly on equality and justice for all people, where do we draw the line as a nation? I think it’s important that future generations learn and grow from our history, than trying to erase it as it never happened. Then what’s next? Books, music our democracy, people?

MouthoffYall Founder of the Democratic Party. Good move. Should remove every aspect of that horrid racist party.

People will remember history know matter how much this candy a&& generation tries to erase it.

How about the US just start over from the beginning, write a new constitution to adhere to the 21st century, new statues in every state , new politicians , new political parties , and a new president on Nov 3

Kind of is repeating itself now.

If “they” Erase all history and history is forgotten the it will repeat itself.

Good, he founded the Democratic Party!

Something is seriously wrong with you people

When will every visual reference to Britain be removed? Britain was one of the main parties involved in the slave trade.

Excellent. Andrew Jackson was a genocidal maniac.

Jacksonville florida was named after him

Oh my. Don’t tell Lord Protector of ConfederateStatues -in-Chief Might upset him to find out he knows less on this topic than the JACKSON MS City Council

All this just to appease the Perpetually Offended Club...

Put the statue in a history museum. Preserve the history but avoid sending hateful messages to the community.

just wondering when they're going to rerelease usa currency without portraits of murderers

Jackson do it!...take out that trash!

I mean remove everything at once... Why protest everyday for other statues

Finally some good news from my hometown.👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 He was an evil man, and I used to hate seeing that disgusting statue!

This will surely end racism. Lol

Old Hickory has officially been cancelled. They tried to do the same when he ran for President originally but they couldn’t control the opinions of the common men who elected him

What city was that again?

adamboultonSKY Memories of the Michael Jackson statue coming down at Fulham.

I trust all who voted are also tearing up all their $20 bills.

That's how Democracy works

Might as well change the name of the city while they're at it.

Ridiculous!!!!!!!

Lol

that’s very sad, for better or worse it’s apart of american history.

Poor Trump. He loves the hateful Andrew Jackson.👇🏽

We did guys! We cured racism!

Daaayum! Go Mississippi!

Good. He was a horrid human being.

Cancel Communists.

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