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After protesters tried to tear down the equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square on the night of June 22/23, 2020, the riot fencing was reinstalled around the park and police are keeping everyone a block away. I'm not in favor of tearing down monuments and, ignoring the subject matter entirely, the monument is considered an engineering feat, having the weight of the sculpture held up by just the back legs of the rearing horse.
Jackson, whose attitudes toward American Indians, laws he doesn't like, slaves, and just about everything else, makes him a target in today's world. His portrait on the $20 bill was going to be replaced by one of Harriet Tubman. The child president, sharing many of Jackson's character flaws, really likes the former slave-owner (and obviously couldn't care less about a black woman) so that idea died quickly after his electoral college win. |