Protestors attempt to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square near the White House on June 22, 2020 in Washington, DC.
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The protesters in Washington D.C. have organized to take down the statue of the seventh president of the United States of America, Andrew Jackson, in Lafayette Park.
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The Jackson statue is one of many monuments that represent distasteful periods of the country’s history, symbolically continuing the very foundation of Black oppression: racism and slavery.
For those occupiers in the BHAZ, the statue represents the highly celebratory culture that American has for heroes that have practiced discrimination as a lifestyle.
Videos show them trying to topple the statue, images from around and within the BHAZ, and the church that the president used for a photo-op.
