NEW ORLEANS – Now, it’s Andrew Jackson’s turn.

Tulane University Dean Richard A. Marksbury wants to tear down the statute honoring President Andrew Jackson in New Orleans’ Jackson Square.

The request is the latest in a wave of protests by progressives against any public symbols of the Old South in the wake of a racially motivated church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina this summer. The alleged killer, who gunned down nine blacks during a Bible study, liked to pose with the Confederate flag on Facebook.

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Marksbury wrote a letter to the New Orleans Clerk of Court recently to request that the New Orleans City Council remove the famed Jackson monument from public view, and cited a city nuisance ordinance as his justification, The Hayride reports.

It’s the same nuisance ordinance Mayor Mitch Landrieu cited in his requests to remove Lee Circle, PGT Beauregard, Jefferson Davis and Liberty monuments from public view. Ironically, Marksbury seemingly criticized the mayor for his efforts and threatened to go after Jackson if they’re seriously considered.

In Marksbury’s letter to the clerk he pointed out that city’s Human Relations Committee recently told the City Council the Lee, Beauregard, Davis, and Liberty monuments “may” be removed because the committee found they violated the city ordinance Section 146-611.

That ordinance prohibits statues or monuments that “honors, praises, or fosters ideologies which are in conflict with the requirements of equal protection for citizens as provided by the constitution and laws of the United States, the state, or the lows of the city and gives honor or praise to those who participated in the killings of public employees of the city or the state or suggests the supremacy of one ethnic, religious, or racial group over any other, or gives honor or praise to any violent actions taken wrongfully against citizens of the city to promote ethnic, religious, or racial supremacy of any group over another,” according to Marksbury’s letter, which was posted online by The Hayride.

The city council is now apparently considering which monuments and statutes need to go.

So, of course, Marksbury’s making good on his promise to force the issue with President Jackson.

“The rationale proposed by the Mayor’s Office and accepted by the majority of … Commissioners can apply to a number of other monuments in the City of New Orleans,” Marsbury wrote. “As a primary example, I offer the statute of Andrew Jackson which is placed in the center of Jackson Square. Andrew Jackson, as a person, certainly held (and enforced) personal ideologies that are in great contrast to, and conflict with, ‘contemporary ideologies pertaining to the equal rights of our citizens.(sic)”

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It’s unclear what, exactly, Marksbury is quoting in the passage.

The prof then goes on to list why he thinks Jackson is a terrible person and deserves to be relegated to the footnotes of history: the statute was installed when blacks and Indians had no recourse to stop it, Jackson relocated Native Americans and confiscated land, and he owned slaves while president and punished those that attempted to escape.

“The New Orleans City Ordinance … should not be used for political or personal reasons. It should be enforced equally and blindly when any citizen offers a valid reason why a particular monument or statute should be removed and replaced from city property and public venues,” Marksbury wrote.

“As cited above, I contend the statute of Andrew Jackson violates Section 146-611 and the City Council should apply the same action (standards) that they recommend for the Lee, Davis, and Beauregard statutes.”

In a July 20 editorial for The New Orleans Advocate, Marksbury wrote about why it’s a bad idea to remove the city’s Robert E. Lee statute, and railed against Jackson as equally offensive to minorities.

The Lee statute “was erected during Carnival in 1883 and has stood in the same place for 132 years. Six generations of New Orleanians found a way to accept this statue as part of their cherished city’s historical landscape. Lee’s statue was in place during the Spanish-American War, World War I, the Great Depression, World War II, Jim Crow, the Korean War, the civil rights movement, desegregation, the Vietnam War and 9/11. Why has it taken 132 years for these unsettling feelings to emerge precipitously?” Marksbury wrote.

“Arlington National Cemetery sits on the property owned by Robert E. Lee. Arlington is the world-famous, large, white-columned house that was inherited by Lee’s wife, who was the great-granddaughter of Martha Washington. The Lees lived there from 1831-61. Today, the official name given to this place by the United States National Park Service is Arlington House — The Robert E. Lee Memorial. It sits in the midst of our country’s most sacred and hallowed ground.

“If our nation can accept this memorial to Lee, then surely our city can preserve the Lee statue. Or open Pandora’s box and Jackson’s place in New Orleans eventually goes, too,” the editorial read.

Next on deck is the city’s engraving near the entrance of City Hall, according to Fox 8.

Mayor Landrieu wants the engraving, which features the Confederate Flag alongside flags from France, Spain and the U.S., stricken from public view – or at least the Confederate Flag scratched out.

“Across our state and our country, there has been broad consensus that confederate flags should not fly over government buildings. Staff is currently researching the history of the etched marble at the entrance of City Hall to determine the process for removing the confederate flag crest, as well as alternative to represent the Civil War period of our City’s history in this mural,” according to a prepared statement issued by Landrieu’s office.

The mayor wouldn’t discuss the issue with a Fox 8 reporter.

But even some who support removing other Confederate monuments in the city think that removing or altering the City Hall engraving is going too far.

“I think it’s a real difference in having a mere historical account than having a statute that is set in a place of honor and being maintained by taxpayer dollars,” Orleans Parish Councilman James Gray told the news site.