re: Take Em Down Nola Presser Today

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What does the group possibly have against Touro and de Gaulle?

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From their site:

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Judah Touro - Jewish slaveholder. First Touro hospital opened where today's Morial Convention Center sits. Slaveholders paid minimum of $1/day to house slaves at his hospital for 'repair' or medical care during antebellum era. This fee was considered high by the slaveholder community.

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I Googled "Charles de Gaulle racism" and this quote came up - I'm assuming this is what they take issue with.

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It's a very good thing that there are yellow French people, black French people and brown French people. It's a sign that France is open to all races and that it has a universal vocation. But on condition they stay a minority. If not, France wouldn't be France anymore. After all, we are an European people from white race, Greek and Latin culture, and Christian religion. Try to mix oil and vinegar together. Shake the bottle. After a while, they get separated again. The Arabs are the Arabs, the French are the French. Do you believe that the French nation is able to integrate ten million Muslims who shall be twenty million tomorrow and forty million the day after? If we integrated them, if all the Arabs and Berbers were considered French, how could we prevent them from moving to our home country where the standard of living is so much higher? My village wouldn't be named Colombey-les-Deux-Églises (Colombey of the Two Churches) anymore, but Colombey-les-Deux-Mosquées (Colombey of the Two Mosques)!

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