Joan of Arc statue in French Quarter tagged with 'Tear It Down' graffiti

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This is happening.

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The phrase "Tear it Down" was hastily sprayed in black paint across the base of the golden Joan of Arc statue on Decatur Street in the French Quarter sometime earlier this week. It has since been removed, with only the vaguest traces of the paint remaining. The "Tear it Down" tag would seem to relate to the debate surrounding the city's ongoing removal of four Confederate monuments . But the statue of Joan of Arc, a 15th-century military leader, martyr and Catholic saint, hasn't been mentioned in the controversy to this point. Amy Kirk Duvoisin, the founder of the annual Joan of Arc parade that ceremonially pauses at the statue on the first day of Carnival season, says she's confused by the vandalism. "Surely, people realize she's not related to American history," she said referring to the French icon.

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There is no connection between the "Tear It Down" tag and the the Take Em Down NOLA organization, one of its leaders said. TED NOLA been most vocal among the opponents of the Confederate monuments as well as local school names, venues, streets and other statues honoring figures with ties to slavery. Malcolm Suber said TED members had nothing to do with the graffiti.

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I beg to differ. There are quite a few connections.

1) Neither of you give a flying monkey shite about history, nor the history of New Orleans, and frankly, neither of you give a shite either. You deserve to live in a truck stop. That's truly what you both deserve.

2) Both think doing away with statues is going to make New Orleans a better place to live instead of doing something about the crime that is out of control in the city, the low paying jobs that is the standard in the area, the lack of opportunities, trash on the streets, or the dilapidated housing and run down depressed areas people live in.

3) Graffitti are your own personal skid marks, and it's not just on your statues you want to take down, but is an example of the eye sores that are all over the city by people just like both of you who simply do not give a shite about the conditions of your own city you live in, which is why you cannot understand why taking statues down makes you more irrelevant, and not more relevant.

BOTH are immature and childish in the manner in which they view history and the world around them, and your values are in the gutter. You don't deserve New Orleans. You deserve a truck stop.