[AMERICANTHINKER] The Sam Houston statue has been at Hermann Park since 1925, but a group that calls itself Texas Antifa has started a campaign to take down this and any other landmark that bears the name Sam Houston.
Sam goes, I go. I'll go live in Liberia until they decide to change the name of the city named after James Monroe. I'll probably be dead by then, luckily.
The statue has been a site to see for nearly a century and for some people, it's a site they want to see for years to come.
Others would rather pet the camel's nose.
"Honestly, I think they should keep it up. Yeah," Nicole Nelson said.
Duh.
But Texas Antifa group members want the Sam Houston statue gone.
"Yes! It must go in the name of racial ideological purity."
On Thursday, the group posted on its Facebook page saying, "Texans agree the disgusting idols of America's dark days of slavery must be removed to bring internal peace to our country."
How many Texans did they ask in Del Rio and El Paso and Uvalde and Lubbock and Amarillo? How about Mineral Wells, Waco, Bangs, Commanche, and Blanket?
The group also suggested Mayor Sylvester Turner should back the removal of the statue, because of his ethnicity and political affiliation.
He's expected to come around after a few Black Lives Matter riots.
Mayor Turner is black,
Do tell. Whites make up 51 percent of the population, though only 25 percent of them are non-Hispanic. Blacks have 25 percent, and "All others" have the rest.
and apparently that is supposed to dictate his every thought and action. Too bad that the antifa people deny him the moral right to reach his own decisions.
As the article points out, while Sam Houston did own 12 slaves, he was hardly an explicit supporter of slavery:
He was also the preeminent founding father of Texas.
When Sam Houston was a senator in the 1800s, he repeatedly voted against the spread of slavery to new territories of the United States. He was also ousted as governor of Texas for refusing to align himself with the Confederacy.
Houston was founded on August 28, 1836, near the banks of Buffalo Bayou (now known as Allen's Landing) and incorporated as a city on June 5, 1837. The city was named after former General Sam Houston, who was president of the Republic of Texas and had commanded and won at the Battle of San Jacinto 25 miles east of where the city was established.
Of course, if the statue is removed, then the city itself must be renamed by the same logic. Marcuse, Texas? Obama, Texas? My gut instinct tells me that Texans will not put up with this nonsense.
My gut instinct tells me that the people now inhabiting Houston will go with Obama, TX. 
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