Protesters in Washington, D.C., are preparing to tear down the Emancipation Memorial, a monument dedicated to Abraham Lincoln. It depicts the former president standing over a freed slave, beckoning him to rise, as the slave looks upwards.

This depiction is problematic, according to the protesters. They believe it embodies the “disempowerment of black people that is forced upon us by white people.” Multiple D.C. officials, including the city’s delegate to Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton, seem to agree with this characterization because they’ve called for the statue’s removal — albeit through an orderly and democratic process.