Posted on 06/21/2020 4:02:55 PM PDT by Stravinsky
The bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt, on horseback and flanked by a Native American man and an African man, which has presided over the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History in New York since 1940, is coming down.
The decision, proposed by the museum and agreed to by New York City, which owns the building and property, came after years of objections from activists and at a time when the killing of George Floyd has initiated an urgent nationwide conversation about racism.
For many, the “Equestrian” statue at the museum’s Central Park West entrance had come to symbolize a painful legacy of colonial expansion and racial discrimination.
“Over the last few weeks, our museum community has been profoundly moved by the ever-widening movement for racial justice that has emerged after the killing of George Floyd,” the museum’s president, Ellen V. Futter, said in an interview. “We have watched as the attention of the world and the country has increasingly turned to statues as powerful and hurtful symbols of systemic racism.
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FDR put people in camps. Do him next.
American Taliban
The Talibanned.
Soon Malcom X will be too reich wing.
Do the Libs have any statues of Wilson around? Bet they do.
I’d Ping you to all of the destroyed and deposed statue threads but there are just too many of them
Grant fell yesterday.
Maybe they’d be happy if Commie Red Asner/Lou Grant was up there instead
I thought TR was the first progressive.
STBSN. Stop This BS Now!
Ok, what was the artist’s take on the statue because leftwing nuts always get it wrong...
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
Orwell - “1984”
It’s been posted before, but needs to be repeated, LOUD & clear!
Need to redo movie based on that.
I guess before we can become muslim all the ‘idolatrous images’ have to be desecrated.
New York Times was named after a VERY BIG slaver.
is the NYTimes immune?
The rioters should demand they change the name or...
FDR is dem demi-god.
Probably exempt for a while.
Sacajawea is going to be heart broken.
The World was different then and now they want to DESTROY ALL HISTORY ,D’oh
Someone should get them to admit they’d like a statue of Stalin in its place.
No, the key here is “white man” being cut down in stature by literally cutting down a head (Columbus) or a body (the others) of a statue.
TR held not one slave and was not a white supremacist like Woodrow Wilson and Dem icon and leader Sen Robert Byrd or Lyndon Baines Johnson. Wilson promoted the Ku Klux Klan and Byrd was a top guy in the putrid group. Hillary hugged him and smiled with glowing pride at being next to Byrd.
Johnson holding the sides of his head in response to the riots in black urban areas in CA and Detroit: “Those G—D-— N-———s. What are they doing to me? How can the n———s do this to me?”
Dem icon Johnson routinely used the term for black people routinely in private.
Here is a big idea: The Arabs, Africans and Chinese today (!) capture and hold slaves. China has a large part of the 40 million people currently estimated to be enslaved in 2020. ZERO in the USA. That is zero as in none.
So let’s destroy anything Chinese, Arab or African in the US. Omar’s home first.
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