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Take down 'racist' Theodore Roosevelt statue, activists tell New York museum
The Guardian ^

Posted on 08/15/2017 12:42:36 PM PDT by TigerClaws

Hundreds of activists gathered at the American Museum of Natural History on Monday to take down the “racist” statue of Theodore Roosevelt and an urgent call to rename Columbus Day.

More than 200 people cheered outside the museum as activists covered the statue of Roosevelt on horseback flanked by an African American and Native American on either side and demanded it be ultimately removed.

“A stark embodiment of the white supremacy that Roosevelt himself espoused and promoted,” the group explained in a statement. “The statue is seen as an affront to all who pass it on entering the museum, but especially to African and Native Americans.”

Activists from the groups NYC Stands with Standing Rock and Decolonize This Place organized the protest to draw attention to the museum’s encouragement of racist tropes, and implored New York City to rename Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day.

Anti-Columbus Day protest Columbus Day controversially commemorates Christopher Columbus reportedly arriving in the Americas on 12 October 1492. Columbus is believed to have brutally enslaved the indigenous people upon his arrival and imposed harsh punishments, including torture. His arrival also ushered in European settlers to the Americas who waged wars against Native Americans and brought diseases with them that had a lasting devastating effect.

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There is growing movement to change the name of Columbus Day. In the past year cities in 10 different states have moved to change the name to Indigenous People’s Day, the largest being in Phoenix, Arizona. However, opposition remains in places like Oklahoma City, and Cincinnati.

In New York, the Columbus Day Parade attracted 35,000 marchers and many more viewers. It’s considered a celebration of Italian heritage given Columbus was born near Genoa.

“This is Indigenous People’s Day,” said Kandia Crazy Horse, a country singer who is a member of the Pamunkey tribe of Virginia. “In celebrating this, we’re trying to see that New York City and the rest of Turtle Island [North America] ratifies Indigenous People’s Day as an … annual event that’s counter to the Christopher Columbus narrative and Columbus Day.”

Amin Husain, an artist and organizer with Decolonize This Place, said they had been working on Monday’s protest for about three weeks. He said it was important to debunk what was being shown in the museum.

“This is the most coveted museum,” said Husain. “I think that people are ignorant. It’s a white supremacist society. It doesn’t seem like it’s important [renaming the day] but it is super important” for oppressed people.

The group started with a 10-stop tour of the museum in which they highlighted a variety of exhibits they felt were racist and misrepresentative, which ranged from how the representation of Africans reinforces negative stereotypes to the exoticizing of Islam in the Hall of Islam exhibit. “Where is the Hall of Christendom?” one of the tour guides asked.

“It’s just to echo what this is, it’s really a hall of white supremacy, that’s what this is,” said Nitasha Dhillon, one of the organizers.

Ash J (@AshAgony) The scene outside of @AMNH today as #DecolonizeThisPlace's anti-#ColumbusDay tour covered the Teddy Roosevelt statue. (pic: @hoods4justice) pic.twitter.com/USiNOV0wie

October 11, 2016 At the end of the tour in the hall, activists began chanting, “Respect! Remove! Rename!” before swarming around the large dinosaur skeletons in the lobby with signs that read, “DECOLONIZE THIS MUSEUM”, “ABOLISH WHITE SUPREMACY” and “BLACK LIVES MATTER”.

“Teddy Roosevelt’s nature was not empty wilderness. It was and is indigenous land,” one reader said as the organizers took turns reading from a speech. “Taken through violence. Just like Columbus who came to enslave. To take their gold and their bodies and their souls.”

Musicians played songs from the Lenape tribe, whose territory the city sits on, and activists walked through the crowd with burning sage.

Outside about 25 police officers arrived as the group attempted to shield Roosevelt’s statue with a green material, but there were no arrests.


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61 posted on 08/15/2017 1:27:06 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: TigerClaws

Embrace the overreach, people!

This is how they lose!


62 posted on 08/15/2017 1:27:35 PM PDT by VanDeKoik (.)
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To: TigerClaws

I guess the race pimps and snowflakes have forgotten about (or never knew about) democrat senator Robert Byrd, the Ku-Klux Klansman from West Virginia.


63 posted on 08/15/2017 1:28:21 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We were Trumpin' before Trumpin' was cool.....)
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To: TigerClaws

Obama has sure been busy community organizing out of his DC mansion two blocks from the White Hut.


64 posted on 08/15/2017 1:28:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." --Claire Booth Luce)
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To: TigerClaws

Columbus, Roosevelt. They will never stop. The goal is to destroy this country by tearing down the founding fathers.


65 posted on 08/15/2017 1:30:37 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Consistently acting in a way that is in opposition to our human nature is INSANITY.)
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To: I want the USA back

Everything will be named after Obama in a few years.


66 posted on 08/15/2017 1:31:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: TigerClaws
Sorry. I should have added FLASHBACK to this article. It is from 11 months ago.

FLASHBACK (Oct 2016): Take down ‘racist’ Theodore Roosevelt statue, activists tell New York museum

Protesters gather at the American Museum of Natural History to demand the removal of the statue and issue an urgent call to rename Columbus Day

Mazin Sidahmed in New York

Tuesday 11 October 2016
Last modified on Friday 14 July 2017 14.33 EDT

Hundreds of activists gathered at the American Museum of Natural History on Monday to take down the “racist” statue of Theodore Roosevelt and an urgent call to rename Columbus Day.

More than 200 people cheered outside the museum as activists covered the statue of Roosevelt on horseback flanked by an African American and Native American on either side and demanded it be ultimately removed.

“A stark embodiment of the white supremacy that Roosevelt himself espoused and promoted,” the group explained in a statement. “The statue is seen as an affront to all who pass it on entering the museum, but especially to African and Native Americans.”

Activists from the groups NYC Stands with Standing Rock and Decolonize This Place organized the protest to draw attention to the museum’s encouragement of racist tropes, and implored New York City to rename Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day. ...”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/11/museum-natural-history-theodore-roosevelt-statue-protest?CMP=share_btn_tw

67 posted on 08/15/2017 1:33:06 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary--REAL Russia-US collusion! (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
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To: TigerClaws

Get used to being ruled by a hateful minority


68 posted on 08/15/2017 1:36:16 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Why is it no one ever discusses the rabid Amerophobia which infects Islam and its adherents?)
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To: TigerClaws
Blow up the Palace at Versailles! Louis XIV was an enslaver!!!
69 posted on 08/15/2017 1:39:30 PM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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To: TigerClaws
Destroy everything associated with Islam! Mohammed was an enslaver!
70 posted on 08/15/2017 1:40:20 PM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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To: Savage Beast

Once Muzzies take over France I’m sure they’ll burn the masterworks contained therein. Turn the place into a Mosque.


71 posted on 08/15/2017 1:42:17 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: LibertarianLiz

destroy us by destroying our history.

Are you now using the ways of the insane left to defend sanity? T R Roosevelt was very much into integration and equality between all peoples. He was very much into integration of Native Americans into an integrated society.

My ancestors were in ND when Teddy was in the area. There was much intermarriage and conversion to Christ.

It was the Democrats who created the concept of separating Native Americans out into ghettos aka Reservations. It was the Democrats who created the Trail of Tears over the Opposition of Republicans. And the Demcrat’s reason for creating Reservations? It was easier to control them that way...and the proof is in the reality.

Native Americans not on Reservations vote pretty much the way most everyone off the Reservation votes, namely all over the place. But Native Americans on Reservations vote the way they are told is the interest of their identity group.


72 posted on 08/15/2017 1:46:27 PM PDT by spintreebob
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To: TigerClaws

This is part of the Communist list of things to do:

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.”


73 posted on 08/15/2017 1:54:25 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental illness: A totalitarian psyche.)
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To: TigerClaws
“Activists from the groups NYC Stands with Standing Rock and...”

Re: NYC Stands with Standing Rock

From Wiki...

The Dakota Access Pipeline protests, also known by the hashtag #NoDAPL, are grassroots movements that began in early 2016 in reaction to the approved construction of Energy Transfer Partners’ Dakota Access Pipeline in the northern United States. The pipeline was projected to run from the Bakken oil fields in western North Dakota to southern Illinois, crossing beneath the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers, as well as under part of Lake Oahe near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

Many in the Standing Rock tribe consider the pipeline and its intended crossing of the Missouri River to constitute a threat to the region’s clean water and to ancient burial grounds. In April, Standing Rock Sioux elder LaDonna Brave Bull Allard established a camp as a center for cultural preservation and spiritual resistance to the pipeline; over the summer the camp grew to thousands of people.

According to Energy Transfer Partners, the pipeline would carry up to 570,000 barrels of oil a day while creating 12,000 jobs in the area, $129 million in annual taxes, and reduce the overall dependence the U.S. has on foreign oil. [5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Access_Pipeline_protests

74 posted on 08/15/2017 1:59:38 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary--REAL Russia-US collusion! (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
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To: TigerClaws

yes!

Someone tell John McInsane. His favorite Prez TR is now under attack from his buddies on the left.


75 posted on 08/15/2017 2:24:57 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: TigerClaws

Take down all statutes which symbolize “White Privilege” and “Patriarchal Oppression” NOW!

IOW, nearly every statue in America. Lady Liberty will get a pass, at least until it is discovered that she was heterosexual.

/S


76 posted on 08/15/2017 2:26:43 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: Truth29

Tick tock


77 posted on 08/15/2017 2:33:57 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: TigerClaws

i am sick and tired of hearing about whatever might other people.

it is high time for them to worry about whatever offends me, AND what i might do about it


78 posted on 08/15/2017 2:37:29 PM PDT by TheRightGuy (I want MY BAILOUT ... a billion or two should do!)
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To: TigerClaws

Teddy Roosevelt was not in the slightest bit racist.

Anyone who reads his account of the Rough Riders will recognize the immense respect he had for Indians ( aka:,native americans ), Mexicans, Italians, Polaks, and the entirecpolyglot of ethnics who volunteered for his outfit.

His respect and deep understanding of other ethnic mores is evident through the entire book.


79 posted on 08/15/2017 2:45:47 PM PDT by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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To: Mr. K

It’s the media. Stories are a payday for them.


80 posted on 08/15/2017 2:48:17 PM PDT by This I Wonder32460 (You have to stand for something or you'll fall for anything. Beware of Mind Games.)
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