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 museums 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 museums 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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How has FDR avoided the wrath despite the Japanese internment camps?
“””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
Its been posted before, but needs to be repeated, LOUD & clear!”””
I agree and I am repeating it LOUD AND CLEAR.
When will the book burning begin? Soon it will not be a matter of them coming for guns, no they will come to burn our copies of 1984.
I guess Rockys statue is next. Some idiot is going to say just because its a statue.
You might have a point. It wasn't Mary's talent or skill that got her that job at WJM; it was her white privilege.
It's only a matter of time before someone rappels down the face with a hammer and chisel just to vandalize it.
American cultural jihad moves forward. It’s going to take federal intervention to stop it.
TR was the first President after the Civil War to invite a black man into the White House on a social call, Booker T Washington. He can heck for it but that counts for nothing now. Ignorant ba$tard$.
He was, Progressives were huge racists. Put up a statue of the first Black President, Warren G Harding.
Because he got us into ww2 to help the Russians.
FDR, JFK and MLK statues are going down...count on it.
The first two were white, the third thought that content of character mattered more than race.
Really no need to be all that urgent. The dude is dead. There's plenty of time.
Did you know that FDR used “confidential” US census data to track down those Japanese families so they could be located and imprisoned?
Remember that the next time you answer questions of the US Census Bureau.
Trump will do nothing and Mount Rushmore will be destroyed. He thinks it is great watching this catastrophe.
Woodrow Wilson was a tyrannical asshole who imported commie terrorists into the US. But I still hope that there was a debate and a vote before this happened.
I was getting ready to post the same thing. He was vilified for it.
But, it’s NYC which has a new commissar of statues: Chirlane Irene McCray, Mayor DeBlasio’s wife. She’s the one who picked a trannie rather than Mother Cabrini for “important NYC women” statues.
He is one of the only Democrat Presidents the 30+ generation likes. They are all about the National Parks.
200 marches were supposed to be held today by a group that wants the NWO-and to put statues of Lucifer where the others statues were
But shucks I thought throwing those racist southerners under the bus was a good thing.
They should take Rocky down. Everybody knows Clubber Lang would’ve kicked Rocky’s ass, but the racists deprived him of his title.
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