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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Rocky also beat up a Commie.
I read T Rex.
That would start a small scale civil war.
Here in Philly, that would be opening shots.
Or because it’s Rocky in blackface
Can the name be changed to the gathering place for unnatural idiot appeasers.
Where do you get that ridiculous idea? Actions that happen in cities and states are the responsibility of city and state authorities. The President of the United States can’t just wave a wand and stop the destruction.
How old ate you? Eight?
Yeah, I was hoping it was FDR they were talking about. He set this country on the downward path to being a welfare state. He also screwed up the agricultural market that still haunts us today.
this is a NY state funded museum. He can't do anything other than come out against it, and he has.
Listen, you can't have the federal government taking over state things. The federal statues will stand in areas ran by the feds, until a leftists gets in the WH and Pelosi remains speaker.
Own one slave, work WITH him in the fields, for 1 year and set him free, makes you an evil person? I wonder how he was treated? He didn’t try to run away apparently. Anyway, so much for the statue in Grant Park in Brooklyn, its doomed. Guilty, a gifted slave he apparently took care of makes him a slave master of great proportions for something that occurred 50 years before my family arrived with nothing but the clothes on their backs. When I arrived I had nothing, not even clothes.
Teddy Roosevelt was NYPD Commissioner, 1895-1897. Is his portrait going to be removed from all NYPD offices, too?
Wilson's body is interred at National Cathedral, next to the pews. The Leftie clergy there should kick him to the curb.
FDR put people in camps. Do him next.
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Ding Ding. FDR not only put asians in concentration camps, he nuked ‘em!
Those who destroy history, just want to be free to repeat it.
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Pull ‘em alldown!!!
What?! We missed one?
Indians had slaves. Teddy Roosevelt was a hero and liberator.
He was, and Progressive was the actual name of the party he ran with. He’s among my least favorite presidents.
FDR segregated the north
Blue Bloods is next. Teddys portrait in commissioners office and its about white cops.
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