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Roosevelt Statue to Be Removed From Museum of Natural History
NYT ^ | June 21, 2020 | Robin Pogrebin

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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To: Migraine

Rocky also beat up a Commie.


61 posted on 06/21/2020 4:50:45 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Sans-Culotte

I read T Rex.


62 posted on 06/21/2020 4:51:24 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: seawolf101

That would start a small scale civil war.
Here in Philly, that would be opening shots.


63 posted on 06/21/2020 4:54:15 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: seawolf101

Or because it’s Rocky in blackface


64 posted on 06/21/2020 4:55:20 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Stravinsky

Can the name be changed to the gathering place for unnatural idiot appeasers.


65 posted on 06/21/2020 4:56:18 PM PDT by SERE_DOC ( The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. TJ)
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To: moviefan8

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?


66 posted on 06/21/2020 4:57:32 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: ClearCase_guy

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.


67 posted on 06/21/2020 5:01:21 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ("Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy." - Franz Kafka)
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To: moviefan8
Trump will do nothing and Mount Rushmore will be destroyed. He thinks it is great watching this catastrophe.
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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.

68 posted on 06/21/2020 5:04:58 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: Stravinsky

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.


69 posted on 06/21/2020 5:07:50 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft ( #ReasonableDemocratsforTrump. Where are you?)
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To: Stravinsky

Teddy Roosevelt was NYPD Commissioner, 1895-1897. Is his portrait going to be removed from all NYPD offices, too?


70 posted on 06/21/2020 5:09:58 PM PDT by CDB ("What happens in Wuhan, doesn't stay in Wuhan" Xi (Mr. Flu) Jin ping)
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To: The Antiyuppie
Do the Libs have any statues of Wilson around? Bet they do.

Wilson's body is interred at National Cathedral, next to the pews. The Leftie clergy there should kick him to the curb.

71 posted on 06/21/2020 5:11:28 PM PDT by sockhead
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To: ClearCase_guy

FDR put people in camps. Do him next.

Ding Ding. FDR not only put asians in concentration camps, he nuked ‘em!


72 posted on 06/21/2020 5:18:35 PM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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To: Stravinsky

Those who destroy history, just want to be free to repeat it.


73 posted on 06/21/2020 5:23:25 PM PDT by greeneyes ( Moderation In Pursuit of Justice is NO Virtue--LET FREEDOM RING)
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To: Stravinsky

Bookmark


74 posted on 06/21/2020 5:30:00 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you.)
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To: Stravinsky

Pull ‘em alldown!!!

What?! We missed one?


75 posted on 06/21/2020 5:32:13 PM PDT by sauropod (Quarantine is when you restrict sick people, tyranny is when you restrict healthy people.)
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To: Stravinsky

Indians had slaves. Teddy Roosevelt was a hero and liberator.


76 posted on 06/21/2020 5:35:44 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: bankwalker

He was, and Progressive was the actual name of the party he ran with. He’s among my least favorite presidents.


77 posted on 06/21/2020 5:36:32 PM PDT by redfreedom
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To: ClearCase_guy

FDR segregated the north


78 posted on 06/21/2020 5:41:28 PM PDT by sharpee
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To: blueplum
Quanah Parker is rolling in his grave. Roosevelt treated Chief Parker with respect and honor.
79 posted on 06/21/2020 5:44:05 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: CDB

Blue Bloods is next. Teddys portrait in commissioners office and its about white cops.


80 posted on 06/21/2020 5:47:03 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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