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 ...
You mean Truman?
One of my favorite presidents
Well Rocky did beat a couple black guys...this is clearly systemic racism and so the statue should be torn down.
He’s going down for sure.
I reread that book at the beginning of this year and it is amazing how prophetic it was. Old George was only off by about 30 years.
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
“You are thinking of Frankin Delano Roosevelt.”
Nope.
Bankwalker is correct. Teddy Roosevelt was the first progressive President. He even ran on the 1912 Progressive Party ticket against Woodrow Wilson and his old VP William Howard Taft. Teddy splitting the GOP vote gave the election to Wilson.
In the early 1900s the Republican Party had a large progressive wing, especially in California.
Over time many of those GOP progressives drifted to the Democratic Party and were instrumental in FDR’s administration.
They consider the entire country a settlement. In a lot of these circles they refer to all white people as “settlers”.
I guess the racist protesters found out that many of the “Rough Riders” who helped Teddy in the Spanish American war were “Buffalo soldiers”.
https://history.army.mil/documents/spanam/BSSJH/Shbrt-BSSJH.htm
and the Daily Kos article on his relationship with Native American tribes (not what you think: He helped them in the quest for equality).
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2011/10/20/1028210/-Indians-101-Theodore-Roosevelt-and-the-Indians
I guess the carrier will have to be renamed or sunk for the cancel crowd.
Those later Barney Miller episodes mention TR, so they’re gone.
Eventually the the whole series if the cancellation gang gets their way.
How about all of the commemorations of Robert C Byrd? KKK leader is OK, huh?
“Wilson promoted the Ku Klux Klan “
Not exactly.
Wilson screened ‘The Birth of a Nation’ in the White House at the urging of his old friend Thomas Dixon who wrote the book it’s based on. That’s about the extent of Wilson’s “promotion” of the KKK, which at the time the movie came out had been defunct for 40 years.
The movie itself was the world’s first major motion picture and the first blockbuster movie. The movie is what promoted the Klan, or at least Thomas Dixon’s idea of it, and it kicked off the second Klan era. Wilson played no role in that.
“The US has never had colonies.”
Critics point to the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, Canal Zone. Hawaii. The US picked up some of those while TR was Veep, and he was basically the first President who had to administer them.
Woodrow Wilson-——
I am not on totally unassailable ground so you may be more accurate than I.
Not sure of the total accuracy but this is something to support what talk radio guy Bill Cunningham uses almost weekly when he lists the Byrd, LBJ and other white racists who are Dems....
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2015/11/20/9766896/woodrow-wilson-racist
Historian Wesley Moody describes Wilson’s most famous book as an academic, A History of the American People, as “steeped in Lost Cause mythology.” The book was generally sympathetic to the Ku Klux Klan, describing them as “men half outlawed, denied the suffrage, without hope of justice in the courts, who meant to take this means to make their will felt.” (”This means” being violence and intimidation against black people.)....
Wilson himself was the descendant of Confederate soldiers, and identified deeply with the “Lost Cause” narrative, according to which the Confederacy was a government of noble men trying to preserve a decent agrarian way of life against crude Northern industrialists, rather than a separatist movement premised on white supremacy. ....
From Wilson’s book:
Elsewhere in the book, Wilson attacked Reconstruction on the grounds that “the dominance of an ignorant and inferior race was justly dreaded.” He was strongly against black suffrage: “It was a menace to society itself that the negroes should thus of a sudden be set free and left without tutelage or restraint.” He praised those freed slaves who “stayed very quietly by their old masters and gave no trouble” but bemoaned that they were the exception, the being “vagrants, looking for pleasure and gratuitous fortune” who inevitably “turned thieves or importunate beggars. The tasks of ordinary labor stood untouched; the idlers grew insolent; dangerous nights went anxiously by, for fear of riot and incendiary fire.”
none of them were colonies.
These children dont read books, why burn them. They tear down big emojis instead
There’s loads of nonsense that gets repeated about Woodrow Wilson by “our side”.
We have more than our share of “historians” more interested in scoring political points in current debates than in truthfully reporting historic fact. Assuming that they have even bothered to do any research, which is often in doubt.
“Wilson himself was the descendant of Confederate soldiers, and identified deeply with the “Lost Cause” narrative,”
So was George Patton. Eisenhower wasn’t a descendant but he greatly admired Lee and Jackson. Charles Francis Adams Jr was greatly sympathetic to the South after having been a Union combat officer. This current habit of vilifying the South is something only Marxists were doing during the Bicentiennial. Now we have conservatives who sound like Angela Davis.
Wilson was a segregationist. A view which was typical of the majority of the American public at the time. Al Jolson was one of the most popular entertainers of his day. Go look at what his act was. There’s loads of books, movies, magazine articles, cartoons of pre 1960s America which are on today’s forbidden list. Pretty soon everybody prior to Obama is going to be labelled a racist. You can bank on it.
Eventually the the whole series if the cancellation gang gets their way.
Where does all this crap end? No more cop shows. Will Hollywood cancel "The Rookie," and replace it with "antifa Arsonist," or "Black Lives Matter Mass Murderer?" "Illegal Alien Abortionists?" "The Leninist Looters of Seattle?"
I’m 60 and liked and respected Teddy for being the father of the national parks and I’m conservative.His story is uniquely american, a sickly kid who turned himself into a westerner, led the rough riders, ranched in the Dakota’s, loved to hunt and was neighbor and lifelong friends with Seth Bullock Marshall of Deadwood.
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