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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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Embrace the overreach, people!
This is how they lose!
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.
Obama has sure been busy community organizing out of his DC mansion two blocks from the White Hut.
Columbus, Roosevelt. They will never stop. The goal is to destroy this country by tearing down the founding fathers.
Everything will be named after Obama in a few years.
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. ...”
Get used to being ruled by a hateful minority
Once Muzzies take over France I’m sure they’ll burn the masterworks contained therein. Turn the place into a Mosque.
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.
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.”
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
yes!
Someone tell John McInsane. His favorite Prez TR is now under attack from his buddies on the left.
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.
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Tick tock
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
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.
It’s the media. Stories are a payday for them.
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