Apparently, “progressive” Republican Teddy Roosevelt is too racist and represents colonialism to stay in New York and at the Museum of Natural History. The statue of Roosevelt, which has stood at the very spot it will be removed from since 1940 will be removed, because it’s too racist and it promotes colonialism or something. The left continues to erase this country’s history.
| Teddy Roosevelt statue to be removed from Museum of Natural History – latest causality of left erasing history |
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The museum — which is privately run but sits on public land — requested the statue be moved and the city agreed, according to the report.
“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 Futter, told the Times.
“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,” she added. “Simply put, the time has come to move it.”
The statue has been criticized — and defaced — in the past for glorifying colonialism and racism.
In October 2017, amid a national spate of statue vandalizations following the violence sparked by white supremacist groups in Charlottesville, Va., somebody splashed the bronze statue with red paint.
The planned departure of the Roosevelt sculpture came as some City Council members asked Mayor de Blasio last week to remove the statue of Thomas Jefferson from City Hall on the grounds that he “fathered as many as six children with a woman he enslaved.”
The Jefferson and Roosevelt statues aren’t the only two historic sculptures under the microscope in New York City.