The Committee for the Removal of Public Monuments has bagged its biggest trophy to date. On Sunday New York Mayor Bill de Blasio acceded to a request from Ellen Futter, president of the American Museum of Natural History, to remove the equestrian statue of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, that fronts the museum entrance on Central Park West.
“The Statue has long been controversial because of the hierarchical composition that places one figure on horseback and the others walking alongside, and many...
opinion “History is being erased!” cries group with a vested interest in whitewashing the past to make their support of the white supremacist status quo of the present feel defensible. At some point, you guys are going to have to actually learn about the history you claim to care about.
opinion WSJ should get cancelled. They don't care about American history, heritage and pride.
opinion STOP this madness! These BLM and Antifa are acting just like the Taliban and ISIS, destroying pictures, painting and statues that people put in place many years before you. It is just madness, STOP IT! Leave them alone!
opinion Get back to us after we teach real history in school and not have a single state like Texas effectively dictate what text books say.
opinion Shame on WSJ for the misleading headline and total distortion of the months long consideration regarding the removal of the statue.
opinion Beyond politics. Remember when Trump kinda stood for standing up to this? Like the bad Democrats were doing this and somebody had to make the change? This is a comfortable global influencer class (Trump & ilk are part of) who react to, rather than ruffle discourse—beyond politics
opinion I'd rather die being brave than trendy...
opinion Can we keep the horse and toss the humans?
opinion Are the little snotty elites happy now?
opinion without Thomas Jefferson and James Madison ( slaveholders all) we would not have our Constitution. No one can rewrite history. We should look forward rather trying to purify ourselves by denigrating our founding fathers.
opinion This is the worst of time...Holding historical figures (Washington, Jefferson, James Madison, Teddy Roosevelt,etc.) to 21st century standard of morality is absurd. Sure, John Adams was an abolitionist but without George Washington we would still a British colony and..
opinion
opinion Good. It’s time to sell the National Parks.
opinion No one alive has ever seen a statue of Hitler, yet we all know a whole lot about him. “Erasing history” is nonsense and comes off as a thin veil covering love for the Confederacy and the wish that those slave-owning traitors would’ve won. Traitors don’t get heroic statues.
opinion The choice is between US history as it was and the contorted version wished for by a minority of young adults and a smaller minority of older a’s. A choice between Jefferson vs MLK; don’t even ask, pull up MLK statues and carry them back to Africa as you leave this country!
opinion You just used the phrase “coerced erasing of U.S. History” Can you please list the history books, letters, and/or memoirs you’ve read by Black, Native American, Latino, or any other minority that were written in the first 150 years of America’s history?
opinion Get over it.
opinion Those on the editorial board need to retire. To say history will be erased because a statue is taken down is bat shit crazy. Are they are too stupid to know what a museum is! That is where history belongs. With these idiots on the board no wonder this paper sucks.
opinion I hope it's not Teddy but the pathetic representation of Native Americans and Africans trailing along with him that most people found ridiculous. This is what you get when the extremes play off each other
opinion Odd. I the museum was making history.
opinion no one can erase history. it has happened, it will always be there. imagine, a 6 y/o. little girl huddled on porch vacant house waiting 4 school next door 2 open at 8. she's there b/c only school in her city is 4 whites only. school waiting 2 attend not accept nonresident kids.
opinion Men are not born equal, but all men should have equal opportunity to make what he can of his capacities, that all careers should be open to people on the basis of their talents, independent of their race, religion, beliefs, color or social class that characterizes them.
opinion Sad and unfortunate great nations learn from their past success and failures
opinion The fact that it’s a history museum is what’s incredible. You embrace history to learn from it; the good, the bad, the ugly. Erasing it... we no longer can see how far we’ve come
opinion You are to blame. You stayed silent. You thought Trump was the more significant threat to your sinecure. The rest of us thought you fools. Sadly we were proven right. Enjoy the chaos you helped create.
opinion The Great Erasure. What WAS America?
opinion WSJ is fake news.
opinion A concerted effort to erase our history and origin. Because we are civilised, evolved people, who do not like to make a fuss; we tend to let it happen. Thinking they will get over it, like you handle a toddler. THEY WON'T, time to stop this.
opinion After the fall of the Berlin wall, Germany removed communist monuments from public places in the east, as it had done with nazi statues before. Is it 'erasing history' to remove offensive monuments after the end of a regime? Or do you simply regret the end of that regime?
opinion As soon as people use the phrase of the moment (cancel is today’s) you can be pretty sure the article is a crock. Removing statues doesn’t cancel anything. A better way would to put a plaque on them explaining the context
opinion Waiting for other animals to complain about the teddy bear.
opinion What history does this display depict apart from the subjugation of Native & Black Americans? Only a certain kind of person can look at this display & think it is okay.
opinion TR would have been embarrassed by this statue. Just ask his great-grandson. What does it mean when you’re more upset about statues being cancelled than people’s lives?
opinion Erased edited history, but not all USA history...
opinion I have servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants on the earth. Eccl. 10:7
opinion The coercion I see most clearly on display here is the op-ed urging threats to the Museum's funding. The capitulation is the WSJ, of all papers, insisting a city statue stand on private land against the landowner's wishes.
opinion FROM THE WOLFS MOUTH: BLM founder admits they are trained Marxists - YouTube
opinion You will have to wonder what will become of an America that hates itself so much it is prepared to 'whitewash' history, rather than learn from it; is the 'teddy bear' to be banned? The USA is so 'woke', so weak, so entitled, and it is gifting THIS to the world!
opinion I would like to see Roosevelt removed, and the indigenous person and slave standing there proud. That will be an important reminder of the history that needs to be remembered, without the white guy lording it over them.
opinion Cancel the wsj editorial board
opinion Does no one read books anymore? How can history be erased when there are books?
opinion He did talk about our little brown brothers. In addition to a bully pulpit. There will be Collateral damage, as there should and always will be in times of great change.
opinion They will put it back when this calms down. Until then this op-ed is here as a squirrel!!!
opinion Delete your account.
opinion Is that so? Then, let's build n erect a statue of Aldorf Hitler so that we will not forget history. What a delusional argument. Keep history alive through education. Ensure high quality n comprehensive education n history will be preserved.
opinion It’s not erasure. Let’s ask the 25th infantry (1906) how they feel?
opinion As Andre Trocme said almost 100 years ago. 'I see the earth as a battleground between God, The Devil and Stupidity controlled by all the half-wits. My goal is to not let the half-wits get me - I am less worried about God or the Devil.'
opinion US History is not being erased. US propaganda is being erased. Here is opportunity to tell the REAL story. NOW real history can be taught. Do we teach our children that genocide and ethnic cleansing went on in this country? Let the propaganda go where it belongs. the trash heap.
opinion One cannot erase history but we can admit the wrong doings and explain then to younger generations. This is how we learn to avoid mistakes.
opinion I'm pretty sure people will be able to learn American history.
opinion That statue is the very definition and embodiment of revisionist history.
opinion Welcome to the new world.
opinion Moving a statue doesn't erase history.
opinion 😢
opinion Can't blame them much for taking down Statues, but the stuff mixes well with Halloween.-Im sure that there's a place for them.
opinion Hey, guys. That email message I sent last week asking about educator discounts so I could use your paper in my classes next year? Never mind.
opinion Replace it with a twerking trans race Black female with inscription: 'Death of a Nation'. ~The Left.
opinion I found this discussion of the parallels between TR's Progressive era and today's thought-provoking, given the current environment. Perhaps deeper study of his continued relevance would benefit us as a society more than banishment:
opinion opinion have you looked at the statue? It is not history - it is opinion?
opinion If you’re going to write an article claiming the decision by the board (including Ted Roosevelt IV) to remove this statue is an erasure of history, could you at least explain the history that the statue depicts? What is so important about it?
opinion Look at that statue. There are so many things wrong with this symbol. Tear it out.
opinion Omg omg stfu wsj nobody asked you or yours
opinion I mean, just look at this fucking statue. It's absurd. What actual history does it reflect? It's a racist cartoon made of stone.
opinion Who burped this up? It's not 'erasing' history. Perhaps do some more research.
opinion *unerasing
opinion If You Want To Be Taken Seriously, Put Your Name On It Challenge 2020
opinion From another article comment -BLM are an extreme Marxist violent group formed to overthrow all systems of a civil society.
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: NYMag - 🏆 111. / 63 Read more »
Source: NBCNews - 🏆 10. / 86 Read more »
Source: Forbes - 🏆 394. / 53 Read more »
Source: NBCNews - 🏆 10. / 86 Read more »