Photo: Rob Kim/Getty Images The statue of President Theodore Roosevelt on horseback, surrounded by a Black man and a Native American man, that greets visitors at the entrance to New York’s American Museum of Natural History will be taken down, the museum announced. The museum’s decision follows both ongoing calls from activists to remove the statue for the racism it represents and recent protests against systemic racism across the country where protesters have taken down racist monuments.
Those who have called for the statue’s removal point to President Roosevelt’s beliefs in racial superiority, including eugenics. In 2017, protesters painted the base of the statue red, calling it a symbol of “patriarchy, white supremacy, and settler-colonialism” and for its removal in an online statement. Theodore Roosevelt IV, the president’s great-grandson and a trustee of the museum, approved of the removal in a statement to the New York Times.
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When I first heard that there were cries to remove a statue of Teddy Roosevelt, I recoiled., as I've always held him in regard. Now that I see the actual statue, however, I couldn't be more supportive of its removal.
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