Futter said the decision was based on the statue itself and not on Roosevelt himself, a conservationist whose father was a founding member of the museum and who served as New York's governor before becoming the 26th president.
Roosevelt’s conservation legacy is still strongly represented throughout the museum, whose two-story Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall features four exhibition areas tracing Roosevelt’s life and a bronze sculpture of a seated Roosevelt as he looked during a famous 1903 camping trip to Yosemite with naturalist John Muir.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed the decision this evening. “The American Museum of Natural History has asked to remove the Theodore Roosevelt statue because it explicitly depicts Black and Indigenous people as subjugated and racially inferior,” said the mayor in a written statement. “The City supports the Museum's request. It is the right decision and the right time to remove this problematic statue.
The removal of the Roosevelt statue highlights that iconic historical figures are often flawed and complicated. “Roosevelt is also known as the ‘Conservation President’ during his presidency, when more than 230 million acres of land were set aside as national parks, national forests, and other protected sites,” says a page on the museum’s website that. “But Roosevelt also held some disturbing views, including that the ‘English-speaking race’ was superior to others. Roosevelt—like the country he led—has a complicated and sometimes troubling history.
Americans are struggling to destroy themselves from the inside. If this statue is removed, the psychological essence of this strategic WW11 President of the USA will be eradicated. Consequently, no hero to inspire the children. Americans should rethink this.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered...History has stopped.Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right”
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Would love a big T Rex or Moose or Mastadon
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Wait, wait, wait! One day Jesus was the most important thing on Earth, riding in to town on a donkey, less than a week later he was carrying a cross out of town to his own execution. When does the meaning of symbolization outweigh moral conviction?
That ain't gonna change anything. Removing statues does not change anything. The current generation both black and white is anti-everything. We are doomed.
It's not the museum's decision to play politics, judge of history. Crap!
'Every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered...History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.' -- 1984, George Orwell
Все будет хорошо
Never let DeBlasio into a National Park again
Excellent idea.
Stop erasing city history. For 80 years its stood there part of the city. Put it up for a vote and see if the city as a whole wants it gone or just a bunch of activists. It starts with statues and ends with people.
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