the statue be removed in June 2020, after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the global protests that followed. The Roosevelt statue now joins a number of other US monuments that have been relocated over the past few months. Most of these removals, if not all, were"The statue itself communicates a racial hierarchy that the Museum and members of the public have long found disturbing," the museum wrote in its June request.
That June 2020 request was approved by New York's mayor at the time, Bill de Blasio. A year later, the New York City Public Design CommissionIn this photo from December 2, 2021, construction workers begin removing the Theodore Roosevelt statue.
Shows there is no such thing as “race “. It is all freaking invented!!!
Scrap metal anyone?
Replace Theodore with an American billionaire and the Indian and African with Chinese workers.
Really Dumb!! Where is Mayor Adams
Each should have their own statue.
History should be studied not hidden. That’s a shame.
This reveals a certain sentiment. Was it necessary?
Thats destruction of evidence.
Sad day 😢
Terrific, one more step to repeating history, after ignorant people continue to erase it or cover it up! Out if sight out mind? REALLY?
Nos, they should remove both the Native American and the African men from the statue, make each of them statues on their own with different context, and put back Teddy’s statue in the same spot. Although then some might also complain about being on top of a horse so…
This one really grinds my gears, Ted is objectively one of the top three presidents of all time.
They say good, take them down and display them in museums. This was in front of a museums. This was one of the must hard core presidents this country has ever had.
Makes no never mind to me , a rock sitting on another rock doesn’t hurt my feelings if it’s there or not , but I’m sure the rock haters and rock lovers will argue over it
i hope all the people who were hurt by the mean statue can heal now
Theodore Roosevelt was a terribly great President. Trustbusting and Environmental Conservation are not the values of the wokeness Cheers for making America 🇺🇸 Perplexing
America has become the emotionally soft.
Segregation please
We live in the dumbest timeline.
Hard rain gonna fall
Good. Always depicting blacks/natives as “less than” by showing yt men as saviors. Real history shows who the brutes and barbarians truly are. We see you. 'If you can only be tall because somebody is on their knees, then you have a serious problem' -Toni Morrison
Is there an indian name for new york?
Why was that statue there in the first place?
Shimsham do you consider Confederate statues should be something to be proud of and is a great thing that should be preserved. Did u hear some schools dont want to include slavery as something u should teach in schools.
About time already
Please don't tell me they are replacing it with a George floyd statue
About time!
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