New York City Cancels Theodore Roosevelt and Sending Him to North Dakota
“amid claims that it symbolizes colonial subjugation and racial discrimination”
New York City is removing a statue of President Theodore Roosevelt from the Museum of Natural History and sending it to North Dakota.
Can we finally stop pretending that this has anything to do with inclusiveness and admit it’s really about the erasure of American history?
Yaron Steinbuch reports at the New York Post:
Theodore Roosevelt statue at Museum of Natural History to be moved to North Dakota
A controversial statue of President Theodore Roosevelt that has stood in front of the American Museum of Natural History for over 80 years will be relocated to North Dakota.
The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation, which is set to open in 2026, said in a statement that “it has entered into an agreement with the City of New York for the long-term loan and reconsideration of the Equestrian Statue designed by James Earle Fraser.”
The announcement comes five months after the New York City Public Design Commission voted unanimously to relocate the bronze effigy of the nation’s 26th president amid claims that it symbolizes colonial subjugation and racial discrimination.
The monument — which shows Roosevelt on horseback, flanked by an African man and a Native American man — has long been criticized for glorifying colonialism and racism. It was vandalized with paint in 2017.
ABC News calls the statue problematic:
‘Problematic’ Roosevelt statue at American Museum of Natural History finds new home
A “problematic” statue of Theodore Roosevelt outside the American Museum of Natural History in New York City that has been criticized for symbolizing colonialism and racism has found a new home, more than a year after the city announced it will be removed.
The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library said Friday it has agreed to take the statue of the former president, which has stood on the steps of the museum since 1940, for a long-term loan.
I simply don’t believe the claims about the Roosevelt statue being a problem for the reasons given. New York City just removed a statue of Thomas Jefferson as well.
Thomas Jefferson statue removed from City Hall after 187 years https://t.co/kzEHeGmNb8 pic.twitter.com/NL06oPOxkt
— New York Post (@nypost) November 23, 2021
From the New York Post report:
Thomas Jefferson statue removed from City Hall after 187 years
Thomas Jefferson is no longer in the room where it happens.
Art handlers packed up an 884-pound statue of Jefferson in a wooden crate Monday after a mayoral commission voted to banish the likeness of the nation’s third president from City Hall, where it’s resided for nearly two centuries — because he owned slaves.
About a dozen workers with Marshall Fine Arts spent several hours carefully removing the painted plaster monument from its pedestal inside the City Council chambers and surrounding it with sections of foam and wooden boards.
Why not remove all the statues from New York?
Why don't we move the Statue of Liberty to Florida or Texas, while we're at it? https://t.co/GLJnPZ4plc
— Mike LaChance (@MikeLaChance33) November 23, 2021
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Where have all the “Americans” gone?
Tp The Conch Republic if they have a brain.
They have gone to North Dakota and gotten the hell out of the Rotten Apple.
The geniuses in NYC canceled one of the major progressives of last century…… do these people have any concept of history? Or are they just products of the NYC public schools?
This is French Revolution level of purity testing. No one can be woke enough – off with their head and destroy every part of history to satisfy the DEI (which means “god” in Latin).
Orwell was more right than anyone ever thought.
Teddy was a classical progressive born of conservative roots. His cancellation follows the deprecation of classical liberalism. The trend is progressive liberalism (i.e. monotonic divergence) or one step forward, two steps backward. #HateLovesAbortion
Bingo,they haven’t a clue of their history and particularly Progressive/Marxist history
Teddy Roosevelt was a progressive and he would probably be happier in North Dakota today. He sure loved it back in his day.
He was also once police commissioner in NYC.
He would never believe what is going on today. . .
Abandon NYC while you can. Head South.
VOTE WITH YOUR FEET
NYC plans to allow 600,000 non-citizens to vote. If you are a citizen – your vote is diluted. If you actually pay taxes – you are not represented in NYC. Taxpayers are less than 50% of the registered voters in NYC. Leftists will scream – but you’re not including “sales tax”. Actually, I am. NYC sales tax excludes food and necessities and excludes any purchase under $110 for clothing and many other items. So most of those who pay zero income tax also pay zero sales tax. The few that do pay sales tax pay a minimal amount.
So, how is NYC any longer part of America ?
But leave your political choices behind when you move.
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“New York City is removing a statue of President Theodore Roosevelt from the Museum of Natural History and sending it to North Dakota.”
Noooooooooooooooooooooo! ;-(
Teddy amassed a huge taxidermy collection from all of his hunting and hiking. Wasn’t that left to that museum? Maybe it went to the Smithsonian?
It seems the question now is this. Is there still a sleeping giant that can be awakened? I do not think so.
Let’s put it this way: In 1860 nobody thought there’d be a civil war. Until it happened.
I remember the tableau displays of primitive man in the museum as a kid. I suppose they’re long gone too.
“Why don’t we move the Statue of Liberty to Florida or Texas, while we’re at it?”
Not the slightest doubt in my mind that ‘doing something’ about this ‘problematic’ symbol of capitalist oppression and exploitation has been discussed.
If American Marxists have their way they’ll eventually get rid of it.
Mixed…. a “beacon” for the poor and oppressed…. but she is WHITE!!!! So Wokeness will be found somehow.
Indeed. The Statue of Liberty is a stern Alsatian mother…
At this rate – they will redesign the Statute of Liberty to remove its “whiteness”. All statutes and all history must be revised under the Cultural Revolution per Chairman Biden’s glorious directive.
Woke insanity continues unabatted.
This is a disgrace. What will be next-mandatory viewings of photos of thugs shot by police?
Ghost of Teddy:
“At last! I don’t know what jackass thought I would ever be happy in New York City!”
President Theodore Roosevelt, also the 33rd Governor of New York, charged the San Juan Hills as a volunteer cavalryman, gets booted out of NYC?
Oh, he was a republican, I forgot.
If an entity goes woke let it go broke This museum was once a great museum but has tragically surrendered to the woke mob
Folks from Boston have always known that NYC sucks. This confirms it. What a shithole! Not worth the train fare to get there.
NYC used to be a great city. It is a crime-infested woke-infested mess now.
It would be bankrupt today if Biden’s budget had not allocated $30 Billion to baling it out.
> Biggest unwritten story is the bailout of NYC.