NYC Academics and Activists Want Theodore Roosevelt Statue Melted Down
“New Yorkers cannot simply dump their toxic cultural products in other communities”
We have followed this story closely. The statue is supposed to be moved to a Theodore Roosevelt library in North Dakota. Now the left wants it destroyed completely.
The New York Post reports:
Petitioners don’t want NYC’s Theodore Roosevelt statue sent to North Dakota
The “cancelled” statue of Theodore Roosevelt that was hauled away in the dead of night from the American Museum of Natural History’s steps should be headed for the scrap heap rather than a presidential library in North Dakota, a group of woke academics and artists claims.
The bronze depiction of the Rough Rider on horseback flanked by an African man and Native American, which was decried as colonialistic and racist, is slated to go to a planned Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, N.D. It was removed in January and is currently in storage in NYC.
“New Yorkers cannot simply dump their toxic cultural products in other communities,” according to an online petition by the academics started last month. “The city should reject the transfer of its undesirable waste elsewhere. In this case, the monument’s bronze content could be melted down or recycled for a better purpose or simply disposed of.”
The petition had drawn more than 275 signatures since it was posted on Tumblr last month. It was started by members of Decolonize This Place, a left-wing activist group which pushed for the statue’s removal.
NYC’s Public Design Commission voted in June to remove the famed “Equestrian Statue,” which had been at the Upper West Side museum since 1940.
The agreement to loan it to the Roosevelt library came in November. The organization has said it is considering its display as a “tool to study the nation’s past.”
Theodore Roosevelt V, a Roosevelt descendant, has called the statue “problematic” but said he didn’t want it shunted away.
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“The Father of Progressivism?”
Burn, baby, burn.
May every conservative blog in existence run the headline:
WOKE NEW YORKERS MELT STATUE OF FATHER OF PROGRESSIVISM.
Kinda ironic isn’t it. Or, maybe it’s just another example of the their ignorance and mental disease.
These left-wingers are acting much like the Taliban. They are trying to destroy all the historical items that represent a culture that they don’t like.
Why the surprise? They (Taliban and “woke” Leftists) are brothers under the skin.
Not sure I’m following this: The exemplars of all that is good and right want to cancel the Roosevelt who didn’t put 150k Japanese Americans in camps. Am I following this correctly.
Nobody cares about Asians.
Unless whites are committing violence against them,
Which pretty much means never.
Left unsaid: teddy Roosevelt was white.
Let me guess how they feel about TR’s Presidential Papers and new Presidential Library?
Too bad they can’t dump their activists and academics on some other community.