Posted on 06/22/2020 4:36:07 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell
The American Museum of Natural History Purges Its Most Famous Patron
President Theodore Roosevelt was a great naturalist and he came by it naturally. His father was one of the founders of the American Museum of Natural History, and while no great monument was ever erected to him in New York City, the museum's Roosevelt rotunda and the giant statue of Roosevelt outside were the next best things to it. But, of course, the cultural revolution came calling.
And the American Museum of Natural History quickly surrendered, asking that one of the most distinctive statues in the city that isn't holding a torch, be purged.
Roosevelt was a progressive hero and symbol, and the men who worked on the statue and the rotunda were progressives. While the cultural revolution was objecting to the African and Indian standing at Roosevelt's side, they were intended to symbolize the harmony of the races. But symbols of tolerance are yet another hate crime.
The statue now being purged is the work of James Earle Fraser, who had been responsible for many iconic depictions of the West, along with classic American sculptures, including those decorating the Supreme Court, and the Buffalo Head nickel.
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When Theodore Roosevelt was President, he invited Booker T. Washington to the White House for lunch and got a lot of criticism for it. Of course today he is probably scorned because it was not for dinner.
How dare they.. This is not THEIR HISTORY.. it is OUR HISTORY. Why are we letting this happen? If the Government won’t help us we need to do this ourselves.
Went there back in 2012. It was raining so we entered through the subway entrance. Real jerk the guard was. Had to wait one and a half hours to get in.
“Protest”. I think NOT. We are witnessing revolution. The left is keeping their promise for once, and we don’t recognize it as it is disguised as “Protest”, and the media is making sure we don’t recognize it for what it truly is.
It’s an armed revolution. It’s a Communist revolution. NO Bongino it’s NOT a Civil War it’s a revolution.
I think that "ourselves" is the best way.
NY City does not deserve this magnificent work of art.
It should be removed to Sagamore Hill, where all the rest of T.R.’s wonderful memorabilia reside.
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