Posted on 11/21/2021 12:17:03 AM PST by blueplum
American history has been under siege ever since President Trump took office, what with the communist's years long "Kristallnacht" and historical removal of any statuary that preceded our modern American social structure.
But a museum, named FOR the image of the statue in question has "agreed" to take it.
Very bully of 'em.
I can see you actually know your history, as opposed to just wanting to tear it down.
I hope I have occasion to use that.
RE:”Teddy Roosevelt was the closest thing we have had to a white supremacist president.”
I am not defending Roosevelt, but he has a long way to go to surplant Woodrow Wilson as a white supremacist president.
Cheers.
The Abomination, here, is that the AMNH has given into wokeism psychosis.
You are confusing the two Presidents Roosevelt.
Me neither; I was last there in 2011 or so.
fentanyl Floyd, drug addicts, rapist, child molester statues to replace those that disturb them. Remember the Taliban when they first came to power and erased history.
“The piece depicts Roosevelt on horseback, while Native American and African figures walk alongside him.”
In hopes of a good hunt and lots of meat for there village fires. The tribesmen, the bushmen, they hunt. It’s all business and back during that point in time, those local hunters knew their local business well.
Cowboy, “Chief, why are you riding while your woman walks behind.”
Indian, “Squaw no have horse.”
IIRC, it was Roosevelt who was instrumental in reviving and preserving the history of the Indians and that’s how all these place names came about.
The Twitter six percent win again.
That’s just too deep for these morons to connect with. Piss Jesus is more their speed. Arts and entertainment has been destroyed by the left. It requires freedom of expression, not politically approved propaganda.
We stayed there for a few days last summer, very nice hotel, next to the Alamo.
I’m 67 years old. I’m well versed in history.
Meanwhile there’s a highway right down the road from where this stature was removed and its named after another Roosevelt- the FDR Drive.
A highway named after a racist president who tore American citizens of Japanese descent away from their homes and put them in concentration camps by the tens of thousands. Yet there’s never a word about changing the name of that highway nor any other monument/statue named after FDR- the great liberal racist.
They only do that for butter containers; you know, remove the Indian and keep the land.
I think you’re right.
I propose a statue of Roosevelt heading up his Cavalry unit up San Juan Heights in his wheelchair, with Stalin and Churchill on either side.
Or better yet it could be a Calvary unit. He could be bearing a cross,
on horseback,
towing a wheelchair,
with Eleanor and Alice Hathaway Lee making out in the background,
just as Little Boy drops on the Maine.
Roosevelt wasn't fair to the Black troops in Texas or to African-Americans in southern states who wanted to be delegates to his Progressive Party convention, but he did have Booker T. Washington to dinner at the White House at a time when that outraged many Americans. A small thing, but something other presidents didn't risk doing.
TR wasn't fair or kind to the Indians in his writing -- sometimes they didn't deserve it -- but the other presidents who were in charge when the Indians were being displaced and Africans enslaved weren't necessarily any better. Roosevelt left behind more of a paper trail in all his writing, but more than a few presidents shared his basic assumptions, and Wilson went further, (re)introducing segregation into the federal government.
If Roosevelt is "problematic," so are many other historical figures, here and abroad. The museum or the city would have gotten rid of the statue anyway, but having the Black and Native Americans in a subordinate position in the piece probably made it easier for them.
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