Posted on 11/21/2021 12:17:03 AM PST by blueplum
At least the statue will have a home and not be destroyed as was the Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Va.
“Teddy Roosevelt was the closest thing we have had to a white supremacist president.”
Have you ever read what Abraham Lincoln said?
They will be coming after FDR as well—they just haven’t gotten around to it yet.
https://www.aier.org/article/how-fdr-killed-federal-anti-lynching-legislation/
Here is the money quote that will eventually make FDR an enemy of the woke—and get all the statues pulled down, the memorial removed from DC, and the highways, schools and libraries renamed:
“The Anti-Lynching Bill may also be considered a casualty of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s political ambition.”
Buzzard may have read his remarks with more of an open mind and understanding of the context than you ever have, troll.
“The piece depicts Roosevelt on horseback, while Native American and African figures walk alongside him.”
The figure does appear to be an African. The art piece would have been much, much better if it had depicted the great southerner Holt Collier by his side, on horseback too.
Collier was the black Confederate cavalryman that Blue State Culture tells us never existed. He is an amazing part of America’s forbidden history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holt_Collier
“Buzzard may have read his remarks with more of an open mind and understanding of the context than you ever have, troll.”
That is an interesting comment.
Can you provide the remarks and the context that will reassure us that AL did not hold ethnocentric views?
Virtually everyone at that time had “ethnocentric views.” That was the norm. Look at the context of the times and at actions, not words.
I don’t know how to interpret the library’s statements, but I think it’s equally likely that the proper interpretation is “Yeah, we’ll
go through the motions and have a committee of idiots tell us what ‘context’ plaques we should be put up around it, but we’re thrilled to have this glorious piece of art grace our facility.” In any event, that’s the end result and the statue does not end up going to way of the Robert E Lee statue in Richmond
Yup- that as well
Kewel story...
“Virtually everyone at that time had “ethnocentric views.” That was the norm. Look at the context of the times and at actions, not words.”
That is an interesting comment.
Did you intend to direct your comment to me or were you attempting to scold the author of post 15 who wrote: “Teddy Roosevelt was the closest thing we have had to a white supremacist president”?
Of course, the little appreciated truth of the American Indian tribes were that long before whites arrived, they were routinely savage and genocidal toward each other. Then the whites came with better weapons and vast numbers, insisting that the Indians had to make peace, settle down, learn and practice agriculture, and stop the lawless ways of aboriginals. And yes, they had to gradually yield most of their land so that it could be put to productive crops for market to feed millions of people and help alleviate poverty.
No society could afford to or ever tried to preserve aboriginals in near full and complete possession of an entire continent. And the Indians themselves did not recognize land titles or ownership, only the power take and hold land so that a people could use it. If you could not hold the land against stronger tribes, you did not get to claim and use it as yours. By those rules, whites were in the right in dispossessing the Indians.
In truth, most Indians adapted and assimilated. Two of my closest boyhood friends were brothers with brown skin and dark hair due to their mother being a full-blood Cherokee born on a reservation in North Carolina. Like us, she and her family were faithful, practicing Catholics and we originally met in church, with out two families becoming good friends. My contemporary of the two brothers died a few years ago, with his proudest accomplishment in life being his years of service in the US Army during the Cold War.
In truth, there are no separate peoples as to American Indians, Blacks, Hispanics, or Whites. We are one American people, of infinite variety, distinctions, and gradations. To Hell with segregation and separatism.
He was also awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously by Bill Clinton, just before he left office in 2001.
New York Post - April 17, 2016:
Teddy Roosevelt started the Museum of Natural History in his bedroom
That would be more historically accurate, but they wouldn't allow that.
Teddy Roosevelt's 'Shocking' Dinner With Booker T. Washington at The White House
Dems think that if they get rid of their slave history, nobody will remember what racists they were, and still are.
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