The statue of Theodore Roosevelt that sits at the entrance of the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan will be removed. The leftists say he is a symbol of racism and colonialism. Teddy is the first president to celebrate a black man in the White House. He invited Booker T. Washington to the White House and was vilified for it. Theodore Roosevelt was an environmentalist. He established and protected some of our most beautiful parks.
Theodore Roosevelt, often called “the conservation president,” impacted the National Park System well beyond his term in office. He doubled the number of sites within the National Park system. As President from 1901 to 1909, he signed legislation establishing five new national parks: Crater Lake, Oregon; Wind Cave, South Dakota; Sullys Hill, North Dakota (later re-designated a game preserve); Mesa Verde, Colorado; and Platt, Oklahoma (now part of Chickasaw National Recreation Area).
However, another Roosevelt enactment had a broader effect: the Antiquities Act of June 8, 1906. The Antiquities Act enabled President Roosevelt and succeeding Presidents to proclaim historic landmarks, historic or prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest in federal ownership as national monuments.
ABOUT THE STATUE
His statue shows him on a horse and he is flanked on either side by a Native American and a Black man.
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The statue was commissioned in 1925 and unveiled in 1940 as part of a memorial to former New York governor and U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.
The statue was meant to celebrate Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) as a devoted naturalist and author of works on natural history. Roosevelt’s father was one of the Museum’s founders.
It is beautiful artistically, but, according to historian Newt Gingrich, speaking on Fox News this morning, it has a supremacist look reflecting the era. He believes it should be removed but not destroyed. It is continually subjected to vandalism and will eventually be destroyed, he said.
President Trump doesn’t want it removed.
Where do you stand? Once they started removing confederates, the vandals left nothing alone.
There is always an excuse to remove every statue that represents our history, good or bad, but it should be a choice, not a decision by vandals.
Theodore Roosevelt’s statue will be removed from the Museum of Natural History in New York City. The memorial has long prompted objections as a symbol of colonialism.https://t.co/aPafBjXCOv
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 21, 2020
You’re gonna hear people wringing their hands saying that the AMNH cancelled Teddy Roosevelt, but if it were just a statue of him, it’d likely be staying up. (It’s not just a statue of him.) pic.twitter.com/xR0Fk7NwtT
— Angus Johnston 😷 (@studentactivism) June 21, 2020
Wow. The Teddy Roosevelt statue outside the main entrance to the American Museum of Natural History is coming down—at the AMNH’s request. https://t.co/3a2XF88rxl
— Angus Johnston 😷 (@studentactivism) June 21, 2020
The founder of Yale was a slaver and Woodrow Wilson was a true bigot. Why aren’t they going after their statues?
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