New York City To Remove Roosevelt Statue Over Racism Concerns
New York City Police Department patrol in a closed off Times Square shorty before the 11 p.m. curfew went into effect June 1, 2020 as demonstrators rallied across the five boroughs in a call for justice for George Floyd. TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP.New York City announced Sunday it would remove a statue of former US President Theodore Roosevelt long criticized as a racist and colonialist symbol, but the move drew criticism from Donald Trump.
Citing the ongoing movement for racial justice, the museum said: “We also have watched as the attention of the world and the country has increasingly turned to statues and monuments as powerful and hurtful symbols of systemic racism.” Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th US president at the beginning of the 20th century, and while he was celebrated as a conservationist and progressive at the time, he also held racist views towards black and Native American people, according to the AMNH website.“The world does not need statues, relics of another age, that reflect neither the values of the person they intend to honor nor the values of equality and justice,” said Theodore Roosevelt IV, aged 77, a great-grandson.
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