Controversial Teddy Roosevelt statue moving from NYC museum to North Dakota

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

NEW YORK — The Rough Rider is mounting up and moving on.

An American Museum of Natural History statue of former President Theodore Roosevelt, which has been criticized for glorifying colonialism and racial discrimination, is being relocated to North Dakota.

For 80 years the Roosevelt statue stood sentry outside the museum, riding a horse and towering over an African man and a Native American man. Roosevelt’s own descendants conceded the depiction is “troubling” and signed off on the statue’s removal.

Now, T.R. is headed for Medora, North Dakota, where the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library is set to open in 2026 — the 250th anniversary of the United States.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/controversial-teddy-roosevelt-statue-moving-from-nyc-museum-to-north-dakota/ar-AAR0KE9

[TheRealNorth]

1. Teddy was a mixture of good and bad...

He tried to limit corporate influence in government, conservation,, and and the square deal.

But yeah, he was a colonialist too.

[harumph]

2. I can't think of a person who wasn't a mixture of good and bad.

Maybe we should just stop with any statues - all of which imply glorification.

[Polybius]

4. Or we should just stop moving them

Let them be.

[Tomconroy]

3. Don't know what there going to do with the murals inside.

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Nothing I hope.
https://evergreene.com/projects/roosevelt-hall-murals/

[Demovictory9]

5. i saw that statue in person...was a bit shocked by it. Black man is naked.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. I think that's more the objection to the statue

Both the black man and native American are shown subservient.

[FSogol]

7. There is a worse statue in DC over by the White House. It depicts

Walking near the White House, across from the Department of Commerce, there’s a monument to the Boy Scouts, comprised of three bronze figures: a scout, a naked man, and a lady in a toga. While the image of a hulking, shirtless (naked) man following on the heels of a young boy is undeniably a little uncomfortable, the statue was installed in 1964, having been commissioned by President Lyndon B. Johnson to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/boy-scout-memorial

[Demovictory9]

8. San Juan Capistrano Mission has a questionable statue that was removed and put back then removed

to protect from the statue toppling events of 2020

[FSogol]

9. Wow. That's awful. n/t