Highly criticized by Donald Trump, the decision was taken because of the views considered colonialists and racists of the 26th u.s. president.
The city of New York announced that it would remove a statue of the 26th president of the United States Theodore Roosevelt is its location in the Manhattan, because of its views considered colonialist and racist, a measure strongly criticized by Donald Trump.
This decision comes as the United States, after the death of George Floyd, are open to the examination of conscience on the issue of racism and have re-opened the debate around monuments celebrating the legacy of slavery in the country.
The bronze statue of “Teddy” Roosevelt, who welcomes visitors at the entrance of the museum of american natural history for the last 80 years, shows the former president, who was governor of the State of New York before gaining access to the White House, sitting on a horse overlooking a black man and a Native american walking by his side.
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This monument, “has long been the subject of controversy due to its composition hierarchy,” he said Sunday night in a press release the museum, a famous tourist attraction of New York, located next to Central Park. “A lot of us find that the representation of characters of african and native americans and their positioning within this monument are racist”, he added.
The Blacks and native americans represented as below
The city of New York has responded positively to the request made by the museum to remove the statue, which “represents explicitly the Blacks and native Indians as subject and racially inferior,” said its mayor, Bill de Blasio in a press release.
As noted by the website of the museum of natural history, Teddy Roosevelt was considered a progressive champion of the environment at the beginning of the 20th century, but he defended also racist views.
One of his descendants, Theodore Roosevelt IV, has explained to support this decision. “The composition of the equestrian statue does not represent the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt. It is time to remove this statue and go forward,” he explained.
In the night of Sunday to Monday, the current chairman, republican Donald Trump, a staunch defender of the monuments to the confederates, criticised this decision, which he called “ridiculous.” “Don’t do it!”, he wrote in a tweet. The billionaire new yorker has recently called for the arrest of the demonstrators who were gunned down in Washington a statue of confederate general Albert Pike.
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