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34. Just a side note to the Teddy Roosevelt controversy

Fri Jan 21, 2022, 12:48 AM

Jan 2022

A wealthy paleontologist named Henry Fairfield Osborn was president of the American Museum's Board of Trustees between 1908 and 1933. According to the WaPo article, the statue was commissioned in 1925. Osborn was a virulent racist himself and a eugenicist. In 1924, he published an article in the museum's popular magazine, Natural History, in which he all but stated outright that Blacks were a separate, lower species, and that East Asians weren't a whole lot higher on the evolutionary scale.

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Theodore Roosevelt statue removed from outside New York's Museum of Natural History [View all] brooklynite Jan 2022 OP

They should put horse & Teddy back, separate the others, put them on higher pedestals looking down.n Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2022 #1

"put them on higher pedestals looking down." and that would not create problems? Escurumbele Jan 2022 #11

I thought Lincoln was Republican. He wasn't any good? Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2022 #24

Whatever you do creates problems. TR was progressive and the others looking down is partial redress. Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2022 #25

Progressive, yes, but with a strong warmonger streak. paleotn Jan 2022 #26

Anyone who still holds TR in high regard should read "The Imperial Cruise" by James Bradley ... eppur_se_muova Jan 2022 #2

The accuracy of that book is not universally accepted. cab67 Jan 2022 #7

I Don't Know If Its Fair modrepub Jan 2022 #9

isn't there an old saying "those who forget history are doomed to demigoddess Jan 2022 #32

It's Not Forgetting modrepub Jan 2022 #33

Telling people one thing and deliberately doing another is not a mistake. eppur_se_muova Jan 2022 #37

Anyone who doesn't should read his biography. Escurumbele Jan 2022 #12

Amazing book LT Barclay Jan 2022 #20

Oh, goody...I wonder how long it will be Glorfindel Jan 2022 #3

If I am not mistaken, that was built in 1935 when none of that was offensive, on the contrary Escurumbele Jan 2022 #14

I grew up in a hunting society in the southern Appalachians Glorfindel Jan 2022 #19

It would be tough to name more than 10 presidents that weren't racist (nt) DarwinsRetriever Jan 2022 #4

"10 presidents that weren't racist." Pantagruel Jan 2022 #5

He was not racist. He nominated the first black person to office and he got a lot of Escurumbele Jan 2022 #15

Including TR's cousin nt ripcord Jan 2022 #21

Our cultural definition of "racism" has changed and evolved with the times FakeNoose Jan 2022 #22

This is fodder for the GOP's culture wars. andym Jan 2022 #6

Yeah, that's what I was thinking jmowreader Jan 2022 #8

Well explained...Thank you...History in a paragraph. Escurumbele Jan 2022 #16

Or just standing there in a suit, life size, on the ground. maxsolomon Jan 2022 #39

I don't say this lightly(1860 llashram Jan 2022 #10

The Cuban war where Teddy participated and fought was against the Spaniards Escurumbele Jan 2022 #18

US interests were in the sugar plantations IronLionZion Jan 2022 #23

okay llashram Jan 2022 #36

The Maine sunk due to a boiler exploding. alfredo Jan 2022 #31

Captain Sigsbee, the Maine's skipper, suspected that the explosion was caused by a fire in... eppur_se_muova Jan 2022 #38

A lot...volumns llashram Jan 2022 #40

Could we replace it with a hologram of Robin Williams riding through the museum? Brother Buzz Jan 2022 #13

Apart from the colonialism controversy, it was a bad statue aesthetically. harumph Jan 2022 #17

Historical Context Ron Obvious Jan 2022 #27

Hurts the leftmalong the political spectrum, - for getting things done empedocles Jan 2022 #28

Roosevelt was a President! Another cancel culture that will cost us question everything Jan 2022 #29

Wait till they come after Jimmy Carter. cinematicdiversions Jan 2022 #30

Just a side note to the Teddy Roosevelt controversy generalbetrayus Jan 2022 #34

I was with a tour group in Saint Petersburg, Russia. tavernier Jan 2022 #35