A controversial statue of former President Theodore Roosevelt that sits out front of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City will be relocated to North Dakota, officials said.
The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation announced the relocation in a statement Friday, stating the Theodore Roosevelt Equestrian Statue will be moved to a library that bears the former president’s name in Medora, N. D.
The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, which is set to open in 2026, said it entered into an agreement with New York City for the long-term loan and reconsideration of the statue, which has resided outside the museum since 1940.
“We are grateful to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library for proposing a fitting new home for the Equestrian Statue,” said Vicki Been, New York City’s deputy mayor for Housing and Economic Development. “This long-term loan would allow an important part of the city’s art collection to be appropriately contextualized, and we look forward to continuing to work with the library on next steps.”
The statue of the horse-mount 26th president flanked by walking Native American and African figures has been described as problematic due to its hierarchical depiction, and the museum had asked the city in June of last year amid renewed calls to tear down controversial statues for permission to remove it, which the city agreed to a year later.
The library agreed that the statue’s composition is problematic as is its current location for not allowing passersby consent or context.
The agreement, it said, will allow the library to relocate it to storage as it considers how to display the statue in a way so it can serve as a tool to study the nation’s past.
“Museums are supposed to do hard thins,” said Edward O’Keefe, chief executive officer of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation. “It is said that ‘those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it,’ and our job is to forthrightly examine history to understand the present and make a better future.”
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Using the same standards, I would assume the Democratic party will be the next to be banned in New York.
THEY RULE Ny.. They will never be banned there.
why is it controversial?
because communist socialist pigs do not like it.
these pigs need to get out of america.
It is controversial to racist Negroes because a White man is riding a horse while a Negro is walking.
“…..will allow the library to relocate it to storage as it considers how to display the statue in a way so it can serve as a tool to study the nation’s past.”
In other words, whomever is in power gets to determine the facts of history.
What a sorry state of affairs we have come to. It’s like Vlad Lenin and Joey Stalin have come back from the dead.
Well, there is that age old addage “those who WIN, write history.
Or in this case, those who fraudulently purchased the election(s) gets to convert history to fiction of their choosing.
Exactly.. Hence the left’s constant mantra of anyone claiming there was fraud, are spreading misinformation.
Those who attempt to rewrite history learn nothin from the experiences of those who came before.
THEY DON’T want to learn.
We need to start kicking out ignorant Liberal politicians and relocating them.
I’m sure that the statue will be understood for what it actually depicts (not what the liberal interpretation is) when it resides in North Dakota. The people in ND are sensible. They understand that while no one is perfect Theodore Roosevelt did great and good things. It is a fitting place for the statue since many times Roosevelt said that had it not been for his time in ND he’d have never become President. He loved the state and gained from spending time in the glorious natural surroundings.
Forget history and it is bound to be repeated. Logic does not seem to be a deciding factor when those in power cannot pull their head out of the a88e8 long enough to get some fresh air. They have so many of the lesser intelligent fooled into believing they have their backs and are fighting for equality. When in reality they are fighting to keep them uneducated and down. Keep them down and they will stay around. A vote is a vote no matter how you get it.
Logic is verboten to these leftists..