A statue of Teddy Roosevelt, that has been outside the American Museum of Natural History in New York City since 1940, has been removed. It is not that people objected to Teddy Roosevelt. It is that the image of him riding a horse, towering over a Native American and a Black man, smacks of white hierarchical colonialism.
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A statue of Teddy Roosevelt, that has been outside the American Museum of Natural History in New York City since 1940, has been removed. It is not that people objected to Teddy Roosevelt. It is that the image of him riding a horse, towering over a Native American and a Black man, smacks of white hierarchical colonialism.