{"id":12946,"date":"2020-06-22T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cuomo-de-blasio-support-natural-history-museum-removal-of-roosevelt-statue\/"},"modified":"2020-06-22T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T18:30:00","slug":"cuomo-de-blasio-support-natural-history-museum-removal-of-roosevelt-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cuomo-de-blasio-support-natural-history-museum-removal-of-roosevelt-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cuomo, de Blasio support Natural History Museum removal of Roosevelt statue"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Cuomo, de Blasio support Natural History Museum removal of Roosevelt statue<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 22, 2020 |<\/span> 2:30pm |<\/span> Updated June 22, 2020 | 2:43pm<\/span><\/p>\n

\n ALBANY \u2014 Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio are backing the Museum of Natural History\u2019s decision to remove the Teddy Roosevelt statue from its Upper West Side entrance amid backlash following race-based protests over the death of George Floyd.<\/p>\n

The Museum was granted permission by the city to remove the bronze sculpture of Roosevelt on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the museum has a made a decision. They think the statue in this environment, is in bad taste, they want to take it down, I support their decision,\u201d Cuomo said Monday morning during an MSNBC interview.<\/p>\n

De Blasio shortly after echoed the sentiment during a press conference in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have looked at it and I think Roosevelt himself is another one of these complex figures in American history, he did some extraordinarily progressive things that we feel to this day and he did some things that I think are deeply troubling,\u201d de Blasio said.<\/p>\n

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The Theodore Roosevelt Equestrian Statue in front of the The American Museum of Natural History on Central Park West entrance.<\/span>Timothy Clary\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Roosevelt was the U.S.\u2019s 26th president, a New York state senator, founder of the \u201cRough Riders\u201d cavalry during the 1898 Spanish-American War and cousin to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president.<\/p>\n

The tribute depicts Roosevelt on horseback, with a Native American and Black man on either side.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been outside the Museum\u2019s Central Park West entrance between 81st and 77th St. since 1940.<\/p>\n

But the sculpture has been criticized for symbolizing imperialism and colonialism in the past, and has become one of many historic symbols up for reexamination.<\/p>\n

It was also vandalized with paint in 2017 following a spree of white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville, V.A.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s a separate question between him the person, and the actual statue. The statue has representations that clearly do not represent today\u2019s values. The statute clearly presents a white man as superior to people of color and that\u2019s just not acceptable in this day and age and it never should have been acceptable,\u201d de Blasio added.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I know the museum feels it\u2019s best to take it down and I support that decision. They felt that\u2019s what was right for them as a museum and I understand why they\u2019re doing it and I respect it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Museum\u2019s move follows a push by liberal city council members to oust a sculpture of founding father Thomas Jefferson from the council\u2019s chamber inside City Hall.<\/p>\n

The coalition, led by City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, argue Jefferson owned several slaves and also fathered children with one of his enslaved women.<\/p>\n

A stature of George Washington outside City Hall could also be up for removal.<\/p>\n

De Blasio has kicked responsibility to a committee headed by his wife, Chirlane McCray and aspiring Brooklyn Borough president, that will decide both statue\u2019s fate.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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