Opinion Theodore Roosevelt Statue is Coming Down

[GoodBadHBK]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/unanimous-vote-final-step-toward-120847010.html

Apparently it displays dominance of a white man over black people and native Americans.

What other president can be shot and still give his speech before receiving medical treatment? A true man's man that sadly has no real men to defend him.

It will be relocated to an institution dedicated to Roosevelt

 

[Poon Goon]

Need that sweet Orwell chin music ASAP @Papi Chulo

 

[Shoden]

Lets get rid of all statues tbh...Im tired of all the damn ass kissing.

Enough is enough! If you need monuments create to celebrate ideas, not ass kissing people!

 

[PC Polly Page]

That's screwed up!! Even if some people are offended it's wrong to attempt to rewrite history.

Multiple statues have been forcefully taken down by mob rule in the uk already.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...Edward-Colston-goes-display-local-museum.html

 

[tangata motu'a]

That statue is in horrible taste and should have been torn down when the rest were. Would like to see it replaced with a more inclusive statue. George Floyd got one, so they could do one for someone like Tamir Rice or Trayvon Martin. Or one representing the lgbtqia+ community would be nice. How about one honoring our first black female VP? Lot's on good options

 

[Lead]

As long as people aren’t just ripping things down themselves, doesn’t really bother me. They went through the process to change it the way you should in a civil society.

 

[Poon Goon]

Or one representing the lgbtqia+ community would be nice.

I feel like the lack of capitalization here could be a clue to your true bigotry.

 

[TheFirstEMP]

That statue is in horrible taste and should have been torn down when the rest were. Would like to see it replaced with a more inclusive statue. George Floyd got one, so they could do one for someone like Tamir Rice or Trayvon Martin. Or one representing the lgbtqia+ community would be nice. How about one honoring our first African American female VP? Lot's on good options

There are plenty of landfills around the country honoring all of the above mentioned.

 

[Riot Punch]

They should take down that Rocky statue in Philly.

 

[Slick_36]

Anyone have a picture of this thing?

 

[Slick_36]

They should take down that Rocky statue in Philly.

They did. It got moved somewhere else after. Frazier deserved a real statue though.

 

[Cherry Brigand]

Are they going to take down the George Floyd statue?

 

[GoodBadHBK]

Anyone have a picture of this thing?

 

[GoodBadHBK]

They did. It got moved somewhere else after. Frazier deserved a real statue though.

Pretty sure he has one now

 

[tangata motu'a]

Are they going to take down the George Floyd statue?

Why?

 

[Papi Chulo]

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

― George Orwell, 1984

 

[Slick_36]

Oof, that has some serious white savior vibes. Unless there's some story behind the artistic decisions made, I can see why it wasn't wanted. The article linked doesn't explain any history behind it, the statue itself or what it's depicting.

 

[Poon Goon]

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

― George Orwell, 1984

 

[bobgeese]

 

[Riot Punch]

They did. It got moved somewhere else after. Frazier deserved a real statue though.

Thanks for informing me. It was more of a joke, but I agree with you.