Over 200 people attended the Anti-Columbus Day tour organized by Decolonize This Place at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York, which featured 10 stops that highlighted the history of white supremacy and colonialism in the institution’s history and displays. The tour was directly followed by a rally around the Theodore Roosevelt statue in front of the museum as protesters demanded the removal of the sculpture. Over 200 tickets were distributed free of charge to those who attended, according to organizers The crowd was diverse and included many from the Black Lives Matter, Indigenous rights, and other labor and social justice movements. Among those who gathered for the tour was performance artist Nia Nottage, who felt it was important to be there. “It’s really weird that Columbus Day is still recognized as a holiday, it’s obviously wrong but banks and other places close every year,” she said. “The statue is the most blatantly racist thing that I’m hoping to change today, the rest of the museum is probably going to take a while.” Many of those who attended the tour were equally passionate for the call to remove the”Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt” (1939), which is placed prominently at AMNH’s Central Park West entrance. Many consider the sculpture, created by James Earle Fraser, as the most visible symbol of white supremacy in New York. The statue depicts the 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt on horseback, and standing to either side of him are two men, one Native American and the other African American. Roosevelt is often seen as one of the most racist US Presidents, even if he is still associated in many people’s minds with “progressive” ideas. According to Alternet, a 1905 statement by Roosevelt “asserted that Caucasians were ‘the forward race’ destined to raise ‘the backward race[s]’ through ‘industrial efficiency, political capacity and domestic morality.’ Whites, he felt, needed to reproduce in abundance or else risk ‘race suicide.'” He also had very troubling things to say about Native Americans, including: “I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of 10 are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the 10th.” Отсюда Демонстранты устроили акцию возле музея естественной истории на Манхэттане, требуя убрать статую Теодора Рузвельта, поскольку она - расистская. На ней Рузвельт едет на коне, а сзади за ним следует индеец и негр. Плюс сам Рузвельт был дитя своего времени и разделял все сантименты "бремени белого человека", чего никогда не скрывал. Ну вот, наши леваки требуют убрать статую, в музее устроить выставку с упором на геноцид индейцев (музей, кстати, согласился с этим, что есть историческая правда и что несомненно правильно), а так же переименовать День Колумба в День памяти Генцида устроенного Колумбом и его последователями. Организаторы сего действа - мудацкие леваки. Не путать с коммунистами. Некая организация AMNH организовала сей перформанс. Из заявленных целей движения: black liberation, indigenous struggle, degentrification, global wage workers (WTF is that???) and free Palestine (ну тут все ясно, их командир - Амин Хусейн). Короче, эти придурки делают из левой идеи посмешище своими выходками