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"I want to see you brave and manly and I also want to see you gentle and tender."

Words from Theodore Roosevelt, firmly attached to a wall near the entrance of the Museum of Natural History, photographed by me in 2007, and dug up this morning on the occasion of the news that the TR statue will be removed from its sublime place of prominence in front of the museum.

The NYT reports:

[T]he museum’s president, Ellen V. Futter... made clear that the museum’s decision was based on the statue itself — namely its “hierarchical composition”—- and not on Roosevelt, whom the museum continues to honor as “a pioneering conservationist.”...

“The American Museum of Natural History has asked to remove the Theodore Roosevelt statue because it explicitly depicts Black and Indigenous people as subjugated and racially inferior,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement....

“The world does not need statues, relics of another age, that reflect neither the values of the person they intend to honor nor the values of equality and justice,” said Theodore Roosevelt IV, age 77, a great-grandson of the 26th president and a museum trustee. “The composition of the Equestrian Statue does not reflect Theodore Roosevelt’s legacy. It is time to move the statue and move forward.”...

“I’m glad to see it go,” said Mabel O. Wilson, a Columbia University professor who served on the city commission to reconsider the statue and was consulted on the exhibition. “The depiction of the Indigenous and the African trailing behind Roosevelt, who is strong and virile,” she added, “was clearly a narrative of white racial superiority and domination.”...

It's important to understand this particular statue removal in terms of the specific statue in question, and not just the famous man. There are 2 other human beings in the arrangement, and that's a special problem. There is propaganda in the "hierarchical composition":

I would lean toward keeping such an impressive artwork alone — because it's been there a long time and there's a sense of place and history to it. It's very obvious when you see it in person that  a museum in NYC today would never accept a proposal to put up a sculpture like that at its entrance.

I've seen the thing in person a few times and always thought something like Whoa! That's a blast from the past! It's so absurd it's almost funny but I feel bad about anybody who has to see it all the time and doesn't have a sense of humor about it.

It made me reflect on the people who thought it was a good idea to put that thing up, to say what that object is saying, and to say it over and over again, permanently. These were Americans — not in the time of Theodore Roosevelt — but in 1940.

Did they think they were brave and manly, gentle and tender? They were about to fight World War II.

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