The beautiful Theodore Roosevelt statue that stood majestically outside the Museum of Natural History has been removed and sent to North Dakota to be displayed at the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library never to be seen again. But he's not a confederate, you say? That's right. The
The request for Jefferson s statue removal came from the Commission on Racial Justice and Reconciliation, after black staff complained about the statue that honors a slave owner.
“Moving this statue doesn’t mean New Yorkers will forget who Thomas Jefferson was but some of them might learn from the controversy that the man who wrote ‘all men are created equal’ owned over 600 of his fellow humans."