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1) The Theodore Roosevelt statue will be removed from the Natural History Museum in NYC. The museum's president said it was because of the "hierarchical composition" of the statue, & not Roosevelt himself.
But Roosevelt was a genocidal imperialist & overt racist!
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But Roosevelt was a genocidal imperialist & overt racist!
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2) Roosevelt was president in the early 1900s, when the U.S. was becoming a global empire. Before that he led a regiment of U.S. troops in the war that defeated Spain, allowing the U.S. to occupy Cuba, annex Puerto Rico, & super-exploit the Caribbean & the Philippines for decades
3) As president, Roosevelt claimed the U.S. “right” to act as an “international police power” in the Caribbean—in order to grab control of the region from the European powers.
Read about the U.S. invasion, occupation, domination, and plunder of Cuba https://revcom.us/a/511/american-crime-59-the-us-domination-of-cuba-en.html
Read about the U.S. invasion, occupation, domination, and plunder of Cuba https://revcom.us/a/511/american-crime-59-the-us-domination-of-cuba-en.html
4) On top of all that Theodore Roosevelt was an open white supremacist and a staunch endorser of Eugenics, the pseudo-scientific movement whose calls for sterilization, population control, and racial purification directly inspired the Nazis.
5) In his defense of white supremacist "heritage" Trump has half a point: tearing down statues of racists & war criminals IS a "slippery slope." Once u scratch the surface u realize its all rotten. Yes, even "liberal" icons like FDR, JFK, Obama
The whole damn system needs to GO!
The whole damn system needs to GO!
