In New York, they want to demolish the monument to Theodore Roosevelt amid protests

The Natural History Museum, located in New York, is going to demolish the equestrian monument to US President Theodore Roosevelt, located at the entrance to the museum. This was reported by The New York Times. Museum President Ellen Fatter said that the museum community deeply touched the movement for racial justice, which began in connection with the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd. We watched the country and the world increasingly pay attention to monuments, these destructive and powerful symbols of systemic racism. Simply put, the time has come to remove it, Fatter said. According to her, the museum has nothing against Roosevelt. New York Mayor Bill di Blasio said the museum asked to remove the statue of Roosevelt, since next to him is an African and Indian who look enslaved and racially inferior. Roosevelt's great-grandson, one of the museum's trustees, also expressed his approval of the demolition of the monument.