I say just make all the new statues way bigger then you don’t have worry about people taking them down.
The Roosevelt statue is actually not about him, but the depictions of the black and Indian guys below him. Teddy's great grandson even approves of changing the statue and it will probably end up just being Teddy himself.
It's like the Lincoln statue with the black guy kneeling or cleaning his shoes or whatever, it just doesn't age well. When I first heard about it, I was like what the [uck fay] is wrong with them, but then I saw it and was like, yeah, that's kind of shitty
Probably would have been better if they had developed Stage 2 of the plan to announce when they took it down IMO. Much like Groves, my initial reaction was WTF, then saw the statue and thought, yeah, that's probably a good move.
Nationally, we could be a little more chill about statues. We can easily put them away or move them, change them, whatever. Folks act like they're digging up their grand dad sometimes.
I bet he gave more black men scholarships in his first couple years at Pitt than any coach in a similar span ever has or will. So many scholarships.
I believe that is what the Old Testament and the Koran recommends. If you are going to assume a statue means they're great, and being "great" means they can't have done horrible things, and thus propagating a false history that leads to continuing the marginalization of groups through ignoring the truth... Ya. Then maybe we shouldn't have statues of people.
I don't think anyone was using them all every year but him, and that was why it was lowered. He was getting as many good athletes on campus as he could find.
Why? Private owners can do whatever they want, and have whatever statues they want. Government should probably recycle them fairly often. What's the point of having a modern system of government where we're constantly reminded of the past?
Understandable. When everything he does is mocked and complained about it is hard to remember everything.
At some point in this we are going to have to address inner-city violence as well. We can talk equal and equitable all we want, but we are failing unless we address all of this.
