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| DATE | 2025-12-11 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] WHen you are a hammer - everything is a nail
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When you are a raging leftwing nutcase, everyone is a racist and
historical context means nothing to you, let alone real world achivement..
For Teddy Rosevelts accomplishments as a progressive to moved society
towrds more a more equatable and less racist society... he gets NO POINT
because he is obviously, according the Smithsonian, a racist...
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Kate Clarke Lemay and Taína Caragol of the Smithsonian's National
Portrait Gallery are at work on an upcoming 2023 exhibition on U.S.
expansionism and the Spanish American War—the period of Roosevelt's
ascendency. Known as Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt, the bronze
sculpture in question has been “contested by activists for almost 50
years,” say the curators. Commissioned by the Roosevelt Memorial
Association in the 1930s and designed by James Earle Fraser in close
collaboration with the architect John Russell Pope, the sculpture,
according to Fraser, was meant to celebrate Roosevelt's deep interests
in natural history and “his friendliness to all the races.”
“From our perspective, one could not be more delusional in thinking of
Roosevelt as a proponent of racial equity. Roosevelt quit his job as
assistant secretary of the navy and assembled the Rough Riders, who
famously fought in the Cuban Campaign. Leading a badly calculated charge
up San Juan Hill, Roosevelt later refused to give credit to the African
American soldiers whose gallantry, as historian Clay Risen has
illustrated, won the otherwise disastrous [battle.] Roosevelt wrote in
his memoir that black soldiers were only effective when led by white
officers,” say the curators.
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So many immigrant groups have swept through our town
that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological
proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
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DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002
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Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and extermination camps,
but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013
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