"Six months ago, a throng of New Yorkers, yours truly included, gathered outside of the Museum of Natural History to protest the planned removal of the statue of Theodore Roosevelt that graces the entryway.
It was a small event in a sweeping summer of plague, riots and iconoclasm, but today, the statue still stands.
It’s a lesson that the fanatic mobs that would destroy our history can be held at bay — if we have the courage to fight back.
Boston wasn’t so fortunate.
There, an iconic statue of Abraham Lincoln was removed.
This was a statue, mind you, modeled on an original in Washington, DC, that was paid for by freed slaves.
But today’s laptop-class progressives decided they didn’t like the way those former slaves had themselves been portrayed in a work of art showing a black man rising from his knees under the Liberator’s protection.
This is madness...Read all.
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