As a museum leader, please think carefully about this. The resources required to care for statuary of that size is staggering. W/35k museums in the US, more than half operate with annual budgets less that $250k w/woefully underpaid staff & volunteers. The costs are more than cash
The statue of slave owner Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Park, a former slave market, adds insult to injury. It’s well past time we move on from this painful chapter in our nation’s capital. I am introducing a bill to move the Jackson statue to a museum.
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We. Don’t. Want. It. The public doesn’t need it. No one will miss it. Life will go on without it. The world will be a better place now that it’s gone. Signed/Museums
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Yes true Empress and we also need Harriet Tubman "Black Moses" on the twenty dollar bill
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or we could just melt it down
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Its made from melted down cannons he captured during some massacre already.
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Hope that most of the statues will be placed in local museums where the subjects’ lives & complexities can be examined in greater detail.
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They would have to hire people willing to do that first. I guarantee the way museum industry is now theyll be talking about "the senseless riots" that they had to protect the staue from.
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MOVE IT!! Those that want to celebrate it..go to the museum.
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I belive the staute is one of 4, but i know for a fact its one of two. The other is in New Orleans french quater...so while you're at it can we ask for a clean sweep..
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You can also rename Benning Road, US Virgin Islands Avenue. It is the only US "territory" to not be represented in the form of a street. And Benning's history was "checkered"
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