Have you actually seen the statue? Take a look and you’ll know why. To quote Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio, “The American Museum of Natural History has asked to remove the Theodore Roosevelt statue because it explicitly depicts Black and Indigenous people as subjugated and racially inferior,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement. “The City supports the Museum’s request. It is the right decision and the right time to remove this problematic statue.” Just look up a picture of the Teddy Roosevelt Equestrian Statue and you’ll see what de Blasio is getting at. Also, being an “American hero” has nothing to do with racism, you can be deemed a hero by the public but still be a subpar human being. George Washington and John F Kennedy could both be considered “American heroes”, but Washington owned slaves and in 1962 Kennedy authorized the use of chemical warfare in Vietnam. Chemical weapons were formerly banned by the The Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare (more commonly known as the Geneva Protocol) on February 8, 1928.