NEW YORK -- For more than a dozen years, Marion Reid, 77, had walked past the statue of Theodore Roosevelt on his way to work in information technology at the American Museum of Natural History, an employer that he said often failed to treat African Americans with dignity.He drove into Manhattan around
NEW YORK — For more than a dozen years, Marion Reid, 77, had walked past the statue of Theodore Roosevelt on his way to work in information technology at the American Museum of Natural History, an employer that he said often failed to treat African Americans with dignity.
“We are fighting over the last will and testament of the United States,” David Marcus, an organizer of the rally and a contributor to conservative website The Federalist said through a megaphone. “We are full-blooded brothers and sisters, and heirs to the most extraordinary experiment in freedom that the world has ever known. God bless Teddy Roosevelt.”
Speakers supporting the statue used the protest to rail against a broad range of issues including abortion and religion. One woman called for the removal of “the feminists and the homosexuals” from the City Council.
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