Fox & Friends Doesn't See Any Problem With Statue That Displays Native Americans Kneeling To White Missionary | Blog | Media Matters for America

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Fox & Friends Doesn't See Any Problem With Statue That Displays Native Americans Kneeling To White Missionary | Blog | Media Matters for America: "In more recent years, there have been some faculty and staff who have raised questions about whether the sculpture is culturally sensitive," Berry says. "Hearing that feedback, the decision was made to place the piece within the historical context of a collection that's on permanent display in our SLU Museum of Art."

University staff weren't alone in finding the statue of two Indian men submitting to a white man troubling. Two years before its removal, the student newspaper called it "the most controversial and misunderstood of all the artwork on the Saint Louis University campus." During Occupy SLU, the six-day student protest against racial inequality sparked by the Ferguson protests, Twitter user @EmmaculateJones shared photos of the statue, calling it a visual representation of "white supremacy on SLU campus."