What prompts Americans to remove monuments?

The case of the public confrontation to violence based, as many believe, on ineradicable racism in the United States has made a lot of headlines all over the world. In New York, it  was decided to  remove the monument to Roosevelt at the entrance to the famous Museum of Natural History. The monument depicts the politician on horseback, with an Indian and an African standing right beside him.According to Ellen V. Futter, the president of the museum, the decision is not related to the statue of Roosevelt himself, who is honored in the museum as a pioneer of American conservatism, - the reason lies in the hierarchical composition of the monument.Nadezhda Shvedova, chairwoman of the ISCRAN Center for Social and Political Research, spoke with Pravda.Ru about what prompts the Americans to fight against "racist" monuments."The killing of African-American George Floyd became a torch that lit up against the background of a number of factors," says Nadezhda Shvedova. "This was not the first violation of human rights. The number of deaths among blacks during the pandemic was larger.  In fact, it was three times as much as among white people. Black people die and get killed more frequently in comparison with whites, and all this comes as a reflection of social inequality." According to Shvedova, all these significant problems struck during the election campaign. Many believe that Trump fuels racist sentiments. "The Americans are pursuing a policy of positive discrimination. What does it mean? For example, they introduced quotas among professors in order to increase their representation in the teaching staff. They developed a network of higher educational institutions, where African Americans were widely welcomed. The Alcorn State University became the first historically black university in 1871 in Mississippi, when it was just a college.