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This statue of the 26th president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, who served from 1901 to 1909, depicts Roosevelt on horseback with a native American and a black man standing alongside him.

这是美国第26任总统西奥多·罗斯福的雕像，他从1901年到1909年担任总统，雕塑中的罗斯福骑在马上，身旁站着一位美洲原住民和一位黑人。

To those who object to it, the statue suggests colonialism and white supremacy.

对那些反对它的人来说，这座雕像意味着殖民主义和白人至上主义。

It is one of a few statues around New York that protestors want removed, including one of Christopher Columbus.

这是纽约周边抗议者希望移除的少数雕像之一，其中包括克里斯托弗·哥伦布的雕像。

Christopher Columbus being pedestalized and lionized like that is similar to Roosevelt being on a high horse.

克里斯托弗·哥伦布被如此抬高和颂扬，这和罗斯福高高在上的情形类似。

And just like he needs to come down off his high horse, we need to take Columbus off of his pedestal, because he doesn't represent what this land was once representative of. This was the island of Manhattan.

正如罗斯福需要放下高傲的姿态一样，我们也得把哥伦布从神坛上拉下来，因为他并不代表这片土地曾经所代表的东西。这里曾是曼哈顿岛。

I think a lot of people are offended by this because it's sort of like you know, we act like we discovered this country first.

我觉得很多人对此感到不满，因为我们表现得好像是我们最先发现了这个国家。

There were humans living here for thousands of years, so we didn't discover anything, we took it.

几千年来一直有人类在这里生活，所以我们并未发现任何事物，我们只是将其占为己有。

However, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, son of the late governor Mario Cuomo, who come