Posted on 07/01/2020 5:37:17 PM PDT by KC_Lion
The New York Times has set its sights on Mount Rushmore as protesters demand the removal of historic monuments in the name of racial justice, citing its location on “Indigenous land,” the sculptor’s purported ties to white supremacy, and two of its subjects’ slave ownership.
“Mount Rushmore was built on land that belonged to the Lakota tribe and sculpted by a man who had strong bonds with the Ku Klux Klan. It features the faces of 2 U.S. presidents who were slaveholders,” the New York Times wrote, linking to a news article detailing complaints against American landmark:
Mount Rushmore was built on land that belonged to the Lakota tribe and sculpted by a man who had strong bonds with the Ku Klux Klan. It features the faces of 2 U.S. presidents who were slaveholders.https://t.co/pHmJScnYbb— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 1, 2020
The Times piece lists three broad grievances with Mount Rushmore, beginning with the sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, who was previously involved in “an enormous bas-relief at Stone Mountain in Georgia that memorialized Confederate leaders.”
“It was eventually completed without him, but Mr. Borglum formed strong bonds with leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and participated in their meetings, in part to secure funding for the Stone Mountain project,” the Times wrote, adding that Borglum “also espoused white supremacist and anti-Semitic ideas, according to excerpts from his letters included in ‘Great White Fathers,’ a book by the writer John Taliaferro about the history of Mount Rushmore.”
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But each of these titans of American history has a complicated legacy. Washington and Jefferson were slaveholders. Roosevelt actively sought to Christianize and uproot Native Americans as the United States expanded, Professor Smith said. “He was a racist,” he added.
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They will turn you into a Villain, they will erase your history and we will be doomed to repeat it.
Not before you obliterate every single trace of KKK Byrd
Just like the Democrat Party!
NYT is calling for it now, I fear it's only a matter of time before something tragic happens.
As Indian Country Today Media Network (ICTMN) summarizes, 23 activists lead by the United Native Americans advocacy group climbed 3,000 feet to the mountain’s summit and occupied it for several months, renaming it “Crazy Horse Mountain” after the Oglala Lakota Sioux commander who died in U.S. military custody in 1877
These destructive forces just don’t quit. If Trump doesn’t win in November, very dark times are ahead.
It is a real stretch to say “land that belonged to the Lakota tribe”, because the tribe did not believe in ownership of land.
According to the Left, all the great people of history were racist.
I have wondered why George Washington seemed to be immune to these jackasses. I guess they had to eventually get around to him.
TR was about as fond of American Indians as anyone. On the other hand TR was very proud of his Confederate ancestors on his Mother’s side. If they ever find out about that, TR is gone.
And Fulbright (when is BJ Clinton giving back his scholarship money?), the Democratic party, and the NY Times, itself, which enabled the Holocaust during WWII.
Wherever Trump goes like Tulsa, or Mt.RM, find any link to an alleged 'racist' past.
Watch for every city Trump holds a rally in to be branded with a 'racist past'.
There ain’t enough water.
How many Slaves did The New York Times have working in the basement back in the day ?
I predicted this, jokingly a few weeks ago. Unbelievable!
George Washington was born into a slaveholding society and a slaveowning family, but freed his slaves in his will. Jefferson was broke so he couldn’t free all of his slaves, but did free a few (who were related to his wife). TR had slaveowning ancestors. Martin Van Buren, after his Presidency, ran as the candidate of the Free Soil Party in 1848, but his own father had been a slaveowner. (He didn’t make Borglum’s cut.)
When the NYT vacates it’s buildings so it can be returned to the Delaware Indians, I might listen. Editors and employees will have to find some new place to live, also.
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