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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Besides, the “Lakota” just stole that land from the tribes that were there before them.
Is there nothing Soros can be charged with? I cannot believe he and his sons can be this untouchable.
Where can you find a more idiotic people? The mention of a historical truth is shouted down. They did a good job. Its not about race, inequality, police brutality its about control
Actually, the New York Times is one of the few newspapers where past issues are maintained on micro-film. But I’m not sure howi good the index is to those issues.
The University of Georgia has it.
And guess what country is the world's leading fascist technocracy?
Instead of emulating the lefties supposed ideal country in Sweden, what did they do?
They immediately went all in on the Communist Chinese model. Almost as if that was their preferred system the entire time.
Today’s China is exactly what they want. And it can be a nice place to live - if you don’t have unauthorized political opinions. :)
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