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 sound of Trump’s second term: … second South Dakota tribal leader called for the removal of the four sculptures on Mount Rushmore, which is carved into land sacred to the Lakota Sioux.
The American Taliban doing what they do best.
I’ve been thinking the same thing. Taliban destroyed more than the standing buddhas. They attacked art in the museums too. Tearing down and destroying statues is the same thing. Especially when it is articulated that much more is desired. Erase the history that doesn’t suit your tastes. Now some brain trust is calling for re-writing our Constitution with multi genders, and rainbow farting unicorns. There will be no constitutional convention. What is really needed is push back not putting one’s head in the sand.
The slave observations and comments below are also very interesting and bit ironic.
You’re exaggerating. Nothing will happen to Mt Rushmore.
We often too easily react to what some low rent crackpot says in the media.
They love it, we look panicky and helpless.
Did I miss something? Wasn’t that … “the newspaper of record” for the USA … the NYT … who just advised us to blow-up Mt Rushmore? There is no such thing as an overreaction to such dangerous idiocy. Highly sanctioned idiocy.
They love it when they make you dance.
Never happen.
It’s a national monument on national park’s land, Trump controls what happens to it, by executive action in the end if necessary.
That’s the freaking point. That is the ballot question. Do you like America as founded yes or no? If not vote Biden and he’ll raze it to the ground from Rushmore to the Lincoln statue. Then they’ll take your stuff and redistribute it and then kill you.
Gee, next thing ya know they’ll be kicking the Statue of Liberty in the box.
She’s French … she’ll be on her back … offering up her box for all the hard up leftists
The president on the furthest right side outlawed slavery and freed the slaves. He also happens to be the first Republican president.
I’m sure they’ll find something “problematic” about him.
White.
Didnt he only get 39% of the popular vote?
Lakota, and the Sioux started off around Arkansas, at least, and got their butts kicked all the way to the Dakotas by….indians. What tribe had the Dakotas before the Sioux?
Thats how tribes rolled. Kill or be killed. Whitey showed up late to the party
Actually all First Nations started off in Asia.
Speaking of the Kennewick Man??? Where?
Actually savage bands were not nations. They still aren’t.
Yes! No written language and no wheel, murderous and owners of slaves…and today everything is “sacred”. All this posturing is wearing more than a little thin.
“Kill or be killed”
The fur trade was North America’s first mega project and it made many of these tribes. For example the Sioux-teau Indians came from Ontario and became reliable suppliers of pemmican; so important to the trade.
The Indians wanted what the white man had and the whites and half breed traders wanted what the Indians had.
The most important trade items were guns that enabled tribes to defend themselves against their historic enemies.
I spent some time going through the Fort Mohave Reserve historical museum at their extremely successful reserve casino resort. It was illuminating to read how much the Mohave appreciated the presence of the US Cavalry because they FINALLY could live without the constant fear of having their farms destroyed, their people slaughtered, their women and children taken as sex slaves and their possessions stolen by the Apache. Read about Olive Oatman to see what nice neighbours the Mohave had back in the days. These little details of history about our glorious indigenous peoples living in peace and harmony with the land keep getting glossed over.
So, I guess its OK to shoot people who try to destroy our sacred statues?
Without the tourists visiting S.D. and the Rapid City area (which I loved..) what would those groups of complaining people do to earn money? Note the NYTimes building was for awhile more valuable than the actual paper..
I think “Reptile Gardens” .. “Wall Drug” .. the nearby caves .. “Bear Country USA” etc.. would struggle without Mount Rushmore.
What are strong bonds to the KuKluxKlan? Must mean he was a Democrat. They all have strong bonds to the KKK.
A little Boyd told me.
The NYT Building is located at 620 8th Avenue in Manhattan. Manhattan was long inhabited by the Lenape tribe. Tear down the NYT offices!
“Sacred” huh? It seems whenever there’s an opportunity to rake in some cash or throw sand in the gears of progress some location that never served them for anything other than to leave a steaming pile on it suddenly acquires “sacred” status.
Why are Indians still Indian? Everybody else merges; why not them?
Lots do. It’s the failures living on welfare and White handouts that kind of stand out. Being an offended activist victim is a full time job. I have two members with treaty status who married into my family and a bunch of mixed race grandkids. Believe me, they are all too busy with jobs and raising those kids and enjoying aspects of White society, like wheels, to get involved in this crap.
My ancestors were originally Vikings from Norway. They were slavers among other things. Even among themselves. What do you think a THRALL is? By the way, some of the biggest slavers were other African tribes. NSS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa
Don’t get me started on North American native tribes.
Last time the Lakota played cowboys and indians, it didn’t work out so well for them. Why does everyone forget white people perfected the art of genocide?
They never could compete with that of the Mongol population control.
Book burning is so Hitleresque that you can see why the Soros Globalist anti-christ army loves to do it.
National Socialists love book burning… they”re good at it, just ask Peeair Trudeau he knew all about burning books and re-writing history, one of the best. The Progressive mental asylum is getting rather full these days.
Concentration Camps are sure to follow.
Trump 2020!
The democrats tweeted this shortly after the Trump retweet of the old lady chanting “white power”.
After the backlash the Democratic Party pulled the tweet down. They had effectively extinguished his “5 alarm fire” with a small backfire of their own.
I am predicting fake Vietnam vet and all around Native American d-bag Nathan Phillips will lead an assault on the Crazy Horse Memorial near Mount Rushmore as a primer Antifa’s eventual attack on Rushmore.
Because the sculpture (and subsequent generations of his family, who have continued construction after his death,) being Polish American, can’t be appropriating the image of their Chief.
You heard it hear first.
Don’t sweat Mount Rushmore. Governess of South Dakota, in reply to somebody pondering “When will they come for Mount Rushmore?” on twitter, replied “Not on my watch.”
https://www.redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2020/06/23/south-dakota-gov-kristi-noem-has-just-four-words-for-anyone-thinking-of-defacing-mount-rushmore/
Don’t tell me, let me guess. She’s Republican?
& what’s next, the Washington Monument?
If the Sioux wanted to keep the Black Hills they should have lost less wars.
Time to buy another little mountain and sculpt Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, and Trump.
Call me a crazy conspiracy nut but the fact that the formal Black Lives Matter organization was founded and is largely run by Islamic extremists associated with the Muslim Brotherhood’s North American branch, CAIR, says to me what is going on here is that they find any form form of graven image offensive and so they are trying to get rid of these visible symbols. I do not think it is a coincidence they are also going after Christian statues.
Just came up with the source of the acronym for CAIR
Crazy Asshole Islamic Retards
+++ Canuck……..
Did you say Muslim Brotherhood?
How ironic. If you are truly incensed by historical slavery, you should first and foremost hate the Muslims, who captured and sold most of the slaves bought by colonials in America. (The others were captured and sold by rival African tribes.) Muslims are still deeply involved in the slave trade, now, at this very moment. As far as I know, no Americans ever captured blacks for slaves themselves. If Americans didn’t buy them, those slaves would just have been sold to other people by their Muslim masters.
Read the Tales of Scheherazade (otherwise known as the Tales of One Thousand and One Nights), preferably the version translated by Sir Richard Burton, to see all the racism and racial stereotypes harbored by the Muslims against their black slaves. You don’t have to go further than the introduction.
I don’t think there was any country which was specifically against slavery, per se, in the late eighteenth century. The concept that one person can own another was universally accepted. There were anti-slavery sentiments by some statesmen who were far ahead of their time, but they did not find sufficient acceptance. There was a bill introduced in the Virginia House of Commons, before the Revolutionary War, to ban slavery there, but it was defeated. The person who introduced the bill is one of the four memorialized on Mt. Rushmore, apparently unbeknown to the editors at the NYT.
What is also interesting about Muslim slavers is they spent 1,000 years raiding villages in Southern Europe capturing white slaves. The first US foreign war was to recapture US citizens taken as slaves by the Barbary States in North Africa.
Muslims did slavery different than in the western hemisphere. Muslims didn’t breed black slaves. They castrated the males and killed the black babies. That kept Arab society from becoming black but created a never ending demand for new slaves.
Why all the focus on Indian females as sexual objects… Female Indians where actually beasts of burden and were traded for other labor (beasts) like Horses….(Sex was just a booty duty call)…..The Indian tribes were ALL male dominated & slaves were the captured male & female members of other Tribes… Indians are NOMANIC without a civilized order of ownership or rights …..When the Tribes celebrate their past it would be normal to recall the brutal savagery that under pinned their survival…..Indian Marriage was/is a Hollywood myth, they passed around their chattels just like British Lords still do (blood lines be dammed)…..Nobody will find greatness in their savage past…just repeat the same desire for a reliable slave…..Kill, or trade those that fail
JMHO
Actually it depended on the tribe. Some tribes were exactly what you described. Some had complex social structures including marriages and fully understood the concept of land ownership and were NOT nomadic but were farmers. (Mohave farmers being the first example that comes to mind.) Most had various levels and status inside the tribe depending on who you were born to. Plus the Iroquois nation was matriarchal. However they were exceptions. I read a fascinating history of the settling of northern Saskatchewan and one woman taken prisoner by plains Cree said it best. “The biggest mistake White people always make is treating all Indians the same.”