Mount Rushmore's Extremely Racist History

Vice ^ | Aug 17 2017 | Bethy Squires

[yesthatjallen]

We cannot undo America's sordid history, but we can at least take down the monuments glorifying it. In the wake of the recent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville against the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue, confederate monuments are coming down all over the country. Protesters in Durham, North Carolina toppled a statue put up by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1924. The mayor of Baltimore had the city's Confederate statues removed under the cloak of night. And yesterday, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams called for the 90 foot bas relief sculpture of three Confederate generals to be blasted off the face of Stone Mountain.

"It is 2017, and now is the time for us to have a conversation about removing the last vestiges of that type of hatred and that type of vitriol toward minority communities in Georgia," Abrams told local news.

In response to calls like Adams', right-wing sites began rhetorically asking, What's next, blowing up Mount Rushmore? But given the racist history that both Stone Mountain and Mount Rushmore share, is there something more to that question than alarmism alone?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Ah, we can blow up what is already done.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Put Abrams’ face on “Stone Mountain”. It is guaranteed to keep the Turkey Vultures away, forever!

You’re gonna need a whole mountain to carve Abrams’ fat stupid ass on it.

WAIT!!! There is a place already named for her, “Devil’s Tower”. SATAN, meet your daughter!

[simpson96]

A quick search revealed what a whack-job the author is.

So, nothing personal, but I’m not bothering to read the article. I know it’s going to be bile in the form of words.

[ohioman]

I am glad you guys stood up and won in New York. I hope it stays that way in Alabama too. Unfortunately the cold civil war is far from over...

[ohioman]

Alabama will enforce it much more than NC as there are much fewer liberals in Alabama.

[dp0622]

It’s nobody’s business but a state’s business what statues it decides to put up.

I hope Alabama hold strong too.

[Impala64ssa]

When the left starts talking about renaming some of these things, then I'll be ready to discuss the legacy of racism.
Also if #metoo ( #meTOOL ?) is to be taken seriously then we should think about the exploits of those wild wild Kennedy boys. Never mind the Confederate statues or the faces on Rushmore. There's an airport in NYC, a gov't center in Boston a performing arts center and outdated football stadium in DC plus many roads, bridges schools, etc that need to be renamed.