Posted on 06/25/2020 5:16:18 PM PDT by KC_Lion
Oglala Sioux President Julian Bear Runner is protesting President Donald Trump’s planned visit to Mount Rushmore in South Dakota next week, saying the monument should be “removed” because it is on land claimed by Native Americans.
The Argus Leader reported Thursday that many — though not all — local Sioux “want the monument removed,” seeing the faces of four white leaders as an affront — including Abraham Lincoln, who was president when U.S. soldiers executed Indians.
Several groups are planning to protest Trump’s visit, and Bear Runner has written a memorandum to Trump opposing his visit.
Trump is planning to visit as a show of support for national monuments as left-wing activists affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement have torn down and destroyed them in recent weeks, including statues of abolitionists.
The Argus Leader elaborates:
Mount Rushmore was created to draw tourism to South Dakota and its carving took place between 1927 and 1941. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum intended for Mount Rushmore to stand for America’s greatness, and it’s referred to as the Shrine of Democracy. However, stories in recent years have highlighted Borglum’s ties to white supremacy, possibly joining the Ku Klux Klan, his Confederate sculpture funded by the KKK and that the tribes have argued for generations that the land was stolen from them.
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I hope you are too.
You were right my FRiend.
ENOUGH.
I fear this has only started.
And from whom did the tribes take the land from??
True. But enough is enough. We’re not undoing this great country’s history.
Hopefully some ANTIFA/BLM scum will try to scale this and fall to their death.
One can only hope
Someone needs to be serious, because there is only one side fighting. And they are fighting everything we know and believe in.
Hubby and I took a road trip last year....Mt Rushmore, Devil’s Tower, Badlands, Custer’s Last Stand, Yellowstone, just to name a few. Awe inspiring.
SPJNK
Omg! Lol good luck with that.
Now THIS question, is a good rebuttal. I wonder WHO they took it from. It for sure was not ALWAYS theirs...
america and settler bought most of this country’s land. fought for the rest.
i dont hear the libtards demanding the muslims give back all of historical israel after they took it over. they dont even want them to have the littlw they’ve got.
you dont hear the libs screaming at the various indian tribes who took over other indians’ lands to the remaining they didn’t outright slaughter.
"Burn it all down!"
Satire has truly become reality.
If you think they are mad now wait until work begins on Trump’s head beside George Washington.
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