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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Agree. I am doing my duty, we all should.
[[[I think this is the first time I haven’t heard of Indian land and the word “sacred” not included.]]]
Replace the word “sacred” with “casino” and all will be well.
A few years later every one of the guys involved in blowing up the Bamiyan Buddhas was dead. Karma!
It was the Minnesota uprising because corrupt Indian Agents were stealing all the goodies from the tribes.
Confederate agents operating through Canada were stirring the pot for an uprising which did come.
Ever notice how so many tribes, from Canada to Mexico, went on the warpath against the Union in 1861-1865? Confederate agents were busy, busy, busy!
Modern revisionist histories try to downplay the Confederacy angle, but older histories still show their involvement.
I was hoping the exact same thing!
Only God knows............
Sounds like Oglala Sioux President Julian Bear Runner wants to play cowboys and Indians again.
Time to tell these assholes to FO.
Yes the Taliban, ISIS and BLM want to obliterate anything valued by their enemies rather than build and create something themselves.
And the Great Library of Alexandria was destroyed so the books (scrolls) would be gone and only the new history of the new ruler would exist.
So true. If they hate the history, statues, city names, laws, Constitution, Bill of Rights, freedom, capitalism, white people, Trump.....why not just get the hell out?
America, love it or leave it.
And don't let the screen door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya.
We here in West river keep hearing it called the Argus mis-Leader along with our nickname for the local birdcage liner Rapid City Urinal. Regardless they all seem to want to live up to the nickname.
They’re working on a Sitting Bull monument, I believe.
July 4?
Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan.
It won’t happen. It is a national monument and Trump put out an executive order to stop any and all vandals.
What kind of rock is it?
Remember the Taliban blasted giant Buddha statues in Afghanistan, had to use artillery in the end.
On another subject, you may be a pioneer or historical figure of note based on your arrival date at FreeRepublic.
I would venture to say you would be the very first South Dakota Freeper of the entire State at that time approximate 650,000 population.
I called this when the first statue came down.
I would wager that less than 10% of Democrats know whose images are carved there.
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