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Is Mt. Rushmore in danger?
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:06 pm
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:06 pm
With the presidents depicted on the mountain, and the history of the rock in regards to natives, is this place about to meet sticks of dynamite?
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Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:09 pm to TexasTiger08
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:09 pm to Bluefin
RPG incoming
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:10 pm to TexasTiger08
I wouldn't worry too much. They're just going to carve over Washington, Jefferson, and Teddy with Mao, Lenin, and Stalin respectively.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:10 pm to TexasTiger08
Yes. The mob has already gone after statues of all 4 of those men.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:10 pm to TexasTiger08
Are there black people in South Dakota? If so, I can't imagine that they truly GAF.
This post was edited on 6/22/20 at 3:12 pm
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:12 pm to Crusty
Prolly during Sturgis week. Black people cycle too.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:12 pm to TexasTiger08
I mean, the land is sits on was stolen from the Sioux by the US Government after gold was discovered nearby.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:13 pm to TexasTiger08
It's safe as long as Stone Mountain is around. 
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:14 pm to The Spleen
Stolen? Or conquered? Did the Sioux give back the land to the people who were there before them? If you don't have the ability (or inclination) to defend your territory, it won't be yours long.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:16 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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Stolen? Or conquered?
Well, the US Supreme Court said the US seized the Black Hills from the Lakota illegally. They said this way back in 1980.
So...it was stolen.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:17 pm to TexasTiger08
No
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:17 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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Stolen?
The Sioux were given the Black Hills area in the Treaty of 1868. A few years later, gold was discovered in the Black Hills and we took it back from them. It lead to the Battle at Wounded Knee. The Sioux refer to it as the Wounded Knee Massacre.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:21 pm to TexasTiger08
Thank god it’s in South Dakota. If it were in California or Washington it would’ve been sandblasted the day after Pope George Floyd went on to heaven.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:28 pm to The Spleen
I'm not a self-loathing heritage hating person at all. Not even close. But I think we can acknowledge the systematic manipulation and fricking-over that the US and state governments pulled on the Native Americans in this country. I don't think there is much debate there. 
This post was edited on 6/22/20 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:38 pm to GetCocky11
Yeah, I'm certainly not advocating for it being removed, as much as carvings in the side of a mountain can be removed. But at least a recognition that the land it sits on has a story behind it that isn't favorable to the US government would be nice. To its credit, when I visited Mt Rushmore in the late 80's, the museum there did touch on some of that history, but the construction of it was the primary focus.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:41 pm to GetCocky11
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not a self-loathing heritage hating person at all. Not even close. But I think we can acknowledge the systematic manipulation and fricking-over that the US and state governments pulled on the Native Americans in this country. I don't think there is much debate there.
This post was edited on 6/22 at 3:29 pm
Give all federal land (outside of bases) to natives and let them form their own nations, or at least their own states..
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:42 pm to The Spleen
I look forward to the day when all liberals give all the real estate they own to the nearest Indian tribe.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 3:43 pm to TexasTiger08
Anything within 3 degrees of separation from slavery is in danger of being destroyed.
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