Would the study of how Mount Rushmore was made, from the six grandfathers sacred land to the KKK affiliation of its sculptor, be considered critical racist theory? How come I only found out about this today?
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This is interesting. I visited there several years ago and read all the information there and didn't know this.
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Wow. Had no idea. Seems deserving of wider dissemination. Where’s the TNT when you really need it?
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Maybe it would be better to leave monuments reflecting nostalgia for lost causes than removing them and revving those causes again, eh?
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And by the way, now that we are tearing down statues, how about Saint Gauden's Statue of Sherman? Though he admired Gauden tremendously, Henry James thought it was badly done, not exactly a 'monument to peace', eh?
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It’s one of the smaller crimes against native Americans; crimes that are ongoing today. C.F. BIA “mismanagement “ of Indian funds to the tune of billions of dollars or groundwater contaminated by mining on Navaho land.
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