Predict the year Mt Rushmore is closed down for visitors. Predict the year they rig it with explosives to blow off the faces of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln.
The NY Times just published an article a few days ago that is a thinly veiled advocacy for closing down Mount Rushmore:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/us/mount-rushmore.htmlFrom the article...
Quote:
Native Americans have long criticized the sculpture, in part because it was built on what had been Indigenous land. And more recently, amid a nationwide movement against racism that has toppled statues commemorating Confederate generals and other historical figures, some activists have called for Mount Rushmore to close.
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Critics of the monument have also taken issue with the men whose faces were etched into the granite. Mr. Borglum chose Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt, he said, because they embodied "the founding, expansion, preservation and unification of the United States."
But each of these titans of American history has a complicated legacy. Washington and Jefferson were slaveholders. Roosevelt actively sought to Christianize and uproot Native Americans as the United States expanded, Professor Smith said. "He was a racist," he added.
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And although Lincoln was behind the Emancipation Proclamation a move some have characterized as reluctant and late he has been criticized for his response to the so-called Minnesota Uprising, in which more than 300 Native Americans were sentenced to death by a military court after being accused of attacking white settlers in 1862.
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Activists and officials look to the future
Mr. Tilsen said recent efforts to confront racial injustice in the United States could provide an opportunity to reconsider the monument's future. "Mount Rushmore needs to be closed as a national monument, and the land itself needs to be returned to the Indigenous people," he said.
In a statement on Monday, Harold Frazier, the chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, called the monument a "brand on our flesh" that needed to be removed.
"Visitors look upon the faces of those presidents and extol the virtues that they believe make America the country it is today," he said. "Lakota see the faces of the men who lied, cheated and murdered innocent people whose only crime was living on the land they wanted to steal."
Professor Smith said reparations could be made to the tribes "in an attempt to make amends for our greediness and our unjustified taking of their land."
He said Mount Rushmore offered an opportunity to learn about American history, including the country's wrongdoings. "We can leave a monument where it's at, as long as it has a proper contextual label on it," he said.
According to these far-Left activists...essentially every President before JFK (and I guess every Republican after that) was a "racist". They are calling each of the 4 Presidents on Mt Rushmore a "racist" -- Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and even Abraham Lincoln...as detailed in that article.
According to Leftists, essentially all of American history is a history of "wrongdoings" ("racism", "white supremacy", etc). So...basically ALL of our history needs to be condemned and scorned, and anything that celebrates our history (statues, monuments, history books) must be torn down or revised in order to cast the United States in a negative light.
When you boil it all down, this is a highly-coordinated Marxist attempt to overthrow the nation. They want to erase our history, and "wipe the slate clean", with the nation essentially starting over and built on new principles.
"Ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." - John 15:19
