Question - Is Mount Rushmore Racist

i have never heard of Mt Rushmore as being racist until recent one time...most likely by a dumb bleeding heart liberal on The View...

LMFAO!

daddy’s outrage is a lot like his “girls”. Fake!

As long as Mt. Rushmore has been around people have said it’s racist. This is nothing new.

Oh yea, then why is a burning cross racist??? why is a white hood racist if material things can't be a symbol of racism??

Geeze...

Autocorrect took over.

Should have read images/sculptures.

Who said the material was racist?

The images/acupunctures are of certified racist ppl though.

And..... Wait for it....

Created by a racist.

But, defend it all day if you care to do so.

It’s a slab of granite. Granite can’t be racist. Only people can be racist.

Dumbocrats want to tear it down like all the civil way statues..

The Atlanta area has Stone Mountain as their homage to Confederate soldiers.

At least they removed the confederate flag from Georgia government buildings and schools.

All this racism talk is gonna conjure up the Blind Eye Gang of RonKathy, BonnieClyde, FundorHouston, DTH and their mascot TranstesticleMark

I don’t think there are any Democrats carved on that mountain.

Hard fore to care about a big piece of stone with dead people on it. If people think it's racist and harming people, get the jackhammers out. I'm not sweating it, same as the general Lee (car) one of my fav movies and owned a general Lee briefly but I see where the flag on the roof offends black people. It sucks but if it's actually hurting people fix the problem.

Jalen Rose who ever he or she is the fucking racist for even saying shit like that. Way to many woke AKA fucked up brain dead people in our World today. Just saying.

Mickey

w ww.rd.c om/article/racist-history-of-mount-rushmore/

"What Mount Rushmore has in common with Stone Mountain and other racist monuments
mount rushmore racism"

Beyond the land itself, the sculptor of Mount Rushmore and Stone Mountain in Georgia owe their beginnings to the same racist sculptor, Borglum, a man who expressed his solidarity with and support for white supremacy. The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDOC) are responsible for the vast majority of the confederate statues and monuments erected during the Jim Crow era. UDOC president Helen Plane believed the KKK had “saved us from Negro domination and carpetbag rule.” She asked Bolgrum to honor that belief by carving a “shrine to the South” on Stone Mountain. Borglum sketched a 90-foot design that depicted Confederate leaders Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Stonewall Jackson on horseback.

Although Borglum did not complete the Stone Mountain sculpture, his work captured the attention of South Dakota’s state historian who asked Borglum to create a tourist attraction that would attract visitors to this remote location. It has been wildly successful, despite being known as one of the most controversial statues and monuments around the world.

Sources:

Vice: “Mount Rushmore’s Extremely Racist History”
Smithsonian Magazine: “The Sordid History of Mount Rushmore”
AAA Native Arts: “Symbolism of Black Elk’s Vision”

"The Supreme Court ruled the land was stolen"

Breaking the Fort Laramie treaty has been at the center of a legal dispute for more than 120 years. In 1980, the Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians that the land was taken illegally. “A more ripe and rank case of dishonorable dealing will never, in all probability, be found in our history,” the majority opinion stated. The Supreme Court also determined that the U.S. owed the Sioux Nation the 1877 price for the land, along with 100 years of interest, and awarded more than $100 million in reparations. The Sioux rejected the cash settlement, stating that the land was never for sale. The tribe still seeks return of the land today.

"The U.S. violated a treaty with the indigenous people"

The Black Hills, the land on which Mount Rushmore sits, was designated “unfit for civilization,” and “Permanent Indian Country” in the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. The United States entered into the treaty with the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota, collectively known as the Sioux, and Arapaho. The treaty designated the Black Hills as “unceded Indian Territory” in perpetuity. But when gold was found in the Black Hills several years later, the United States broke the treaty and redrew the boundaries. The Sioux were confined to the reservation. By 1875, some 800 miners and fortune-seekers had flooded into the Hills to pan for gold on land that had been reserved by the treaty exclusively for the Native Americans. Lakota and Cheyenne warriors attacked the prospectors; this action resulted in the U.S. passing a decree confining all Lakotas, Cheyennes, and Arapahos to the reservation under threat of military action.

"Mount Rushmore desecrates sacred land"

Mount Rushmore was named for Charles E. Rushmore, a White New York City lawyer who visited the area in 1884. About a decade earlier, however, Lakota medicine man Nicolas Black Elk named it the Six Grandfathers after a vision of the ancestral spirits who appeared to him representing six sacred direction—west, east, north, south, above, and below. These directions were said to represent kindness and love, full of years and wisdom, like human grandfathers. Six Grandfathers was sacred to the Lakota Sioux who see the carvings as a desecration. How much do you know about these important Native American traditions and beliefs?

This is nothing new...

Mount Rushmore was built on sacred Native American land by a sculptor who was active in the KKK. It was controversial even while they were building it. There's been lots written about it over the years.

Doesn't mean we should tear it down. It's part of American history.

"A California resident has proposed changing the name of the monument to “Igmu Tanka Paha,” which means “Cougar Mountain,” TribLIVE reported on Friday. It was a name given to the mountain by the Lakota people, who also call it “Tunkasila Sakpe Paha,” meaning Six Grandfathers Mountain."

This is from 2 yrs ago. The conversation is not new. It was on the "front page" of Fux News today to rally the troops, which it accomplished.

According to to some asshole named Jalen Rose it is. This guy made this claim out of the blue, with nothing to substantiate his claim. I have been around for a long fucking time and this is the first time I've heard such an absurd statement. Mr. Jalen you should take your head out of your ass and stick to sports commentating, and leave the history lesson to the pros (Assuming There Are Still Non Woke Pros In Our Educational System).