FILE - This March 22, 2019 file photo shows Mount Rushmore in Keystone, S.D. A Nebraska woman has been fined $1,000 for climbing the memorial. Authorities say Alexandria Incontro scaled the massive granite sculpture Friday, July 12, 2019 with bare feet and no rope, making it to about 15 feet (4.5 meters) from the top. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
Joining the U.S. resistance chorus condemning the Mount Rushmore national landmark before President Donald Trump’s July 3 celebratory visit, The New York Times labels it racist, too.
The Times tweeted, linking to a story rejecting the longstanding monument to four former U.S. presidents:
The Times picked up the mantle of the Democratic National Committee which tweeted – and subsequently deleted when called out – a claim Trump’s visit to Mount Rushmore was “glorifying white supremacy.”
While the Times does lay out its arguments against Mount Rushmore, some of the timing of the attacks might be related to the fact they do not like the U.S. president and adopting COVID-19 fear, particularly before Trump will be visiting.
“Trump coming here is a safety concern not just for my people inside and outside the reservation, but for people in the Great Plains,” Oglala Sioux president Julian Bear Runner told The Guardian. “We have such limited resources in Black Hills, and we’re already seeing infections rising.
“It’s going to cause an uproar if he comes here. People are going to want to exercise their first amendment rights to protest, and we do not want to see anyone get hurt or the lands be destroyed.”
But the Times makes a case Mount Rushmore might be a target for destruction.
“Native Americans have long criticized the sculpture, in part because it was built on what had been Indigenous land,” the Times wrote. “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.
“Critics of the monument have also taken issue with the men whose faces were etched into the granite,” it continued, noting “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.
“. . . 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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