KEYSTONE, SD—Racial equity and advocacy groups are celebrating today after the announcement that George Washington’s face will be removed from Mount Rushmore and replaced with a likeness of civil rights icon George Floyd.
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Guest Post by Simon Black
After having visited 120+ countries on all seven continents, and dozens of states across the US, it’s a pretty rare event these days that I travel somewhere I’ve never been before.
I’m pretty weak in the South Pacific—I’ve never been to Tahiti or Bora Bora… nor central Africa, like the Democratic Republic of Congo.
But most of the rest of the world I have covered.
One blank spot on my US travel map was South Dakota… until yesterday afternoon.
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The Democrat Party on Monday evening tweeted, then deleted, an attack on Mount Rushmore, negatively portraying an upcoming event President Trump is planning ahead of Independence Day at the historic monument to four great American presidents.
“Trump has disrespected Native communities time and again,” the Democrats wrote on Twitter, with a link to an article in the British newspaper the Guardian, in the now-deleted tweet. “He’s attempted to limit their voting rights and blocked critical pandemic relief. Now he’s holding a rally glorifying white supremacy at Mount Rushmore–a region once sacred to tribal communities.”
The linked story from the Guardian quotes Oglala Lakota tribe member Nick Tilsen, the president of local activist group “NDN Collective,” as calling Mount Rushmore a symbol of “white supremacy.”
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A President’s Day for Barack
His spending’s a national shock
A Nobel is cool
But to honor this fool
His face has been chiseled in rock
The Limerick King