The Mount Rushmore Debacle

[Mystic Wanderer]

Oh fuck me. I don't like the four faces that are on it now. I didn't think that eyesore could get worse but I guess I was wrong.

Why do I hate them?

“The immediate objectives are the total destruction and devastation of their settlements and the capture of as many prisoners of every age and sex as possible. It will be essential to ruin their crops in the ground and prevent their planting more.”

-George Washington ( He wanted the captives for slaves, by the way.)



“This unfortunate race, whom we had been taking so much pains to save and to civilize, have by their unexpected desertion and ferocious barbarities justified extermination and now await our decision on their fate."
-Thomas Jefferson



Then there's the [/url][url=https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/the-largest-mass-execution-in-us-history]largest mass execution in US history.
That one's on Lincoln. I bet the Dakotas (whose sacred mountain was desecrated to make that monstrosity)  love that.  I bet it's like having the conqueror's knee firmly on their necks.

Oh, let's not forget Teddy.
“The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages. Moreover, to the most oppressed Indian nations the whites often acted as a protection, or, at least, they deferred instead of hastening their fate.”

I'll make this a twofer.

"I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the dead Indians, but I believe nine out of every 10 are."

That's why the Sioux, who still hold the mountain sacred and want the whole thing gone-and have for decades, don't like it. Put yourself in their shoes. Would you? Also, there's a damn pandemic going on and they're getting hit hard. They don't want or need large groups of people there. They really don't. I know that wiping Indians out with disease used to be a thing but come on.

Maybe listen to why they were put there in the first place. None of our past Presidents were without flaws, but they were the ones who insured us the great nation we have today, or HAD back before Bush Sr. started infiltrating our government with CIA. 

Just listen...