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Statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and even Lincoln have already been attacked by the mob. Mount Rushmore is now a symbol of white supremacy. The Em

• ceejayoz 6y ago
  From your own link: > But Blacks weren’t part of the design process, and the memorial’s central visual takeaway — a Black man kneeling before his white savior — has had people cringing for years. They paid for it, but didn't get to have input on how it'd look. Seems like the precise sort of thing folks are upset about. Rushmore was a treaty violation from the very beginning, and Native Americans occupied it as far back as 1971 in protest.