President Donald Trump’s July 3 celebratory visit, The New York Times labels it racist, too.
...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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