@pokedext If your knowledge on Lincoln and/or Mount Rushmore is based solely on your US history class or textbook then you have no reason to be jumping on posts, presuming to be smarter than others, or calling people stupid fucks, when in reality it’s the other way around. Mount Rushmore is built in the Black Hills of the traditional Sioux land. In the Treaty of 1868, the U.S. government promised the Sioux territory that included the Black Hills in perpetuity. Perpetuity lasted only until gold was found in the mountains and prospectors migrated there in the 1870s. The federal government then forced the Sioux to relinquish the Black Hills portion of their reservation. On top of this, the Black Hills are scared land to the Sioux people, upon which now stands a monument of the men responsible for the mass genocide of their people. That in itself should be a good enough reason to want to destroy the monument but alas it seems your US history class left that part out.
Theodore Roosevelt, who you so vigorously defended below, was a racist and was one of the many people responsible for the genocide on Indigenous people.
Roosevelt’s seven and a half years in office were marked by his support of the Indian allotment system, the removal of Indians from their lands and the destruction of their culture. One of his most well-known quotes is “the only good Indian is a dead Indian.”
Abraham Lincoln was also a racist. Lincoln was NOT an abolitionist. You can read more about that here. The emancipation proclamation (which was foremost a military policy) did not free border slave states like Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. Furthermore, Lincoln did not believe Black people deserved the same rights as white people. Though Lincoln argued that the founding fathers’ phrase “All men are created equal” applied to Black and white people alike, this did not mean he thought they should have the same social and political rights. “I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races,” Lincoln said in an 1858 debate, going on to say that he opposed Black people having the right to vote, to serve on juries, to hold office and to intermarry with whites.
Lincoln also believed colonization could resolve the issue of slavery. Lincoln believed that the idea where a majority of the African American population should leave the United States and settle in Africa or Central America was the best way to confront the problem of slavery.
I will not even begin to go into George Washington or Thomas Jefferson as both owned enslaved people and that alone makes them evil pieces of shit. So again, before you decide to spout your regurgitated, holier-than-thou, brain washed, colonial opinions on a post about destroying a monument of four white men responsible for a mass genocide and centuries of racism, maybe please try to do some research instead as to why someone would want that gaudy abomination wiped off of sacred Indigenous land. Open a fucking tab on your web browser, punch in some words on any search engine and do a better job of educating yourself than your school system ever did for you.
Some of you really need to listen to other people of color and not your textbook or US history class—designed, written and orchestrated by white men some 50 years ago.
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