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“One of the biggest symbols of America is Mount Rushmore. This monument, right? But I think most people fail to realize where it's located and why it's located there. Even more importantly, who did it? It's on a sacred Native American mountain, a place that was central to their creation stories. But then you think about who did it, and it was a Klansman. The guy who sculpted Mount Rushmore was a Klansman. People were like, "Wait, really?" Like, how is that a thing? But it seeps into our understanding and our embrace of white supremacy. This whole notion of us using Mount Rushmore as a metric of excellence is really sad. We are honoring slave owners and people who viciously killed natives, and those who pillage other lands in the name of capitalism. That's what America is, I guess.
I think there's such a disinterest in education in America t ...
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Irvin Weathersby Jr, racism, white supremacy, Black American, Frederick Douglass, slavery, racial injustice, social justice, statues, monuments, Mount Rushmore, Native American, Klansman, repatriation, hip hop, oral tradition, New Orleans, racial tra