Headline Roundup • July 3rd, 2020

Ahead of Trump's July 4 Visit, Mount Rushmore Spurs Controversy

History,American Heritage,Mount Rushmore,Holidays,Native Americans,Cancel Culture,Race And Racism,Culture

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Mount Rushmore is the center of debate about American history and racism ahead of the Fourth of July festivities President Donald Trump has planned at the memorial. The New York Times published an article Wednesday exploring the monument's history, pointing out its existence on sacred Native American land and that some of the Founding Fathers it commemorates were tied to slavery and racial oppression. The Times article was criticized by many right-rated voices, who framed the piece as an effort to cancel the monument and sow discontent; some pointed out how New York City's expansion encroached on Native American territory. Other reports focused on Native American reactions to Trump's planned visit, and controversy about the monument's location; the Supreme Court ruled in 1980 that the land had been illegally taken from the Lakota Sioux tribe.

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Second tribal leader calls for removal of Mount Rushmore before Trump visit

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Second tribal leader calls for removal of Mount Rushmore before Trump visit

The Hill

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A second South Dakota tribal leader called for the removal of the four sculptures on Mount Rushmore, which is carved into land sacred to the Lakota Sioux.

"Nothing stands as a greater reminder to the Great Sioux Nation of a country that cannot keep a promise or treaty than the faces carved into our sacred land on what the United States calls Mount Rushmore,” Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Harold Frazier said in a statement, according to USA Today.

Frazier also criticized President Trump’s and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s...

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As the Fourth of July approaches, The New York Times compares America to Nazi Germany and tries to cancel Mount Rushmore

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In one day, The New York Times called for the cancellation of Mount Rushmore and compared the United States to Nazi Germany. You read that right—as most Americans prepare for the Fourth of July weekend, the gray lady seems hellbent on dismantling the country by churning out sophomoric hot takes that would make even Brian Stelter blush.

The article detailing the sullied history of the Mount Rushmore monument suffers from precisely the same kind of omissions that spurred the paper to embark upon their 1619 Project. That project was meant...

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How Mount Rushmore Became Mount Rushmore

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This year, for the first time in more than a decade, there will be a major fireworks display to commemorate Independence Day at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

The sculpture features the faces of four American presidents — Washington, Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Lincoln — carved into a granite slope over the Black Hills of South Dakota. In the eight decades since the carving was completed, it has never been without controversy.

So when President Trump announced in May that he would attend the festivities there, it invited even more...

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