Trump's Mount Rushmore fireworks show is a Fourth of July attack on Indigenous people

[sheshe2]

Nick Tilsen Trump's Mount Rushmore fireworks show is a Fourth of July attack on Indigenous people


On Friday, President Donald Trump will continue his tour of racism and colonialism, moving from Tulsa, Oklahoma, to the sacred Black Hills. Make no mistake, this visit is an attack on Indigenous people.

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The Black Hills are also the site of death, violence and war. They are home to Mount Rushmore — a monument to white colonizers carved by a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer into land stolen from us by the U.S. government in 1877. Two of the men carved into that mountain are slave owners, and one approved the mass hangings of 38 Dakota men in the largest mass execution in the history of the United States.

Trump's visit to Mount Rushmore, timed to America's celebration of the Fourth of July, is almost a natural sequel to his rally in Tulsa — originally coinciding with Juneteenth. He is taking his campaign from the site of one of the United States' most horrific acts of racism to another place with long histories of oppression and state-sanctioned violence.

In 1868, our rights to the Black Hills were written into law through a treaty between the United States and several tribal nations, including the Oglala band of Lakotas, of which I am a citizen. The Senate ratified the treaty, enshrining it as the law of the land equivalent to the Constitution itself. However, when white colonizers discovered gold in our lands in 1874, they attacked us and have illegally occupied the Black Hills ever since.

The Black Hills do not belong to Trump, and visiting this monument to white supremacy is an unacceptable political stunt.


Must Read: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-mount-rushmore-fireworks-show-fourth-july-attack-indigenous-ncna1232827

He is deliberately taking white supremacy to areas that he can hurt the most. Ones of horrific acts of racism and state sanctioned violence.

I have no words.

[MontanaMama]

1. Yes it is.

It’s also a big fuck you to anybody serious about fighting Covid. It’s offensive, stupid and wrong.

[malaise]

2. First Tulsa where African-Americans were slaughtered (on Juneteenth)

and now this.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213693246

[moondust]

3. +1

"White Power" messaging. Not a coincidence.

[Hstch05]

4. The dog whistle

has turned into an air horn. I cannot wait to vote this homunculus, his grifting, groping children, and his whole toxic, criminal administration out in November.

[yuiyoshida]

5. Omg

What an @$$#0[3!!

[sheshe2]

6. Hey.

I know, yui.

You home and safe now?

[yuiyoshida]

7. No I am here for the weekend

Maybe I will be home by Monday IDK. I am watching Shin Godzilla on my Cellphone.

[sheshe2]

9. Sleep tight

[greyl]

8. Right the Wrong.

Link to tweet

Right the Wrong - Prince

An Indian woman buried her grandpa in the Black Hills
When she was young he used to tell her
That these hills belonged to her still
And even though injustice took them hills away
"One day we'll get them back, " he said
"And the sun's gonna shine that day"
"When we say, right the wrong"

Before she laid him down to rest
She heard his voice in the wilderness
Saying "I got six feet of it back"
"And now we can right the wrong"

Link to tweet

[sheshe2]

10. Thank you for your post, greyl.

Going to cry now.

She heard his voice in the wilderness
Saying "I got six feet of it back"
"And now we can right the wrong"

[greyl]

11. That's the line that gets me too.

[sheshe2]

12. RIP Black Elk.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

13. More evidence of how just how extremely awful his supporters are.

Looking at the despicable things he does to try to keep their adoration is extremely damning.

[UTUSN]

14. K&R

[Alex4Martinez]

15. An attack on all of us, every one, but most assuredly on first nation people. Not an accident.

This was absolutely calculated to appeal to his racist base.