South Dakota is home to numerous sculptures that idolize genocide visited upon American Indians.
Mount Rushmore is the state’s premier example of racist ideology. Its sculptor was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Calling him a rapist some twitter accounts are calling for the removal of Rapid City’s statue of Bill Clinton. Fact is: most of the downtown statuary depict slave owners, a child rapist, war criminals and figures in history that ordered the murders of Natives.
Thomas Jefferson began raping Sally Hemings when she was fourteen. Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren drove thousands from their lands and to their deaths over the Trail of Tears. Harry Truman dropped two atomic bombs on civilians.
The United States was founded on the backs of slaves as systematic genocide became a way of life for white christians quoting scripture as they slaughtered their fellow humans….
