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 and figures in history that ordered the murders of Natives.
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. After colonizers realized enslaved American Indians had no resistance to diseases brought from the Old World, Africans were imported to do the dirty work.
In the early twentieth century after President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to the White House white supremacists began erecting statuary commemorating and celebrating treason in the United States.
Confederate flags routinely fly in Rapid City showing support for racism in like-minded states, South Carolina and Mississippi. Many more come out during the Sturgis Rally.
Moody and Pennington Counties struggle with racism on a local level.
As bikers in the Black Hills can still be seen flaunting their racist bents flying the flag of slavery from their machines Gettysburg, South Dakota remains a white supremacist stronghold.
The Potter County city of Gettysburg will not be removing the Confederate Flag from patches of the police department. ["...Without the war, and without the Battle of Gettysburg, we would not be the same City that we are. The Chief of Police, Bill Wainman, the Mayor, Bill Wuttke, and the City Council have no intentions of changing the police patch."]Read that here.
Helena, Montana has removed its Confederate shrine after outcry from the state's American Indian legislative caucus.
Over eight hundred people were arrested and gassed outside Standing Rock during the Dakota Excess demonstrations, 155 arrested in Ferguson and only four were arrested in Charlottesville.
Not really South; not really Dakota.
George Custer, Phil Sheridan, George Crook and William Harney all committed crimes against humanity yet their names still besmirch numerous government and geographical features.
New Mexico endures multitudinous symbols of conquest, genocide and colonization, too.
Right to life? Not if you're non-white in America.
Cartoon: A stain on the country https://t.co/Nbbhxe2oQ4— Mexican Judge (@laloalcaraz) August 19, 2017
WWRMD? pic.twitter.com/41mmqkXmj5— NDG (@ndged) August 19, 2017
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