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TIL The Sculptor of Mount Rushmore Had Ties to the KKK (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Gutzon Borglum was the sculptor and was involved with the KKK. He was chosen because he was the sculptor of the "Shrine to the Confederacy” which was the inspiration for Mount Rushmore.

Guess it shouldn’t be too surprising given the way the land was taken from the local tribes despite it being sacred.

Credit to this comment by u/alcoholicorn that drove me to look it up.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Wait until your find that early US presidents were slavers and slaver families still control decent chunks of US economy.

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s predecessor banks (Citizens Bank and Canal Bank) participated in slavery in Louisiana during the 19th century. These banks accepted enslaved individuals as collateral for loans, demonstrating how financial institutions were complicit in perpetuating the system of slavery.

James Roosevelt, a great-great uncle of President Theodore Roosevelt, owned slaves in New York during the early 19th century. He was a wealthy landowner and merchant who inherited several enslaved people.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wait until your find that early US presidents were slavers and slaver families still control decent chunks of US economy

Anyone with a history book on US knows the revolution was about extremely rich people wanting a country of their own to rule, so they didn't have to pay taxes to the royal family, which it propagandized as a people's rebellion. It was a war among the colonists about who gets to loot the riches of the land.

So it isn't a surprise, they've kept their initial agenda above everything and everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

So... Like 12 people?

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