RANT Mount Rushmore

[GoodOlBoy]

I saw an ad on TV this weekend that a special interest group is trying to raise the money to have Martin Luther King Jr. put beside the presidents on Mount Rushmore. What a batch of crap! If you want to find another sight to put up his mug more power to you (see the staggeringly good Crazy Horse monument that is still being worked on for reference)

I have no problem with a MLK monument. I have a BIG problem with putting him up beside Presidents. You want a black history icon up on Rushmore? Try electing one frist.

In Huntsville Texas a monument to Sam Houston (The first President of the Republic of Texas) was erected some years back. Within a matter of days this same kind of group began petitioning the state and gathering funds to have "Black leaders of history" wall added beside the monument. WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS!

I am glad people want to be proud of their history, but it has become a festering religon that is being shoved into every other piece of history we have as well. Where does this stop? DO we carve MLKs face on the statue of liberties behind as well? How much history in schoolbooks has to be changed to suit these people? I don't go around demanding that Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, Stephen F. Austin, Sitting Bull, Daniel Boone, or any other great figure of history have a wall painted and carved with their mugs at every memorial and monument in the US, so why should you? You want a monument? FINE but do it on its OWN merit, NOT just to start trouble or try to take over another piece of great history of the country. If your monument, wall, etc HAS merit then it shouldn't be a problem getting it done somewhere else.

End Rant :mad:

GoodOlBoy

[mrmiskin]

I hope that they dont waste their 35 cents or what ever it costs to make a phone call on me. This is right up there with the black congress woman from Texas who was complaining that there were no black names associated with hurricanes. Black people need to remember a couple of things.
1. Those were not white people chasing them through the bushes to catch them and sell them into slavery. As a matter of fact I know for a fact that slavery still exists on the African continent. While it did not make it right if they want to blame some one for their plight go on back to the home land and find the tribe that ran their ancestors down and caught them in the first place.
2. Almost every minority that has come before and after the blacks were introduced on this continent have bettered themselves. Asians, Europeans, etc. have all carved out their place in america. They work hard and go to school and get an education that they earn. They are not given things that they did not earn and complain that tests were unfair because they were not written in ghetto.
Hurricane Katrina hit the entire gulf coast and there were follow up storms that hit other areas of louisiana but the only ones that still have their hand out is New Orleans. Come to think of it that is a perfect place for a statue of MLK. The mayor himself said it is and has always been a chocolate city. Put it up down there since there is plenty of space because any one in their right minds who used to live there realize that where ever they landed it is a far sight better than that toilet. My fingers are tired so I am going to stop now.

[Nulle]

Not that the color of the skin makes a difference as I dont want Ronnie on these rock either. They tried to pull that one off awhile back also.

[Lilred]

His face has about as much right bein up there as mine does.
That's all I'm gonna say bout that.....

[GoodOlBoy]

Don't get me wrong, I would be JUST as hacked off if they tried to put him up there with the Crazy Horse monument. My point was (and is now that I have cooled down some) that they keep trying to shove this guy places he doesn't belong. Of all the "black history" leaders there have ever been I don't know why he is immortalized. What about Philip A Randolph who said "Freedom is never given, it is won." Why isn't HE more talked about. What about Booker T. Washington? What about Joseph Rainey the first black US Congressman? Why don't we see them putting these men up in stone instead of MLK whose biggest contribution was a single speech?

Anyway I am just sick of this BS. There were alot of great Native American leaders who where VERY insightful, there were alot of white leaders who were very insightful, there were alot of blac leaders who where insightful, but instead of remembering these people they want to remember MLK and Malcom X.

GoodOlBoy

[Rapier]

Guys,
I would like to see a statue of MLK in NO. But first, we need 3 dozen D-9 dozers laced together with anchor chain to tidy the place up. Once it is nice and level with the grass seed planted we can stick the statue right in the middle of the park.:D
Ed