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.
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