ZombieDarwin, While it has been claimed that Borglum was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, an article in the Smithsonian Magazine denies that there is proof that he officially joined the KKK. That said, he became "deeply involved in Klan politics", attending Klan rallies and serving on Klan committees.
In 1925, having only completed the head of Robert E. Lee, Borglum was dismissed from the Stone Mountain project, with some holding that it came about due to infighting within the KKK, with Borglum involved in the strife. Later, he stated "I am not a member of the Kloncilium, nor a knight of the KKK," but Howard Shaff and Audrey Karl Shaff claim that "that was for public consumption."The museum at Mount Rushmore displays a letter to Borglum from D.C. Stephenson, the infamous Klan Grand Dragon who later was convicted of the rape and murder of Madge Oberholtzer. The 8x10 foot portrait contains the inscription "To my good friend Gutzon Borglum, with the greatest respect." Correspondence from Borglum to Stephenson during the 1920s detailed a deep racist conviction in Nordic moral superiority and strict immigration policies. Just sayin'.
#29. Musa was a strong leader. He also owned thousands of slaves, and profited immensely by charging a toll on slaves (which were property) as they were transported through his country.
The history of Mali is taught in BLM reading sessions in public schools. Mali is looked at with pride. A nation of warriors. Black leaders who built one of the richest nations on Earth. This is all true.
But BLM does not teach children that the Mali people were slavers, for hundreds of years. It was an important part of their wealth and culture. And all the gold that was mined in Mali? Do you think that was done by unionized workers?
Izi, if you're going to smear the builder of Mount Rushmore (who DID have ties to the KKK, but never joined and was never a "card-carrying member"), then tell the whole truth about Mali, too.
Musa owned slaves. He sold slaves. He killed slaves. He raped slaves. He makes Donald Trump look like an angel.
Lessie, Emperor Caligula had thousands of slaves too but you didn't mention him. Why don't you complain that izi didn't tell the whole truth about him?
Seriously !
You go to the effort to make an internet meme, but you then use old fashioned, backward facing upside down stupid imperial measurements.
I don't know how often I have to state this, but of the 197 countries in the world, only 3 ... Liberia, Myanmar and the USA ... still use measurements based on an ENGLISH KING'S BODY PARTS.
Any chance you fellas could move into the modern world and use metric, you know, litres, metres and SIMPLICITY !
I know it is easy to stay in your puddle, where all your friends all drink the same beer, but the world is a big place and here are we, the majority of the world, looking at your video (cos we all want to build a potato gun) and we see you using archaic measurements that mean nothing to 96% of the world's population (maybe 95% if you include old people).
Look, I understand that you have some sh#t going on, you're finally having to realise that black people are actually human and your cops mainly seem to be animals, you have a president who is laughed at by everybody in the world except some toothless types from some genetically un-diverse town up a mountain somewhere, and most of you don't even know that there are other places in the world that are not the USA, but, seriously, the years are going by and you need to face up to the fact that it is 2020, two decades into the the 21st century. WE NOW MEASURE THINGS IN MILLIMETRES AND LITRES, KILOMETRES AND GRAMS.
You know, modern sh#t like the internet, computers and mobile phones !
Sigh.
There is no god, it is all from evolution over billions of years, yes there are aliens on other planets but so far they haven't mastered intergalactic travel and the lights you see are explainable with earthly reasons.
Get your sh#t together and stop using inches, foots, yards, fathoms, chains, furlongs, acres, miles .... think millimetres, centimetres, kilometres, hectares and AUs.
Why do I have to tell you this stuff ?
Essie, Plus our general education, 6 weeks paid vacation per year, paid sick leave, less than 1 murder per 10.000 inhabitants, less than 10 kills per year by police and a government that takes Corona seriously because of scientific evidence.
ZombieDarwin, While it has been claimed that Borglum was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, an article in the Smithsonian Magazine denies that there is proof that he officially joined the KKK. That said, he became "deeply involved in Klan politics", attending Klan rallies and serving on Klan committees.
In 1925, having only completed the head of Robert E. Lee, Borglum was dismissed from the Stone Mountain project, with some holding that it came about due to infighting within the KKK, with Borglum involved in the strife. Later, he stated "I am not a member of the Kloncilium, nor a knight of the KKK," but Howard Shaff and Audrey Karl Shaff claim that "that was for public consumption."The museum at Mount Rushmore displays a letter to Borglum from D.C. Stephenson, the infamous Klan Grand Dragon who later was convicted of the rape and murder of Madge Oberholtzer. The 8x10 foot portrait contains the inscription "To my good friend Gutzon Borglum, with the greatest respect." Correspondence from Borglum to Stephenson during the 1920s detailed a deep racist conviction in Nordic moral superiority and strict immigration policies. Just sayin'.
#29. Musa was a strong leader. He also owned thousands of slaves, and profited immensely by charging a toll on slaves (which were property) as they were transported through his country.
The history of Mali is taught in BLM reading sessions in public schools. Mali is looked at with pride. A nation of warriors. Black leaders who built one of the richest nations on Earth. This is all true.
But BLM does not teach children that the Mali people were slavers, for hundreds of years. It was an important part of their wealth and culture. And all the gold that was mined in Mali? Do you think that was done by unionized workers?
Izi, if you're going to smear the builder of Mount Rushmore (who DID have ties to the KKK, but never joined and was never a "card-carrying member"), then tell the whole truth about Mali, too.
Musa owned slaves. He sold slaves. He killed slaves. He raped slaves. He makes Donald Trump look like an angel.
Lessie, Emperor Caligula had thousands of slaves too but you didn't mention him. Why don't you complain that izi didn't tell the whole truth about him?
Seriously !
You go to the effort to make an internet meme, but you then use old fashioned, backward facing upside down stupid imperial measurements.
I don't know how often I have to state this, but of the 197 countries in the world, only 3 ... Liberia, Myanmar and the USA ... still use measurements based on an ENGLISH KING'S BODY PARTS.
Any chance you fellas could move into the modern world and use metric, you know, litres, metres and SIMPLICITY !
I know it is easy to stay in your puddle, where all your friends all drink the same beer, but the world is a big place and here are we, the majority of the world, looking at your video (cos we all want to build a potato gun) and we see you using archaic measurements that mean nothing to 96% of the world's population (maybe 95% if you include old people).
Look, I understand that you have some sh#t going on, you're finally having to realise that black people are actually human and your cops mainly seem to be animals, you have a president who is laughed at by everybody in the world except some toothless types from some genetically un-diverse town up a mountain somewhere, and most of you don't even know that there are other places in the world that are not the USA, but, seriously, the years are going by and you need to face up to the fact that it is 2020, two decades into the the 21st century. WE NOW MEASURE THINGS IN MILLIMETRES AND LITRES, KILOMETRES AND GRAMS.
You know, modern sh#t like the internet, computers and mobile phones !
Sigh.
There is no god, it is all from evolution over billions of years, yes there are aliens on other planets but so far they haven't mastered intergalactic travel and the lights you see are explainable with earthly reasons.
Get your sh#t together and stop using inches, foots, yards, fathoms, chains, furlongs, acres, miles .... think millimetres, centimetres, kilometres, hectares and AUs.
Why do I have to tell you this stuff ?
Essie, Plus our general education, 6 weeks paid vacation per year, paid sick leave, less than 1 murder per 10.000 inhabitants, less than 10 kills per year by police and a government that takes Corona seriously because of scientific evidence.
In 1925, having only completed the head of Robert E. Lee, Borglum was dismissed from the Stone Mountain project, with some holding that it came about due to infighting within the KKK, with Borglum involved in the strife. Later, he stated "I am not a member of the Kloncilium, nor a knight of the KKK," but Howard Shaff and Audrey Karl Shaff claim that "that was for public consumption."The museum at Mount Rushmore displays a letter to Borglum from D.C. Stephenson, the infamous Klan Grand Dragon who later was convicted of the rape and murder of Madge Oberholtzer. The 8x10 foot portrait contains the inscription "To my good friend Gutzon Borglum, with the greatest respect." Correspondence from Borglum to Stephenson during the 1920s detailed a deep racist conviction in Nordic moral superiority and strict immigration policies.
Just sayin'.
bahaha. sounds like a classic troll move. but we will never know.
they always leave that part out, wonder why?
Democrats changed, the Klan did not, so what's your point?
Yes, I read the same Wikipedia article. The evidence was, to put it as gently as possible, a bit thin.
So you can say all you like, but until more evidence shows up, I'll label it as horse sh*t.
Wow such an eloquent point. Keep helping us evolve, but maybe leave your mom’s basement
The history of Mali is taught in BLM reading sessions in public schools. Mali is looked at with pride. A nation of warriors. Black leaders who built one of the richest nations on Earth. This is all true.
But BLM does not teach children that the Mali people were slavers, for hundreds of years. It was an important part of their wealth and culture. And all the gold that was mined in Mali? Do you think that was done by unionized workers?
Izi, if you're going to smear the builder of Mount Rushmore (who DID have ties to the KKK, but never joined and was never a "card-carrying member"), then tell the whole truth about Mali, too.
Musa owned slaves. He sold slaves. He killed slaves. He raped slaves. He makes Donald Trump look like an angel.
History isn't always pretty.
Do I smell a bit of despair towards Murica?
free healthcare should do the trick.
Plus our general education, 6 weeks paid vacation per year, paid sick leave, less than 1 murder per 10.000 inhabitants, less than 10 kills per year by police and a government that takes Corona seriously because of scientific evidence.