‘Mount Rushmore’ term is ‘offensive’ and should be ‘retired,’ ESPN’s Jalen Rose says
Published August 5, 2022 7:13pm EDT
‘Mount Rushmore’ term is ‘offensive’ and should be ‘retired,’ ESPN’s Jalen Rose says
Jalen Rose says ‘Mount Rushmore’ should be offensive to everyone
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ESPN’s Jalen Rose is challenging people to stop using the term “Mount Rushmore.”
The term is normally used when naming the four greatest in a certain category.
The term derives from Mount Rushmore National Memorial, built on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota, which depicts former presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.
Rose wants to cancel the term because the monument was built “on top of dead bodies” of Native Americans whose land was taken from them.
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“Can we retire using ‘Mount Rushmore?’ That should be offensive to all of us, especially Native Americans, Indigenous people who were the first people here before Christopher Columbus,” Rose said in a video he tweeted. “That land was stolen from them when it was discovered that it contained gold.
“And 25 years later, to add insult to injury, four American presidents were put on what we call Mount Rushmore on the top of the dead bodies that is bu
