You had to see this coming. Some radical communists online are trying to get the left stirred up to get rid of Mount Rushmore. The current GOP governor of South Dakota, isn’t having any of it though.
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“This is no longer about equality,” Noem told Fox News Wednesday. “This is a rewriting of our history and in South Dakota we won’t stand for it.”
Noem noted “some activity online where people have made threats” that Mount Rushmore could be the site of future protests, but she vowed to defend the huge granite likenesses in the wake of nationwide protests following the police-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25.
“The more we focus on the flaws of these men that are on our mountain, the less likely we are to recognize the virtues and the lessons we can learn from their lives,” Noem said. “We will make sure that Mount Rushmore stays as majestic as it is today.”
Asked about the possibility of defending the monument from protesters and possible vandalism, Noem said she planned to “use the resources of the state” to ensure proper security measures are in place. She declined to provide specifics, Fox News reports.
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Noem’s comments come one day after she succinctly made her opinion on the subject clear in response to a tweet from conservative pundit Ben Shapiro: “So, when is our woke historical revisionist priesthood going to insist on blowing up Mount Rushmore?”“Not on my watch,” Noem tweeted.