I chose Mount Rushmore because I know the monument and I was hooked when Professor Spain mentioned controversy surrounding it. I hadn’t heard about this controversy before and apparently people want to blow it up. I disagree with this course of action. The statue does not offend me, in fact, not a lot from history does. I believe that the past is the past and that people need to move forward regarding anything that might have hurt their social group in the past. However, I wouldn’t be against amending the monument so that the unheard stories around this “bigger picture” are revealed. This would be a way more effective solution rather than just taking it down. Taking it down means trying to forget about it and that doesn’t really help as history is about learning from humanity’s past mistakes. You can’t erase history. By amending history however, humanity is accounting for the unheard stories from the past while also acknowledging the truth behind what happened. Nothing is sugar coated and everything mentioned is facts.
