Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to...
by ceejayoz on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:34PM
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From your own link:
> But Blacks weren’t part of the design process, and the memorial’s central visual takeaway — a Black man kneeling before his white savior — has had people cringing for years.
They paid for it, but didn't get to have input on how it'd look. Seems like the precise sort of thing folks are upset about.
Rushmore was a treaty violation from the very beginning, and Native Americans occupied it as far back as 1971 in protest.
> But Blacks weren’t part of the design process, and the memorial’s central visual takeaway — a Black man kneeling before his white savior — has had people cringing for years.
They paid for it, but didn't get to have input on how it'd look. Seems like the precise sort of thing folks are upset about.
Rushmore was a treaty violation from the very beginning, and Native Americans occupied it as far back as 1971 in protest.